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Well, I decided to put my iMac to work. 2.8ghz quad core + hyperthreading i5 (previous generation). I'm using the latest v7 beta, since the latest v6 was 6.29, too old for the current SMP WUs.
And I put my Phenom x6 back to work, also at 2.8ghz.
So. Does that count as D, or C since it is returning to active duty?
(I forget what the other letters were even for...you know, back in my day, we measured D by the megahertz!)
Unfortunately I can't get it to stay stable at any overclock with distributed computing anymore. It used to be a champ at 3.4-3.5ghz a year ago, even handled prime95 stress test. This time, I went to double check stability, so I tried prime95 again and the only clocks at which it ran overnight were stock clocks. Anything higher than that, and once I throw something at it like prime95, it'll last for a short while, then the display will go blank, my USB stuff will shut off, and the power button will not work. I have to hit the power switch. No amount of raising voltages and tweaking HT speeds got me anywhere. I don't want to risk the science on an iffy overclock. And I don't think it's worth much more of my time to figure out how to stabilize it; eventually I'm just going to phase it out into a secondary box.
I frankensteined together a P4 3.4ghz (with HT) system and threw in my old Radeon 5770. Should I bother trying to run a folding client on that? (will that poor P4 be enough to drive the GPU client?)
And I put my Phenom x6 back to work, also at 2.8ghz.
So. Does that count as D, or C since it is returning to active duty?
(I forget what the other letters were even for...you know, back in my day, we measured D by the megahertz!)Unfortunately I can't get it to stay stable at any overclock with distributed computing anymore. It used to be a champ at 3.4-3.5ghz a year ago, even handled prime95 stress test. This time, I went to double check stability, so I tried prime95 again and the only clocks at which it ran overnight were stock clocks. Anything higher than that, and once I throw something at it like prime95, it'll last for a short while, then the display will go blank, my USB stuff will shut off, and the power button will not work. I have to hit the power switch. No amount of raising voltages and tweaking HT speeds got me anywhere. I don't want to risk the science on an iffy overclock. And I don't think it's worth much more of my time to figure out how to stabilize it; eventually I'm just going to phase it out into a secondary box.
I frankensteined together a P4 3.4ghz (with HT) system and threw in my old Radeon 5770. Should I bother trying to run a folding client on that? (will that poor P4 be enough to drive the GPU client?)