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[Briguyatx]

What would you guys think avg output daily for an a64 3200+ w/ 1gig of ram, Dell pe400SC server with a p4 2.8C, and a little dell p3-667 with 256mb of ram would be?

I just fired up the 2.8c and the 667 about 10 minutes ago, but my a64 seems to be moving along really slowly =\ I figured it would fold a little quicker than it is but production has been dissapointing so far. Folding under briguyatx.

Ive got several more "junk" boxen to put together, who knows I might get some decent production out all all the crud that was in my closet

Oh, also would a chip thats running "warm" have trouble dealing with folding? Ive got an XP2000+ machine that for some reason is getting 1.8vcore and running at a nice steady 60C =x and it cant fold to save its life, but works fine for most other things. Im thinking i need to locate another motherboard for the processor, as it has NO vcore adjustment (junk all in one board)

 

[paulmr]

that 1.8 voltage seams a but high.... can you lower it to closer to 1.7 ... should lower your temp

reseating your HSF and applying some new thermal compound couldn't hurt....

but anyway.. should be able to produce pretty good with all that.. the more the better....

 

[Maniacmous]

And let me be the first to welcome you (and your garden) to the [H]orde!!

Fold on brother.

 

[KodiakStar]

It looks like you are getting some early unit ends there

 

[jfb9301]

It looks like you are getting some early unit ends there

QFT

I second that. no way should you have over 1000 WUs and have only 200+ points. Check the logs for your clients and figgure out which machine is giving you "EARLY WORK UNIT END". depending on the WU, it should only be 1-4 WUs to reach 200 or more points.


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[Briguyatx]

=[ Was the xp2000+. I fired it up for a while, and when i came back it had gone through like 1300wu's, so i turned off folding and started trying to troubleshoot it.

 

[jfb9301]

What would you guys think avg output daily for an a64 3200+ w/ 1gig of ram, Dell pe400SC server with a p4 2.8C, and a little dell p3-667 with 256mb of ram would be?

I just fired up the 2.8c and the 667 about 10 minutes ago, but my a64 seems to be moving along really slowly =\ I figured it would fold a little quicker than it is but production has been dissapointing so far. Folding under briguyatx.

Ive got several more "junk" boxen to put together, who knows I might get some decent production out all all the crud that was in my closet

Oh, also would a chip thats running "warm" have trouble dealing with folding? Ive got an XP2000+ machine that for some reason is getting 1.8vcore and running at a nice steady 60C =x and it cant fold to save its life, but works fine for most other things. Im thinking i need to locate another motherboard for the processor, as it has NO vcore adjustment (junk all in one board)

welcome to the team BTW

Stanford assigns 100 points for 24 hours of work by a 2.2G Pentium 4 type CPU with SSE Disabled.
based on that you can guesstimate that the 3200+ should deliver about 150 points per day (PPD)
the 667 should come in around 30 PPD
these are only gross estimates depending upon the core that FAH is running. Certain cores run better on certain processors. Pentiums will do better than Athlons on certain cores, but the athlon seems to be well suited all around (with the exception of QMD based cores)

as for "warm" chips having trouble folding?
ABSOLUTELY
folding is extremely stressful on the CPU, and can make them run significantly hotter than average use type applications. This added heat can cause your system to become unstable. While this can lead to random reboots and BSODs, normally it does not. usually FAH errors out and reports "EARLY WORK UNIT END" sending back what little work it accomplished (for a proportional fraction of the points compaired to what you would have had if you had finished the WU). This can happen on a normally stable machine that does not crash (even while FAH does crash).

as for your "folding unstable" box, all I can recommend is figgure out how to cool that thing down. I'd be willing to bet that heat is your main issue. You probably will not have to goto extreme measures to cool it adequately. Simple things ought to do the trick. I realize you may not be able to do some of these things due to motherboard limitations. Heck, I have a all-in-one-crapper that has no voltage, freq adjustments, the heatsink is epoxied to the duron core. All I could do was ventilate the sucker and replace the fan on the heatsink, but it was enough.

-clean heatsinks and fans
-replace CPU heatsink
-put a bigger fan in the CPU heatsink
-use good thermal paste on the cpu heatsink
-add case fans if you don't already have them
-investigate a bigger power supply if you are near the limitations of your current one (folding can require lots of power and if you are unstable voltage fluctuations can cause crashes)
-reduce Vcore for the CPU (warning this may introduce more instability due to the reduced voltage)
-increase Vcore for the CPU (warning this may introduce more instability by increasing the heat output of the CPU



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[Briguyatx]

The problem with the 2000+ is that the motherboard wasn't designed to go up to a 2000+ its an old AS-Rock/PC-Chips motherboard, and its feeding the poor 2000+ 1.8vcore, when its supposed to have 1.6 or 1.65, and there is no setting anywhere on the board or in the bios to change it

so, it works, but at greatly increased heat output. Im going to order a refurbed NF2-Ultra IGP w/onboard video from newegg and see if that helps it out. Hrm, I also need to find a cheap socket 478 motherboard with integrated video so i can put a spare p4 2.0A to work.