TPU's WCG/BOINC Team

[manofthem]

when i press the power button on the case i hear a noise like its gonna power on, but no fans, lights or anything powers up.

Was it fine before and this happened suddenly? very weird

 

[AlienIsGOD]

all was fine when the HX1000 powered everything, did a case switch and PSU change and above happens.

 

[Jstn7477]

Split-second power up requiring unplugging of the PSU to try again could be either a faulty PSU or a shorted component. My PSU did the same thing when my GTX 460 shorted out (and then the voltage controller chip on the card caught on fire when diagnosing).

 

[AlienIsGOD]

scored a 4GB so-dimm for my laptop in specs 8GB for free FTW

 

[[Ion]]

I hope you get it working! My HX1000 has been a beast for a long time; I hope it doesn't start giving me issues.



I never would have guessed that you ever did any gaming

Definitely rearrange, having too many cases can be a pain

About once a week for half an hour or an hour on the HD4000. A truly miserable experience

scored a 4GB so-dimm for my laptop in specs 8GB for free FTW

Not bad at all! I have 8GB in my laptop and I think it's pretty much ideal

It's a shame we only have 25 days of GPU work left, although that means that I can start selling stuff off and shut things down over the summer and not feel too terrible about it

 

[AlienIsGOD]

About once a week for half an hour or an hour on the HD4000. A truly miserable experience


Not bad at all! I have 8GB in my laptop and I think it's pretty much ideal

It's a shame we only have 25 days of GPU work left, although that means that I can start selling stuff off and shut things down over the summer and not feel too terrible about it

lies !!!! my laptop has 2 x 2GB in it, so im only at 6GB now. Better a lil more than no more :O

 

[Norton]

It's a shame we only have 25 days of GPU work left, although that means that I can start selling stuff off and shut things down over the summer and not feel too terrible about it

AND.... start saving up for a 4P?

Suggest saving the Tahiti cards for the return of WCG GPU work, at a minimum. Their DP performance and SP count will allow a quick jump start when (not if) they return

 

[[Ion]]

AND.... start saving up for a 4P?

Suggest saving the Tahiti cards for the return of WCG GPU work, at a minimum. Their DP performance and SP count will allow a quick jump start when (not if) they return

Oh, I'll certainly keep the HD7950 and HD7930. I'm a big fan of them. But I may sell off the i7-860 and i7-920 rigs--my two oldest and least efficient crunchers.

Hell, I'm hardly suffering for money and I'm going to have a job this summer, so maybe I'll just keep everything and wait for August when everything can be fired back up again.

And I'm sure we'll get more GPU work at some point--I was reading the thread over at WCG, and the GPU app sped up HCC by ~16x, so the potential is too great to pass up

And I'm strongly considering a 4P--maybe something like what Buck has--this quad Barcelona system has been a disappointment (similar PPD to the i7-860 for far, far more noise and heat)

 

[Jstn7477]

Oh, I'll certainly keep the HD7950 and HD7930. I'm a big fan of them. But I may sell off the i7-860 and i7-920 rigs--my two oldest and least efficient crunchers.

Hell, I'm hardly suffering for money and I'm going to have a job this summer, so maybe I'll just keep everything and wait for August when everything can be fired back up again.

And I'm sure we'll get more GPU work at some point--I was reading the thread over at WCG, and the GPU app sped up HCC by ~16x, so the potential is too great to pass up

And I'm strongly considering a 4P--maybe something like what Buck has--this quad Barcelona system has been a disappointment (similar PPD to the i7-860 for far, far more noise and heat)

Yeah, I figured it was time to let go of my i7-870 and EVGA P55 FTW while it was still worth selling. I still have a lot of older systems e.g. 2 939s folding Fermis, 2 775s, a 478, 2 single core junk laptops, and a Phenom 8550 Tri-core AGP rig. My parents have my FX-8150 and two PII X6 chips, one of which is on a flaky ASUS 890GX board (running dual 7770s with an inconceivably low PPD) that intermittently reboots and can't find a boot device despite changing cables and ports on the SSD and HDD. I'd love to get my parents on current-gen Intels but that would cost too much money and time to redo everything on their rigs.

 

[[Ion]]

Yeah, I figured it was time to let go of my i7-870 and EVGA P55 FTW while it was still worth selling. I still have a lot of older systems e.g. 2 939s folding Fermis, 2 775s, a 478, 2 single core junk laptops, and a Phenom 8550 Tri-core AGP rig. My parents have my FX-8150 and two PII X6 chips, one of which is on a flaky ASUS 890GX board (running dual 7770s with an inconceivably low PPD) that intermittently reboots and can't find a boot device despite changing cables and ports on the SSD and HDD. I'd love to get my parents on current-gen Intels but that would cost too much money and time to redo everything on their rigs.

