Farm Pics ... Post yours

highfiver said:
Haha! my sons train is pulling about half a watt from rechargable batteries.

Whereas the i7 920 and 2 GTX580's are pulling about 780w. Not good PPD/Watt.
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that's ok. They're good for heating the room.
 
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No, no... it's extremely tidy compared to a lot of us with naked hardware and spare parts sitting on shelves with wires going in all directions lol
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Cardboard is a viable surface to "mount" a mobo to.

And when you bundle up all the cables it makes them hard to get to when you are swapping hardware.

;) :p
 
My dream would be to have a 10 foot long work bench just for naked folding. It would be so much easier to swap hardware around. I don't have enough space now for more than one system without a case at a time.
 
highfiver said:
Not that tidy, but under construction. I have bought a 4P G34 to cram into my heavily modded Lian Li case, which currently houses a 4way evga board.
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My bathroom has the same colors and tile as that room. I was thinking "why is he folding in his bathroom?"
 
highfiver said:
Haha! my sons train is pulling about half a watt from rechargable batteries.

Whereas the i7 920 and 2 GTX580's are pulling about 780w. Not good PPD/Watt.
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Wow! That is almost as much as my 8P socket F is pulling right now!
 
So after much research and many questions asked and answered, I settled on a SuperMicro H8QGL-iF+ due to price and availability in the EU. I currently have 2x6176SE installed, mostly because it was the first CPU I got a decent price on, just waiting for the bank balance to improve before adding more. ;) Those are Ripjaws X and Noctua 120s.

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I mounted the MB to an APC 19" rack shelf using 12mm nylon standoffs. Drilling the holes was harder work than I expected, due to the thickness of the shelf. Once I have fully populated the CPUs, this will go into my rack of muchness in our hosting center. I'll post photos of that later.

On 6903s:
6176SE, no tweaks, no kraken, 0-23% 62kPPD
6176SE, no tweaks, w/kraken, 23-45% 66kPPD
2x 6176SE, no tweaks, w/kraken, 0-7% 178kPPD, TPF 28:04 P6903
2x 6176SE, tear tweaks, w/kraken, 7-59% 198kPPD, TPF 25:46 P6903
2x 6176SE, tweaks +CL6, w/kraken, 0-83% 201kPPD, TPF 25:47 P6903
 
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Older pic of my garage, Three SR-2's. Two 5645's and one 5639. Mostly all sold off now.
 
jebo_4jc said:
Sweet! What team? Don't say you sold off all your stuff for bitcoin parts :)
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I fold for HWC, current points leader. I don't do bitcoin stuff, never interested me.. I fold for the science, but it's become too much of a hassle to keep up with things lately. I'll re-do my folding farm later this year perhaps, if the SR3/X works well or get a few quad amd boxen.
Power is quite the issue right now also - far too expensive.. i've ran these boxes for 10 months and my wallet is hurt because of it.
 
Rison said:
I fold for HWC, current points leader. I don't do bitcoin stuff, never interested me.. I fold for the science, but it's become too much of a hassle to keep up with things lately. I'll re-do my folding farm later this year perhaps, if the SR3/X works well or get a few quad amd boxen.
Power is quite the issue right now also - far too expensive.. i've ran these boxes for 10 months and my wallet is hurt because of it.
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Building a system around g34 HE chips has shown to produce great ppd and very low power draw compared to what SR-2 systems do.
 
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Raven in the front Harbringer in the back.
 
W.Feather said:
congrats on fitting 3 monitors on that small ass desk....
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No kidding!

Hey Rison, I've been drooling over your FS thread on HWC.
I'm trying to find myself a cheap 2500k and Z68 preferably so I've been F5in the hell out of that and RFD.

Chaandan, that's a nice crop of Noctua on your farm. Where did you get the seeds?
 
Here we go ...

Ill start with the 2600k rig that hasnt been cleaned out in probably 2 or 3 months ....

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Lets get to the fun shit:

1090T box, folds intermittently...specs in rig, that fan controller you see powers 4 of the fans on the RX360 (other 2 are not plugged in yet), the fan on-top of the 2 GPUs, and the 2 fans on the SR2. yes the wiring sucks, then again i have all the cords on the X750 there plugged in and mainly in use ....i gave up on trying to arrange the cables nicely on this setup

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And now the SR-2.....2x L5639 @ 3.3 Ghz, 24 GB of G.Skill RipJawX 1600, 1TB WD Black, 2x True Spirits with an AP-15 each. And ofc an 8400 GS:

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And then why not add the work area for funsies ?

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only from the best .... though i do need to find new places for them (new desk will probably incorporate em in it), mainly to get desk space back ... my printer is in another room because i quite honestly do not have a place for it.
 
Frankenbox I built with some free RAM from DEFEX and a cheap extra spicey E5506(oc'd to 2.7 and running at .95 volts so fairly low power, uses about a 140 watts at the wall). Its good for about 9.5k ppd in Ubuntu 10.10. Never thought I'd be building anything without a case but it was actually quite liberating!

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I got another E5620 for my cheapo Asus naked build. I should get some more RAM though...only 1 1GB stick is sad. I got that one for free too...

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Rabid Sloth said:
That setup looks really clean. Nice work
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Thanks. There is really no place for cable management but I think it cleaned up pretty well. I looked at the Helmer render farm thing but it seemed like a cooker for 125w TDP processors. With the CM 212+ and a 140mm fan venting out the back I'm folding at 40c.
 
Where did you get that shelf for your folding setup MikeOnBike?
 
It's the bottom half of an Ikea PS cabinet. I left the door off. I might put it on after I carve it up and make it mostly mesh. Wish I had the money to populate the upper half too. I figure for $50, since I only used half of it, is not to bad for case cost.

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/90116176/

I was somewhat inspired by the numerous Helmer Render farms.
http://obscuredclarity.blogspot.com/2008/09/24-core-linux-cluster-in-2999-case-from.html

I just couldn't see my farm staying cool enough with the tiny Helmer case in the summer when the man cave hits 80F .

I had to chop it up a bit to get the fans and PS mounted.

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That picture just makes me want to buy one of those units and get some more rigs.
 
Wow, for some reason I came into this thread expecting pictures of fields, corn, and cows.
 
I completed my 4P build (6176SE), it is mounted to an APC 19" rack shelf.

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And here is the rest of the garden with the 4P installed:

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