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Message 1327739 - Posted: 16 Jan 2013, 0:44:17 UTC

Will I benefit from bringing in a Q6660 cruncher with a 8800 nvidia?
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Message 1327767 - Posted: 16 Jan 2013, 2:47:41 UTC - in response to Message 1327739.  

I used a Q6600 coupled with a 1 x GTX275/GTS250 & 1 x GTS250 for several years before I upgraded to a GTX460SE on one of my machines with no regrets.


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Message 1327769 - Posted: 16 Jan 2013, 2:53:56 UTC - in response to Message 1327739.  

Yes.
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Message 1327807 - Posted: 16 Jan 2013, 5:10:48 UTC

From my understanding it's even better if it's G0 stepping (SLACR). Apparently overclocks especially well.
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Message 1327827 - Posted: 16 Jan 2013, 6:29:23 UTC - in response to Message 1327739.  

They aren't "state of the art" any more, but you might get 4,000 RAC from a Q6600, and a decent amount more from the old CUDA card.

So it's certainly on the "worth crunching with" list.

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Message 1327887 - Posted: 16 Jan 2013, 10:41:48 UTC - in response to Message 1327739.  
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.... with a 8800 nvidia?

I've been trying out an 8800GT. It can do up to 3700/day.
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Message 1327896 - Posted: 16 Jan 2013, 11:31:29 UTC

I run a Q6600 with (2) GTX 460
Just have it feeding the cards (4 tasks) and not crunching.

It does about 40,000 RAC all projects..
Mainly on Einstein since SETI is usually out of work.
Good machine and heats my apartment in winter!


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Message 1327901 - Posted: 16 Jan 2013, 12:05:15 UTC - in response to Message 1327887.  

.... with a 8800 nvidia?

I've been trying out an 8800GT. It can do up to 3700/day.

Most likely 10-12K per day with optimized app.
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Message 1327904 - Posted: 16 Jan 2013, 12:31:57 UTC - in response to Message 1327901.  

.... with a 8800 nvidia?

I've been trying out an 8800GT. It can do up to 3700/day.

Most likely 10-12K per day with optimized app.

Wow. Once I have things in more permanent configurations (the combos/locations), I'll look into that.

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Message 1334301 - Posted: 3 Feb 2013, 16:15:09 UTC
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Used to... gave it to a mate of mine. I do have a i7 920 lying around with a gigabyte motherboard in a box somewhere though. Theres one going on ebay uk at the min for £35 or so with 27mins left on the auction :)
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Message 1334331 - Posted: 3 Feb 2013, 18:27:39 UTC

Congrats! :)
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Message 1334459 - Posted: 4 Feb 2013, 0:07:48 UTC - in response to Message 1327896.  
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I run a Q6600 with (2) GTX 460
Just have it feeding the cards (4 tasks) and not crunching.

It does about 40,000 RAC all projects..
Mainly on Einstein since SETI is usually out of work.
Good machine and heats my apartment in winter!


+1
I got Q6600 with one GTX 460 2GB. Run 3 cpu tasks, 1 gpu task, then when I go to bed I switch to 8 gpu tasks.
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Message 1334508 - Posted: 4 Feb 2013, 4:52:21 UTC - in response to Message 1334459.  

My everyday hack Q6600 (SLACR @ a mild 3GHz) runs dual GTX550 Ti's crunching on all cores plus 2 per card got up to a RAC of 32,000 (and climbing) when the limits and troubles hit so now it seems that every time it gets back up to 25,000 a backup project or two has to fill in for the lack of work here.

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Message 1334515 - Posted: 4 Feb 2013, 5:34:03 UTC - in response to Message 1334508.  

I have a Q6600, G0 stepping, running at 3.2GHz (has been since I got it years ago) with 2 x GTX470s. Runs WUs on all cores and 1 WU per GPU. With this config, it had a tendency to runs at a RAC of circa 45k (when we had caches, seems like a distant memory now). It was running with a RAC of 34k and climbing at a rate of 1k per day before it ran out of work.

It will run quite happily at 3.4Ghz on air, but can be a bit flaky on a hot day though.

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Message 1335868 - Posted: 8 Feb 2013, 18:54:32 UTC

Check out my system , and results.

Running Q6600 and 560 ti ( super overclocked )
Though ignore the 560 ti atm as it is playing up and keeps dropping to
safe mode ( 405 ) and I have done all i read to solve it.


Will be upgrading to a i7 cpu ( and new MB / ram ) when I can afford it :/
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Message 1336305 - Posted: 9 Feb 2013, 19:47:24 UTC - in response to Message 1327807.  

From my understanding it's even better if it's G0 stepping (SLACR). Apparently overclocks especially well.


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Message 1336991 - Posted: 11 Feb 2013, 7:15:44 UTC - in response to Message 1336305.  
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From my understanding it's even better if it's G0 stepping (SLACR). Apparently overclocks especially well.


Nice avater :P

Yeah, I figured I couldn't be the only one who's thought of it when I set it.

It's a sort of "tangible" reminder of what this is about; an actual signal out there somewhere that could end up being heard by the Arecibo dish, recorded on the tapes, processed through the splitters and sent out through Berkeley's clogged bandwidth toward becoming the greatest astronomical discovery in history having a profound effect the outlook of Humankind. Wow :)
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