Changes to my Farm

BUCK NASTY · Mar 27, 2009

Threw these 4 cards together for energy savings. 2x 8800GTS 512 + 2x 9800GTX+. They are pulling up to 500w at the wall depending on the work unit. This allows me to take a rig out of rotation and save some electricity.

Got the GTX295 loaded and folding 24/7tonite. Been running into stability issues with the Nvidia drivers crashing, but who knows what it's really related to. I dropped all clocks to stock on the mobo/cpu and bumped the ram up to 4GB. Hopefully the changes work. I had it putting out 15.5K the other night before crashes

. Hit me up with suggestions if you know any related to adding stability to this card.

bogmali · Mar 27, 2009

Nice man. I've changed mine too, I now have 2XGTS-250's replacing my 8800GS's. So now I have 2X8800GS and 2X8800GTS320 just sitting around :wtf:

I need to find an AMD SLI mobo so I can use them.

kyle2020 · Mar 27, 2009

There seems to be general instability surrounding Nvidias newer drivers at the minute - my 260 crashed and had the little pop up error last night whilst I was word processing :wtf:

Even still, freaking nice set up - proud to call you our #1 folder tbh.

denice25 · Mar 28, 2009

nice mate! pretty cool..

mmaakk · Mar 28, 2009

Nice work Buck. The new quad-rig must be running hot. How are the temps doing?

:toast:

newtekie1 · Mar 28, 2009

Hey buck, you might want to pick up a few of these. So you don't have to use Molex adaptors to get enough PCI-E power plugs. Those 8-Pin PCI-E power plugs are rated for double the power of a 6-Pin anyway, so you know it won't have a problem powering the cards off one of the connectors.

bogmali · Mar 28, 2009

Is that a K9A2 Mobo you have there for your farm? If it is, you just gave me an idea for my other 8800's

If everything works out, I will have 7 Nvidia GPU's folding.

BUCK NASTY · Mar 28, 2009

bogmali said:
Is that a K9A2 Mobo you have there for your farm? If it is, you just gave me an idea for my other 8800's If everything works out, I will have 7 Nvidia GPU's folding.

Yep, that's the venerable K9A2 Platinum. Best quad PCI-e board in the world. Newegg has an open box for $95.00. Remember, your 8800GTS 320 are 96 shaders and will work well with the 8800GS/9600GSO's.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130136R

You can run all 4 cards off of a Antec EA-650. You must use 2 Molex to PCI adapters, but the PSU has enough grunt and is 80+ certified for energy efficiency. Newegg has them for 99.00 w/free shipping.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371015

Update on my GTX 295. GPU 1 folds like a beast and keeps taking my increased o/c's, but GPU 0 @ stock clocks hangs and blue screens after 5 mins folding. I'm talking to ASUS now, but this might be a fubar'd card. Looks like a previous RMA(Newegg or ASUS-I can't tell) was done on this card.

System Name	Main Rig
Processor	AMD FX-4130 @ 4.8Ghz
Motherboard	ASUS M5A99X Evo
Cooling	Coolermaster Hyper 212+
Memory	8GB GSkill DDR3 1600
Video Card(s)	ASUS GTX 970 Strix @ 1503Mhz Core
Storage	Corsair Force 90gb SSD/ WD Caviar Blue 750gb
Display(s)	ASUS 24" IPS
Case	Coolermaster Centurion 590
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
Power Supply	Antec TP750 80+
Software	Windows 7 Ultimate 64

System Name	Daily Driver/Part Time
Processor	Core i7-13700K/Ryzen R5-7600
Motherboard	ASUS ROG MAXIMUS Z790 APEX/Asrock B650 Pro RS Wi-Fi
Cooling	Corsair H150i RGB PRO XT AIO/Deep Cool LS-520 White
Memory	Patriot 2x16GB DDR5-7200/XPG Lancer Blade 2X16GB DDR-5-6000
Video Card(s)	MSI Ventus 3X OC RTX-4080 Super/Sapphire Radeon RX-7800XT
Storage	Samsung 980 Pro M.2 NVMe 2TB/KingSpec XG 7000 4TB M.2 NVMe/Crucial P5 Plus 2TB M.2 NVMe
Display(s)	Alienware AW3423DW
Case	Corsair 5000d AirFlow/Asus AP201 White
Audio Device(s)	AudioEngine D1 DAC/Onboard
Power Supply	Seasonic Prime Ultra 1K Watt/Seagotep 750W
Mouse	Corsair M65 RGB Elite
Keyboard	Adata XPG Summoner
Software	Win11 Pro 64
Benchmark Scores	Xbox Live Gamertag=jondonken

Processor	Intel Core i7 10850K@5.2GHz
Motherboard	AsRock Z470 Taichi
Cooling	Corsair H115i Pro w/ Noctua NF-A14 Fans
Memory	32GB DDR4-3600
Video Card(s)	RTX 2070 Super
Storage	500GB SX8200 Pro + 8TB with 1TB SSD Cache
Display(s)	Acer Nitro VG280K 4K 28"
Case	Fractal Design Define S
Audio Device(s)	Onboard is good enough for me
Power Supply	eVGA SuperNOVA 1000w G3
Software	Windows 10 Pro x64

System Name	Daily Driver/Part Time
Processor	Core i7-13700K/Ryzen R5-7600
Motherboard	ASUS ROG MAXIMUS Z790 APEX/Asrock B650 Pro RS Wi-Fi
Cooling	Corsair H150i RGB PRO XT AIO/Deep Cool LS-520 White
Memory	Patriot 2x16GB DDR5-7200/XPG Lancer Blade 2X16GB DDR-5-6000
Video Card(s)	MSI Ventus 3X OC RTX-4080 Super/Sapphire Radeon RX-7800XT
Storage	Samsung 980 Pro M.2 NVMe 2TB/KingSpec XG 7000 4TB M.2 NVMe/Crucial P5 Plus 2TB M.2 NVMe
Display(s)	Alienware AW3423DW
Case	Corsair 5000d AirFlow/Asus AP201 White
Audio Device(s)	AudioEngine D1 DAC/Onboard
Power Supply	Seasonic Prime Ultra 1K Watt/Seagotep 750W
Mouse	Corsair M65 RGB Elite
Keyboard	Adata XPG Summoner
Software	Win11 Pro 64
Benchmark Scores	Xbox Live Gamertag=jondonken

System Name	Main Rig
Processor	AMD FX-4130 @ 4.8Ghz
Motherboard	ASUS M5A99X Evo
Cooling	Coolermaster Hyper 212+
Memory	8GB GSkill DDR3 1600
Video Card(s)	ASUS GTX 970 Strix @ 1503Mhz Core
Storage	Corsair Force 90gb SSD/ WD Caviar Blue 750gb
Display(s)	ASUS 24" IPS
Case	Coolermaster Centurion 590
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
Power Supply	Antec TP750 80+
Software	Windows 7 Ultimate 64

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