TPU's WCG/BOINC Team

Norton · Mar 6, 2017

My X58/i7-970 rig is back up and running. Power failure pissed it off and I found it stuck on the BIOS screen. Pressed F1, checked settings, and restarted it.

Will know later today when I check on work sent by WCG

twilyth · Mar 6, 2017

mstenholm said:
From https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,39809_offset,30
Paul D got one and he is not a happy cruncher

Re: AMD (Ry)Zen has launched
Well right now if you're considering Ryzen let me give you one big tip - don't and let me tell you why.

First up is frequency, in the end I bought a 1700x, the one that turbos to 3.8Ghz - except it won't, it refuses to go past 3.7Ghz which might not sound like the end of the world but if I wanted to run at 3.7Ghz I'd have saved £70 and bought a 1700.

Stability, I bought a Corsair h60 closed loop water cooler to keep the temperature down, sat looking at a utility program with the cpu coolers fan and pump both flat out at 100% and Boinc using no more than 70% processor it's sat at 70/71 celcius, if I push it 100% usage same as all my other machines it leaps to 74 celcius then bombs the system.

So i'm looking at a system that can only run at 70% which might have a dodgy cooler - or not, or a motherboard that simply can't cope or some other random issue that's making the system bomb out. I'm guessing it won't give Boinc performance much above a 6 year old 3930 system that runs rock solid at 100% 24/7 if it even manages to equal it at all.

Right now I wish I'd gone with my initial plan to get a 6 core Haswell system, right now I feel like throwingt this one in a skip.

My guess is that the cooler isn't seated properly. Although I would also try another cooler before you give up on the chip.

I had similar problems with an old 2600k. It was running at 90C on stock cooling with BOINC. But I upgraded the cooler to another one - still air only - and the temps dropped down into the low 60's on BOINC.

If you check the seating and that's fine, I would bet the cooler isn't working properly. Also, remember not to slather on the thermal paste. That can cause an increase in temps as well as seating issues.

stinger608 · Mar 7, 2017

So, who is going to come over and help me carry the 140 pound+ Dell r900 down in the basement to get set up for the challenge? :laugh:

I suppose I can pull the hard drives, power supplies, lid, and memory modules. That would probably take 40 or 50 pounds off.

What was I thinking when I got this monster? :kookoo:

infrared · Mar 7, 2017

stinger608 said:
So, who is going to come over and help me carry the 140 pound+ Dell r900 down in the basement to get set up for the challenge?

I suppose I can pull the hard drives, power supplies, lid, and memory modules. That would probably take 40 or 50 pounds off.

What was I thinking when I got this monster?

Pics please xD Sounds like a beast!

mstenholm · Mar 7, 2017

stinger608 said:
So, who is going to come over and help me carry the 140 pound+ Dell r900 down in the basement to get set up for the challenge?

I suppose I can pull the hard drives, power supplies, lid, and memory modules. That would probably take 40 or 50 pounds off.

What was I thinking when I got this monster?

What is inside? 7400 series and how many?

Bow · Mar 7, 2017

stinger608 said:
So, who is going to come over and help me carry the 140 pound+ Dell r900 down in the basement to get set up for the challenge?

Challenge???

infrared · Mar 7, 2017

Bow said:
Challenge???

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/...d-tpu-spring-2017-crunching-challenge.231224/

stinger608 · Mar 8, 2017

mstenholm said:
What is inside? 7400 series and how many?

4 quad cores, and 64 gigs of ram.

Should be a fair cruncher? Hoping anyhow. :laugh:

twilyth · Mar 8, 2017

Started a build thread for the new rig - https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/ryzen-1700-build.231344/

Norton · Mar 11, 2017

Snow-pocalypse!!! :eek:

12-18" of snow expected for Tuesday :wtf:

Killerdroid · Mar 11, 2017

Norton said:
Snow-pocalypse!!!

12-18" of snow expected for Tuesday

That sounds like hell with snow.
We haven't had any snow in N Wales for several years. Spring now seems to start in early February.

infrared · Mar 13, 2017

bubbleawsome said:
I'm pretty excited to see ryzen 8c/16t crunching performance.

I was looking around on FreeDC stats last night and found a few Ryzen 1700's crunching away. It's fairly easy to pick them out, they're new enough to have less than 50,000 total points, and appear to do about 10-12k per day.

Edit: sorry, hit send by accident.

http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=host&proj=bwcg&hostid=3832208
http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=host&proj=bwcg&hostid=3832403
http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=host&proj=bwcg&hostid=3831626

mine: (stock for the moment, 1800x)
http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=host&proj=bwcg&hostid=3834496

Bow · Mar 13, 2017

Norton said:
Snow-pocalypse!!!

