Been tired and under the weather all day, so not had energy to do much with my new Vegas. I unpacked them, then plugged one of them into my now ancient Nehalem i7-920 because the chassis is easy to work in (and has requisite power connectors available), just to see what she could do when folding with the adrenaline drivers. Seems like 350k, up to half a million PPD; even a bit more at its peak! 
Even at the low end, that's nearly as much as both my 390Xes typically do together and far more at the top end... 
Poor Nehalem btw... Ugh. It gets less than 10k PPD when CPU folding (at one point it only hit about 6.6k PPD). My 7900X can do 120k no probs. (Even though it runs really stinking hot then, ugh. I really should get it decapped, if I can get someone to do it for me and dope it up with conductonaut...) I suppose lack of more modern AVX implementations is holding it back.
Card fans are very understated too. Now, the fans in that PC are NOT silent, it's an old chassis with old fans so they muffle the video card's sound profile a bit, but even so it's a very quiet card compared to anything else I've owned so far even when folding all-out; the noisiest fan of them all is the 120mm noctua front intake fan which has a really annoying high-pitched whine to it when it runs at full speed. In this poorly ventilated chassis GPU core temps hover around 75-80C and hotspot hit 88C with occasional blips up to 89. Clocks land around 1554MHz after hitting thermal equilibrium, sometimes a little more, up into the mid 1560s or 70s most of the time. Balanced or turbo mode in Wattman made absolutely ziplock diff as far as performance is concerned from what I could tell once card got hot.
I'm entertaining the idea of replacing that Noctua with a more modern 4-pin fan, but not sure if it's actually worth the bother fecking around with this old box. Top fan is an Antech "big boy" 200mm fan which can't even be bought anymore, which attaches using 2 pins only to a hardwired three-speed fan controller built into the chassis, so there's no genuine way to run this box entirely temp controlled anyway. Not without some potentially ugly modding, and the hardware in it is mostly from around 2008, so again, bad value proposition... Still, it keeps chugging, so I'm reluctant to let it go.
Even at the low end, that's nearly as much as both my 390Xes typically do together and far more at the top end... Poor Nehalem btw... Ugh. It gets less than 10k PPD when CPU folding (at one point it only hit about 6.6k PPD). My 7900X can do 120k no probs.
(Even though it runs really stinking hot then, ugh. I really should get it decapped, if I can get someone to do it for me and dope it up with conductonaut...) I suppose lack of more modern AVX implementations is holding it back.Card fans are very understated too. Now, the fans in that PC are NOT silent, it's an old chassis with old fans so they muffle the video card's sound profile a bit, but even so it's a very quiet card compared to anything else I've owned so far even when folding all-out; the noisiest fan of them all is the 120mm noctua front intake fan which has a really annoying high-pitched whine to it when it runs at full speed. In this poorly ventilated chassis GPU core temps hover around 75-80C and hotspot hit 88C with occasional blips up to 89. Clocks land around 1554MHz after hitting thermal equilibrium, sometimes a little more, up into the mid 1560s or 70s most of the time. Balanced or turbo mode in Wattman made absolutely ziplock diff as far as performance is concerned from what I could tell once card got hot.
I'm entertaining the idea of replacing that Noctua with a more modern 4-pin fan, but not sure if it's actually worth the bother fecking around with this old box. Top fan is an Antech "big boy" 200mm fan which can't even be bought anymore, which attaches using 2 pins only to a hardwired three-speed fan controller built into the chassis, so there's no genuine way to run this box entirely temp controlled anyway. Not without some potentially ugly modding, and the hardware in it is mostly from around 2008, so again, bad value proposition...
Still, it keeps chugging, so I'm reluctant to let it go.
