TPU's WCG/BOINC Team

[Chicken Patty]

Hello World!

Been reading this forum for a few years, and finally decided to join and get crunching!

Welcome aboard KieX I guarantee you'll love your stay here with us

Make sure to check out this thread, it has everything you need or don't need to know about WCG

Thanks to ION for this thread

Essentials Thread

 

[theonedub]

First 6k day today more please

 

[[Ion]]

First 6k day today more please

Congratulations!

 

[p_o_s_pc]

bad news. I had to set the 240 to 3ghz the board refused to post at a bus speed any higher then 212mhz.I think its because its on a beta bios (also its the only bios that will run the 240)

 

[[Ion]]

bad news. I had to set the 240 to 3ghz the board refused to post at a bus speed any higher then 212mhz.I think its because its on a beta bios (also its the only bios that will run the 240)

Well, hopefully they'll release a new BIOS soon that will allow higher OCing. I still predict ~800-950 PPD

 

[p_o_s_pc]

Well, hopefully they'll release a new BIOS soon that will allow higher OCing. I still predict ~800-950 PPD

this board is only running this chip till i get the 790GX from CP.
I will have the Nforce 430 running the 5kBE again and the 790GX running X2 240

 

[A Cheese Danish]

Well I'm still crunching away, with only my laptop atm.
Sadly I had to quit the F@H team for a little while. Hoping to get back up and running soon.
More than likely after the turn of the new year

 

[Velvet Wafer]

bad news. I had to set the 240 to 3ghz the board refused to post at a bus speed any higher then 212mhz.I think its because its on a beta bios (also its the only bios that will run the 240)

is the chipset overheated? why do you had to drop so much?

 

[Flak]

Wile E, I'm sorry but you will be passed today....

 

[p_o_s_pc]

is the chipset overheated? why do you had to drop so much?

chipset is running fine. I'm not sure whats up with it. If i set FSB to 212mhz it will not post now the E1500 keeps BSOD on me

looks like i'm taking a break from crunching and folding today to try and work things out

 

[Velvet Wafer]

chipset is running fine. I'm not sure whats up with it. If i set FSB to 212mhz it will not post now the E1500 keeps BSOD on me

looks like i'm taking a break from crunching and folding today to try and work things out

did you changed anything, or did these problems appeared "over the night" ?

 

[p_o_s_pc]

did you changed anything, or did these problems appeared "over the night" ?

everything was working till i restarted the rig then i just got no post. So it set everything back to stock as a recovery kinda thing. and when i try same settings with everything the same(hardware wise) i get no post at all till i put everything to stock again
so yes the appeared "over the night"

EDIT:i am testing the E1500 right now. I think the OC was just alittle too high for it to handle on a board that undervolts the CPU and has no voltage options

 

[Velvet Wafer]

everything was working till i restarted the rig then i just got no post. So it set everything back to stock as a recovery kinda thing. and when i try same settings with everything the same(hardware wise) i get no post at all till i put everything to stock again
so yes the appeared "over the night"

EDIT:i am testing the E1500 right now. I think the OC was just alittle too high for it to handle on a board that undervolts the CPU and has no voltage options

your board is too weak. probably the voltage supply is too fibbly,or its just the damn bios, like for my 955, in my biostar... if you use unsupported procs, you may encounter shit. sounds really similiar, now that i think about it.
regarding the e1500: lower the fsb 2 notches, and retest it. it sounds like my e5200, that needed up to a week to error out

EDIT: you really need the 790 gx ;-)

 

[p_o_s_pc]

CP sent the 790gx out along with the E7200 and biostar p35 among other stuff

 

[p_o_s_pc]

P4 crashed also... That does it. Today is Linpack/OCCT/furmark day for all of my main crunchers/folders.

EDIT: I got the overclock stable. it would pass linpack but not OCCT that is why i use a mix of different test. The P4 would work fine till i started both F@H GPU clients and then it hang. So i took out one of the GTs and its working fine. looks like i am down 1 GPU for folding again but atleast it got it crunching. Also CP sent the stuff out friday.