12-18" of snow expected for Tuesday

Yesterday the weather service said we could see 12-18 inches. Today 1-3...But is looks like we are right on the line, so it could go either way for us.

Norton · Mar 13, 2017

Bow said:
Yesterday the weather service said we could see 12-18 inches. Today 1-3...But is looks like we are right on the line, so it could go either way for us.

NWS is calling for 12-20" here but some news stations are predicting up to 25" in some areas!

Guess we're going to be watching folks trying to kill each other at the grocery store for the last minute milk and bread on the local news stations tonight :kookoo:

mstenholm · Mar 13, 2017

infrared said:
I was looking around on FreeDC stats last night and found a few Ryzen 1700's crunching away. It's fairly easy to pick them out, they're new enough to have less than 50,000 total points, and appear to do about 10-12k per day.

Edit: sorry, hit send by accident.

http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=host&proj=bwcg&hostid=3832208
http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=host&proj=bwcg&hostid=3832403
http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=host&proj=bwcg&hostid=3831626

mine: (stock for the moment, 1800x)
http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=host&proj=bwcg&hostid=3834496

Thx. Be aware that the first few days the "claimed" WCG points are to high and the CPU will settle a bit lower. Well my 2520M doing OET does go up and down more or less in a weekly basis but all my new CPUs did well the first few days.
Edit. Take a look at the Integer speeds! I know they are not a precis tool for WCG speed but these three are all over the places - 8.6, 9.2 and 15 million ops/sec

Edit 2. Do you run stock speed?

Killerdroid · Mar 13, 2017

Both rigs are back up while the internet connection lasts

I'm seriously interested in 14 + core Xeon kits for crunching, (Currently have 12 cores on the job) and two 780 Ti's folding)
Engineering samples look cheap enough and 2nd hand X99 motherboards are at rock bottom prices.
Or should I just pick up some older kit?

infrared · Mar 13, 2017

@Killerdroid Nice! That'll be a pretty hardcore crunching setup, there might be a cheaper way of getting a similar or more computing power though, will be interesting to see what others recommend

mstenholm said:
Thx. Be aware that the first few days the "claimed" WCG points are to high and the CPU will settle a bit lower. Well my 2520M doing OET does go up and down more or less in a weekly basis but all my new CPUs did well the first few days.
Edit. Take a look at the Integer speeds! I know they are not a precis tool for WCG speed but these three are all over the places - 8.6, 9.2 and 15 million ops/sec

Edit 2. Do you run stock speed?

Ah ok, that makes sense. I'll keep an eye on it and see how they average out I guess.
Mine's only stock at the min because I haven't got win7/win10 installed yet to monitor temps and stress test it all properly. I'm not keen on the idea of doing a dirty overclock with no feedback on stability or temps at all. I should be able to push it a bit in the next couple of days

edit: by stock, it seems to not be boosting at all from a linux environment, so it's at base clock of 3.6ghz on all cores, if 'cat /proc/cpuinfo' is giving me accurate info.

thebluebumblebee · Mar 14, 2017

Killerdroid said:
I'm seriously interested in 14 + core Xeon kits for crunching, (Currently have 12 cores on the job) and two 780 Ti's folding)
Engineering samples look cheap enough and 2nd hand X99 motherboards are at rock bottom prices.
Or should I just pick up some older kit?

Didn't want you to think that your question was unnoticed, but it happens to be the $64,000 question. Modern multi-core CPU's are the way to go for the lowest electrical usage. Older systems are cheaper, get lower PPD and use more electricity. You could even consider: Crunchers Helping Crunchers

Killerdroid · Mar 14, 2017

thebluebumblebee said:
Didn't want you to think that your question was unnoticed, but it happens to be the $64,000 question. Modern multi-core CPU's are the way to go for the lowest electrical usage. Older systems are cheaper, get lower PPD and use more electricity. You could even consider: Crunchers Helping Crunchers

Thanks.

Doc41 · Mar 14, 2017

ooh a challenge, bring it on :rockout:

stinger608 said:
So, who is going to come over and help me carry the 140 pound+ Dell r900 down in the basement to get set up for the challenge?

shoot me a portal and i'll help

peche · Mar 14, 2017

Doc41 said:
shoot me a portal and i'll help

don't forget little peche on those portals...

stinger608 · Mar 14, 2017

Doc41 said:
shoot me a portal and i'll help

Maybe one like this is what we need.

peche · Mar 15, 2017

there another alternaties that cant catch that attention ... but useful !

T.R. · Mar 15, 2017

All of my crunchers were down due to a power outage. Almost restored, though.

thebluebumblebee · Mar 16, 2017

Edit: I made a whopper of an error somehow. I was only off by 400! Correction follows.

