What do you guyz think? I'm building a new system for folding and normal use(video editing, benchmarking and gaming). I would use it 12 hours for folding each day. Goal is get 50k+ points/Day. i7 980x Prolimatech or Thermalright HS Asus Rampage iii Extreme Corsair Vengeance 12GB(3x4) 1600 Corsair AX1200 PS OCZ Vertex 2 120 GTX 580 x2 in SLI Cooler Master CM690 II Advanced
hey vhco there is nothing better than an 980x systeme for folding but if i were you i would do some reseach into the 990x it should clock alot higher it should be comeing out in the next week or two and Sandy bridge is very good but still does not beat 980/990x and make sure to fill all the fan spots on the cm960 II and consider the noctoa NH-D14 ive got one and it keep my 970 at 45-50c @ 4Ghz hope this helps
I was thinking the same thing 'cause my insiders said 990x would come out on 01/09/2011. I would have 10 fans for cm960 II. What do you think of the MBs? Asus RP III extreme, MSI big bang xpower and gigabyte UD5 or UD7 or wait for G1 killer? I might add another GTX580 later on. How is NH-D14 compared to Prolimatech megahalems or Thermalright venomous x?
The new 2600K Sandy Bridge processor is only a quad-core, but can be overclocked to higher levels and only costs about $300. From a gaming perspective, I think you will be better off with the 2600K. From a folding perspective, however, I think you may be better off with the 980x. But at $1000 for the 980x you are talking about a significant investment in the previous generation. My two cents: wait a while longer for a Sandy Bridge processor with more cores to become available... and more Sandy Bridge based motherboards to come out. Regarding your quest for 50k points per day, I suspect 12 hours will only net you about half of what you desire. If you water cool your 580s and overclock them to 900/1800/2150 you will see about 19748 PPD from each card. That gets you pretty close to 20,000 points in 12-hours. Other members here will have better predictions than I as to the SMP2 points you'll be able to acquire within 12 hours. Keep in mind that you'll need to dedicate a core (two CPU "threads" with hyperthreading enabled) for keeping the two GPU3 clients running near 100%.
Ooh... I had no idea there was a 990x coming out. I'm going to be looking at that... Sorry - just saw your post about not being interested in SB chipsets. I was busy typing the above while you discussed with Iancook.
as far as i understand the NH-D14 is better but but see if there are any reveiw around to back it up the mobo are about the same it more probably personal preference i go for gigabyte's because i like there bios'es nut the asus would be just as good have the G1 killer look intresting to me but you will just have to wait for the reveiws on them if you are looking to 3 way sli then the gigabyte ud5 and ud7 would be hard to do in that case (unless water cooling with singel slot cards because of the last slot being slot 7 not no space for an 8th) then some of the G1s will need 8 pci slots so they will just not fit but i think there is one or two of the new gigabyte out there that will but they have all been only just been announced so am unsure. i think waitting a week to see what happen with the 990x and the mbs if you can would be a good idea so you can see the bigger picture when possiable or just get all the other components and wait for the things you are unsure on jj on sandy bridge there nothing come more than a quad untill Q3 by the look of things
My current system with 2x gtx 460 gives me 12kppd weekdays(12 hours) and 24kppd on weekends(24 hours). My qosmio x505 gave me around 2.5Kppd weekdays(12 hours) and 5kppd on weekends(24 hours). But last week my qosmio got fried during folding overnight. It sucks! Both MB and graphics card were bad. So with new 990x/980x - 20Kppd/day(weekdays)? 2x580 - 20kppd(weekdays)? 990x/980x - 40Kppd/day(weekends)? 2x580 - 40kppd(weekdays)?
well if you get to 4ghz or up then at the week end you could do a bigadv in less than two day im at 1 day 16 hours and if i ran it at smp12 it would be 1day 12 hours and for working out your ppd are you planning to overclock and what speed
ok at 4.5ghz 1day 8hours on the bigadv project the only problem with running multiple clients it the gpu's need cpu cycles so that can slow down the smp client but what i have found is that you can run 2 gpu client on one thread at 4ghz so 4.5 should be fine but that leave the cpu client with 11 thread to use witch slow down the smp/bigadv clients ppd at 4.5 ghz for 24 hours bigadv smp 12 73kppd bigadv smp 11 62kppd normal smp 12 38kppd normal smp 11 34/5kppd gpu3 client would be around 20k ppd so for 12 hours your ppd would be 40k ppd with the normal smp running the bigadv clients does make a big difference
hey Ghost15 the 990x has not been announced yet we are just speculating, there have been rumours that it can hit higher clock con-paired to the 980x
I wanted to check to see if one CPU thread could keep two overclocked GTX-580s busy at 100%. I shut down all clients and programmed Process Lasso to set the default affinity for threads 0,1,2,3,4,5,6 to the SMP2 client running at 100% with -SMP 7 and the default affinity for thread 7 to the GPU3 clients. My quad-core is running at 4.1 GHz so you would think that a single thread should be enough for two GPU3 clients as Iancook found with his GTX-460s, but I found that the card in slot 1 ran at about 97% utilization and the card in slot 2 at about 74%. The 580s may require more CPU overhead to perform at 100%, or perhaps its just my system. Perhaps a single thread/"core" at 4.5 GHz would be enough. Would love for you to report back when you get there vhco!
interesting jj do you no what project you where running when you did the test, some times i see gpu3 use more in other projects and less in other. i no when i was running project 6911 it was using 5% of one thread total for both clients and normal use 60-70% total for other projects
