TPU's WCG/BOINC Team

[KieX]

I have some spare 500G drives but they have lots of errors in the SMART table. However I've wiped them multiple times with no problem. You're call, just pay shipping.

If that sounds too dodgy, I have other 500g drives, but I don't know their status and they would have to be wiped which will take a day or two - same deal, so I guess it's not much of choice huh?

Thanks, though not needed. Shipped my last spare drives to brandon. The linux installation was more a jab at mstenholm to beat him to the sapphire badge in SN2S.

This cruncher has left me very skint until I get paid end of March. Cycling to work, home-cooked meals and other down to earth cost-savings are in order. Will probably find a spare IDE drive somewhere which is fine. Does a great injustice to the appeal of that board but crunching is more important than aesthetics

 

[ChaoticAtmosphere]

but crunching is more important than aesthetics

That R.A.T. 7 Mouse looks pretty good

 

[KieX]

That R.A.T. 7 Mouse looks pretty good

It's a RAT 3 in that picture. And:

crunching > ergonomics > aesthetics

 

[twilyth]

Thanks, though not needed. Shipped my last spare drives to brandon. The linux installation was more a jab at mstenholm to beat him to the sapphire badge in SN2S.

This cruncher has left me very skint until I get paid end of March. Cycling to work, home-cooked meals and other down to earth cost-savings are in order. Will probably find a spare IDE drive somewhere which is fine. Does a great injustice to the appeal of that board but crunching is more important than aesthetics

Does the board even have an IDE connector?

 

[KieX]

Does the board even have an IDE connector?

Yea has one just next to the 24pin ATX, quite useful round about now. Took the SSD from the laptop to get it running, but will get an IDE drive to do the crunching (thinks back to CEP2 BSOD'ing the SSD).

Waiting for a PSU in the mail, just plugged in another one to test I didn't buy some dead silicone. Quite like these CPUs with the heatsink not bolted on properly or any thermal grease it loaded at just 60C in IBT. Will finish it completely and get it crunching sometime this weekend.

BTW, did you get your Dualie up and running yet?

 

[twilyth]

Working on it. Motivation is a real problem for me (psych issues and whatnot). So I try to tackle one little piece at a time and sometimes I get lucky and can just push through. I know that will sound bizarre to most people, but that's how it works for me. A new med is helping (Viibryd) but I won't get into that here unless someone is interested. It's a very interesting anti-depressant since at a low dose it's a 5HT1a antagonist (good for me) but then flips to an agonist (very, very bad for me). It's also an SSRI, but like i said, I'm not going to talk about it. :shadedshu

I got out the rubbing alcohol and found the q-tips so I'm going to try to clean up the coolers and get them mounted tonight.

Thanks for asking.

 

[ThE_MaD_ShOt]

Now as some of you know I am getting ready to put together a 6 core cruncher parts should start shipping out tomorrow. As regards to os. I have 4 choices Win vista 64, Win xp 32, Ubuntu 64, and Win 8 64 consumer preview. Budget will not allow win7 64 at this time. And I always use legal oses. With that said, what would you do? I am running Ubuntu 11.04 64 and xp pro 32 on 2 crunchers now. The results are basically the same between them.

 

[4x4n]

Kicked up one of my 2600k's

Would anyone on the team have any interest in a complete rig? Or maybe I would part with MB/CPU/Ram/Cooler combo? I'm going to downsize and I would make a more than fair deal for a team member, especially if you took the whole rig.

It's the 2600k, Asus P8P67 Pro, 8GB set Gskill 1600, VenX, Hd5870, Corsair 400R, CM Silent Pro 600, 320gb HD.

 

[brandonwh64]

Now as some of you know I am getting ready to put together a 6 core cruncher parts should start shipping out tomorrow. As regards to os. I have 4 choices Win vista 64, Win xp 32, Ubuntu 64, and Win 8 64 consumer preview. Budget will not allow win7 64 at this time. And I always use legal oses. With that said, what would you do? I am running Ubuntu 11.04 64 and xp pro 32 on 2 crunchers now. The results are basically the same between them.

X64 bit OS will give you 10% more PPD

 

[twilyth]

Now as some of you know I am getting ready to put together a 6 core cruncher parts should start shipping out tomorrow. As regards to os. I have 4 choices Win vista 64, Win xp 32, Ubuntu 64, and Win 8 64 consumer preview. Budget will not allow win7 64 at this time. And I always use legal oses. With that said, what would you do? I am running Ubuntu 11.04 64 and xp pro 32 on 2 crunchers now. The results are basically the same between them.

