| Index | Recent Threads | Unanswered Threads | Who's Active | Guidelines | Search |
 |
World Community Grid Forums
Category: Community
Forum: Hardware Chat Room
Thread: Building a new PC |
| No member browsing this thread |
|
Thread Status: Active Total posts in this thread: 38
|
|
| Author |
|
|
MarcoZandrini
Cruncher United States Joined: May 4, 2007 Post Count: 15 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
|
Yeah, it's big! But the airflow is fantastic and quiet!!
|
||
|
|
MarcoZandrini
Cruncher United States Joined: May 4, 2007 Post Count: 15 Status: Offline Project Badges:
|
Now completing a Mapping Cancer Marker package every 100 minutes!
----------------------------------------[Edit 1 times, last edit by MarcoFerrari at Sep 26, 2020 5:00:55 PM] |
||
|
|
aegidius
Cruncher Joined: Aug 29, 2006 Post Count: 25 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
|
My research indicated that Intel beats AMD on threads per watt, and is line ball on threads per $.
My new build, which replaces an old 4-thread machine: - Intel i9-10850K - 16GB RAM - No graphics card, to save power - PL1 power level screwed down to 75W --> runs 24/7 very quietly - 20 threads run at 3400MHz --> OPN WU's take about 2 hours - 15000+ Boinc points per day |
||
|
|
MarcoZandrini
Cruncher United States Joined: May 4, 2007 Post Count: 15 Status: Offline Project Badges:
|
I'm on the lookout for an AMD 5950X processor to replace the 3900X processor.
|
||
|
|
Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
With the systems and budgets others have on here, my stuff seems puny at best.
|
||
|
|
Still Alive
Advanced Cruncher Germany Joined: May 27, 2013 Post Count: 69 Status: Offline Project Badges:
|
Your performance is just as much as the other here.
----------------------------------------The only thing that is important is that you are a share in the projects. P.S. : My 1st PC for WCG was an AMD A8350 (4 cores without HT) 7 years long. I hope my current PC AMD Ryzen 9 3900 X will also hold for about 7 years. I also look a little jealous of larger systems  , but they are outside of my budget. AMD 3900X - 21 Threads @ 4,00 GHz - 24/7 Samsung Xcover4 - 4 Threads @ 1.43 Ghz - 24/7 [Edit 2 times, last edit by Still Alive at Mar 7, 2021 10:31:20 AM] |
||
|
|
Bryn Mawr
Senior Cruncher Joined: Dec 26, 2018 Post Count: 384 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
|
The more cores, the better. Intel is not competitive right now at high core counts. The best CPU for crunching, assuming you're running a single computer, is the 3990x. It can handle more than two months of runtime a day and has a power usage of about two watts per thread. https://www.amd.com/en/products/cpu/amd-ryzen-threadripper-3990x https://pcpartpicker.com/product/KWmFf7/amd-t...rocessor-100-100000163wof Personally I’d go for the 3900 over the 3900x - virtually the same performance but at 65w tdp rather than 105w. |
||
|
|
|