TPU's WCG/BOINC Team

[[Ion]]

I'm almost certainly adding another system soon, please check out this thread and toss down your opinion on which one

[[Ion]]

All 25 PentDCs are now going again as of this morning & I fixed the issue with the PentM

[Chicken Patty]

Originally Posted by [Ion]

All 25 PentDCs are now going again as of this morning & I fixed the issue with the PentM

Whoop whoop!

[KieX]

Well, after a very promising start with SandyBridge doing 4K in less than a full day I'm now looking at a bunch of silicone

Either the motherboard has crapped out on me, or even worse, I've killed the CPU. Seriously hope it's the first. Will be going back tomorrow to shop see if they will RMA my board and test my CPU on another.

[Chicken Patty]

Originally Posted by KieX

Well, after a very promising start with SandyBridge doing 4K in less than a full day I'm now looking at a bunch of silicone

Either the motherboard has crapped out on me, or even worse, I've killed the CPU. Seriously hope it's the first. Will be going back tomorrow to shop see if they will RMA my board and test my CPU on another.

Dammit dude What's it doing?

[mstenholm]

Sh*t.

[KieX]

Started BSOD'ing so thought it was because I was going light on the voltage. So upped them slowly till I reached the "max safe" volts as per the few other users of Sandybridge. But it kept crashing over and over again. Now it won't even load an installation CD at full defaults.

Changed everything sequentially to rule out things one by one. But then the Motherboard's backup BIOS kept reflashing the main one. And now.. nothing can't do anything but look at BIOS. This might be the last time I jump onto a new platform that hasn't been thoroughly tested by the community.

But damn, when it was working it was looking like a 6K+ PPD combo.

[[Ion]]

Originally Posted by Chicken Patty

Whoop whoop!

The HDD in the PentM seems to have died...not what I was expecting TBH.

I talked with James, and apparently the school can actually stand to make money from running WCG. Apparently they can claim $500 tax deductions for "charitable donations" and he thinks he can make WCG count for this. If that is the case, it would be very cool indeed

Originally Posted by KieX

Well, after a very promising start with SandyBridge doing 4K in less than a full day I'm now looking at a bunch of silicone

Either the motherboard has crapped out on me, or even worse, I've killed the CPU. Seriously hope it's the first. Will be going back tomorrow to shop see if they will RMA my board and test my CPU on another.

Oh wow, neither of those are even remotely good options. I hope you haven't killed the CPU either, that would be expensive

[Velvet Wafer]

Hopefully it was just the board of yours and not the proc! but even if it was, we probably have something in common...
nothing is sure till now, but the chances are good that the 4870x2 of me is also dieing... it started to give red flashing dots all over the screen... nothing that would stop ordinary use, but surely ugly and distracting...it doesnt crash tho, and shutting the rig down for a few min made the pixels disappear partly, but some still are there.. can it be that my psu is just degrading, and dieing? i hope so... sadly, i dont have a psu i can test with atm

[[Ion]]

Are you sure it isn't temps? Is the card OCed? But it sounds like your card may just be dieing

[Chicken Patty]

Originally Posted by [Ion]

The HDD in the PentM seems to have died...not what I was expecting TBH.

I talked with James, and apparently the school can actually stand to make money from running WCG. Apparently they can claim $500 tax deductions for "charitable donations" and he thinks he can make WCG count for this. If that is the case, it would be very cool indeed

Oh wow, neither of those are even remotely good options. I hope you haven't killed the CPU either, that would be expensive

I got a extra HDD I got from 4x4 I believe. Need it?

[brandonwh64]

4200+ ARRIVED! 740G was shipped yesterday so once it arrives then i will put it together in the coolermaster case and ill be using that Evercooler Transformer 4 that CP hooked me up with last year and get this RIG crunching, i may try to OC to 3Ghz to get more PPD but i dont know if this chip will do that

[[Ion]]

Originally Posted by Chicken Patty

I got a extra HDD I got from 4x4 I believe. Need it?

Nah, I had a spare 60GB 2.5" disk I put in. Thanks though!

Originally Posted by brandonwh64

4200+ ARRIVED! 740G was shipped yesterday so once it arrives then i will put it together in the coolermaster case and ill be using that Evercooler Transformer 4 that CP hooked me up with last year and get this RIG crunching, i may try to OC to 3Ghz to get more PPD but i dont know if this chip will do that

Awesome, keep us posted!

