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Cool. Thanks for your opinion and reminding me why it’s been years since my last posting here. I’ll go figure it out myself. AVX-256 is hot and the sun is bright when you stare at it. It’s returned a couple months of a8’s at 4650MHz at 1.25v running 61-63°C under a custom water loop, and has run sta...

Has anyone done a deep dive into OC vs PPD settings for these chips? With the new CCX layout in Zen 3, comparisons to 3000-series Zen 2 may not apply well here. I’m wondering if there’s any real improvement in PPD with all-core 4650MHz vs all-core 4650MHz then pushing the one fastest core in each of...

Remote Desktop does not play well with GPUs in general, and specifically not well with FAH, so use other options like VNC instead. Also, unless the top is left off the PC case, the top Low Profile NVidia GPU is a 750 Ti. The mini 970 I saw was half length, not half height, for use in the ATX form f...

Got 3 Dell Optiplex 755's for free. The desktop ones that support a half-height PCIe card. Q35 chipset One PCIe x16 1.1 slot Core2-based Pentium Dual-core E2160 1-2GB DDR2-667 16A max on 12V rail Turns out these allow 1MHz BCLK with locked PCI/PCIe via software. Unusual for OEM systems. General plan...

You can run 2, 3, or 4 uniprocessor cores under a single v7 client if you want to fully use your i3. Under v7, "FAH Control" provides a single interface to monitor and configure all cores. You can run FAH and BOINC at the same time if that is what your earlier question was. Run BOINC on th...

It would be best to run it with Linux SMP client for the CPU. I recommend trying out the latest beta 7 client. It's fairly mature for being beta. If it doesn't work for you, just uninstall and run the current v6 release. Optimus is a GPU switching technology that is supposed to save power by using t...

This has been explored before. The basic answer was so long as you are the one who owns the boxes, and you are the one running the F@H program, there is no write-off.

The Chinese getting involved in the CPU business could be the best thing in over a decade for computing. Intel seems to stay one small step ahead of AMD, only releasing enough R&D material to maintain that margin and charge through the nose for it. AMD hasn't really brought anything to the table...

You can't compare an ARM processor and a P3 ... they're completely different. The ARM processors are not designed for computing power, they're designed to be low power processors. Used to be true but not true anymore base on the latest ARM development. A power to be reckon with. If INTEL is not car...

C2Q 6600 doesn't really change anything in terms of bandwidth.

Start with -SMP 2 and see if you ca increase from there.

GPU units seem to be quite small, most less than 1MB, and a 9800GT will not do many of them too fast. GPU Linux also tends to be a lot of work to get/keep running. Might want to keep GPU on the back burner until you're sure your cap can handle SMP. SMP tends to be quite a bit larger, 5-20MB. You can...

7im wrote:That Pentium D system cost close $5000 not that long ago.

Yeh, and an ALR 6x6 was $13,675 in 1997. A dollar spent on a computer today is worth 5 cents in a decade.

In fact, the whole idea of people getting bent over points is very facetious. What are you saving them up for? You can't spend them on anything and they are not transferable. They may as well be monopoly money. By that same argument maybe you'd recommend removing the points system entirely since in...

So you think receiving results in 28 days is just as good as receiving results on 40 hours? It seems a lot of these projects are based on information from previous runs. They are generational. To run 100 generations on a typical -bigadv would take 5-6 months. To run 100 generations on uniprocessor c...

I can't stand it . . . when I first saw this title the answer in my head was "It's a love story -- a book, a movie, and now a play" but I resisted posting since it's truly off-topic. I can't resist any longer. I was thinking Over-Current Protection kicking in on an nVidia card = solid pur...