New toy on the way

Polo · Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 10:39 am Post subject: New toy on the way

I just ordered this morning some pieces to upgrade one of my home machines Athlon 2400+, 1Gb DDR-SDRAM, GeForce II MX400, ECS K7S5A.
New pieces :
Motherboard : Asus P5K-Pro (Intel P35 + ICH9R)
CPU : Intel® Core™ 2 Quad Q9300 (4 X 2.5 GHz, 6Mb L2)
Graphic card : Gigabyte GV-NX86T256H (GeForce 8600 GT)
Memory : G.Skill Kit Extreme2 2 x 1 Gb PC8500 PK
Heatsink : Noctua NH-U12P
Power supply : Seasonic S12II-500 (500W)

The Athlon 2400+ will replace my daughter's machine Athlon 1800+, 1024 Mb SDRAM

New home fleet is soon to become :
Q6600, 2Gb (24/7 crunching F@H)
Q9300, 2Gb (24/7 crunching F@H)
PIV 2.8, 1Gb (24/7 crunching F@H)
PIV 2.6, 1Gb (24/7 crunching F@H)
AMD Athlon 2400+, 1Gb (from time to time crunching OGR-P2)
C2Duo E6300, 1Gb (from time to time crunching F@H)
Celeron 2600, 640 Mb (from time to time crunching OGR-P2)

AMD Athlon 1800+ is going to be given to a friend or to a family member.
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goobee · Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 4:38 pm Post subject:

Good deal, thumbup

Let us know how that Quad crunches. Mr. Green

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Tayra · On the right path Joined: 02 May 2007 Posts: 65

Nice!!

I've been pricing out new rigs myself...but probably going to just keep at it as is - I'm geared down already cause of the hot weather...and spent a bit more on car insurance than wanted (gotta keep the car running though).
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Polo · Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 1:43 am Post subject:

Up and running 4 instances of F@H. Mr. Green

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Tayra · On the right path Joined: 02 May 2007 Posts: 65

Yay! Way to go Smile

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Polo · Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 12:25 am Post subject: Re: New toy on the way

I just ordered yesterday some pieces to upgrade one of my home machines Intel PIV 2.6 GHz, 512 Mb DDR-SDRAM, GeForce II MX400, Asus P4C800.
New pieces :
Motherboard : Asus P6T SE (Intel X58)
CPU : Intel® Core™ I7 920 (4 X 2.66 GHz, 8Mb L3)
Graphic card : Point Of View GeForce 8400 GS 256 Mo
Memory : G.Skill Kit Extreme3 3 x 1 Go PC12800 NQ
Heatsink : Noctua NH-U12P SE1366
HD : 2 X Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 S-ATA - 1000 Go - 32 Mo

New home fleet is soon to become :
Q6600, 2Gb (24/7 crunching OGR27)
Q9300, 4Gb (24/7 crunching F@H + OGR27)
PIV 2.8, 1Gb (24/7 crunching F@H + OGR27)
Core I7 920, 3Gb (24/7 crunching F@H + OGR27)
C2Duo E8500, 2Gb (from time to time crunching F@H)
C2Duo E6300, 1Gb (from time to time crunching OGR27)
Pentium E2180, 2Gb (from time to time crunching OGR27)

PIV 2.6 is going to be given to a friend or to a family member.
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goobee · Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 6:39 pm Post subject:

Wow, nice little farm you got there. thumbup

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Polo · Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 2:25 pm Post subject:

Up and running. :=)

I'm playing with RAID 1 on the two HD.

Actually, it's giving me 160 Mnodes/s with no tweaking.
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goobee · Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 4:38 pm Post subject:

I am considering retiring my 8-core Xeon as GPUs crunch F@H so much faster and get higher PPD. It's the only thing I have that still have some value, maybe I'll give ebay a try?
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Polo · Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 12:24 am Post subject:

You could have an excellent OGR beast with this one... Very Happy

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goobee · Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 9:55 pm Post subject:

I haven't run OGR for a while. It would be interesting to see what an 8-core Xeon would do. Think

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Polo · Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2009 12:03 am Post subject:

Bring it up and let's see... Yellow Wink

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goobee · Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2009 11:59 pm Post subject:

Will the client I was using before still work?
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Polo · Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 12:55 am Post subject:

Best way to set up is to download the latest client here :
http://www.distributed.net/clients.html
If running Windows :
Replace dnetc.exe with the new one.
Don't modify your dnetc.ini
Open a terminal window and run as administrator :
dnetc.exe -install
This will install the program as a service (Optional)
net start dnetc
will start the newly installed service.
net stop dnetc
will stop it

If running Linux :
Replace dnetc with the new one.
Don't modify your dnetc.ini
Open a terminal window and run as administrator :
dnetc -install
This will install the program as a service (Optional)
/etc/init.d/dnetc start
will start the newly installed service.
/etc/init.d/dnetc stop
will stop it

dnetc.ini
To modify or create a new dnetc.ini you can run the executable with -config
or modify it by hand. It looks like this one below :

goobee · Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 4:24 pm Post subject:

Still no 64bit client? Yellow Sad

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