TPU's WCG/BOINC Team

[infrared]

Hey team, I've been missing for a few days so I wanted to say hello. It was quite a busy weekend, and then we started the week by getting a wicked cold, myself and the kids. Splitting headache hasn't subsided in over 3 days now, but thankfully it's a slow week anyway. Today is the first day this week where I had a little energy and was able to mess around with some stuff. Hope everyone is doing better than me

Good luck with the headache & cold, that's never fun. Sorry bud I would have covered for you but had loads going on here so didn't think to check.
I'm off for tonight, catch ya'll later

 

[stinger608]

Dang bro, get feeling better @manofthem !

 

[manofthem]

Good luck with the headache & cold, that's never fun. Sorry bud I would have covered for you but had loads going on here so didn't think to check.
I'm off for tonight, catch ya'll later

No worries, thanks for filling in when you did I already drafting the posts so now just need to post them up

Dang bro, get feeling better @manofthem !

Thanks bro, I think I'm on the mend. Marginally better today than yesterday so that's a step in the right direction. Plus tomorrow is another easy rest day which I sure could use before starting work back up next week.

 

[4x4n]

A blast from the past.

Just for shits and giggles I fired up my old X58 that has been on a shelf for years, this was a monster set up at one time. So now I'm wondering if its worth it to grab a X5660 from ebay and crunch on this again. What do you all think? Lets say I can get 4-4.2ghz out of it, what kind of production would that be? Also, I seem to remember these were power hogs, so I guess I need to factor in electricity use. Could anyone currently running these tell me how many watts these use?

 

[stinger608]

The x58 systems still put out some nice number crunching @4x4n

 

[xvi]

So now I'm wondering if its worth it to grab a X5660 from ebay and crunch on this again.

I think the 5600's were pretty okay on power, but I don't think they're fantastic by today's standards. Intel's Ark says 95w TDP.
I think I have a server or two with something similar to this. I can run 7-zip's benchmark or something and measure power consumption from iDRAC. I'll have to take a look on Tuesday.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

So, in order to go after the 10 year badge for MCM, I switched everything over from OZ on 12/28. I have 16 threads running on Linux and 8 threads on Win7. Conclusions: MCM runs better on Win7 than Linux. OZ gets far more PPD than MCM on Linux. MCM gets more PPD on Win7 than does OZ. Overall effect:

I'm looking to add an i7-3770s to help.

 

[t_ski]

Added my 2P board and some other stuff here:

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/...o-s1155-cpus-firepro-v5800-video-card.223017/

 

[Nordic]

I live alone, which is allowing me to experiment with low heat. I have turned down the heat in my home to 50f in all rooms except the bedroom. So far I have been able to dress properly for this to not be a big issue. This should save me $30-$40 a month.

EDIT: Thinking about this further, the general temperature should be horrifying to ManOfThem. Does Florida get that cold? I just have to wear socks and a sweater to stay warm? What you wear in 50f weather @manofthem?

I have not been crunching on my main PC because it is a mITX case with poor airflow. Crunching doesn't just make the CPU warm, but everything in the case matches the cpu temperature. Given that my home is not being kept at fairly cold ambient temperature, I have decided to begin crunching on it again. The maximum temperature I am seeing is 62c, compared to 72c normally.

I am also hanging out in the new TPU discord server if anyone is interested in joining Toothless and myself. You can find the a link to join discord in this post.

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

So I joined just for a challenge you all did a while ago and I've been here since so I thought I'd properly join, amazing team spirit here too ,love it guys and gals .
Especially since I have some questions so was wondering, Can you point me to a good thread on all I need to know to optimize my crunching given I'll still fold.
And I suppose my main question is how many cores is best ,I think I'll be getting another pc this year so I'm trying to think ahead for a change.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

So I joined just for a challenge you all did a while ago and I've been here since so I thought I'd properly join, amazing team spirit here too ,love it guys and gals .
Especially since I have some questions so was wondering, Can you point me to a good thread on all I need to know to optimize my crunching given I'll still fold.
And I suppose my main question is how many cores is best ,I think I'll be getting another pc this year so I'm trying to think ahead for a change.

Generally, give a GPU a thread. Nvidia needs more than AMD. High end GPU's might need more.

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

Generally, give a GPU a thread. Nvidia needs more than AMD. High end GPU's might need more.

Thanks that's what I thought.
Is any kind of big advantage thing possible with wcg ,ie more cores or no such thing.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Thanks that's what I thought.
Is any kind of big advantage thing possible with wcg ,ie more cores or no such thing.

Nope. Just add threads for more PPD/time per day. WCG is much more straight forward than F@H. Also, you can find lots of info at the different stats sites.
http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=team&proj=bwcg&team=22175&sort=today
http://boincstats.com/en/stats/15/user/list/0/0/22175/0

 

[manofthem]

EDIT: Thinking about this further, the general temperature should be horrifying to ManOfThem. Does Florida get that cold? I just have to wear socks and a sweater to stay warm? What you wear in 50f weather @manofthem?

Sorry I missed this til now.

Here in South Florida, it rarely gets down to 50F, and when it does, it is literally freezing! I think the lowest it's been this season was right around 52F, and it was quite a difficulty. Thankfully we had nice warm winter clothes from when we went to New York, which includes thermals and sweaters and jackets and hats and scarfs... We probably look ridiculous to people from up north lol.

 

[Nordic]

You do look ridiculous. We get Californians dressing like its March when it is a cooler July day of ~60f.
At the same time, I can't really stand temperatures over 80f.

 

[Nordic]

Note the name change my fellow crunchers

 

[stinger608]

Note the name change my fellow crunchers

That is an excellent choice for a user name bro!!!!!!

 

[Recca29]

~38f at my location. normal every year temperature.

missing my old RIG "960T(3.9 GHz), 270x", kept the room warm.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Houston, we have beta's.

 

[manofthem]

Houston, we have beta's.

Indeed. Last night I surprisingly counted quite a few on my main rig. Happened to notice them as I was taking a gander at my machine and stats trying to figure out why I had been so low lately. Any who, betas are good, betas are good.

~38f at my location. normal every year temperature.

missing my old RIG "960T(3.9 GHz), 270x", kept the room warm.

Wow that is chilly. Sounds like you need that rig back to heat your area!

You do look ridiculous. We get Californians dressing like its March when it is a cooler July day of ~60f.
At the same time, I can't really stand temperatures over 80f.

That's me usually. You guys who be laughing at me and my family all bundled up when you're probably wearing shorts

 

[Recca29]

Waiting for Zen. was about to get the latest i7 setup then got the zen release date.
i think i can wait for 2 more months.

 

[Nordic]

That's me usually. You guys who be laughing at me and my family all bundled up when you're probably wearing shorts

After becoming acclimatized to below 20f weather, many of us begin wearing shorts in as low as 40f. I saw some crazy guy walking to campus in shorts in 25f weather just last week.

 

[Boatvan]

I made a boo boo while trying to install my second CPU in my server. I'll be running half strength until a new Motherboard arrives.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

MCM's will have to wait!

 

[manofthem]

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MCM's will have to wait!

Im ruining running a lot of MCM now because I think I read that MCM will be ending soon; around mid March iirc. Long shot to hit 10 year diamond but trying to go for as much as possible before it ends.