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Sunfire 4600 recommendation

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x98gulinski

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I'm going to test how well linux folding works on a sunfire 4600 and am looking for recommendations on any tweaks I need to do once I get done following musky's guide. In windows it didn't work well at all.
 
I will be interested to see how this goes. What hardware is that sunfire 4600 running? Do they support socket F quad cores and hexacores?
 
The 4600 is a 8 socket series iirc. Also interested how things will work out.
 
8 socket single or dual core K8 Opterons only: 856, 880, or 885 CPUs. I wouldn't expect much out of it unless you have 8 dual cores.
 
So that's 16 real cores, but they are old cores - I reckon 24k on A3/A4 SMP
 
I am a little familiar with the 4600. I looked at quite a few ebay listings.
 
7147 with a tpf of 2 minutes, it just completed it's first wu and i got a message that I lost 3,063,000% due to work imbalance. Gonna flip the bigadv flag after this next wu.
 
x98gulinski said:
7147 with a tpf of 2 minutes, it just completed it's first wu and i got a message that I lost 3,063,000% due to work imbalance. Gonna flip the bigadv flag after this next wu.
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That is some nice vintage tech, I'm thinking the ppd may surprise a few people. There was a guy here a couple month back that got a 4p C2Q based rig up and was getting over 100k ppd before he decided the power draw was too much.
 
Just picked up a 6903, is there an easy way to tell the tpf without waiting for it to complete a few percentage points and do the math, in linux?
 
I just tested this against a stock r610 and the dell was getting a 44 minute round, so close enough, but the power the sun pulls in crazy, as well as the noise and heat.
 
x98gulinski said:
I just tested this against a stock r610 and the dell was getting a 44 minute round, so close enough, but the power the sun pulls in crazy, as well as the noise and heat.
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If its got 16 threads it will still be -bigadv capable come January:D
 
x98gulinski said:
I just tested this against a stock r610 and the dell was getting a 44 minute round, so close enough, but the power the sun pulls in crazy, as well as the noise and heat.
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Do you have any power draw figures for shits and giggles? I imagine it will make people feel much better about the efficiency of their rigs. :p
 
Power supply
Redundant, hot-swappable, 850 W each
Power consumption
Max. 1,137 W, four-socket configuration
Max. 1,603 W, eight-socket configuration
 
x98gulinski said:
Power supply
Redundant, hot-swappable, 850 W each
Power consumption
Max. 1,137 W, four-socket configuration
Max. 1,603 W, eight-socket configuration
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ZOMG.

Over 200w per 10k ppd... it actually makes GPU's look efficient!
 
or a small village lol

Fun little expirament tho I guess

and that's max, is that with a killawatt or is that just the OEM specs?
 
Vaulter98c said:
or a small village lol

Fun little expirament tho I guess

and that's max, is that with a killawatt or is that just the OEM specs?
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OEM specs.


those X4600s turned out OK for people who had them
you could go all the way from a few socket-940 Opterons to eight Socket F quad-core Opterons, on the same motherboard.
crazy.
 
I wonder what the "actual" readings are?

And I had a board once like that. 1-8 cores, thing was massive tho, and had an add on board for the second 4 chips. Never even got that far (altho I did have the 8 quad core chips, I got the rig right when SR2's came out, obviously I swithced boats fast before the value sunk)

ahh the good days of 80k being GODLIKE lol
 
Vaulter98c said:
I wonder what the "actual" readings are?

And I had a board once like that. 1-8 cores, thing was massive tho, and had an add on board for the second 4 chips. Never even got that far (altho I did have the 8 quad core chips, I got the rig right when SR2's came out, obviously I swithced boats fast before the value sunk)

ahh the good days of 80k being GODLIKE lol
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Dude... You are telling me you had a 8P socket F system! With quadcores! OMG! I would have loved to have an 8P socket F...
 
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