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CougTek

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My average will take a hit very soon, as I sold one of my three computers. It is the slowest of the three. I might not be able to replace it, at least on short term.

The customers are scarce at the shop these days...
 

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Sdbardwick apparently stopped his effort. He wrote that it would only be temporary, but it helped us quite a lot in the meanwhile.

Thank you very much for your contribution SDB. You will be missed.
 

LiamC

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Just built my first i7-2600K. Loaded client 6.34 configured and it downloaded core A3? Is there something extra I need to set?

Work unit type is set to big and the -advmethod flag is also set

..."[22:05:56] Decompressed FahCore_a3.exe (10057216 bytes) successfully
[22:06:01] + Core successfully engaged
[22:06:06]
[22:06:06] + Processing work unit
[22:06:06] Core required: FahCore_a3.exe
[22:06:06] Core found.
[22:06:06] Working on queue slot 01 [March 19 22:06:06 UTC]
[22:06:06] + Working ...
[22:06:06] - Calling '.\FahCore_a3.exe -dir work/ -nice 19 -suffix 01 -np 8 -checkpoint 15 -verbose -lifeline 2816 -version 634'"...
 

LiamC

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Despite that, HFM reports that on unit 6055, i7-2600K at stock is ~ twice as fast as a 3.2GHz Q9550. Both appear to draw ~ the same power at the wall
 

CougTek

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AFAIK, you only need core A5 for big units. If the unit they decided to send you first isn't a big unit, then the client will download a core A3.

You installed a Linux flavor or Windows. Apparently, the Linux client is back being faster than the one for Windows. Under Linux, in order to receive big units, you have to answer "no" to "ask for advanced units". Other than that, there is no particular settings you have to pay special attention to.

And I very much hope that an expensive Core i7 2600K is at least twice as fast as a three-years-old C2Q 9550.
 

CougTek

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And does it mean that I need to worry about you in addition to SSD? Because an overclocked 2600K doing big units can produce over 50K per day all by itself.
 

LiamC

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And does it mean that I need to worry about you in addition to SSD? Because an overclocked 2600K doing big units can produce over 50K per day all by itself.

Maybe... :rambo::drunk::king::)

Wait 'til I get my second one

And the 2600K isn't all that expensive. I think I paid $340 or so for the Q9550s when I got them (and the 2600K cost $370), so all in all, a worthwhile upgrade
 

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Sdbardwick apparently stopped his effort. He wrote that it would only be temporary, but it helped us quite a lot in the meanwhile.

Thank you very much for your contribution SDB. You will be missed.

Not using the ice-cube office for now, so the extra heaters are off. If it doesn't get unusually warm this spring I'll need to restart a couple in April. Might even get a 2600K running by then...
 

CougTek

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After numerous issues, I restarted to process big units on my third and weakest machine, this time under Linux (Fedora 14 with LXDE, 64 bit of course). If the Linux client really is 10-15% faster than the Windows client, then I should be able to finish my units within the prefered deadline.

Right now, both my Windows machines are computing project 2684 units. BOTH! The bastards at Stanford didn't send me one, but two of this P.O.S. unit. It looks like I'll be able to finish both soon enough to get the bonus points, but it will still kill my daily average. The Linux box is doing a project 2692, so at least that's ok.
 

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AFAIK, he's a friend of Mark. I don't think he's been posting here, but I underlined his achievement in case he reads the forum.
 

CougTek

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If SSDrueding does more than another 369000 points before the end of the month, he'll beat the team record for a month's production. A record I hold since...last month.
 

CougTek

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Actually, in five. This month has 31 days while last one had only 28 when I did my record*. If you beat me, I'll keep being proud that you won't beat me in daily average for a month.
 

Handruin

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Keep up the good production numbers! :) I'm happy I'm seeing bonus points again even if it's not as much as you guys produce, I feel more adequate now!
 

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If you take on a massive unit (requiring many days on a quad-core system) and complete it within a fairly strict time frame, you get many times the normal reward.
 

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We managed nearly 375k points on the 27th. I just started another machine temporarily, but I don't think it's massive unit will complete this month.
 

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I've got 2 x 2600K's online. Just starting to overclock them. You might catch me, but it's going to take you longer than you thought... :D
 

CougTek

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An overclocked i7 2600K can produce anywhere from 35K to 53K ppd. With two of them working 24x7, he won't catch you unless he improves again his folding farm.
 

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Yeah, I don't see myself catching you anytime soon. Perhaps I'll try to get some spares assembled and running for a while, but my hardware is fairly set at the moment.
 

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If SSDrueding does more than another 369000 points before the end of the month, he'll beat the team record for a month's production. A record I hold since...last month.

Nope. Didn't do it. And I'll need to dial it back for a while here, it is 93F (34C) outside.
 

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They are indoors. And i have a very well insulated house without air conditioning. With it 100F outside and these pcs off, it is 74F inside when I get home. With them on it was 90+ inside.
 
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