Checking in after an upgrade
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2014 7:37 pm
For a very long time time (at least a year, I am sure) I have been folding anonymously. My system has a core i5 2500 in it and I did my usual on and off style of folding. My video card was a gt520 and my 250w power supply was not strong enough to drive it for folding. In late November I upgraded to a new PSU and an AMD 7950. I folded a few WU's and played many games, but then the GPU died and had to be RMA'ed. After I got the card back around New Years I decided that I would look up my old passkey and see what my new PPD was doing for my old ranking. Bear in mind that I am a part time folder. It's rare my GPU folds more than 8 hours a day and while my CPU folds almost 24/7 it's only on 2 cores. So I am a long way from my max 75K PPD.
In December my ranking was in the 120,000 range. After less than a month it's at 68,762 as of this writing. Now I don't fold for points, but if I did I would most likely kill my CPU slots and add a second GPU. Why? Points Per Watt. My GPU uses 150 Watts per Hour for 70,000 PPD and CPU uses 125 Watts per Hour for 5,000 PPD.
So are any of you swapping your CPU slots for GPU slots to get the most out your power bills?
If so is this creating a back log of CPU WU's?
If not, how much power would you need to draw before you considered backing off of WU's for your device with the lowest PPW?
In December my ranking was in the 120,000 range. After less than a month it's at 68,762 as of this writing. Now I don't fold for points, but if I did I would most likely kill my CPU slots and add a second GPU. Why? Points Per Watt. My GPU uses 150 Watts per Hour for 70,000 PPD and CPU uses 125 Watts per Hour for 5,000 PPD.
So are any of you swapping your CPU slots for GPU slots to get the most out your power bills?
If so is this creating a back log of CPU WU's?
If not, how much power would you need to draw before you considered backing off of WU's for your device with the lowest PPW?