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That is exactly what we are trying to set up here.
Yep, looks good from here.Okay I tried everything I could... I'm not sure if it's working properly, but I hope it is!
I think it's working!!
. Sorry, I haven't been lurking the DC forums lately and a search didn't bring it up. Thanks!
Is there a guide for this? Freaky's missing it in his sticky
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Oh yeah definitely. Get your passkey from Stanford's page (instructions on that are in the bigadv sticky), once you complete...10? (I think) A3 WU's you start getting bonus points like you would if you were running a bigadv system. Not the *same* amount of points of course, but you do get bonus points.
I average about 8300PPD on a q9450@3.6 running SMP2....if you're not running bigadv, SMP2 with the native Windows client is definitely the way to go.
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Everything going slow and steady now, just have my SMP client going.Hehe, don't even worry about me right now. I actually cut down on the folding a little bit right now. Having a few hot days outside, and my computer temps were getting insane
Also.. I still think something isn't right with my bigadv... How much PPD should I be getting from my Q6600 with that? It says 1060PPD in HFM.NET monitor (Yesterday it said FIFTY THREE... I then looked in the client window and saw that it was completing a step every ~4 hours, WTF? I restarted and it went up to 1000PPD but I feel that's still not enough).
Something is wrong. Stop and restart the client or the system itself. If that doesn't help, delete and DL another WU because that one is undoubtedly corrupt. There's no way you can make the deadline anyway with that TPF, whatever WU it happens to be.
I'm afraid I don't see a problem with the SMP client...?
I have been experiencing this problem on my GPU clients as well. I attribute this to a crop of bad WUs. Stanford has had similar problems in the past, especially when a new WU series is released but it can happen at other times. The only solution I and other have found to help with this is restarting the system, unfortunately, but it does seem to help.GPU client on one of my cards (The other card never stopped). I'm not sure what happened with the GPU client actually.. I think this just happened before, because I shut the computer down for the night while I slept. I'm not sure what it means
I've been able to OC it pretty well... considering my mobo isn't really newbie-overclocking friendly.Ah, it's OK then.Well in that screenshot, that's after I restarted and that whole 'One step completed every few hours' thing stopped. I wanted to make sure it was back to normal
Almost any increase in frequency is worthwhile in folding especially with the A3 WUs and -bigadv because of the bonus points. The caveat is of course stability. If even one crash occurs due to OC, you should drop the clocks until full stability is reached. The reason is because any crash will cut production and actually reduce your overall PPD. More importantly, it affects Stanford since the crashed WU needs to be resent and completed by someone else. So, OCing is great providing you have full stability, beyond that it's detrimental to the user and to the project as a whole.Would a jump from stock to 3.4GHz have a decent improvement on folding? I don't notice the difference anywhere else since I rarely actually get up to 100% CPU usage :x I've still not gone over 4GB of RAM in use (All just according to Task Manager). But if it makes a difference in folding, I will most certainly OC this thing again for that reason mainly
Ah, it's OK then.
Almost any increase in frequency is worthwhile in folding especially with the A3 WUs and -bigadv because of the bonus points. The caveat is of course stability. If even one crash occurs due to OC, you should drop the clocks until full stability is reached. The reason is because any crash will cut production and actually reduce your overall PPD. More importantly, it affects Stanford since the crashed WU needs to be resent and completed by someone else. So, OCing is great providing you have full stability, beyond that it's detrimental to the user and to the project as a whole.
Unfortunately, it seems that everyone who has tried stability tools like Prime95 have found them not to be reliable when it comes to folding. A successful run in Prime95 and other testing tools might still be unstable in folding for the long run. In effect, the best tool to use for determining folding stability, is um, folding.
I think I really lucked out with a good chip. What cooler are you using? In the case of -bigadv WUs, they are extremely sensitive to instability but you're not running them yet. I don't know how well A3 WUs stack up to high overclocks. Only thing you can do is try increasing it and if it fails, improve your cooling setup.Ahh! I didn't know all of this about Prime95! I used to use it each time I OCd along with a few other stress tests. But I would usually run Prime95 for the most amount of time. My best 3.4Gghz OC was stable and folding flawlessly for such a long time.. I never even had to restart the thing. So I know for sure I can get back there again
I would say around 4GHz and even higher...I wonder what I could get it up to if I ever figured out watercooling
Ahh! I didn't know all of this about Prime95! I used to use it each time I OCd along with a few other stress tests. But I would usually run Prime95 for the most amount of time. My best 3.4Gghz OC was stable and folding flawlessly for such a long time.. I never even had to restart the thing. So I know for sure I can get back there again
The temperatures are always great on this chip too, well.. as far as I know. I don't know too much about what are good, average or bad temps.. but I've had the -bidadv client going all day and the temps on the cores are 33C 37C 28C 32C . I'm also burning a CD.. folding on the two GPUs.. I have WoW still open, a ton of web browsing stuff, utorrent... I love this computer <3 I want an i7 but I'm hoping my Q6600 will last me for a long time still
..I wonder what I could get it up to if I ever figured out watercooling
The WU I have folding on my SMP client right now has slowed down considerably, again. I already know I'm still an idiot when it comes to folding. I don't know how I managed to get this far.
At least it's okay.. for now! But I figure I'll never get to the bidadv one's at this rate Hmm, it says A3 and it's going at 100% (Has been the entire time.). No scanners or anything were going! I restarted the computer and look at the difference (On the same WU)
[20:05:09] Completed 275000 out of 500000 steps (55%)
[20:14:40] Completed 280000 out of 500000 steps (56%)
[20:24:57] Completed 285000 out of 500000 steps (57%)
[20:34:24] Completed 290000 out of 500000 steps (58%)
[20:44:16] Completed 295000 out of 500000 steps (59%)
[20:53:59] Completed 300000 out of 500000 steps (60%)
[21:03:54] Completed 305000 out of 500000 steps (61%)
[21:14:07] Completed 310000 out of 500000 steps (62%)
[21:24:26] Completed 315000 out of 500000 steps (63%)
[21:37:45] Completed 320000 out of 500000 steps (64%)
[21:48:55] Completed 325000 out of 500000 steps (65%)
[22:00:09] Completed 330000 out of 500000 steps (66%)
[22:15:01] Completed 335000 out of 500000 steps (67%)
[22:29:42] Completed 340000 out of 500000 steps (68%)
[22:49:16] Completed 345000 out of 500000 steps (69%)
[23:00:10] Completed 350000 out of 500000 steps (70%)
[23:13:01] Completed 355000 out of 500000 steps (71%)
That slowdown thing is weird.. I will check some more, next time/if it happens again, and triple make sure nothing else is hogging the CPU.. but I doubt it
And wow, I didn't know the temp threshold for the q6600 was that high! Even in the summer time I never got it over 58-62C on the hottest humid days. The video cards are another story :x I feel like it's so easy for them to get up and above 85C if I don't watch the ambient temp and adjust the fans (I like to turn the fans down as low as possible as they're so incredibly loud. But if it's REALLY hot, I'll put them up).