I've blown my current PC burning BOINC apps with Gigabyte board so now I'm going serious! What board are you using for your AMD chip please and why?
I am looking to build now and only a little green
i've been using ASUS boards for many years. They're a little more expensive than Gigabyte but are usually better suited for crunching rigs. The AMD build is using the X370-Pro motherboard. I've gone with the low-end chip (Ryzen 7 1700) to keep electricity use down (65 watts) and will add a GTX1060 to each one (120 watts). This build is replacing a pair of gas guzzling i7-5820K (140 watts) with a GTX970 (150 watts). That's over a 100 watts per machine saved.
The i7-6700's are now last generation but are doing a great job. They're only 55 watts. They're using ASUS H170-Pro motherboards. I recently replaced their hard disks with 2.5 inch SSHD that have average power of only 1.65 watts and also upgraded the memory to 16GB. They've been running the newer gravity wave search this last week.
They just announced the AMD Whitehaven CPU's which seem to come in 16 core/32 thread @ 3Ghz or 12 core/24 thread @ 2.7Ghz flavours. Apparently using a much larger socket - not the AM4. Possibly the same socket as the Naples. Supposedly for release in the 2nd half of 2017.
Continuous Gravitational Wave search Galactic Center lowFreq v1.00 () x86_64-apple-darwin runs 3 times faster on an i3 CPU 540 @ 3.07GHz than the windows_x86_64 version on an i5-2430M CPU @ 2.40GHz.
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i've been using ASUS boards for many years. They're a little more expensive than Gigabyte but are usually better suited for crunching rigs. The AMD build is using the X370-Pro motherboard. I've gone with the low-end chip (Ryzen 7 1700) to keep electricity use down (65 watts) and will add a GTX1060 to each one (120 watts). This build is replacing a pair of gas guzzling i7-5820K (140 watts) with a GTX970 (150 watts). That's over a 100 watts per machine saved.
The i7-6700's are now last generation but are doing a great job. They're only 55 watts. They're using ASUS H170-Pro motherboards. I recently replaced their hard disks with 2.5 inch SSHD that have average power of only 1.65 watts and also upgraded the memory to 16GB. They've been running the newer gravity wave search this last week.
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They just announced the AMD
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They just announced the AMD Whitehaven CPU's which seem to come in 16 core/32 thread @ 3Ghz or 12 core/24 thread @ 2.7Ghz flavours. Apparently using a much larger socket - not the AM4. Possibly the same socket as the Naples. Supposedly for release in the 2nd half of 2017.
BOINC blog
All cores may not be equal
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All cores may not be equal !
Continuous Gravitational Wave search Galactic Center lowFreq v1.00 () x86_64-apple-darwin runs 3 times faster on an i3 CPU 540 @ 3.07GHz than the windows_x86_64 version on an i5-2430M CPU @ 2.40GHz.
For the same credit !
I should have to throw my laptop to the bin.