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Well my server has been acting up for awhile, won't fold smp and I sold the GTS450 so it's not GPU folding either. Probably a corrupted codec package or add-on (it's primarily a media server) so it's time to reinstall. I purchased a cheap C2D for a spare S775 mobo I had laying around so I'll switch it over there with the new WHS 2011. Now what to do with the Q6600 : 1) should I do a Windows install and run smp as a service? Could also GPU fold in the future as mobo has 2 PCIE x16 slots. 2) should I try musky's Ubuntu guide with 10.10 and smp ? I'm downloading the iso now but I haven't tried any Linux distros since Knoppix several years ago. Is it possible to GPU fold on Ubuntu? I'm considering slapping a wireless NIC in it and throwing it in the closet under the staircase as a dedicated folding boxen. (less heat in the mancave and no WAF hassles).
 
Would suggest selling/upgrading if possible


if not....

Fold on Linux until you get to doing GPU's, at which point, yes you can fold in linux on GPUs, or swap to windows at that time.
 
It would make a good space heater if you need one. Fold linux for a while then slap some GTX460s or something at some point.
 
Thanx for the input and it figures you 3 guys are the first to chime in :)

As for sell/upgrade the budget is depleted or else I wouldn't have sprung for the cheap C2D to take it's place as the alternate Server. I doubt whatever I could get for it would be enough to get me into an i7 and mobo. Space Heater? yeah I've already got 3 other ones here in my mancave, that's why I want to hide this one away under the stairs. Will Linux give me a noticeable boost in ppd? How about wireless NIC support in Linux? The NIC is a DLink 802.11G PCI unit. I burned the 10.10 iso to disc last night and it's ready to go. The Q6600 has been OC'd to 3.2 GHz/1600 FSB since day 1 and I recently slapped a water cooler on it so I might be able to squeeze a little more out of it.
 
i dunno, there's dumb enough people on craigslist, i just saw a guy sell a E8400 for 100 dollars on craigslist out where i live. you could always just screw around with the linux client and post it on craigslist for some price and see if anyone bites. if they don't then by that point you should have the linux client mastered and just leave it running.
 
On standard SMP there isn't much of a difference between windows and Linux, only when you are running -bigadv on the A5 core do you get a variance.
 
Wireless in Linux is a crap shoot at best. I had a Netgear wireless PCI NIC working under 10.10 Desktop a while ago. It really depends on the card. Install the OS somewhere where you have a wired connection and see what happens.
 
Agreed. I have a cheapo Tenda 802.11n pci adaptor that was instantly detected by Ubuntu 11.04. I also tried two different netgear USB 802.11n adaptors but neither one worked.
 
Nathan_P said:
On standard SMP there isn't much of a difference between windows and Linux, only when you are running -bigadv on the A5 core do you get a variance.
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I saw a big boost on my old phenom quad core going from windows SMP to Linux SMP. Got anywhere from 40%-60% more PPD. That Q6600 at 3.2Ghz should pull almost 8K PPD on dedicated linux SMP.
 
Untitledone said:
I saw a big boost on my old phenom quad core going from windows SMP to Linux SMP. Got anywhere from 40%-60% more PPD. That Q6600 at 3.2Ghz should pull almost 8K PPD on dedicated linux SMP.
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Hmm, thats interesting, running SMP on my 5670 box i saw no difference in PPD between win7 and linux
 
Nathan_P said:
Hmm, thats interesting, running SMP on my 5670 box i saw no difference in PPD between win7 and linux
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I remember quite well because of the 4K PPD requirement for the 2600K Giveaway. My phenom was very close to the cuttoff since it averaged about 4400 PPD on windows. Some units dipped to 3200 PPD which was my worst WU. When I went linux my worst WU was about 4500PPD and best ones hit about 7000. Linux brought my average up a lot. Now this was 6 months ago so maybe things have changed since then.
 
Untitledone said:
I remember quite well because of the 4K PPD requirement for the 2600K Giveaway. My phenom was very close to the cuttoff since it averaged about 4400 PPD on windows. Some units dipped to 3200 PPD which was my worst WU. When I went linux my worst WU was about 4500PPD and best ones hit about 7000. Linux brought my average up a lot. Now this was 6 months ago so maybe things have changed since then.
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