Yeah AB I agree... but...
 
Will I ever at my age be a 32 waist again?  Will I wake up one morning and think, dang it.... I need to stop dreaming of calculating WU's in my head.  And of course the age old question.
 
What exactly is my name? 

Punchy

I see that brilong from Cisco Systems and recently from [H] has joined overclockers.com today.  His 2-3M PPD, multiplied by 2.2 to give 4.4-6.6M PPD, should be enough to end the contest.

saaweeeeeet... pretty cool thing for them to do. Time to buy more parts... First... Need to make extra money...

Macaholic

Afterburner

Punchy

I see that brilong from Cisco Systems and recently from [H] has joined overclockers.com today.  His 2-3M PPD, multiplied by 2.2 to give 4.4-6.6M PPD, should be enough to end the contest.

saaweeeeeet... pretty cool thing for them to do. Time to buy more parts... First... Need to make extra money...

Shhhhh. The plan is to encourage more to do so in order to regain #1. That was my understanding. Be careful AB you only possess 2.7 - 3.0 liters of plasma total. I hate typing on small mobile devices, don't you?

True that! And I did not know that. Yes I do!
 
Why is the room spinning? 

ShadowSplicer

Afterburner

Punchy

I see that brilong from Cisco Systems and recently from [H] has joined overclockers.com today.  His 2-3M PPD, multiplied by 2.2 to give 4.4-6.6M PPD, should be enough to end the contest.

saaweeeeeet... pretty cool thing for them to do. Time to buy more parts... First... Need to make extra money...

AB, I'm looking to build a 2P system (or even a 4P if I'm feeling up to it) in the somewhat near future... Have any recommended parts, or helpful info for me?
Needs to be useful for folding AND running a super-hyper-threaded Craftbukkit server lol. I have literally massive plans for it... I have an entire (8 person) team dedicated to building up an amazing Minecraft server with me I'm getting a Paypal shop set up for ingame loot, so we'll get money as we go along.

Wow that was a lot of info! I need to learn how to type that effectively (I am serious btw). We would love to help. I am still a noob and would only feel comfortable at this point to direct you to these very threads as a good many folks hare are starting to ramp up with 2P and 4P setups 
 
 
In other news... Stats are working again... Man a lot of WU's are getting done! 
 

2P 2 processors
4p 4 processors
 
its the number of cpus. you will also see talk about how many cores as well. Most of the 2 - 4 p have at least 6 core cpu's or more. 

Hey Carlitos, welcome back to the fold. Thank you for helping.

jinihammerer

2P 2 processors
4p 4 processors

its the number of cpus. you will also see talk about how many cores as well. Most of the 2 - 4 p have at least 6 core cpu's or more. 

 
After I posted that and started making supper it occurred to me that's probably what that meant.  And that begs another question that a) I could likely find discussed elsewhere here and b) would continue to drag this thread off-topic.  But... I'm going to ask anyway.  Aren't today's modern GPUs more powerful than today's CPUs?  I know it depends on the application and how it's written, but does that apply to folding?  I mean, I'm sure my SLI'd 8800GTXs are putting out more than the lightly OC'd e6600 supporting them.  And isn't the GTX670 out-folding the i7-920 OC'd at 3.5Ghz supporting it?  The net here being that I would think a quad-sli setup should smoke any modern CPU ... right?
 
To drag it back on topic, our internet connection was interrupted overnight for a few hours (I don't know exactly when it resumed as I was alseep) due to the storms around here.  But all are cranking full-speed now.  Sorry for the interruption. 
 
And, seeing recent numbers, I should replace that GTX285 in my content creation box with the GTX480 collecting dust, I'm thinking!
 
Fold on!

ShadowSplicer

Afterburner
Wow that was a lot of info! I need to learn how to type that effectively (I am serious btw).

I thought you were mocking me I was ready to fling some poo at you until I read the rest of that

Goodness no... I do not mock... I am direct and honest. Not exactly the best thing for the interwebs that cannot see body language, tone and full duplex "Ears-to mouths" thing...

Xavier Zepherious

lrjfamily


The net here being that I would think a quad-sli setup should smoke any modern CPU ... right?

4x 50K(for best GPU)...currently=200k
single cpu (currently3960k) - 50k SMP   if we go Xeon 2687 (8 core)...bigadv...around 100-120k...if ivy-e 10core comes out ....200k+(speculation)

quad sli ($4k -with titans or 690's) 
4P G34 (6180's) - $800$MB +4x$600(used chips)=$3200 (you still need ram and PSU's)

the 4P nets 400K PPD verses 200K (GPU) currently

however GPU QRB is incoming soon... so GPU PPD is going to have a huge increase

this is why alot of people are waiting to see what's going to happen before big $$$ investments in hardware are done

This is why I have been considering a 4C(ard) system.  The problem is that there arent many if any 4 PCIE dual wide boards in the AMD boards for me to ignore SMP and just go GPU.  So if I actually want to go with a 4C system, I would have to go Intel and spend a lot more on the board and CPU.  If calculate ("CPU + MB") / "# of GPUs" for an AMD system with 3 GPUs, I might as well go with an Intel system and at least have the potential of some light SMP folding on it. 
The only thing that is stopping me is that Core 17 WUs suck on NV GPUs and I don't like the idea of investing in AMD GPUs if Pande might do something about using only OpenCL for QRB GPU WUs or NV fixes the OpenCL support.

Xavier Zepherious

you forgot about the new Nvidia servers
2 cpu's socket (2x i7 xeon[48 thread] ivy bridge-e) with 8 gpu's system
do both Bigadv and GPU folding

I missed this???? Link pleze

Yea this would be nice, but $/GPU slot, it would be overkill compared to 2 Z77 boards with 4 slots.  FAH does not need 16x on most cards, and if we are taking about QRB and top tier AMD cards, then we would be talking about AMD cards which tend to need less anyway.

Have a power supply going boys and girls....I'm out :)
until next time
Stay Frosty!

Thanks Lefty, I hope you get it back up and running soon

Alrighty then!!
 

 
 

asus939

1 more day to go and i have not blown anything up all 3 rigs are running great knocks on wood 

+1
after loosing a MB a video card and a PSU in the march madness im feeling the same way. with some luck nothing will go boom this month.