The Pond Quad Core Thread

[Jay See Bee]

I just checked on my BOINC Manager before bedtime... and saw this in the messages:

9/5/2007 9:37:30 PM|Spinhenge@home|Sending scheduler request: Requested by user
9/5/2007 9:37:30 PM|Spinhenge@home|Requesting 1345092 seconds of new work, and reporting 24 completed tasks
9/5/2007 9:37:35 PM|Spinhenge@home|Scheduler RPC succeeded [server version 509]
9/5/2007 9:37:35 PM|Spinhenge@home|Message from server: No work sent
9/5/2007 9:37:35 PM|Spinhenge@home|Message from server: (reached daily quota of 300 results)
9/5/2007 9:37:35 PM|Spinhenge@home|Deferring communication for 17 hr 33 min 4 sec
9/5/2007 9:37:35 PM|Spinhenge@home|Reason: requested by project
I've got about 32 WUs left in my cache, so that's just shy of 17 hours... we'll see how this goes.

But 300 is a danm sight better than 75 'nStuff!

You shouldn't hit your limit with 75wu per core

Make sure your preferences are set properly.

[UncleBob]

Yipper, I`m getting 75 wu`s/core = 300/day. Haven`t ran out yet.

Today I`m picking up another CoolerMaster Mystique 632 case, LG 18 X DVD-RW, and a few hard drives. Also this morning I`m ordering a Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme, and a Sycthe S-FLEX 120mm fan. My order is already shipped. This includes a Q6600, P5K Deluxe WiFi, 2GB Corsair 6400C4 kit, and a PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750 Quad. So early next week I`ll be bringing a second quad online.

Awesome, Scruff!!

[scruff35]

Today I picked up the DVD-RW, case, and 3 X 500 GB 16mb Sata Seagates. So now my arrangement is going to be this:

My rig - Q6600 with 1.5 TB(3 X 500 GB Seagates) of storage.
Wife`s rig - Q6600 with 640 GB(2 X 320 GB Seagates) of storage.
Spare rig - 3800 dual core with 324 GB(74 GB Raptor and 250 GB WD) of storage.

What do you think? 2.464 TB of total storage.

[JokerCPoC]

Today I picked up the DVD-RW, case, and 3 X 500 GB 16mb Sata Seagates. So now my arrangement is going to be this:

My rig - Q6600 with 1.5 TB(3 X 500 GB Seagates) of storage.
Wife`s rig - Q6600 with 640 GB(2 X 320 GB Seagates) of storage.
Spare rig - 3800 dual core with 324 GB(74 GB Raptor and 250 GB WD) of storage.

What do you think? Almost 2 TB of total storage.

Say on those two Q6600 PCs, What brand and wattage psus are You using?

[scruff35]

Say on those two Q6600 PCs, What brand and wattage psus are You using?

PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750 Quad.

[UncleBob]

Today I picked up the DVD-RW, case, and 3 X 500 GB 16mb Sata Seagates. So now my arrangement is going to be this:

My rig - Q6600 with 1.5 TB(3 X 500 GB Seagates) of storage.
Wife`s rig - Q6600 with 640 GB(2 X 320 GB Seagates) of storage.
Spare rig - 3800 dual core with 324 GB(74 GB Raptor and 250 GB WD) of storage.

What do you think? Almost 2 TB of total storage.

I think you got some storage!!!

[scruff35]

This quad will be a slow build as my parts are coming from several places(Toronto, Vancouver, etc.). Some as late as next Friday(free ground shipping). This will be my main rig. Just trying to decide if it should have the ATI X1950 Pro, or the ATI HD 2600 XT. Anybody have an idea of which card would be better?

[Big red]

I picked up the Quad today. I've got it assembled and am installing XP Pro for a bench test over the weekend. I really like this rig! Overclocking seems to have gone smoothly. It is currently running at 3.4g (9*378) with a no load temp of 34c. This mainboard allows to overclock only the CPU without a lot of the hassles. The test rig has:

ASROCK 4CORE1333-FULLHD
Q6600 Quad @ 3.4
Corsair XMS2 DDR2-800 2 x 1GB
Seagate 160gb Sata drive
Pioneer DVD rom
Standard 300w ATX power supply

If I can figure out how, I'll post a pic of the bench test.

[scruff35]

I picked up the Quad today. I've got it assembled and am installing XP Pro for a bench test over the weekend. I really like this rig! Overclocking seems to have gone smoothly. It is currently running at 3.4g (9*378) with a no load temp of 34c. This mainboard allows to overclock only the CPU without a lot of the hassles. The test rig has:

ASROCK 4CORE1333-FULLHD
Q6600 Quad @ 3.4
Corsair XMS2 DDR2-800 2 x 1GB
Seagate 160gb Sata drive
Pioneer DVD rom
Standard 300w ATX power supply

If I can figure out how, I'll post a pic of the bench test.

Nice oc!!! What cooler are you using to keep the temps so low?

On mine I`m running 55c on full load with the cooler in my system stats.

[Big red]

Nice oc!!! What cooler are you using to keep the temps so low?

On mine I`m running 55c on full load with the cooler in my system stats.

Standard Intel heatsink and fan untill I move it to my liquid cuuled system. Temp under load (Spinhenge)
Core1 62
Core2 62
Core3 65
Core4 65

So far 30 min. WU's

How can I post a photo off the HDD to here?

[scruff35]

How can I post a photo off the HDD to here?

Sign up here. It`s free. Then take screen shot, go to paint in the windows accesserories, click on edit, then paste, save. Then upload to flickr, then copy link to post here.

http://www.flickr.com/

[Fluff n Stuff]

Okay, back up a sec... how do you take a screenshot?!? I used to have an addon that would do that, but when Firefox went to 2.0 it became unusable 'nStuff...

[Fluff n Stuff]

Oh, and nice OC Big Red!

[Big red]

Ok,I finaly got a photo to work. Here is the bench test.

[Jay See Bee]

This quad will be a slow build as my parts are coming from several places(Toronto, Vancouver, etc.). Some as late as next Friday(free ground shipping). This will be my main rig. Just trying to decide if it should have the ATI X1950 Pro, or the ATI HD 2600 XT. Anybody have an idea of which card would be better?

I'd go for the HD 2600 XT in your main box, newer card, fully supports DX10 and full 1080p HD playback.