Is my O/C (temps and volts) safe for 24/7 folding?
 

I have a Q6600 G0 running at 3.3ghz (470x7) on a Asus P5K Premium. My temps at 100% folding load are 54-58c across the four cores according to coretemps. My vcore is 1.465v (left it on auto in the bios) load, 1.6v pll, 1.4v vnb, 1.4v fsb termination, 1.2v vsb, 2.25v on my 4gb of PC6400 running 941 mhz 4-4-5-13. AI suite reports my "system temperature" to be 40c under load. I have a fan blowing on both my NB and my ram, both of them stay relatively cool (just warm, not hot to the touch) under 100% system load. Relatively good case ventilation with an Antec 300.

I also have my 4870x2 underclocked to 500/500 under 2D windows and folding only puts 50% load on one of the two GPUs at that speed (no idea why it only uses 50% of the active gpu), GPUZ reports 68c on the active gpu under folding.

I just started folding and I'd like to help out by leaving my system folding 24/7, but I'm just worried if it would kill my system running it 100% stress 24/7. I've heard many stories on folding killing GPUs, I don't want that to happen to any of my components.

Considering I'm running quite high of a FSB and 1.46v on the Q6600, I thought I'd get some opinions. What do you guys think of those temps and volts? are they safe for folding 24/7?

Looks good to me. I'd try setting your vCore manually in the BIOS, you may be able to lower it a notch or 2 and still keep the same OC.

Welcome to the fold. :biggrin:

No problem folding at those temps and voltage. You're quite safe.

My Qs managed 1.55V and 500FSB for months and they never failed while folding. 68C on the GPU is quite low too.

thanks for the reply guys. I'll try and see if I can lower the vcore a bit, but I tried before I got the new case and wasn't successful...

wow, 500fsb, that's actually one of my concerns, would fsb that high stress the NB too much for 24/7 load?

F@H sees a 4870X2 as two separate GPU's but does not take advantage of cards that are crossfired or SLI'd, these must be disabled. There is no way to disable the internal crossfire link in a X2 card under Vista atm, supposedly it's possible under XP.
If you are running XP you have to disable the internal crossfire and run two different Folding clients like you would for a multi-GPU set-up.
If you want more PPD bump up the Shaders only, the core and mem have little effect and can be underclocked...:thumb:

Thanks LCB001, I'm aware that under vista it can only use one of my GPU, but how come even on that GPU it's using only 50% of it? so essentially it's using only 25% of the card. Also I looked everywhere, overclocking options from AtiTrayTools to the Video Bios are only GPU and MEM, can't see shader speeds anywhere...

A fan on the NB HSF takes care of that.

As for the shaders oc, use Rivatuner to clock them.

Maybe the 4XXX series ati cards are different, but the 3XXX doesn't have separate shader clocks. (I thought that was only an Nvidia thing).

Oops, sorry I didn't read that right. I don't know that much about the Ati side of things, from what I can tell the theory goes something like, because the ATi cards have so many smaller shaders [stream processors whatever] as compared to the Nvidia fewer but bigger ones they tend to use much more of the CPU and can get bottlenecked on the smaller WU's. That shouldn't be a problem with your quad at 3.3.
As far as a OC utility goes I hope another ATi user can help, with a Nvidia card you can unlink the shaders from the core and OC them separately, I use Rivatuner for mine.
One thing you might want to check is to make sure its running in 3d mode, if its in 2d that might be the problem.
Another is to make sure the GPU client's core priority is set to 'slightly higher' and the SMP has it at 'idle' to prevent that bottlenecking...

ahhh, that's a good point...the 2D/3D mode thing. I have the slightly higher priority and there are no separate shader overclocks, but I am in 2D mode, it only goes into 3D mode in games and such, wonder how I can put it into 3D just from desktop folding...