I recently built the X4 965 system for my parents to replace an E6300 I built a few years back--they love it. Maybe they'll get my i3, but I think my Dad would rather not have to deal with re-configuring an entirely new setup (and I don't blame him, they shut things down so frequently that the extra wattage of the 965BE doesn't matter so much)

I still have two C2Ds and an old AMD X2, but those are the same generation systems that I'm typically selling on Craigslist--I may only get $100 for the X2, but that would be OK with me--I have about $20 sunk into it and it's been crunching/folding for a few months with no complaints. I figure it shouldn't be hard to take the i7-860, stick in two 8800GTs and set up SLI and sell it on Craigslist as a "extreme gaming PC" and probably even break even on it. The 3930k is absolutely staying, I love it, and the 2700k/3770k both make good PPD/W crunchers, so I'll keep them. I figure I might as well keep the two old laptops, since they're tiny, work tolerably well (~2k PPD combined) and use ~100w together. I guess I'll also keep the DP Xeon, since it does a very solid 4.5k PPD from the CPUs for $97 (not counting the GPUs). That and selling a DP eATX setup might be hard.

 

[manofthem]

@AlienIsGod: I didn't get the chance tonight to mess with both the cards in my rig. I got home too late and by the time I got home, I was exhausted. So tomorrow is a new day and I should have some more info then

 

[t_ski]

I traded off the MSI 7770 "shorty" for a Gigabyte Z68 mobo. I'll trade another 7770 so I can get a decent CPU for the board if anyone has one available.

http://www.gigabyte.us/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3852#ov

Oh, and I'd be willing to traded my P43 mobo and Q9300 as well, depending on the CPU offered.

 

[Nordic]

Putting together my Phenom 965be dual 7870xt system right now...

And I'm sure we'll get more GPU work at some point--I was reading the thread over at WCG, and the GPU app sped up HCC by ~16x, so the potential is too great to pass up

That is what I was saying awhile back. Gpu's put out so much work they would be silly to not keep doing it. It would not surprise me if more started doing gpu work.

 

[Norton]

Putting together my Phenom 965be dual 7870xt system right now...
http://i.imgur.com/x8CPtEc.jpg


That is what I was saying awhile back. Gpu's put out so much work they would be silly to not keep doing it. It would not surprise me if more started doing gpu work.

Nice setup! -

*Note- you may run into issues w/ram (is that a 4GB stick?) and cpu cores running/maxing out those beastly gpu's. They should be able to do 10 wu's each (20 total) which would leave 0.2 GB of ram and 0.2 cpu cores per gpu .

Doubling up on the ram and picking up an FX-8xxx or a PII X6 will definitely help you max out the rig

Will be nice to see that setup pump out 170-180k ppd

On a sour note- my 790X/1045T remote rig is going all BSOD on me - I'll be bringing it back home to see what happened to it. It's possibly the HDD or this board finally gave up on me. I have a spare HDD and a Biostar A880GZ mobo if I need it.

 

[Radical_Edward]

The wife and I are moving starting the 8th, during this time we might not have internet connectivity at home for a few days.

Finally got a nice 2 bed 2 bath place all for ourselves.

 

[t_ski]

*Note- you may run into issues w/ram (is that a 4GB stick?) and cpu cores running/maxing out those beastly gpu's. They should be able to do 10 wu's each (20 total) which would leave 0.2 GB of ram and 0.2 cpu cores per gpu .

Doubling up on the ram and picking up an FX-8xxx or a PII X6 will definitely help you max out the rig

Wait, there's a ram limit?

 

[Norton]

Wait, there's a ram limit?

Some say yes, others say not really, but I like to try to keep to around 0.5GB per WU (CPU or GPU). Have been moving my rigs from 4GB up to 8GB recently and they seem to run better with the extra ram imho

Have been getting good deals in our B/S/T trade threads by picking up two sets of 2x4GB ram kits at a time

 

[Nordic]

Nice setup! -

*Note- you may run into issues w/ram (is that a 4GB stick?) and cpu cores running/maxing out those beastly gpu's. They should be able to do 10 wu's each (20 total) which would leave 0.2 GB of ram and 0.2 cpu cores per gpu .

Doubling up on the ram and picking up an FX-8xxx or a PII X6 will definitely help you max out the rig

Will be nice to see that setup pump out 170-180k ppd

On a sour note- my 790X/1045T remote rig is going all BSOD on me - I'll be bringing it back home to see what happened to it. It's possibly the HDD or this board finally gave up on me. I have a spare HDD and a Biostar A880GZ mobo if I need it.

