Saturday, March 17, 2007

Crunching

The Woodcrest system is fully operational and crunching work units full-time. The system was down for half a day because a fan blade on one of the HSF's broke off. This caused the case to vibrate, sometimes violently. The fan has been replaced and everything is working well. I set some personal bests in folding today, including most points in a single day.

The Supermicro X7DAL-E board that I'm using has no overclocking features in the BIOS. But using Systool in Windows allows me to raise the FSB. Right now, I have the CPU's crunching at around 2.55GHz. Load temp in a hot room gets up to 50C. If the weather cools down a little, I may raise the speed to 2.6-2.65GHz.

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