Woohoo! I can hit 94,253 PPD with my system in F@H

[AdamK47]

Probably not that shocking to some of you, but it is to me. Decided to switch to using 12 threads with my 980X since the GPU clients use very little CPU cycles now.

 

[theAnimal]

Could even get 10 to 40k PPD more with bigadv if you don't mind WU that take days to complete.

 

[AdamK47]

I don't run it all the time, so those would most likely expire.

 

[somethingsketchy]

How's the performance, now that you have 12 threads folding along with the GPUs? Or is this not your primary rig for daily use?

 

[AdamK47]

I haven't tried it for any significant length of time with 12 threads yet, but browsing the web does seem to drop the PPD down a few thousand PPD. The performance of the browser is still good. If I leave it alone without doing anything, the CPU will stay around 36,000 PPD. The GPU clients are the ones that drop performance of the web browser whenever anything Flash related is displayed. I don't do any folding when gaming. I turn it all off.

 

[ZipSpeed]

The heat coming off that case must be legendary! That's a lot of horsepower in one box.

 

[LOL_Wut_Axel]

What's the power consumption? Pretty awesome, but I'd be worried about it taking off a breaker, lol.

 

[AdamK47]

I usually run two GPU clients at a time. Running three plus the CPU will trip the protection circuitry in my Corsair AX1200 power supply after a while. It has also tripped the breaker once.

 

[AdamK47]

I should note that it will only do that when Folding like this. Gaming or using OCCT won't do that.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I usually run two GPU clients at a time. Running three plus the CPU will trip the protection circuitry in my Corsair AX1200 power supply after a while. It has also tripped the breaker once.

Wow. And I thought I used a lot of juice with a Q6600 @ 3.6, and two GTX460 1GB OC cards at 820-840Mhz.

I was powering all of that off of a single Antec EarthWatts 650W PSU, and it handled it 24/7 for a month without a problem.

3 GTX580s is what, like 700-750W of power all by themselves?

 

[AdamK47]

Wow. And I thought I used a lot of juice with a Q6600 @ 3.6, and two GTX460 1GB OC cards at 820-840Mhz.

I was powering all of that off of a single Antec EarthWatts 650W PSU, and it handled it 24/7 for a month without a problem.

3 GTX580s is what, like 700-750W of power all by themselves?

I don't have a kill-a-watt to monitor usage at the wall, but I'm guessing each card is using between 275W to 300W.

 

[somethingsketchy]

Well according to the Anandtech benches on the main page (http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/305), for the GTX 580:

Full load in Crysis - 79 watts
Full load in Furmark - 490 watts

Multiply that by three and AdamK47 is pushing well over a kW/h with just the GPUs. Of course this is with Furmark, and folding may not cause that much power usage.

 

[AdamK47]

That's total system power.

I'm pretty certain that the new GPU folding projects do cause the cards to use more power than Furmark. Running three GPU folding units I see the temps on the three cards as 94, 93, 93 with the fans between 4000 and 4500 RPM. With OCCT (which uses Furmark in SLI) I see the temps as 91, 90, 89 with the fans between 3700 and 4100 RPM.