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Which one of these beauties do you guys recon would fold better.

Contender number 1-http://ark.intel.com/m/products/53580/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E7-8870-30M-Cache-2_40-GHz-6_40-GTs-Intel-QPI

Contender number 2-http://ark.intel.com/m/products/75800/Intel-Xeon-Phi-Coprocessor-7120X-16GB-1_238-GHz-61-core

I personally don't fully understand coprocessors, but 61 cores sounds very impressive so I don't know really. However, seen as the coprocessor is a PCI-E interface, could you run number 1 + number 2 for some insane processing madness?!?

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i dont think folding uses co processors you would be much more better doing 4p system like whaler

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Ya, the Phi along with the NVidia Tesla are not support by the FAH client nor do I think they ever will be. To high end for mainstream.

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Just too clear up guys, I wasn't planning on building a rig with either of these (although a kid can dream). Although it's a shame about tesla and phi not being supported. If I were to drop 5 grand on a charity-ish platform, I would much rather buy something myself, own it, and be able to have it donated/'made us of' in a way that I can control. Plus, there is very much a measurable metric of success with folding, unlike most donations. Also, for those of you with serious cash to burn, that E7 Xeon has to be run in a multi processor enviroment. Although it can be ran in a 2p system, there will be a severe performance degradation. This means if your want the most bang for your buck with these bad boys, you'll need 4. Thats £12000 (approx $18000) for 40 (80 threads) of the most powerful cores intel will sell you. Do you recon you would see a half mill PPD on a CPU only system like that?

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Well, I get 350-375k PPD on my current AMD 32 core solution - so that one, I wouldn't doubt being able to pull down 500K....

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I desperately wish i had the money just top build wild projects like that!! 

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Would be nice :)

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http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=261829&page=1

 

Its a 64-core Opteron system (I think). Wish i could build one of those.

The build is still in progress, so its not quite finished yet. Its still pretty impressive though

 

The only thing I don't like about this is just the overboard on the water cooling. I have seen a few budget water cooled folders that made with parts left over, but all that bling EK gear and stuff... for a folding box, just seems way over the top. The mod in the case and everything... I just find myself asking why? I can understand putting a lot of time and effort, and money, into your main gaming rig, etc... but into a folding system? And as a few mentioned on his thread... all the "sponsors".  Wish I could get some. :)

 

Most folding systems are built and hidden away. :)

 

But, should be able to OC that sucker and put out some huge numbers...

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The only thing I don't like about this is just the overboard on the water cooling. I have seen a few budget water cooled folders that made with parts left over, but all that bling EK gear and stuff... for a folding box, just seems way over the top. The mod in the case and everything... I just find myself asking why? I can understand putting a lot of time and effort, and money, into your main gaming rig, etc... but into a folding system? And as a few mentioned on his thread... all the "sponsors".  Wish I could get some. :)

 

Most folding systems are built and hidden away. :)

 

But, should be able to OC that sucker and put out some huge numbers...

 

 

I can see your point. But if i were in his place, and i had all those sponsors, i would spare no expense either.

 

If i were to build a folding rig completely sponsored so i wouldnt pay a dime... The case would be solid gold and it would have diamond heatsinks with extra bling. Thats the only thing i would have changed though...

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When IB-EP drops next month you could in theory build a 48c/96t system. Which would be cool.

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http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=261829&page=1

 

Its a 64-core Opteron system (I think). Wish i could build one of those.

The build is still in progress, so its not quite finished yet. Its still pretty impressive though

I can see that machine kicking it with the very best! But I found it rather funny that his RAM dot delivered in a box like that. It had a sense of "hear you go, just have it all, no one will mind" :D

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