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Sunday, May 01, 2011 1:57 AM (permalink)
heya folks ... long time no see ...
 
well here's the situation ....
 
I'm looking at getting either a 5680 or a 5690 as my first chip for my SR-2 (it has been sitting lonely for the last year in it's box) and was curious as to how well either of these chips OC's ...
 
here is a list of the other hardware i will be running for folding on this rig
 
SR-2 Motherboard
SR-2 PSU
160GB Intel SSD
6GB (3x2GB) Muskin 1600 redlines
3x 9800GX2's
 
any help would be appreciated as I started saving up for my cpu for this quiet beasty
 
I'm planning on running 6x GPU Clients and -BIGADV smp
 
thanks for the help on this matter
 
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    Re:Question for the folders Sunday, May 01, 2011 2:32 AM (permalink)
    Welcome back!
     
    You should check out the SR-2 threads to find out about OC potential, there should be some info around. k|ngp|n has been doing some crazy OC's on LN2 with his recently.
     
    You may want to do some testing with what you want to do for folding. Since you have the 9800 GX2's, I'm sure you want to put them to work, but they may actually reduce your PPD. You will need to dedicate at least 2 or 3 threads to the GPUs, and that will reduce the potential PPD on the SMP. The PPD added by the GPUs needs to be more than the loss of PPD from the SMP to make it worth while. You will only know for sure how it will work out once you have the rig up and do your own testing. Also, my comments assume this is solely dedicated to folding. If you have other plans for this rig that necessitates the 3 GX2's, then go with your current plan.
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    Re:Question for the folders Sunday, May 01, 2011 2:37 AM (permalink)
    yes the SR-2 i had purchased was bought with the sole intention for mega folding and i was hopefully figuring that the 6 GPU Clients will offset the PPD loss experienced from the lessened thread count
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    Re:Question for the folders Sunday, May 01, 2011 2:51 AM (permalink)
    Most SR-2 -bigadv folders have stayed away from doing a bunch of GPU folding on them. I would imagine that you will see the same results, but, like I said, that is something for you to determine yourself.
     
    It would be great if you could have it up and running for the start of the Chimp Challenge on Thursday, but that's probably not going to happen, is it?
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    Re:Question for the folders Sunday, May 01, 2011 2:58 AM (permalink)
    i wish it could but not very likely at all :(
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