It is an 8gb stick of ram. Came free with the board. I think I am going to upgrade this to something steamroller when the time comes. For now this phenom was cheap and will get the job done.

 

[Norton]

It is an 8gb stick of ram. Came free with the board. I think I am going to upgrade this to something steamroller when the time comes. For now this phenom was cheap and will get the job done.

8GB should be plenty then... I seem to remember you mentioning this in another post....my bad

 

[Nordic]

8GB should be plenty then... I seem to remember you mentioning this in another post....my bad

I am sure I did. I think its awesome that the day I decide to get the board, it comes with a free $50 stick of ram as a limited offer. The next day it does not.

 

[AlienIsGOD]

PROBLEM SOLVED

a mobo mounting screw was in the wrong spot causing it to touch the mobo and make it not power up.

 

[manofthem]

PROBLEM SOLVED

a mobo mounting screw was in the wrong spot causing it to touch the mobo and make it not power up.

Congrats!!! Saved yourself some headache and $$


That happened to me once before on my friend's pc (years ago) and its made me ever so cautious about that

So now you're good to go, ready to crunch?

 

[AlienIsGOD]

So now you're good to go, ready to crunch?

yep, just going to set my config file for the 7770 and i'll be good to go.

 

[brandonwh64]

Ok bad things happened yesterday. I tore both the cruncher and HTPC down to swap cases and I had nothing but problems with the HTPC case with fitting and then it would fail to power on due to having the dual PCI nic card in. Once I got that take back out which is a pain since the case is hard to work with then I got it put back together for it to not boot AGAIN! It had this clunky touch screen power button. So then I was so mad I took it back apart for the final time and found the stupid cable that runs that panel somehow got unplugged. Well thought my problems were done so I test it and it works so then I put it all back together and setup next to my TV. THe time came to turn it back on to start crunching and guess what...... MORE FRICKEN PROBLEMS! It would boot for 10 seconds enough for the boot screen then turn off and back on! I got so mad I punched the front of the case with so much force that the front panel EXPLODED! I then took all the parts out and took the old case outside an threw it across my yard were it sat for about 3 hours....

I then tested the components and they worked fine on a cardboard box and even crunched for about an hour like that. I guess I will put everything back in the NZXT case and be done with it.

It was about time to retire that Bgears case anyways since it was hacked six days from sunday

 

[Jstn7477]

Ok bad things happened yesterday. I tore both the cruncher and HTPC down to swap cases and I had nothing but problems with the HTPC case with fitting and then it would fail to power on due to having the dual PCI nic card in. Once I got that take back out which is a pain since the case is hard to work with then I got it put back together for it to not boot AGAIN! It had this clunky touch screen power button. So then I was so mad I took it back apart for the final time and found the stupid cable that runs that panel somehow got unplugged. Well thought my problems were done so I test it and it works so then I put it all back together and setup next to my TV. THe time came to turn it back on to start crunching and guess what...... MORE FRICKEN PROBLEMS! It would boot for 10 seconds enough for the boot screen then turn off and back on! I got so mad I punched the front of the case with so much force that the front panel EXPLODED! I then took all the parts out and took the old case outside an threw it across my yard were it sat for about 3 hours....

I then tested the components and they worked fine on a cardboard box and even crunched for about an hour like that. I guess I will put everything back in the NZXT case and be done with it.

It was about time to retire that Bgears case anyways since it was hacked six days from sunday

Brandon SMASH!

Yesterday, I redid the wiring to my 5 main DC rigs at the office. The A8N32-SLI/dual GTX 460s is on the battery backed side of a restored Ativa 1200VA (~800w) UPS (due to a failed CMOS chip that loses all the settings if the PSU switch is turned off), along with both monitors and my network switch. The two surge only outlets are used for my 2600K/dual 7950s cruncher and my X3210/GTS 450 cruncher/folder, and the UPS with everything on it is plugged into the wall through a Kill-A-Watt that reports a load of 1020-1150w. The UPS has a 14 AWG power cable and circuit breaker, so I'm not really overloading it with the stuff on the surge only outlets.

The other two rigs at my desk are now plugged straight into the wall and I took the tap out. The 15A 2 to 6 outlet wall tap has a noticeable brown singed area around the LINE blade of one of the outlets (probably from one of my super dense 600-700w rigs I used to operate). I'm kind of glad I got rid of two wall taps in favor of a UPS filtering some of the load, although that is essentially a giant tap anyway.