If you run a lot of rigs and prefer using windows, you might want to look into a technet subscription. I get the cheapest one which is $150/year and I think gives 2 or 3 (pretty sure it's 3 but check) keys for every OS. There's also the $250 one. Had that the first year and is more generous with the key allotment.

RC's and beta's probably aren't a good choice. But if you have the auto updates turned off and it's stable, I guess you could get away with that. Don't know jack about Linux though.

Kicked up one of my 2600k's

http://img.techpowerup.org/120229/4850wcg.png

Would anyone on the team have any interest in a complete rig? Or maybe I would part with MB/CPU/Ram/Cooler combo? I'm going to downsize and I would make a more than fair deal for a team member, especially if you took the whole rig.

It's the 2600k, Asus P8P67 Pro, 8GB set Gskill 1600, VenX, Hd5870, Corsair 400R, CM Silent Pro 600, 320gb HD.

Would you feel like saying what the high end of your price range would be. I'm not interested right now, but it might give people an idea of what you want while still leaving room to negotiate. IDK. Just an idea.

 

[ThE_MaD_ShOt]

I just may check into the technet subscription. Sounds like it just may be up my ally.

 

[Chicken Patty]

Working on it. Motivation is a real problem for me (psych issues and whatnot). So I try to tackle one little piece at a time and sometimes I get lucky and can just push through. I know that will sound bizarre to most people, but that's how it works for me. A new med is helping (Viibryd) but I won't get into that here unless someone is interested. It's a very interesting anti-depressant since at a low dose it's a 5HT1a antagonist (good for me) but then flips to an agonist (very, very bad for me). It's also an SSRI, but like i said, I'm not going to talk about it. :shadedshu

I got out the rubbing alcohol and found the q-tips so I'm going to try to clean up the coolers and get them mounted tonight.

Thanks for asking.

Hey man, just do whatever works for you bro, that's the best way. Keep us posted on your progress dude.

 

[Radical_Edward]

Is something wrong with WCG/Free DC? It's showing no points for me on both for today.

 

[Chicken Patty]

Stats have been bugged a bit but you should be getting points. Did you confirm the rig is reporting?

 

[Radical_Edward]

All 5 of my rigs are reporting, but according to WCG's website and free-DC I got no points today. wtf?

 

[twilyth]

Here's my itty, bitty build log

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?p=2560850#post2560850

 

[ChaoticAtmosphere]

All 5 of my rigs are reporting, but according to WCG's website and free-DC I got no points today. wtf?

Same here Radical;

Statistics Date Total Run Time
(y:d:h:m:s) Points Generated Results Returned
02/29/2012 0:001:08:52:33 5,183 7

I usualy have 25-40 results returned with 2000 to 3500 ppd

 

[Chicken Patty]

Randal, have you checked another stats site?

 

[Norton]

Hey guys got a question....

Which would crunch better.....

FX8120 (8c/8t@3.2Ghz)
1090T (6c/6t@3.2Ghz)
or
FX6200 (6c/6t@3.8Ghz)

I'm considering picking up the FX6200 (released 2/28- not in stores yet) or a 6core Thuban (haven't located yet) but may take advantage of the upcoming price drops on the FX8120

What do you think?

 

[brandonwh64]

All 5 of my rigs are reporting, but according to WCG's website and free-DC I got no points today. wtf?

Yea it was kinda fubared! It showed me with no points then BAM over 6K points for that day. WTF

 

[brandonwh64]

More cores = more PPD I think so the FX 8120 would be my guess.

 

[Radical_Edward]

Yea it was kinda fubared! It showed me with no points then BAM over 6K points for that day. WTF

Yeah it's now showing 15,336 points for yesterday on Free-DC, not so much on WGC's site thou.

 

[Norton]

More cores = more PPD I think so the FX 8120 would be my guess.

the 8120 is at 3.2Ghz and the 6200 is at 3.8Ghz (i.e. about 20% slower).... how much of a difference will that make?

 

[mstenholm]

the 8120 is at 3.2Ghz and the 6200 is at 3.8Ghz (i.e. about 20% slower).... how much of a difference will that make?

If you want the big picture then have a look here http://boincstats.com/stats/host_cpu_stats.php?pr=wcg&teamid=&st=0&or=0

Edit: Seems like there is no FX6200 crunching yet according to the link posted above so your guess is as good (or better) then mine. Gave up on AMD six years ago.

 

[mstenholm]

Thanks, though not needed. Shipped my last spare drives to brandon. The linux installation was more a jab at mstenholm to beat him to the sapphire badge in SN2S.

I see that you, despite running DOS, do return some points and I asume that the run time did catch up on your rigs. I noticted on mine (my hex in partcular) that it toke some time before they got up to speed.