I'm back

Hang on to your hats - http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=159644

A long hiatus for several reasons, mainly the heat and electric bill but we'll see about upping this production now.

 

That's a nice way to come back man! A nice juicy 69xx.

 

Nope, chewed through a 2686.
Got to get my Ubuntu running now, that's this weekend's project.
Although I have been toying with the idea of dual booting. I've got some free space on a drive which I might partition off for an experiment since this lowly folder can't get one of those 2600K's yet.
I might just leap-frog that to an E but that's awhile in the future whichever way I go to upgrade.

 

I run Ubuntu 11.04 in a VMWare 3.0.0 on my main rig, the 930 and find it works quite well, way better than in W7 even with the extra overhead of *nix in a VM.

 

Bah, lost track of time. Don't bother dual booting if you want the use of the W7 at the same time, you'd need a dedicated 1.5 gigs of RAM, probably less but that's what I got, Ubuntu has never gone to the page file yet from what I can see.

It's my best setup as I want W7 usability but with *nix performance(or real close to it) for the fold. The 2600K is running native *nix. I was lazy not to make my 2600K my primary machine but the 930 works just as well for what I need. LOL, how much power does one need to surf or watch videos eh?:-D

 

Well, finally got my VM set up with Ubuntu 10.10 and don't you know I pulled a 2684 right off the bat.
I had a problem remembering the correct path for HFM to monitor the VM but got that straightened out too.
So it's off to the races with the fold.

 

Well, at least you got a -bigadv right off the bat. Good show! What, about 32 mins. per frame?

 

Don't I wish. Remember this is just a 950 @ 3885 Mhz. About 46 to 48 min/frame.
It makes the deadlines with the 2684 WUs but not a whole lot of leeway left to play with.

 

I must be mistaken then, I haven't been keeping tabs on my production.:-o My 930 and your 950 are basically the same when OC'd to 3.8+ gigs.

 

Welcome back! :major

It's good to see the production of our fold.

I've seen a few bare bone i7 systems (includes mobo,940 cpu,heat sink,fan,12GB ram) on eBay I've been interested in,but $425.00 each is not within my grasp at this time perhaps tax time?

seems like a good deal,though I'd have to purchase at least a 650 watt power source and case.

fold on

 

Well this has been a crappy week.
CPU overclock blew up. (Well, it was my fault for trying to reduce Vcore.:-o)
Comp locked up on what I thought was a stable OC.
Comp blue screened with a clock interrupt fault on another would be stable OC.
VMware player errored out with some garbage about a faulty installation.

So, this weekend will be about a complete do-over for folding.rolleyes

 

Fun, fun, fun!:-D

 

Hope I don't have to do that.

 

Don't you just know it.:banghead

You're fine Spock96.
I got a little too agressive with trying to get my temps down lower.
Tweaked it just a tad too much and blamo, all sorts of problems.

 

Welcome back, time to crank up the old binary space heaters everyone. Be safe and don't burn your toes.......MT