(unless I made a mistake in adding it up, and I'm NOT double checking)
This has something to do with the number of threads that @[Ion] has going!

System Name	Main PC- Gamer- Main Cruncher/Folder and too many crunching/folding rigs
Processor	Ryzen 5900X- Ryzen 5950X- Ryzen 3950X and etc...
Motherboard	Asrock X570 Extreme4- MSI X570S Tomahawk MAX WiFi- MSI B450M Bazooka Max and etc...
Cooling	Noctua NH-U14S (dual fan)- EK 360 AIO with push/pull fans- Corsair H115i RGB Pro XT and etc...
Memory	2x16GB GSkill FlareX 3200/c14- 4x8GB Corsair Vengeance 3600/c16- 2x16GB Team 3600/c18 and etc..
Video Card(s)	MSI Gaming RX 6800- Asus RTX 3070 TUF OC- MSI Ventus GTX 1660Ti and etc...
Storage	Main PC (1TB WD SN850- 2TB PNY CS 3040- 2TB Seagate Firecuda) and etc...
Display(s)	Main PC (2x24" Dell UltraSharp U2414H)
Case	Phanteks P600s- Seasonic Q704- Fractal Meshify C and etc...
Audio Device(s)	Logitech Z625 THX 2.1 speakers
Power Supply	EVGA 750 G3- SeaSonic DGC 750- EVGA P2 850 and etc...
Mouse	G300s
Keyboard	Corsair K65
VR HMD	N/A
Software	Windows 10 Pro or Ubuntu
Benchmark Scores	Why sit on the Bench when you can get in the game and Crunch!!!

System Name	octo1
Processor	dual Xeon 2687W ES
Motherboard	Supermicro
Cooling	dual Noctua NH-D14
Memory	generic ECC reg
Video Card(s)	2 HD7950
Storage	generic
Case	Rosewill Thor

System Name	Dean Machine/2020 Ryzenfall
Processor	Intel 4790K/AMD Ryzen 3700X
Motherboard	MSI 1150 Gaming mATX/Gigabyte AORUS ELITE B550
Cooling	Cooler Master Hyper 212 LED/SilverStone AH240 AIO
Memory	16 gigs Crucial Ballistix Tactical Tracer/16 gigs G.Skill TridentZ NEO DDR4
Video Card(s)	Gigabyte 1660 Super/Gigabyte GTX 1660
Storage	Crucial SSD 256 and 2TB spinner/Dual Samsung 980 Pro M2 NVME 4.0
Display(s)	Overlord 27" 2560 x 1440
Case	Corsair Air 540
Audio Device(s)	On board
Power Supply	Seasonic modular 850 watt Platinum/EVGA T2-850 Titanium
Software	Windows 10 Pro/Windows 10 Pro

System Name	Box of Distraction
Processor	Ryzen 7 1800X
Motherboard	Crosshair VI Hero
Cooling	Custom watercooling
Memory	G.Skill TridentZ 2x8GB @ 3466MHz CL14 1T
Video Card(s)	EVGA 1080Ti FE. WC'd & TDP limit increased to 360W.
Storage	Samsung 960 Evo 500GB & WD Black 2TB storage drive.
Display(s)	Asus ROG Swift PG278QR 27" 1440P 165hz Gsync
Case	Phanteks Enthoo Pro M
Audio Device(s)	Phillips Fidelio X2 headphones / basic Bose speakers
Power Supply	EVGA Supernova 750W G3
Mouse	Logitech G602
Keyboard	Cherry MX Board 6.0 (mx red switches)
Software	Win 10 & Linux Mint
Benchmark Scores	https://hwbot.org/user/infrared

System Name	The work PC /2700x/5950x
Processor	3900X stock/ 2700x stock/ 5950x 4200 MHz fixed @ 1,056-1,08V
Motherboard	Gigabyte AORUS Master X570/2xMSI X470 M7 AC
Cooling	Custom WC XSPC RX480, Laing DDC, XSPC Laing DDC Top V3 and EK Velocity/NH15/NH-U12S SE
Memory	32 GB Viper 3600/14 /16 GB Trident Z F4-4000C18D-16GTZSW 3600 /32 GB G Skill Flare CL14 3400
Video Card(s)	2070 Super X MSI/GTX 970 MSI/ GTX 970 MSI
Storage	1 TB SSD+500 GB NVMe / 500 GB SSD/ 500 GB SSD
Display(s)	Dell UltraSharp U2518D/2408WFP
Case	Corsair 800D / Lian test bench/NZXT 500
Power Supply	AX 850 Titanium/AX 860i/AX 760
Software	Dual boot/Win 7 & 10 / Linux / Win 10

