Thinking of building a new farm

[Khalil]

I have been super busy, many of the GTS250s I was using failed so I RMA'd them to Asus and got new ones which in turn I sold, I simply have not had much time to mess around with folding.

I have been folding with 2 GTX275 video cards. I am thinking of building a new mini-farm and these are the parts I am thinking of using.

Newegg.com - ASUS P8P67 WS REVOLUTION LGA 1155 Intel P67 / NVIDIA NF200 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard with UEFI BIOS

Newegg.com - Intel Pentium G620 Sandy Bridge 2.6GHz LGA 1155 65W Dual-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 2000 BX80623G620

4 x Newegg.com - ASUS ENGTX560 DCII OC/2DI/1GD5 GeForce GTX 560 (Fermi) 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

Newegg.com - Antec CP-1000 1000W Continuous ATX12V v2.3 / EPS12V v2.91 SLI Ready 80 PLUS Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply Exclusively for - Twelve Hundred(1200)/P183/P193/DF-85

Newegg.com - Corsair Force CSSD-F40GB2-A 2.5" 40GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

Any thoughts or input would be appreciated!

[jdeb]

nice electric bill.

Why the G series CPU? When you say farm does that mean for folding? I prefer EVGA for NVidia for what it is worth. I have no trouble at all with them not to say anything bad about the Asus, just have not used to many of them.

better warranty... The Seasonic has greater than 90% efficiency

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817703022

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817151105

[David M]

I would be more into it if I could write off the increased electric bill. I have five desktops and a laptop sitting around the house.

[jdeb]

Originally Posted by David M I would be more into it if I could write off the increased electric bill. I have five desktops and a laptop sitting around the house.

That's it? If my wife knew that she might go after you and divorce me.

[Khalil]

Asus are good to me. I know the RMA crew by first names. Evga are much slower to respond. I agree about Seasonic. Cpu folding seemes to kill the machine and i already have plenty of G620s in stock. I am wondering if going with 560ti will make much difference. Cant find ppd compare between 560 and 560ti however the ti gives about 3500 ppd more than the 460.
As long as i have it running at one if my shops i can write off the electric usage.

[glc]

You have the case to match that CPX form factor PSU?

[Hufigyed]

What link speeds to the PCIe slots run at when you have 4 cards in there?

That should pump out some major PPD. I get ~9-10K with my GTX 460 768MB.
If only I wasn't a student right now...

[David M]

Originally Posted by Khalil Asus are good to me. I know the RMA crew by first names. Evga are much slower to respond. I agree about Seasonic. Cpu folding seemes to kill the machine and i already have plenty of G620s in stock. I am wondering if going with 560ti will make much difference. Cant find ppd compare between 560 and 560ti however the ti gives about 3500 ppd more than the 460. As long as i have it running at one if my shops i can write off the electric usage.

What kind of system would give you the most folding per kilowatt-hour? Or in other words what would be the most efficient system? How about in terms of computer cost per amount of folding?

If you were going to build a folding farm from all new parts from scratch, what would you build?...hypothetically of course.

[Force Flow]

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