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My trusty old AMD 2800+ let go last saturday. Looks like the MB bios got flakey. It wont hold settings, changes them on its own in realtime. Very strange indeed. Fought with it for a few hours. Then decieded to flash it while there was something to work with. It would eaither fix it or finish it off. Well it finished it off. OOOOO darn... LMAO

Panic then set in. What to do? OMG my main rig is down. Then a credit card came to the rescue at a local PcClub. :) Seeing that the drives and such where still good. I replaced the AMD with a Core 2 setup.

1ea. Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6 motherboard
1ea. Intel E6600 cpu
2ea. Kingston Value Select DDR2/800 mhz/512 meg/cl5
1ea. Cooler Master 550w power supply
1ea. Big Typhoon sink and fan
2ea. ATI X1950Pro, 256 meg in Crossfire

I moves along very nice. :) Stock speed for the cpu is 2.4 ghz. Ive benched it as high as 3.6 ghz. I have it setting at a comphy 3.37 ghz. This will be my main desktop machine and my main folding machine. I may move it over to NIX for some ubber good folding. :) The reason for the new video cards isnt for gaming. But to possible do some GPU folding. With both cores folding at 100% cpu load at 3.37 ghz temps are in the mid 40's C. Stock vcore is 1.325v. I have it a 1.360v. Its been folding a patty melt on each core with frame times running between 23/25 mins. This is way down compared to the AMD's 45 min. frame times on the same work units.

Wayne you need to get you some of this action. :)

psy

I'm about to build a new PC today. My current one is too slow for the new games I want to play. It's an Athlon64 3000 with 1 GB of RAM and an Nvidia 6800GT graphics card. So I ordered a bunch of stuff from Newegg last week and it all arrives today. This is what I got:

Intel Core 2 Duo 6600
Thermalright Ultra 120 heatsink with Nexus D12SL-12 120mm fan
EVGA Nforce 680i motherboard
Corsair DDR800 2x1GB RAM (4-4-4-12 timings)
EVGA 8800GTX graphics card (just one; no SLI yet)
Antec Performance One 180B case
Seasonic S12 Energy+ 650W power supply
Seagate 750GB SATA 3.0 hard drive
Plextor SATA DVD+-RW writer
Logitech G15 keyboard/G7 laser mouse

And here's the kicker...

Westinghouse 37" HDTV (native 1080p!) :D

Anyone want an "old" A64 3000 system? ;)

You guys are crazy. I approve fully ;)

The project I initiated last night is the complete opposite direction: wiping the drive on my mammoth 6 year old, 750MHz Dell laptop so that I can have a stand-alone linux box. It barely boots Windows 2000 at this point so there isn't a whole lot on the line if I screw up along the way.

Hi Psy and Sledge:

___Cool machines!

___I was thinking about a Core 2 Duo 6300 with some Corsair DDR2 800 on an Asus P5B-E with a silent ASUS EN7800 GT for vid before Christmas but the power draw from both the CPU and Video Card made me want to scream :(

___I am still hanging on to my silent 1.4Ghz Celeron declocked to 935 MHz w/ a ThermalTake all-Copper Cooler using a 60 to 80 mm fan adapter and PC Power and Cooling Silencer on an Asus CUSL2 w/ 512 MB of Micron CL2 - PC133. The HD’s include (2) 80 GB Seagate ATA IV Barracuda’s which are almost silent ;) A fanless Asus GeForce 6200 running to a Dell UltraSharp 2007FP 20” LCD @ 1680x1050 for vid and screen finishes out the package. I am not in the same league in terms of performance but my total draw is < 225 W live while folding including PC, vid and monitor. The Dell LCD uses ~ 55 W on average w/ a < 2 W draw while in Power Save which is pretty amazing imho.

___Look at the CPU and Case temps at 100% load via Mother Board Monitor 5.3.7.0 which I just upgraded to an hour or so ago!

http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/519/medium/Declocked_PC_UD_Folding_-_100_CPU_Utilization_-_Temps.jpg

___Yes, that is a Red Honda Insight as my wall paper in the background :D

___Good Luck

___Wayne

I just got home and I'm about to build the PC. You have to see the size of this TV!

I will post pics later for you to drool over :D

Wayne

I under volted my cpu to give it some fast burn in for 24 hours. Had it at 1.213v at 3.4 ghz. Once it cooked at 50c or so for several hours I cranked the voltage up and found the sweet spot for the overclock, versus, heat and speed. also want it rock stable. From what I can tell the board has about a .040v droop. I haven't proved it yet. But,,, its what my gut is telling me after years of doing this. I just cant underclock. Its a very good skill to have. More folks are underclcoking buy the day. Other than the folks concerned about power consumption, many do it for A/V systems and such.

Sledge

Sledge that will be a fat box Im sure. :) The E6600's seem to be the cpu of choice right now. I really wanted a Quad Core. But I just couldn't make my self plunk the plastic down on one.

I really like the video card you got! I also purchased a evga 7600 GT. But the thought of GPU folding was to much. So I went back and got the dual X1950Pro's. Plus they will game. :) Just not at your level. LMAO I will keep the 7600 GT in the parts bin.

I would like to have some better ram. The cheap Kingston was all I could find in Tulsa last Saturday. The timings really suck! If you drop them down any no boot. Also,, it doesn't clock very well either. With some good straight up 1066 ram I'm sure 3.8 ghz is a give me on air with this cpu. A compressor and gas would be high 4 ghz plus. I was fun playing with it stable by most folks idea of stable with a 1 ghz overclock on it....;)

Cant wait to see the pics.

I need to shut this one down and move a hard drive and do some cable management stuff.

psy

Building a E6400 box right now. :)

Pics of my uber box will have to be temporarily delayed. Everything had been going smoothly since I got it running...

Until today...

Started the PC this morning and smoke started coming out of it! :eek:

One of the cables of my power supply was attempting to weld itself to my case. :eek:

I stopped it quickly. Everything else seems to be OK. I'm posting from the new PC now so I don't think anything else was damages. I'll play some games and do some stress testing later.

In case anyone wants to know, the PS was a 650W Seasonic S12 Energy+. I've had many Seasonics and this was the first to do something like this. Oy.

Oops. Did you manage to pinch a wire under one of those sharp
bits of un-deburred sheet metal, or something?
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_H*

Maybe. Don't know. Seasonic has already answered my email and begun the RMA process. Can't wait to get my new one :)

Sledge

Sorry to hear of the mishapp. Its real bad when puter parts let the smoke out at any level. Good luck with the fix.

Got another C2D up this weekend. Its at a 1.1 ghz OC on air. These cpus are awsome. My folding machines are doing much better now with some new bread HP.

psy

Seasonic just told me that as soon as I get them a tracking number, they will ship out a replacement. That's super service :)