TPU's WCG/BOINC Team

[Xenturion]

I wouldn't suggest anyone dump their GPUs unless they really need the money, or were only interested in contributing to HCC. I suspect with the epic volume of returned HCC results from GPUs, that other projects that can take advantage of massively parallel processing will develop and release GPU clients in the not too distant future. Obviously, I can't say for certain, though.

I, too, am back after the Chimp Challenge. Slightly saddens me that I have to buckle down to reach TPU's Top 20 for WCG, but that my primary rig alone is enough to put me in TPU's Top 20 for F@H. Guess I'll just have to take it as a challenge.

 

[hat]

The WCG team has no doubt seen the power GPUs have brought to the HCC project. The man with the taste of forbidden fruit on his tongue shall search for more.

We have the cure. We have the power.

 

[[Ion]]

The scientists behind HCC have managed to dig up some more work to keep us busy

The researchers have identified additional batches for this project which need to be run (and weren't included in the original 25 day estimate). I'm in the process of getting them loaded into BOINC and should be able to provide a more accurate estimated number of days left once this is complete. At minimum though, there should be more than five days left of work before we exhaust the supply of non-resend work units.

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[HammerON]

Good news!!!

 

[Norton]

Good news!!!

Agreed- maybe there's enough to make a run at 10th place before they run out!

Will be firing up my FX-6200/7770 rig tonight to bring me back up to 280k+ ppd

 

[Bow]

 

[TRWOV]

I was wondering why my queue was still full

 

[manofthem]

Tomorrow I'm taking my wife and daughter to Disney World! I'm stoked, my little girl is super excited to go and see all the princesses, especially Tangled! She had a good time last year, but this year she's 2 and fully able to enjoy it

I may be shutting down the 7870/7770 rig while I'm away and keep the 7970s going, as I'd feel more comfortable that way, not sure yet. I hate to lose the few remaining days, so I may leave it on and hope for the best.

 

[theonedub]

Have a safe and enjoyable trip

 

[[Ion]]

Tomorrow I'm taking my wife and daughter to Disney World! I'm stoked, my little girl is super excited to go and see all the princesses, especially Tangled! She had a good time, but this year she's 2 and fully able to enjoy it

I may be shutting down the 7870/7770 rig while I'm away and keep the 7970s going, as I'd feel more comfortable that way, not sure yet. I hate to lose the few remaining days, so I may leave it on and hope for the best.

I hope you guys have a hell of a time!


And I say screw it, leave the second rig on---unless it's running wicked OCed or held together by gravity, computers just work pretty well---my i7-920 rig hasn't been physically touched in several months and is still going strong

 

[Norton]

Tomorrow I'm taking my wife and daughter to Disney World! I'm stoked, my little girl is super excited to go and see all the princesses, especially Tangled! She had a good time, but this year she's 2 and fully able to enjoy it

I may be shutting down the 7870/7770 rig while I'm away and keep the 7970s going, as I'd feel more comfortable that way, not sure yet. I hate to lose the few remaining days, so I may leave it on and hope for the best.

Very cool! Have a great time!

You could just shut the rig down and hold onto the work until you get back. Worst that would happen is some of them may abort due to not starting in time but someone will pick up the resends so no big deal

 

[manofthem]

Thanks all for the encouragement! Screw it, I think I'll leave it on. CPU is running stock, and GPUs have a mild OC.

The weird thing is that the other day I checked it, and it had the little Windows error saying that the pc BSOD'd. It's set to restart and resume BOINC, so no real worries. And since we are talking about it, I just checked it, and it seems it happened again, sometime today. I don't know why, but I know my wife was messing around with it the other day, trying to figure out something and ended up uninstalling a few things! It seemed to have started after that... She heard about it from me pretty good though

Temps seem decent: 3770k @stock ~70C and 7870/7770 ~65C/50C respectively.

Eh, it'll be fine, as long as it doesn't catch fire

On my way home today from work, there was a fire in the direction of my house, and all I could think of was that one of my crunchers started a fire and burned down the neighborhood Glad that didn't happen

 

[Norton]

On my way home today from work, there was a fire in the direction of my house, and all I could think of was that one of my crunchers started a fire and burned down the neighborhood Glad that didn't happen

I wouldn't worry about it unless the smoke from the fire was full of 0's and 1's

 

[manofthem]

I wouldn't worry about it unless the smoke from the fire was full of 0's and 1's

Oh boy, I actually LOL'd! Thanks for that

 

[[Ion]]

I have the opportunity to set up another 3930k system for ~$515. What do you guys think I should do? That would buy me a CPU & slightly damaged ASRock motherboard, then I can use my spare Gaia, steal half of the RAM out of my 3930k, and use an 8400GS and spare HP 800w PSU.

 

[Bo$$]

I have the opportunity to set up another 3930k system for ~$515. What do you guys think I should do? That would buy me a CPU & slightly damaged ASRock motherboard, then I can use my spare Gaia, steal half of the RAM out of my 3930k, and use an 8400GS and spare HP 800w PSU.

Depends on whats wrong with the board?

 

[[Ion]]

Depends on whats wrong with the board?

The retention clips for the PCIe slots are broken.

 

[hat]

That's nothing, I usually try to find a way to pull those out tbh unless I feel there's too much of a risk of damaging the board and/or slot in the process. Those are more of a pain in the ass than anything.

 

[TRWOV]

Ordered the GA-78LMT-USB3 for the 1090T.

Also picked up a POW Protab26XXL that was on sale. specs: A8 1.2Ghz, 1GB RAM, Quad Mali 400 GPU, 1280 x 800 10.1 IPS panel. Looks good on paper, I think. Is the A8 single or dual core?


This video gives me hope of getting a nice OC with the 1090T:

 

[KieX]

TechPowerUp! finally crossed the 1,000,000,000 Milestone!

We're also just 8 days away from taking our place in the Top 10 Teams list for WCG.

Good work everyone!

 

[AlienIsGOD]

until GPU wu's run out, i've decided to crunch 24/7 on the 3570K / 7870 combo and play wow on the other rig in my specs

 

[[Ion]]

That's nothing, I usually try to find a way to pull those out tbh unless I feel there's too much of a risk of damaging the board and/or slot in the process. Those are more of a pain in the ass than anything.

Well, I would never willingly pull things apart like that, but I would also agree that their loss isn't a terrible one.

So what do you guys think--should I go for it?

 

[AlienIsGOD]

Well, I would never willingly pull things apart like that, but I would also agree that their loss isn't a terrible one.

So what do you guys think--should I go for it?

if it were me, i would do it if i could spare that kind of $$$

 

[TRWOV]

At that price, is a steal. The CPU alone would be worth it and you're getting a board thrown in.

 

[[Ion]]

if it were me, i would do it if i could spare that kind of $$$

At that price, is a steal. The CPU alone would be worth it and you're getting a board thrown in.

The CPU is $500, and the board costs shipping (because it's damaged). And I think that $515 or so for a second six-core system is a great price--realistically, I think I could put it in a case and add a HD7850 and sell it for $1000 easy on Craigslist.

I'm thinking I'll go for it--I've already sold $680 in computers this week (my DP HP system and two C2Ds) so I can afford it.