Would you upgrade to a Q6600 just for SETI?
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 Dan Wulff  Send message Joined: 18 Mar 00 Posts: 178 Credit: 5,039,952 RAC: 0 
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Would you still upgrade to a Q6600 PC just to (or largely because) crunch workunits much more rapidly on SETI@Home? I did. I had (still have) a PIV 2.4, and I needed something newer, so I got a Q6600. If BOINC hadn't been part of my life, I would have only gotten a dual core PC. It's my main computer; I do everything on it, but I didn't need a quad core, except for SETI and BOINC. I still maintain the old PIV which does only crunching now, as well as a PIV 3.4 that I bought to only crunch.  Plus 5,026 SETI Classic Units ID: 655978 ·  |
-= Vyper =-  Send message Joined: 5 Sep 99 Posts: 1652 Credit: 1,065,191,981 RAC: 2,537 
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I upgraded from a Core2Duo E6600 to a Q6600 just mainly for S@H, but that resulted in me changing from E6600, P5B Deluxe, Corsair DC Memory -> Q6600, P5K Deluxe and OCZ 1150 Mhz memory.. And yes i OC the quaddie too :) Kind Regards Vyper  _________________________________________________________________________ Addicted to SETI crunching! Founder of GPU Users Group ID: 656002 · |
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archae86 Send message Joined: 31 Aug 99 Posts: 909 Credit: 1,582,816 RAC: 0
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I had (still have) a PIV 2.4, and I needed something newer, so I got a Q6600. If BOINC hadn't been part of my life, I would have only gotten a dual core PC. It's my main computer; I do everything on it, but I didn't need a quad core, except for SETI and BOINC.This is almost exactly my story, too, except that my Pentium 4 was a Gallatin running at 3.2 GHz, and that I had to rebuild the system when the boot drive failed. Since I was going to have to reinstall all aps anyway, I decided to enjoy a Q6600 on a modern motherboard with adequate RAM. As nothing I do is usefully multithreaded, I'd have just taken an E6600 were it not for BOINC. ID: 656014 · |
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nairb Send message Joined: 18 Mar 03 Posts: 201 Credit: 5,447,501 RAC: 5 
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Does anybody have the power consumption for one of these Q6600 under full load. You know.... how many watts it pulls. Ta Nairb ID: 656828 · |
Fivestar Crashtest  Send message Joined: 10 Dec 99 Posts: 226 Credit: 5,377,978 RAC: 0
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Does anybody have the power consumption for one of these Q6600 under full load. My Killawatt says my Q6600 pulls 135 W at full load on a P35 board with a 610 W power supply. That is with a modest overclock. ID: 656832 · |
John Clark  Send message Joined: 29 Sep 99 Posts: 16515 Credit: 4,418,829 RAC: 0
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I would upgrade to a QX9650 next months for SETI, if the ackers were in my wallet! It's good to be back amongst friends and colleagues  
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nairb Send message Joined: 18 Mar 03 Posts: 201 Credit: 5,447,501 RAC: 5
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Does anybody have the power consumption for one of these Q6600 under full load. you mean with 4 seti w/u or any 4 w/u it pulls 135 watts. Thats very good. My p4 pulls 140 on full load with HT on. I put a watt meter on most of my machines and they vary from 100 to 150 watts. Might be time to upgrade to one of these quad cores. Nairb ID: 656871 · |
DT  Send message Joined: 10 Dec 03 Posts: 16 Credit: 2,681,496 RAC: 0
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i got a amd 64 x2 4800+ toldeo with a complete system august of 06 and i just got a new mobo and ram last week now just waiting to buy the cpu core 2 quad just for seti so yes i upgraded just for seti ID: 656873 · |
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archae86 Send message Joined: 31 Aug 99 Posts: 909 Credit: 1,582,816 RAC: 0
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Does anybody have the power consumption for one of these Q6600 under full load. Not clear what you want: Total System power? Or just the power related to computation (not just the Q6600, but the extra activity-related power in chipset, RAM, and the power supply inefficiency overhead). More important, do you want to know on a stock system (running default clock and CPU voltage), moderately overclocked?, severely overclocked? undervolted for low power? My system is multi-use, it is my main personal system, doing web-browsing and document composition. It is also the host of a pretty heavy-duty audio hobby, and a medium duty photography hobby. As such it has more peripherals than would a cost-oriented crunching box (three big hard drives, two optical drives, a modest graphics card, a good sound card, floppy drive, Firewire/USB addon card, big fans running slow using wasteful series controllers...). Also as such, my overclock is conservative (3.006 GHz, 1.35V commanded on CPU, +0.2 on RAM, +0.1 on MCH). For this system, run that way, my idle power is about 146 watts, and my 4-core BOINC power is about 220 watts. (monitor not included). You could bring in a bare-bones system running stock clock undervolted far below that (half anyway, maybe less), and you could certainly burn far more with an inefficient cooling system, high overclock, and high voltage, with a gamer graphics card (at least double, maybe much more). ID: 656991 · |
Carlos  Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 29879 Credit: 57,275,487 RAC: 157
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In answer to the original question, Yes. I have 10 computers running Bonic. 3 computers that are actually used for something other than Bonic. The other 7 do nothing more than cruch. All are now Core2 duo's or quads. I added the quads only because of Seti. The Duo's are plenty fast for anything that I do otherwise. 
