20+ core club

[vaiopup]

Lol.....

To counteract the chest beating 4 ghz club.

Post here if you have over 20 cores in your arsenal.....even if they ain't running 4ghz

Ah, feel better now.

*waits for email off mod*

Oh forgot to add mine.

20 active cores, 2 GTX 250's on GPUGRID and about 7 retired CPU's.

 

[pantherx12]

I've got about 10 around the house, only 5 running at the moment.

4 of them are in 1 rig lol

 

[vaiopup]

Lol, didn't expect a reply.....just cruising for a ban

 

[pantherx12]

If you want to leave just do it, I'll have none of this silly business you know!

out of curiosity what's your electricity bill like?

 

[MRCL]

20 will be a long way for me. Currently I have 7, soon 11

 

[goldfries]

Just to calculate........

i5 750 - 4 cores
E5200 - 2 cores
E2200 - 2 cores
X2 3800+ - 2 cores
SU9400 - 2 cores
Sempron LE1100 - 1 core
Atom 330 - 2 cores
Atom 2xx - 3 cores (I have 3 other Atom units.)
T2400 - 2 cores
Sempron 64 3000+ - 1 core
Athlon 64 2800+ - 1 core
Sempron 64 2800+ - 1 core
Celeron M - 1 core
Duron 1200 - 1 core
some Cyrix on my EPIA-M - 1 core
some old unit i hijacked from some place - 1 core
Intel 386sx / 80386 - 1 core

w00t! Damn, I didn't realize I have so many cores if not for this thread. 28 cores! 21 of them are active.

do you wish to include GPU cores?

 

[vaiopup]

Sure, given the crunching power of GPU's we may as well add them too. (but only if they crunch...ie work for a living)
Off to edit opening post with my 2 crunchers.

Edit: Maybe we should have a 40 ghz club

 

[vaiopup]

If you want to leave just do it, I'll have none of this silly business you know!

out of curiosity what's your electricity bill like?

Sorry, I was annoyed at having a perfectly valid opinion deleted and getting censured for it.
My electric bill......I try not to think about it.....I just gauge it each time by wether the wife hits me or not.

 

[pantherx12]

I was just curious, because if its like an extra 200 or so a year, wouldn't it make sense to donate directly to charities, for example instead of folding donating directly to cancer research etc.


Not taking a dig a folders genuinely want to know as it will have an effect on whether I fold or not.

 

[vaiopup]

All in I have spent in excess of 20-000 by now (hardware and running costs).
I would rather do this than contribute directly (financially) to charities as I know exactly what is going where.

True, crunching is a gamble that we all hope will pay off in the future.
But it is also something I enjoy.

Direct contributions to charity are a bit suspect to me......so much goes on admin costs and who's to say where the rest winds up.

At least this way, personal greed/corruption isn't a factor.

I pay monthly amounts by direct debit.....about £150 per month currently but with the extra hardware online will have to bump it to £200.

But then a fair bit of that usage is down to 2 teenagers in the house

As an aside..........one thing that would help us crunchers would be FREE/discounted Windows licences.
I emailed Microsoft years ago in this regard but got no reply.

 

[vaiopup]

Not taking a dig a folders genuinely want to know as it will have an effect on whether I fold or not.

If you don't believe in the project don't run it.
But if your machine is on anyway why not.

Doesn't mean you have to be crazy like some of us and build a £1k+ rig purely for crunching.

Lol.....I only discovered yesterday that one of my rigs doesn't have the DVD drive it should have came with.....and I bought it in May 2008

 

[wolf]

Do the logical cores in an i7 count? as oppose to physical cores that is.

 

[vaiopup]

nope...........4 cores is 4 cores
Just ordered my first Win 7 licence..............no way I am ordering 7 of them.

 

[wolf]

well then I'm halfway there with an i7, Q6600, and AII X2 240, my gfx don't crunch either.

 

[vaiopup]

Which i7?.........920?

 

[Mussels]

nope...........4 cores is 4 cores
Just ordered my first Win 7 licence..............no way I am ordering 7 of them.

just get a technet plus account, and get many many keys all at once.

 

[vaiopup]

Hits Google

Hmmm, £150 per year....interesting.

 

[wolf]

Which i7?.........920?

booyah

 

[pantherx12]

If you don't believe in the project don't run it.
But if your machine is on anyway why not.

