Request: F@H tips

[Khyron320]

Its starting to cool off so im resuming my crunching of F@H i think ive forgotten everything already. You may remember me from my DUAL cpu post... well those plans fell apart LOLs

What im contemplating right now:

The main cruncher is an 875p chipset with a 2.6c ram runs at 2-3-3-6 i can get the fsb higher with a HIGHER casl but will this help F@H or not?

I may go water cooling since the chip does boot at 3.6ghz but locks up after it heats up. Koolance is looking OH SO TASTY.

I also have a 900mhz tbird thats not even assembled yet. I dont know if its even worth it. So how does F@H crunch on cpus this old?

I have taken over a 700mhz tbird i repaired for a friend. F@H is installed as part of my fee for fixxing it.
I am currently reformatting a 2500xp and will offer the F@H deal to this person as well.

Look at that lineup:

intel 2.6c 24/7
700mhz tbird on almost 24/7
xp2500 possible 24/7

900mhz tbird debatable...

If you guys say a 900mhz tbird is worth my time will running linux be any help at all?? Im becoming pretty good at this OS finally i even installed Gentoo on another box. Would any of these crunch seti faster?

 

[3chordcharlie]

If it scales down from my AXP machines (and it's pretty similar, so I expect it would) you'll get about 200 points / 3 days from the TBird.

If you have all the parts there's no reason not to do it, and if you have a use for it, it's even better. I have a 1200mhz Athlon MP machine running 24/7 that I also use as a win9x gaming machine, for old Need for Speed titles and such. Since it gets double-duty, it was worth the $0 it cost to put it together form spare parts

This machine does one of the large workunits (230ish points) in about 50-60 hours.

 

[MDE]

If you want to pay for the electricity, it'll be worth it. I wouldn't go much lower than 700MHz though.

On the P4, the higher FSB should be a bit faster, but I'm not exactly sure.

 

[Khyron320]

Does anybody know where i can find a guide to making a linux cd-rom boot disk that would run F@H so i dont need a hard drive for my 900mhz box???

I googled it but i cant find one.

 

[3chordcharlie]

I wouldn't recommend this - ANY hdd is good enough, or a flash drive. f@h needs to write to disk once in a while, and even if you make a ram drive, you'll lose all your work if you ever have to reboot (or get hit by a PF).

But I expect you could grab a feather-linux iso and have plenty of room to add in whatever other files are needed. It's a nice one and runs on just about anything, including getting the NIC up and running wiht no help.

 

[brage]

My main chruncher runs without a hd, booting from Knoppix into bash and running the folding software from ram. My uptime record is four months.
Alternatively you could allso make a USB-drive your /home and run F@H from there so save your data more permanently.

Go for it! Less heat, noise and parts that could fail. :thumbsup: