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Yea, way better than any hardware i've folded with before!
Thanks! Nice to see a fellow DFW team 32 member!Welcome to Team 32! We're glad to have you hear.
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- Thread starter SpeeDj
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To the Folding Team 
From my experience on folding with single socket CPU's, you are better off saving the i7 to feed your GPU's. AFAIK the rule is still 2 cores per GPU, which causes you to gimp the i7's folding power to make sure the GPU's are properly feed
The GPU's don't have to be water cooled, unless you want to. Many of us run them on their stock cooling.
I will give you a BIG tip that I have learned over the years of folding. Set up a separate rig that is dedicated to just folding, instead of using your main computer. I found out ( using my main gaming computer for folding ) that I would shut down my folding to watch a movie, encode a movie or MP3 CD, Ect, Ect. This takes away from your GPU's or CPU's folding power and majority of the time, will cause F@H to crash or have a serious impact on your PPD.
Hopefully some others will also chime in with their knowledge of folding
And again
to Folding Team 32.
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sporktar
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Whoops! Haha! Fixed.I can't HEAR you over HERE
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Thanks for the warm welcome everyone!
These temperatures are a real problem in my life. I had to power down my rig last night because my room was a solid 10-15 degrees hotter than the rest of my already warm house. Our AC just can't keep up right now.
Thanks for the heads up about CPU folding, i'll stick to GPU only. I've been running air cooling on my gtx 970 at really low temps, so that's a non-issue but i still want to watercool my gpu since i'm already prepping a custom loop for my cpu. I'm also trying to move the radiator somewhere else so i can push that heat output outside my tiny room, which will help me keep my rig up on those hotter days.
Here! Here!
These temperatures are a real problem in my life. I had to power down my rig last night because my room was a solid 10-15 degrees hotter than the rest of my already warm house. Our AC just can't keep up right now.
From my experience on folding with single socket CPU's, you are better off saving the i7 to feed your GPU's. AFAIK the rule is still 2 cores per GPU, which causes you to gimp the i7's folding power to make sure the GPU's are properly feed
The GPU's don't have to be water cooled, unless you want to. Many of us run them on their stock cooling.
I will give you a BIG tip that I have learned over the years of folding. Set up a separate rig that is dedicated to just folding, instead of using your main computer. I found out ( using my main gaming computer for folding ) that I would shut down my folding to watch a movie, encode a movie or MP3 CD, Ect, Ect. This takes away from your GPU's or CPU's folding power and majority of the time, will cause F@H to crash or have a serious impact on your PPD.
Hopefully some others will also chime in with their knowledge of folding
And again
Thanks for the heads up about CPU folding, i'll stick to GPU only. I've been running air cooling on my gtx 970 at really low temps, so that's a non-issue but i still want to watercool my gpu since i'm already prepping a custom loop for my cpu. I'm also trying to move the radiator somewhere else so i can push that heat output outside my tiny room, which will help me keep my rig up on those hotter days.
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Stick the rad out the window!
Might heat the GPU's up more though if it's hotter outside..
I CPU fold still, FX in the sig folding 4 cores is worth about 8K
to the team BTW!! 
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I had that problem last year. At the start of spring this year, the wife told me " I will not put up with this heat again this year"
. I said Okay I did not think that she would go to Home Depot and buy the Biggest And Most Expensive window A/C unit
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Stick the rad out the window!
Might heat the GPU's up more though if it's hotter outside..
I CPU fold still, FX in the sig folding 4 cores is worth about 8K
Putting my radiator outside? That's absurd!
Just kidding, I'm working on doing that in my buildlog here
Right now it's just proof of concept to see if my system can be cooled outdoors in Texas temperatures. It's been hitting 105+F temps here lately. I also need to calculate how many watts of heat my system is putting out to see if a 2x120 rad with leafblower fans is adequate.
If energy consumption wasn't a concern for me i would probably just go buy a window AC unit and duct it into my pc intake lol!I had that problem last year. At the start of spring this year, the wife told me " I will not put up with this heat again this year"
I did not think that she would go to Home Depot and buy the Biggest And Most Expensive window A/C unit
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We could all move to the South pole and not have to deal with heat again, but the with all these folders, it might speed up the ice to melt
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Welcome sporktar, another from DFW here. Don't worry about the outside temps. It's more fun to fold nekkid!
, another from DFW here. Don't worry about the outside temps. It's more fun to fold nekkid!
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Decided to start folding last night.
ran it all night at full power, package temp stable at 76c,.
just need to find my stats thingy and add to sig
ran it all night at full power, package temp stable at 76c,.
just need to find my stats thingy and add to sig
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Now, if I could just get my stats number from EOC....how often do they update?
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A, good, right when I'm set to go out hiking for a couple hours.
Was thinking *please don't be a 24hr update cycle*
Was thinking *please don't be a 24hr update cycle*
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Whats not to love huh? Erm......the amount of heat generated? I cannot wait for a REAL arctic front to come down from canada into south texas and get us into fall.
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