Greetings Peeps

s60ben · Post by **s60ben** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 2:00 pm

Well... I made it here in the end...

God knows how... but for some reason I felt the urge to join some other strange UK Boinc'ers

Hope my stats aren't too disappointing

I have my new Q6600 toy crunching away merrily

UBT - The Prof.... · Post by **UBT - The Prof....** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 2:40 pm

Greetings and welcome to the team. Any amount of crunching / stats are always welcome. And as for the Q6600..... Jealous or what :evil:

Always feel free to ask questions, someone in the team usually will know the answer to almost any problem that you may have.

Post by **UBT-mark3346** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 3:05 pm

Welcome to the team, darn fine output, over 10k of it is in the last week!

Sir Cracked of the Mind · Thu Jan 31, 2008 4:17 pm

Hi Peepers! welcome to the UK funny farm.......

s60ben · Post by **s60ben** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 4:30 pm

UBT-mark3346 wrote:Welcome to the team, darn fine output, over 10k of it is in the last week!

I played with Seti in it's original guise, then played with BOINC for a while - then for various reasons never quite got back to it for quite some time!

I'm fairly impressed with the Q6600 it certainly seems to shift fairly well

Not sure if my stats are about on par for it or owt, but I'm not "an.al" (bl**dy spam filter) about them really, it's just nice to trundle along merrily helping out.

Joshrandom · Post by **Joshrandom** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 5:39 pm

Hello s60ben, and welcome to UBT.

UBT - mickyb69 · Post by **UBT - mickyb69** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 7:33 pm

s60ben, Welcome to the team .

Temujin · Post by **Temujin** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 8:22 pm

Hi Ben, welcome to UBT

Post by **UBT - bobuk** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 8:41 pm

to our team and the funny farm.... may your stay be a long one. Join in the fun and don't be shy, were not a bad bunch really, just a bit crazy. If you need any help just shout there will be always someone to give you a helping hand..

bob

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 10:31 pm

Ben, meet Ben. Q6600, meet Q6600. Welcome to the team

:lol:

Timby · Post by **Timby** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 1:13 am

s60ben and

to the team

Intel Q6600 Great Chip

Mark

melter65 · Post by **melter65** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 6:29 am

Hello and Welcome!

sigma-7 · Post by **sigma-7** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 7:56 am

Greetz and welcome to the team

NaRyan · Post by **NaRyan** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 9:21 am

'ello & welcome

I should be joining the Q6600 club next week too, woooooo!!!

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 8:39 pm

Nice 1 :D

s60ben · Post by **s60ben** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 8:59 pm

Thanks all for the warm welcome

I've been playing with the overclocking toys

01/02/2008 20:56:54||Benchmark results:
01/02/2008 20:56:54|| Number of CPUs: 4
01/02/2008 20:56:54|| 2839 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU
01/02/2008 20:56:54|| 9157 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU
01/02/2008 20:56:55||Resuming computation

And thats the result.

May assist anyone curious about the system and Q6600

I run Boinc on all 4 processors at 95% and it doesn't interfere with my use of the machine for general usage

Seti @ 50%
Einstein @ 50%
Rosetta @ 50%

cris keys · Post by **cris keys** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 12:15 am

Welcome and nice chip hehe

NaRyan · Post by **NaRyan** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 12:51 am

Well I'm getting moi Q6600 (G0 stepping) next week.
And I'm curious about a good cooler.

As I was thinking about getting the OEM CPU and the heatsink + fan separate, as I don't know how good Intel stock ones are.

But all I ever seem to read is that these fans are all MASSIVE! and you need to check your motherboard 1st.
well bit hard to do when you don't have that..
I was looking at getting the EVGA Nforce 680i SLI.

So any advice on the heatsink & fan side of things would be great

As well these things were made to be overclocked.....

UBT - mickyb69 · Post by **UBT - mickyb69** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 12:52 am

Ohhhh getting a bit of a clique going here ......

:lol: :lol:

cris keys · Post by **cris keys** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 1:16 am

I use a Zalman CPNS9700 @ 3.15 GHz I get 60C (well within specs). I can go as high as 3.4 GHz stable ~68C due to over volting the CPU.

A good review is here, as it says the stock heatsink temps will be 10-20C higher, best get an aftermarket part.

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/zalman-cn ... -1862.html

more info on heatsinks here, well worth a read.

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/CPU-Coole ... 30115.html

NaRyan · Post by **NaRyan** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 2:26 am

Ah cool (he he), and it comes with that unique heatsink goo.
heh I was acutaly going to buy that stuff

s60ben · Post by **s60ben** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 9:13 am

Well I'm running BOINC on all 4 @ 95% flat out (24*7) , I have:

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz 95W G0 Stepping (Retail 775)
Asus P5E X38 Chipset (Skt 775) 1600FSB DDR2 PCI-E Crossfire
OCZ 2GB PC2-6400 Reaper HPC (2x1GB) 4-4-4-15

Havent played with the O/c too much tbh, but atm

2523.91 Mhz (280.43 x 9)
FSB : 1121.74

CPU Temp: 36c
MB Temp 21c

On Idle CPU temps@ 22c

Thats on the retail CPU package, I didn't want to mess around too much tbh.

But running at over 3ghz sounds interesting!

My case was fairly cheap, but I used to be an Intel IPI guy, so as for "design" I was interested in the venting/intake situation. The case has a huge fan on the rear, and a air guide allowing the processor to pull direct cool air into it

NaRyan · Post by **NaRyan** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 11:31 am

What I looking at getting is:

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 (G0 Stepping) OEM
EVGA nForce 680i SLI Motherboard
OCZ 4GB Kit DDR2 800MHz Memory NVIDIA SLI READY EDITION
Zalman CNPS 9700 CPU cooler
Xclio Black Windtunnel Extreme Case 2 x 25cm Side Fans
Lite-On SOHW-1693S 16x DVD±RW Dual Layer Internal IDE (Black) - OEM
800W Dual PCI-E 14cm Fan PSU - Dual 12V Rails, 20+4pin, 6x SATA, ATX12V 4/8pin

And I already have to put into system.
A OCZ 8800GTX & a spare 320GB Hard drive.

UBT - Janea · Post by **UBT - Janea** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 4:39 pm

WElcome to you and all the other new members!

UBT - mickyb69 · Post by **UBT - mickyb69** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 10:35 pm

I was thinking of upgrading my p3 933 to an 1100 so there :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

NaRyan · Post by **NaRyan** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 11:33 pm

1100Lbs paper weight?

Grinning Grunny · Post by **Grinning Grunny** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 12:15 am

Noooo, an Austin 1100 surely?

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 12:29 am

lol! Ah, i wonder if the 'ol 386 could do a single WU in less then a week? :lol: Them where the days...

cris keys · Post by **cris keys** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 3:32 am

Ben wrote:lol! Ah, i wonder if the 'ol 386 could do a single WU in less then a week? :lol: Them where the days...

Depends on the WU

One CPDN hadcm3istd WU takes a one core of a 3.2 GHz quad ~1700 hours. So I would guess a top end 386 would be around two million'ish hours give or take a couple of hundred thousand