My first i7 950 SMP WU

ebug122 · Mar 7, 2011

The fan in our furnace decided to quit yesterday (right in the middle of a friggin Canadian winter). I'm using that as an excuse to start folding and warm up my room with my new i7

No bigadv flag set because I do quite a lot of gaming and I'd hate to miss the deadlines on those.

Running the 6.34 client with the -SMP flag set, what should I expect for frame times and PPD (full specs in sig - CPU @ stock speed)?

Nihilus · Mar 7, 2011

Top of my head i would say 10k for smp and 8-10k for gpu so around 20 k total. F@H site has pretty good charts on the different clients. You have a good motherboard, ebug, so a 4Ghz overclock would not be very hard especially with your cpu. Running 4Ghz with -bigadv should get you more like 25k for the cpu alone. Good luck!

GIXXERGUY6 · Mar 7, 2011

ebug122 said:
The fan in our furnace decided to quit yesterday (right in the middle of a friggin Canadian winter). I'm using that as an excuse to start folding and warm up my room with my new i7

No bigadv flag set because I do quite a lot of gaming and I'd hate to miss the deadlines on those.

Running the 6.34 client with the -SMP flag set, what should I expect for frame times and PPD (full specs in sig - CPU @ stock speed)?

Clocked at 3.8 you shouldn't miss -bigadv deadlines at all(I may be wrong)

one of our i7's here 930 clocked at 3.6 with 4gb ram completes with 55% left

ebug122 · Mar 7, 2011

Nihilus said:
Top of my head i would say 10k for smp and 8-10k for gpu so around 20 k total. F@H site has pretty good charts on the different clients. You have a good motherboard, ebug, so a 4Ghz overclock would not be very hard especially with your cpu. Running 4Ghz with -bigadv should get you more like 25k for the cpu alone. Good luck!

I'm already :drool:

at the thought of 4GHz. I definitely need to pick up a new HSF before I consider overclocking this beast though. Currently using the stock one and load temps are ~65C

GIXXERGUY6 said:
Clocked at 3.8 you shouldn't miss -bigadv deadlines at all(I may be wrong)

one of our i7's here 930 clocked at 3.6 with 4gb ram completes with 55% left

I guess with 55% leeway I have time for quite a bit of gaming

I think I've asked this before but just in case...is ctrl+c (in the cmd window) a "safe" way of shutting the SMP process down?

onefstsnake · Mar 7, 2011

I frequently game while folding.
I do pause GPU folding while gaming though.

You could always run -smp 7 -bigadv
I also set my ram usage to 4400mb with 0 issues.

ebug122 · Mar 7, 2011

Cheers snake :thup:

Onward and upward

onefstsnake · Mar 7, 2011

BTW best bang for your buck HSF is the Hyper 212. Ive seen them online for as low as $20. Supposedly just as good as a Megahalem.

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