Looks like i am going to have to take the P4 offline till i get the PSU for the main rig as i am going to use the 700w OCZ that is on it to power the X2 240 and 2 8800GT's.

 

[4x4n]

Just added this little combo I picked up at Fry's about a week ago for 79.99 before a $10 mail in rebate. Rebate just pretty much covers the sales tax, (damn 9.9% here in Seattle). This chip seems to be decent. 3.6 with all default settings except the fsb, but the board will not go any higher. 343 solid as can be, 344 results in a instant hard lock. Still not bad for a less than $80 investment, and it's only pulling 98 watts on my kill-a-watt. I think it should be good for about 1000 boinc points a day. I'll try and get some pics up in the farm thread in a couple of days.

 

[[Ion]]

Wow, that's awesome, should be ~900 PPD

 

[neoreif]

Just joined WCG! 1 Hour and a Half crunching and going!

 

[MetalRacer]

Just added this little combo I picked up at Fry's about a week ago for 79.99 before a $10 mail in rebate. Rebate just pretty much covers the sales tax, (damn 9.9% here in Seattle). This chip seems to be decent. 3.6 with all default settings except the fsb, but the board will not go any higher. 343 solid as can be, 344 results in a instant hard lock. Still not bad for a less than $80 investment, and it's only pulling 98 watts on my kill-a-watt. I think it should be good for about 1000 boinc points a day. I'll try and get some pics up in the farm thread in a couple of days.

http://img.techpowerup.org/091219/3.6wcg.jpg

I picked up the same combo from Fry's and its been running @3.0 with an average of 1015 boinc points a day. When I get some better ram and cooling I'm going to have to try for that 3.6 overclock.

 

[[Ion]]

Just joined WCG! 1 Hour and a Half crunching and going!

Awesome, welcome to TPU's WCG team!
If you have any WCG-related questions, don't hesitate to post here or PM me, I'll try to get back to you ASAP

 

[neoreif]

Ummm... can you please tell me waht would happen if there was a power outtage in our area and the computer shuts down in the middle of crunching? Do I lose the progress done already? Thanks!

 

[4x4n]

I picked up the same combo from Fry's and its been running @3.0 with an average of 1015 boinc points a day. When I get some better ram and cooling I'm going to have to try for that 3.6 overclock.

The northbridge gets a little hot. It measured almost 60c with my laser temp meter. I ziptied an old amd cpu fan on it and it's about 35-40c now. I'll try to get a pic of up soon. I bet this chip would hit 4ghz on a decent clocking board.

Ummm... can you please tell me waht would happen if there was a power outtage in our area and the computer shuts down in the middle of crunching? Do I lose the progress done already? Thanks!

You wont lose everything. There are certian checkpoints in the wu's. It will start at the last checkpoint before the power outage. Same thing happens when you reboot.

 

[[Ion]]

Ummm... can you please tell me waht would happen if there was a power outtage in our area and the computer shuts down in the middle of crunching? Do I lose the progress done already? Thanks!

On the Help Fight Childhood cancer, you loose all of the progress done . I'm not completely sure about all of the other projects, but I think this also occurs with Fight Aids @ Home. Nutritious Rice for the World works fine if the power is lost, you usually loose ~5 minutes of work at the most. For this reason, I run RICE on most of my computers. Avoid running Human Proteome Folding 2, it gives tons of errors on many machines, even ones that are completely stable

 

[neoreif]

Thanks guys! 2 hours crunching and no problems encountered so far! Almost done with the Help cure muscular dystrophy task(91%)!

 

[[Ion]]

Thanks guys! 2 hours crunching and no problems encountered so far! Almost done with the Help cure muscular dystrophy task(91%)!

Could you go to Advanced-->Preferences and verify for me that the CPU usage is set to 100%?

Since you have a quad, it should be running 4 tasks at once (depending on how you have BOINC set up, you may have to hit "advanced view" first). After you've done all of this, could you open up Task Manager and verify that the computer is running at 100% across all 4 cores?