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nairb Send message Joined: 18 Mar 03 Posts: 201 Credit: 5,447,501 RAC: 5
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Does anybody have the power consumption for one of these Q6600 under full load. Fair point.... I quess what I was asking is: How much power does a barebones q6600 system use when just doing seti or other projects. I have had 30 or so computers for crunching over the years and they are/were all non-overclocked barebones systems. I used to measure the power comsumption at the point of connection to the wall. I know the type of power supply/video card/others will change the power usage a bit, but I was interested in a ball park figure. 220 watts is more what I expected. I have retired 25 of my machines due to the cost of electricity (1400 quid UK pounds) in a year. So I have become interested in power consumption. Maybe only 1 or 2 machines... A Q6600 at 220 watts while doing 4 w/u is tempting. Nairb ID: 657022 · |
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Natronomonas Send message Joined: 13 Apr 02 Posts: 176 Credit: 3,367,602 RAC: 0 
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http://setiathome.berkeley.edu//forum_thread.php?id=42774&nowrap=true#655017
Not exactly barebones, but the 8800gts must be around 100W at load (it requires more than the 75W on the PCIe, it has the extra connector), and from what I've seen elsewhere it idles at 40W (crazy, it's just a windows desktop...) Minus maybe 40W for the drives, and integrated/lower-power vga, and maybe 1gb and you'd be close to 100W lower. Crunching SETI@Home as a member of the Whirlpool BOINC Teams ID: 657029 · |
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Fivestar Crashtest Send message Joined: 10 Dec 99 Posts: 226 Credit: 5,377,978 RAC: 0
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Ok, I just looked at it. 144W under full load at 3.0 GHz. I looked at my notes and 135W was before overclocking. Sorry. My notes also show my E6700 read 150 W loaded. Not overclocking that, so I think the Q6600 is marvelous for power consumption. ID: 657116 · |
hiamps  Send message Joined: 23 May 99 Posts: 4292 Credit: 72,971,319 RAC: 0
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I was going to upgrade a couple machines and build a new quad just for seti...Then they cut my RAC and showed they didn't care. No upgrades or new computer. Official Abuser of Boinc Buttons... And no good credit hound! 
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zoom3+1=4  Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65778 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49
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I've learned that so far the Abit AW9D-MAX can use a Q6600 B3 stepping cpu, Just not a Q6600 G0 stepping cpu as the new stepping causes BSODs in Windows in the latest Bios(15) and the Abit AW9D-MAX motherboard is possibly getting no new updates as the last Bios update was back in May 2007, Although I hope I'm wrong as I have two of these fine motherboards. The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's 
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nemesis  Send message Joined: 12 Oct 99 Posts: 1408 Credit: 35,074,350 RAC: 0 |
right at this moment i am pondering whether to get a E2180 or a DVD recorder for the home entertainment system.... i think the dvd recorder is winning..so far ID: 659244 · |
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nemesis Send message Joined: 12 Oct 99 Posts: 1408 Credit: 35,074,350 RAC: 0 |
right at this moment i am pondering whether to get a E2180 or Final score: DVD recorder 1, E2180 0. ID: 659454 · |
ohiomike  Send message Joined: 14 Mar 04 Posts: 357 Credit: 650,069 RAC: 0
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right at this moment i am pondering whether to get a E2180 or Get the E2180, a big HDD, and a TV card- Get both!   Boinc Button Abuser In Training >My Shrubbers< ID: 659565 · |
Francois Piednoel  Send message Joined: 14 Jun 00 Posts: 898 Credit: 5,969,361 RAC: 0
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right at this moment i am pondering whether to get a E2180 or Lunch break ... my hands are scary ... If you want to do a home entertainment system, nothing is more parrallel than this, 2 recordings, one play back will max out a Dual core. a chip Quad core is better, and power wise, it can be quiet. Most PVR use at least 2 tuners, so, your PC should use a Dual Tuner card too, they are around 100$, and let you see a show and record an other one. I use snapstream, if you are based in USA, this is awesome, and support 8 cards if you are nuts :) a 2.1Ghz quad core is not very expensive, and handle very well snapstream. No need of crazy video card here! Windows XP + Snapstream rocks! who? ID: 659797 · |
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