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What ever happened I havent seen this one updated in awhile.........

Swap out the GTX 480's for 580's??

The 480's are better for GPU computing (CUDA).

Ah! We'll it's up to him. We're still fine tuning the system now. It was working perfectly fine for 4 days straight with F@H until it give a hiccup. Ideally, we would like to see it run for 5-6 days straight, even a week before we feel it's ready to ship.

Glad to hear you finally have it in your possession again in good working order *fingers crossed* sux it took as long as it did tho

Originally posted by DST4ME specially if you just oc the shader a bit.

Glad to see you have it! On Fermi you can't just OC the shader, it is locked with core speed. can't wait to see some new pics!

Great to hear you got your rig!  Looking forward to your review and new pics.

Thanks guys


@Ninjastryk, lol ya fingers crossed

@Cretae, thx, ya healing up well, can't really complain.

@justin, yes you can't oc just the shader, the core gets oced also. once I get everything setup I will post pics, I really love it.

@Onkel_Ken, good to hear from you, I will ask for a replacement when it can't fold anymore, it won't be too long, maybe I can see if they will give me a 580 for replacement instead and I will install the WB and etc myself on it. Over all I'm very happy, it took a while but we did keep making changes, so some of that time taken is because of the changes.

@rholyrag, will post pics and reviews soon enough.

@Alex, all cards are the same core/shader, yet this one is stuck at 13000 as mentioned, don't take my word for it, wait and see, when cards start to do this, that means they are on their way out, first they do low ppd, soon after that they won't be able to fold at all, and instead will return errors, there is also the fact that only that card has higher temps.

As far as the things you pointed out:

the clock speed, as mentioned they are all set to 800/1600 core/shader.

the limitation of the motherborad can't be it.

1. this board is a 4x classified.

2. As for limitation of bandwidth with the mobo, for folding you don't need much bandwidth at all, with folding all you need is the bandwidth of a pci-e x1.

3. As for any limitations, this card does the same thing, when its running on its own and no other cards or folding program is running.

Trust me when I tell you something is wrong with this card, I have seen this too many times, I will wait till it can't fold anymore before I request a replacement, I don't really care about the points, if its folding then its sending the info that is needed back, once it can't fold, then it will be a problem.

DST4ME now that you got your system up and running are you gonna be around more often to help the noobs like me out?

Glad to hear your rig is up and running!

Here are some pics on the fly in the shop, click image to see full size, Digital Storm Terminator:


















Edited by DST4ME - 07 Dec 2010 at 4:35am

Thanks, in all fairness, the lighting and placement is not the best in those pics, once its properly setup, I will take more pics and those should look better and cleaner lol.

I don't know why they cameout like that in the pic, but they are clean, I do have to top them off tho.

How you doing justin

You lucky bastard, I don't even have time to scratch my head anymore

Wow!  That looks great...!

I am so impressed! Really happy you're happy after all the waiting. DS has struck again! Kudos all around, gentlemen.

wow DST i just randomly jumped on these boards after like 6 months and saw this topic still at the top of the page.   Im glad everything worked out but my god this took forever. lol

yea im glad you finally got everything going.  My comp has been perfect  only thing going on now is I've got a noisy northbridge fan which digital storm already ordered for me.  I think in another year or so when sandy bridge EX comes out thats when ill be looking for a new comp.

Originally posted by DST4ME the EX is the server based, instead wait for Haswell if you want 8 cores, it will have it by default, and should be out in 2013. Thats what I'm waiting for now, and hopefully new southbridge, and along with with real sata/usb/pci 3.0. Glad to hear the beast is still going strong

so is ex still gonna socket 2011(socket r) and haswell also?