[Velvet Wafer]

Originally Posted by [Ion]

Are you sure it isn't temps? Is the card OCed? But it sounds like your card may just be dieing

temps are nice, the card was oced, but does it on stock, like oced with no difference... with lower volts then 1.2, i was able to run furmark for about 3 minutes, and in that time the fps were good and no crash happened. (with 800/1000 on 1.2v i got a brownscreen after 3 min)
i also could try to game on it, i guess it would work a while. the artifacts are not that big... what i find strange.... when i killed a vram on a 4850, it artifacted so badly,that the screen was heavily distorted, even with random symbols and multicolored lines and jibberish.
while writing this i got a greyscreen related to an Ntoskrnl crash (so the debugger told me)
does that iron out the PSU problem more? i had the proc at 1.25v with 3.1ghz, with 1.325v cpu-nb at 2400 nb... so dead stable normally

[[Ion]]

Originally Posted by Velvet Wafer

temps are nice, the card was oced, but does it on stock, like oced with no difference... with lower volts then 1.2, i was able to run furmark for about 3 minutes, and in that time the fps were good and no crash happened. (with 800/1000 on 1.2v i got a brownscreen after 3 min)
i also could try to game on it, i guess it would work a while. the artifacts are not that big... what i find strange.... when i killed a vram on a 4850, it artifacted so badly,that the screen was heavily distorted, even with random symbols and multicolored lines and jibberish.
while writing this i got a greyscreen related to an Ntoskrnl crash (so the debugger told me)
does that iron out the PSU problem more? i had the proc at 1.25v with 3.1ghz, with 1.325v cpu-nb at 2400 nb... so dead stable normally

In that case, I really don't have any idea. I've only had one GPU go out recently, and it was a 6600GT, so it was time for a replacement anyways

[Velvet Wafer]

Originally Posted by [Ion]

In that case, I really don't have any idea. I've only had one GPU go out recently, and it was a 6600GT, so it was time for a replacement anyways

it gets better: now after the crash, the artifacting is lesser again! do cards die that dramatic?

EDIT:
my own inexperience was the culprit.... the connector to the screen came loose a bit, and the artifacts were the results!
never had thought this can happen due to aloose connector! ash on my top!

[mstenholm]

[Chicken Patty]

Originally Posted by [Ion]

Nah, I had a spare 60GB 2.5" disk I put in. Thanks though!


Awesome, keep us posted!

Anytime bro

[brandonwh64]

Here are the three 771 Xeons

Originally Posted by Velvet Wafer

ash on my top!

That's an interesting expression. I can probably guess what it means, but would care to explain? Thanks.

[[Ion]]

Originally Posted by Velvet Wafer

it gets better: now after the crash, the artifacting is lesser again! do cards die that dramatic?

EDIT:
my own inexperience was the culprit.... the connector to the screen came loose a bit, and the artifacts were the results!
never had thought this can happen due to aloose connector! ash on my top!

Glad you got it fixed

Originally Posted by Chicken Patty

Anytime bro

Is it SATA or IDE? If it's SATA and a decent capacity I could put it to use in the upcoming build (assuming that happens, which it should)

Originally Posted by brandonwh64

Here are the three 771 Xeons

http://img.techpowerup.org/110119/60...5195865_0.jpeg

Very nice

[Chicken Patty]

I beleive it's SATA, I'll have to check when i get home.

[Velvet Wafer]

Originally Posted by twilyth

That's an interesting expression. I can probably guess what it means, but would care to explain? Thanks.

In German "Asche auf mein Haupt!" is a polite term of humility, if you have done something very rude or dumb... it was taken from the hebrew tradition of piling ash of the dead, or ordinary ash on their heads, to repent for their sins... is the term not existant in the english language?

Originally Posted by [Ion]

Glad you got it fixed
Very nice

yeah, i also was thankful that it was just my dumbness, and not a physical damage!
man, that was quite a shock

Originally Posted by Velvet Wafer

In German "Asche auf mein Haupt!" is a polite term of humility, if you have done something very rude or dumb... it was taken from the hebrew tradition of piling ash of the dead, or ordinary ash on their heads, to repent for their sins... is the term not existant in the english language?



yeah, i also was thankful that it was just my dumbness, and not a physical damage!
man, that was quite a shock

Not really. There is the idea of wearing sack cloth and ashes as a sign of extreme grief, but that's the closest I can think of.

edit: And that is straight from the Old Testament narratives - just fyi.

[KieX]

Originally Posted by brandonwh64

Here are the three 771 Xeons

http://img.techpowerup.org/110119/60...5195865_0.jpeg

For a second I thought I read "Here are the three Kings"

Should be some nice output, awesome