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So, the i7 970 is in and currently being tested.

Got it OCed to 3.9GHz. Cooled by an H50 for the time being, working on trade for an H70.

Guess this means I now have a 920 for sale......(after I research prices tonight).

 
If you put 2 fans on the 50 it's just as good as a 70.Sandwich the radiator between 2 fans, you can use 2 of the screws that came with it on each side, including mounting it to the case.
You can set the uncore on hex core to only 1.5x the ram frequency, it helps keep the voltage and heat down.
I just got one a couple of weeks ago, very nice chip if you find it cheap :)
 
already have 2 fans on the H50,

looks like our 970s are clocked almost the same. I'm currently set at 21X178.
 
What are you guys seeing with your systems PPD-wise?
 
Wow .. @ 3.9Ghz .. it takes 30:30 TPF for 6900 ?? Isn't it too slow?
 
sbinh said:
Wow .. @ 3.9Ghz .. it takes 30:30 TPF for 6900 ?? Isn't it too slow?
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Yes, but he has 3 GPU clients which likely consume a significant amount of CPU cycles that slow it down depending on the WUs. I would have been concerned if there weren't GPU clients but it's not the case.
 
the 3 GPU clients produce 39KPPD or so, I don't think I can gain 40KPPD by shutting them down... I could be wrong tho....
 
jfb9301 said:
the 3 GPU clients produce 39KPPD or so, I don't think I can gain 40KPPD by shutting them down... I could be wrong tho....
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Only way to find out is to let it run for a few frames and see the improvement to the SMP client. That or ask someone running very close hardware to you but without GPU and compare their TPFs.
 
That CPU will only get about 23min which is 55ppd so running the GPU's will give you the most points. Maybe try running bigadv on only 11 threads and see is that helps.
 
I'll look into that a bit later, first I want to do long term run at current settings, put in the H70 and if temps improve, push a bit harder.... we'll see where this gets me.
 
jfb9301 said:
the 3 GPU clients produce 39KPPD or so, I don't think I can gain 40KPPD by shutting them down... I could be wrong tho....
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It is closer than you think...30;30 is 36.5K ppd, plus the 39K ppd from the cards is 75.5K ppd. My 970 @ 4.35 gets 67K ppd CPU-only. You would be around 55K-60K at your current clock speed. Now, factor in the electricity the cards use for that extra 15K-20K. this is why I am still a believer that Intel hexes and GPU folding do not mix...
 
for the sake of comparison:

I have my 970 clocked @ 4.3GHZ with a Prolimatech Megalemawhateverthehell you call it heatsink....its crunching a 6900....TPF is 22:31...no GPU clients....PPD is 57,300....

So I think the GPU clients are making up for the lost TPF....would be nice if you can move them off to a separate box though :X....

musky how is your PPD so high :( I might have to do some more tweaking....I'm currently running an ASUS Sabertooth X58......

what is you BLCK settings?
 
Zink said:
That CPU will only get about 23min which is 55ppd so running the GPU's will give you the most points. Maybe try running bigadv on only 11 threads and see is that helps.
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No way it would be that high. I am looking at 21:44, and that is while streaming a movie. I normally run a tick over 20 min frames on a 6900.
 
mekkanic said:
musky how is your PPD so high :( I might have to do some more tweaking....I'm currently running an ASUS Sabertooth X58......

what is you BLCK settings?
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21 x 207, triple channel memory @1656, 8-8-8-20-1T timings, Gigabyte X58A-UD3R, Win7 Ultimate. Nothing fancy, but it does 67K ppd all day every day if I leave it alone and let it fold. Moving it to htpc duties was a mistake (looking at 59K ppd right now), but that will end this weekend.
 
APOLLO said:
What are you guys seeing with your systems PPD-wise?
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Mine is at 4.0g now, and I changed the memory and uncore about a bit, without gpu running it gets around 48-54k ppd (except with those nasty work units, I was only getting 30 or so with that)
 
If you have the 970 @ aroung 4000mhz with no gpu client you can get over 50kppd and use less power than 3 cards that could do 50k between them.
 
musky said:
21 x 207, triple channel memory @1656, 8-8-8-20-1T timings, Gigabyte X58A-UD3R, Win7 Ultimate. Nothing fancy, but it does 67K ppd all day every day if I leave it alone and let it fold. Moving it to htpc duties was a mistake (looking at 59K ppd right now), but that will end this weekend.
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Hm...I'll see if I can tweak it some...
 
wow thats quite impressive, mine is only doing about 53k while idle its my main machine though for now. on ye olde school P6T-SE (which handles the chip fine btw) I still have more headroom though, just need to spend some time clocking it.
 
I keep having to shut my rig down, over night and while I'm at work. Probably going to do best on A3s for the time being. If I move to New York like I expect to, I will be able to fold full time as long as folding compensates for electric heat.
 
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