Friday morning the UPS man stopped by and left a stack of Newegg boxes at the door, I grabbed them and made a bee-line for the test bench. 20 minutes later phase 1 of the new folding farm rig was ready to rock. I installed Windows 7 Pro and the graphics drivers, prepared my console clients and off it went, cranking out ever increasing points for team 200386. Each motherboard will have 6 GTX460s on it in the future, with a custom enclosure to support the 6 cards. Fold on!
Specs:
- MSI 890FXA-GD70
- AMD Phenom II x4 955 (Quickly Multiplier Overclocked to 4.0 Ghz)
- Noctua NH-D14
- 6GB Crucial Ballistix Smart Tracer DDR3 1600
- 500GB Western Digital Caviar Black 6GB/s
- 2x Galaxy GTX460 768MB Cards
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I just wanted to sign your guestbook. I saw you on my radar on kakaostats and came by to find out more about your team. You’ll fly past me in about~3.5 days(near the 1800 mark). Fold on in the name of our Savior!
Thanks Ben!
Is this still the CPU you’re using? I have a 1090T and kind of wanted to swap it out for a quad core instead since I don’t CPU fold anymore. Any interest in a trade? Email me if interested.
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Hey Brandon, I wish you would’ve seen this about a month ago! I’ve already changed it over to an 1100T and sold the X4 on eBay. I would’ve been thrilled to trade for your 1090T. Thanks for the offer, I wish you the best and hope you still GPU fold!
Hindsight is 20/20. I started folding under team 659 (Folding for Jesus Christ) in December after 31630 (Nerds for Jesus) disbanded. It appears your team did not exist at the time I joined the other team and I never really looked around for alternate teams until this weekend when I got a new 5830. So unfortunately even though the 5830 is a decent card for folding, yeilding 7300 – 7800 if you use advmethods to get OpenMM beta workload it’s sadly incompatible with X-Plane; the only “game” I run. I hate to say it but I don’t think AMD/ATI will ever get their graphics drivers worked out. The drivers are always the problem.
Anyway, I yanked my 9800GTX+ to put in the 5830 and after two days of struggles to get it stable with X-Plane I gave up and let it fold for a day before pulling it and putting in my old 9600GSO. I’m going to dump the 5830 and 9800GTX+ on ebay and maybe even sell off my 1090T too and put all the money towards saving for a 28nm GPU as I expect we’re possibly within 6 months of seeing those coming out. May as well sell my stuff now while it’s still worth something.
AZBrandon,
Sure, the NFJ website died out, BUT, we are on FaceBook now. 🙂 There are about 4 of us still F@H for team 31630. John 3:16,30. Stanford gave us that number randomly, but God knows we needed it as a reference to F@H makeing His Word as a testimony.
John 3:16 of course is …
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
John 3:30 is ….
He must increase, but I must decrease.
We would love to have more to F@H for Jesus Christ!
stev
Never realized you guys had that awesome team number! I’ll jump on your facebook page also. We have a facebook page too: https://www.facebook.com/fold4jesus
Like us 🙂 I’ve been out of the folding game for awhile here, this setup was actually redone for a silent PC and given to my church for easy worship. Maybe I’ll return to folding one of these days.
Glad to see you stop by though Stev!