Vampire Posted December 30, 2003 Posted December 30, 2003 I know I could PM him, but I think everyone could benefit out of this. I looked at your sig man, and my jaw dropped. Out of all those killer systems, which one do you like the best/performs the best? *drools @ all your 9800's* Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dignan Posted December 30, 2003 Posted December 30, 2003 Another question, while we are on the subject of Q's for bigred. I don't mean to seem pushy but how goes getting the folding farm a running? When can we see you jet passed me in the ranks? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special_K Posted December 30, 2003 Posted December 30, 2003 i thought folding was over? thats why i never started Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
d3bruts1d Posted December 30, 2003 Posted December 30, 2003 i thought folding was over? thats why i never started Folding isn't "over". The folding@Home project is still running, and our team is still in the top 40 and moving up. The Folding@Home Contest that we had a while back is "over", but that was just one contest, there will be more to come. Even without the contest, we'd still like to see OCC in the top 20 (or better yet top 10 or 5). Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccokeman Posted December 30, 2003 Posted December 30, 2003 i thought folding was over? thats why i never started The contest is over but folding doesnt stop. Got to keep folding. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tazwegion Posted December 30, 2003 Posted December 30, 2003 i thought folding was over? thats why i never started The contest is over but folding doesnt stop. Got to keep folding. Yeah! :cracks the whip: get into F@H We could use your assistance... and you would have a shot @ upcoming prizes Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigred Posted December 30, 2003 Posted December 30, 2003 (edited) Question 1: If you were to sit down and play a game like call of duty for example, on one of those systems. You'd never know which one it was unless you asked or checked system properties. The benchmarks rank the higher clocked FX and Opteron over anything else by quite a bit, however the other ones are fast enough that you'd never know. Heck, they don't even seem much faster than my old 2800+ with 2gb and a 9800 pro 128mb. Question 2: Having 2 problems with F@H that should be worked out within the next day or so. First and foremost to me is the security on the xeon farm. They're all there to make $$$ for me, and securely store a large amount of sensitive, expensive, and important data (law firms, doctors offices ect). I have F@H running on them, but the firewall is obstucting them from sending results in. second on the list of problems is the 64 bit version of windows strikes again (I'm going to smack someone at MS now). Seeing as all 3 of them are still pre-releases (though xp and 2k3 were supposed to be out by now), I have had tons of problems with certain apps not functioning or coming up with wacky results (3dmark: no cpu found sisoft: wrong OS version f@h: unsupported OS Seti: BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH and my personal favorite UT: cpu too slow). I have been reporting these problems to software vendors letting them know they need to address these things before MS finalizes thier 64 bit os. but most seem to believe it's MS problem to make it work... which is half true. F@H tech support has already responded to the email I sent them late last night, they told me they hope to work with me to sort the bugs out on this one and get it up and running (I get to be a beta tester for the new version), which so far is the only group that doesn't have it's head up thier rear ends on this. also 3ghz may have to wait till the machII showes up next week I don't like seeing temps of 64c on a chip that retails for over $1k. PS the 9800s are mostly orphans from other hardware junkies that upgraded from them and left them to die in the hands of compusa's tap policy. Edited December 30, 2003 by bigred Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vampire Posted December 30, 2003 Posted December 30, 2003 ahh I see, scored pretty good then eh B) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigred Posted December 30, 2003 Posted December 30, 2003 still not good enough. boot time is still 30 seconds from post to login (darn scsi card) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.