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Sup.

Dec 06, 2012 Earthshine link
Dec 10, 2012 Earthshine link
Team Guild Software has achieved upward momentum in the ranks.
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=12810
Dec 18, 2012 abortretryfail link
Hahah, what kind of hardware are you cranking this thing on?
Dec 28, 2012 Earthshine link
Intel Core I7-3930K overclocked to 4GHz with hyperthreading disabled. I'm running the SMP client on all 6 cores with 16GB of RAM, and the CUDA client on a GTX 660Ti. It's over 3TFLOPS all together, but the SMP client has recently overtaken the GPU client in terms of efficiency, so I'm actually making just about as many points with my CPU as my GPU.

I'm only folding about 18 hours a day on average, turn it off when I'm doing other things.
Jan 04, 2013 abortretryfail link
Heh nice. Why disabled HT? Does it cause stability problems or something?
Jan 05, 2013 Earthshine link
It's a lot less efficient, and yes, would also be more unstable at higher overclocks. Biggest reason is performance though. HT is good for running multiple single-threaded apps concurrently without them fighting over processor power, and frankly 12 logical cores is a bit excessive for that, 6 is plenty to begin with. meanwhile more powerful apps that can take advantage of SMP run better when they don't have that extra layer of abstraction beneath them. The bottom line is that you get more FLOPs without, and that's where it really counts for things like folding, gaming, cracking, encoding, video editing, etc... and that's what I use it for.
Jan 10, 2013 Earthshine link
Well, my local energy monopoly called and wanted me to take out a second mortgage. Going to have to call it quits for now. At least I made a mil first (and beat Iry to it ;p )