Doesn't mean you have to be crazy like some of us and build a £1k+ rig purely for crunching.

Lol.....I only discovered yesterday that one of my rigs doesn't have the DVD drive it should have came with.....and I bought it in May 2008

I'd just rather come to a informed conclusion before investing time and money (leccy bill)

Seems a lot of people just do it to be part of the team rather then you know, want to cure cancer .

Have they got any Data I can look at all?

Has they're been any progress curing anything via crunching/folding etc?


If crunching isn't for me I can always help out in other ways : ]

 

[imperialreign]

Just for shits & giggles I'll add up those active in my rig (and don't forget, if you're running any audio card with an X-Fi processor, that's an APU right there):

Q9650 - 4 cores
(2) 4870x2 - 4 cores
X-Fi Titanium - 1 core

So, that's 9 in one rig.

Laying around on hand:

Q6600 - 4 cores
Q6600 - 4 cores
P4 574 - 1 core
P4 630 - 1 core
Cele D 360 - 1 core

(2) 4870 - 2 cores
(2) 3870 - 2 cores
(2) 1950 PRO - 2 cores
1650 - 1 core
1600 - 1 core
1300 - 1 core
700 Pro - 1 core

X-Fi Fatal1ty Pro - 1 core
X-Fi Fatal1ty (Champion) Pro - 1 core
X-Fi Elite Pro - 1 core

So that brings a total of at least 33 cores, with 9 active in one rig . . . I can dig up more if I go through my "retirement" box

 

[Solaris17]

I was just curious, because if its like an extra 200 or so a year, wouldn't it make sense to donate directly to charities, for example instead of folding donating directly to cancer research etc.


Not taking a dig a folders genuinely want to know as it will have an effect on whether I fold or not.

i dont. progress isnt something i expected in my life time with the aid of my PC's or not. I think people that dont fold becuase their is little or no progress are better off not folding because at that point the only reason is that their in it for the points. I could say some more abrasive things. but alas their not appropriate for these forums.

 

[pantherx12]

Yeah sounds like it will be better doing more direct charity work, more of a see things happen kind of guy.


Cheers for the info guys, saved me money I can use to better support and thus become better at supporting those people in my community that are not so well off.

Volunteering at a hospital should be an experience : ]

 

[Fishymachine]

Just for shits & giggles I'll add up those active in my rig (and don't forget, if you're running any audio card with an X-Fi processor, that's an APU right there):

Q9650 - 4 cores
(2) 4870x2 - 4 cores
X-Fi Titanium - 1 core

So, that's 9 in one rig.

Laying around on hand:

Q6600 - 4 cores
Q6600 - 4 cores
P4 574 - 1 core
P4 630 - 1 core
Cele D 360 - 1 core

(2) 4870 - 2 cores
(2) 3870 - 2 cores
(2) 1950 PRO - 2 cores
1650 - 1 core
1600 - 1 core
1300 - 1 core
700 Pro - 1 core

X-Fi Fatal1ty Pro - 1 core
X-Fi Fatal1ty (Champion) Pro - 1 core
X-Fi Elite Pro - 1 core

So that brings a total of at least 33 cores, with 9 active in one rig . . . I can dig up more if I go through my "retirement" box

actually the 4870s alone count for 160 cores each(since logical cores don't count)

 

[dr emulator (madmax)]

i'll throw water on the fire for you
just for an instance think maybe someone who created this folding program has left flaws in it's core ideology that say won't be picked up for another 20 odd years, alot of people would then be cursing it and sayng what the heck was i thinking wasting money
and here's another one that may stir up anger what if this program has been created for the soul purpose of actually making you use your electricity more ,as we all know we are all been told to use less by our goverments because of dwindling resources ,told to switch things off to "save the world"
anyways these are all just thoughts that come to mind i hope to god that none are true but hey who knows

 

[vaiopup]

Lol, you can't count everything.
EG GPU.....my 2 gts 250's=256 cores but I would only count them as 2.

They can only process one crunching work unit at a time so 1 gpu/1 core lol.

The crunching work is a long term thing.....results, if they come take time.
But look at it this way.........for every possibility it rules out we get one step closer to the possibility that WORKS!!!

We are shaving decade after decade off the research process and for those of us with children that means a lot.

Won't help me, may not help my kids but may well help their kids