Folding@Home: CF Official Discussion Thread

[-0MEGA-] said:
tweaker, yours runs only at 50% right? Or did you find a way to get more than one copy to run?
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Setting up two instances is really easy. I'm going to wait though until I get better cooling (current solution is to noisy). So yes, only one core for now.
 
tweaker said:
Setting up two instances is really easy. I'm going to wait though until I get better cooling (current solution is to noisy). So yes, only one core for now.
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would you mind telling me how to do it? I tried installing it in a different directory but it wont run when the other one is running.
 
dragon2309 said:
2nd WU done, i can now only fold in the night time.... its too hot in the daytime, CPU overheats god dammit

dragon
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Dragon:
1. What are you using for cooling? I had to cut a duct hole in my case to directly feed the CPU fan with a tube.
2. What is the room ambient temp, and what's your CPU temp when folding in this "searingly hot room"?
Using a duct, the hottest my CPU gets in an ambient 30°C room with high humidity, with stock heatsink and a quiet 29cfm fan is 48°C. Right now, in a 23°C room, it's 38°C.
If you don't want to cut holes, then you're going to need to move a LOT of air through your case.
Tom
 
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its summer there you know.

Anyways, im almost done my first WU. I would like to know how to utilize both cores, if there is a way.
 
OvenMaster said:
Dragon:
1. What are you using for cooling? I had to cut a duct hole in my case to directly feed the CPU fan with a tube.
2. What is the room ambient temp, and what's your CPU temp when folding in this "searingly hot room"?
Using a duct, the hottest my CPU gets in an ambient 30°C room with high humidity, with stock heatsink and a quiet 29cfm fan is 48°C. Right now, in a 23°C room, it's 38°C.
If you don't want to cut holes, then you're going to need to move a LOT of air through your case.
Tom
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in the daytime my room hits 31*c, and its not even hot yet, last year i couldnt turn my PC on at all in the months like June etc.. i sat in the BIOS noe day and watched the CPU temp go from 36 on cold boot, it rose to about 45, i thought it would stop, it rose, and rose and carried on rising to 70*c, thats when my mobo kicked in and shut the power off... lol, teach me to get a 478 prescott wont it. 31*c in my room is relatvely cold, it can get to well above 35 in the summer.

at the moment i run on an Arctic Cooling Super Silent 4 Ultra - 42cfm / 2300rpm. i have the Tt Soprano case, if you look at pics of it you can see, they posistioned the side fan directly over the CPU drawing in air.

i have one front 120mm intake, one rear 120mm exhaust, PSU has 2 80mm exhaust fans

dragon
 
Stupid question, but did you put thermal paste in between your heatsink and proc?? Something's definitely wrong there... a 35°C heat rise over ambient is just obscene. Frankly, however, your ambient room temps are not what any PC maker would consider to be "normal". The highest I'd ever dare to run a PC continuously is with a CPU temp of no more than 55°C, ever, for any expectation of long life. There's no way you can cool the room down?
Tom
 
Stupid question, but did you put thermal paste in between your heatsink and proc??
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You dont really think im that stupid, do you...?

Frankly, however, your ambient room temps are not what any PC maker would consider to be "normal".
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I know, the sun is on my room most of the day

it sucks

dragon
 
OvenMaster said:
I'd ever dare to run a PC continuously is with a CPU temp of no more than 55°C, ever, for any expectation of long life.
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That depends on the chip, 55-60c is a perfectly normal operating temperature for Prescott.
 
tweaker said:
That depends on the chip, 55-60c is a perfectly normal operating temperature for Prescott.
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Agree'd, i used to have a prescot and it was around 50-55C, and we have a celeron D based off the prescott and it runs around 60-65C idle. They both work perfectly fine.

As tweaker said, its normal for that kind of cpu.
 
normal yes, but not normal for me, i thought i did a good job on coolin it idle was around 48-52*c, then at the slightest hint o fheat in the room and anythingslightly CPU stressful it skyrockets and shuts down... i dont want to be "normal" "extreme" is the way to be.

anyhoo, back on topic, i ifnished my 3rd WU this morning, and F@H still asys i am on 2, this is annoying
 
Update:

Yo. Just got my 4th WU and received a huge one! It's a 20,000 frame Project 2107. Hmm....it has some sweet point reward though :P

JAN :D
 
aw man, my latest is a meesley 400, so the points is rubbish, and for some reason, each frame is set at taking 16 minutes....!!!!

dragon
 
maybe i'll get lucky and mine will be worth alot :P

btw, how many frames are your WU's? The one im on now is 500.
 
tweaker said:
Usually 10k to 20k, I rarely see any below 5.000

At the beginning they were much smaller though.
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20,000 frames for each WU?!? It takes me about 24 hours just to get one 500 frame WU done.
 
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