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Heinekn Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 1 Credit: 56,183,066 RAC: 16 |
Hello all... I am in the process of upgrading my system. I will be crunching numbers with an Intel i9-7960, running with 64 Gb 3000 RAM and Sli NVidia GTX 1070 with 8 Gb each. While I will be cooling the processor with the best radiator I could choose, I am worried about processor heat. I have been using about 85 % of my current i7, 32 Gb system for the last several years with no problems. But I thought I might cut it to 75% with my new 16 cores and 64 Gb 3000 RAM. Running about 35,000 units processed daily now. I will report what I get with the new system. I can't wait. Jerry |
Cruncher-American Send message Joined: 25 Mar 02 Posts: 1513 Credit: 370,893,186 RAC: 340 |
You do NOT need that much RAM for SETI. I run 2 crunchers, each is a dual Xeon E5-2670 - so 16 cores each machine (32 threads) - with two GTX 1080s, each GPU running 3 WUs simultaneously. One has 32GB of RAM, the other, 16GB. Both run about 85K credit/day, there is NO bandwidth problem that I can see. If you keep your new machine at 32GB, even, you can save >$300 by not buying the unnecessary extra 32GB of RAM. Use it to pay your electric bill! |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13731 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
While I will be cooling the processor with the best radiator I could choose, I am worried about processor heat. I don't know why. The high end water coolers are designed to handle in excess of 300W. Even the most power hungry CPUs only use a bit over half of that. Run all cores & threads and see what it's capable of. Grant Darwin NT |
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