TPU's WCG/BOINC Team

Norton

Moderator - Returning from the Darkness

twilyth

stinger608

Dedicated TPU Cruncher & Folder

infrared

mstenholm

Bow

infrared

stinger608

Dedicated TPU Cruncher & Folder

twilyth

Norton

Moderator - Returning from the Darkness

Killerdroid

infrared

Bow

Norton

Moderator - Returning from the Darkness

mstenholm

Killerdroid

infrared

thebluebumblebee

Killerdroid

Doc41

peche

Thermaltake fanboy

stinger608

Dedicated TPU Cruncher & Folder

peche

Thermaltake fanboy

T.R.

thebluebumblebee

System Name	SLOW-MO-SHUN III
Processor	AMD RYZEN 9 7950X 4.5ghz 16 Core
Motherboard	MSI MPG X670E Carbon wifi
Cooling	Quench 360 Liquid Cooler
Memory	2x 16GB Kingston Fury Beast DDR 5-5200
Video Card(s)	NVidia GeForce RTX 3090 24 GB GDDR6X
Storage	1TB Kingston NV2 M.2 SSD 2TB 2.5 SanDisk SSD Plus
Display(s)	Asus 28" VP28UQG 4K 3840x2160
Case	Athena M1, 6 Chassis Fans
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
Power Supply	EVGA Super Nova 1000W
Mouse	Razer Deathadder
Keyboard	Razer Ornata
Software	Windows 10 Home 64-Bit

System Name	Main/DC
Processor	i7-3770K/i7-2600K
Motherboard	MSI Z77A-GD55/GA-P67A-UD4-B3
Cooling	Phanteks PH-TC14CS/H80
Memory	Crucial Ballistix Sport 16GB (2 x 8GB) LP /4GB Kingston DDR3 1600
Video Card(s)	Asus GTX 660 Ti/MSI HD7770
Storage	Crucial MX100 256GB/120GB Samsung 830 & Seagate 2TB(died)
Display(s)	Asus 24' LED/Samsung SyncMaster B1940
Case	P100/Antec P280 It's huge!
Audio Device(s)	on board
Power Supply	SeaSonic SS-660XP2/Seasonic SS-760XP2
Software	Win 7 Home Premiun 64 Bit

System Name	Lazyman 9000+
Processor	AMD Ryzen 7 3800X
Motherboard	X570 Aorus Ultra
Cooling	Arctic LF II 280
Memory	2x8GB Crucial Ballistix 3600 MHz DDR4
Video Card(s)	PowerColor Red Devil 5700XT
Storage	Never Enough
Display(s)	ASUS VG248QE+ Dell E2420H
Case	LIAN LI Lancool II Mesh RGB
Audio Device(s)	Sennheiser HD518 / Logitech Z623
Power Supply	FSP AURUM PT 850W
Mouse	Logitech G600
Keyboard	Logitech G810 Orion Spectrum
Software	Win 11
Benchmark Scores	All over the bench

System Name	Athenna
Processor	intel i7 3770 Dellided
Motherboard	GIGABYTE GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3 Rev. 1.1
Cooling	Thermaltake Water 3.0 Pro + Tt Riing12 x2 / Tt ThunderBlade / Gelid Slim 120UV fans
Memory	16GB DRR3 Kingoston with Custom Tt spreaders + HyperX Fan
Video Card(s)	GeForce GTX 980 4GB Nvidia Sample
Storage	Crucial M4 SSD 64GB's / Seagate Barracuda 2TB / Seagate Barracuda 320GB's
Display(s)	22" LG FLATRON 1920 x 1280p
Case	Thermaltake Commander G42 Window
Audio Device(s)	On-board Dolby 5.1+ Kingston HyperX Cloud 1
Power Supply	Themaltake TR2 700W 80plus bronce & APC Pro backup 1000Va
Mouse	Tt eSports Level 10M Rev 1.0 Diamond Black & Tt Conkor "L" mouse pad
Keyboard	Tt eSports KNUCKER
Software	windows 10x64Pro
Benchmark Scores	well I've fried a 775' P4 12 years ago, that counts?

Processor	Intel Xeon E5-2651 v2
Motherboard	ASRock Rack EPC602D8A
Cooling	Scythe APSALUS4 120
Memory	8 × Micron MT18KDF1G72PZ-1G6E1
Video Card(s)	2 × AMD FirePro W7000
Storage	2 × Western Digital Ultrastar DC HC320
Display(s)	Asus VS239H-P
Case	Abee SME-EZ500-SV
Audio Device(s)	Audio-Technica ATH-SX1a
Power Supply	FSP Hydro GE HGE850
Keyboard	Corsair K83
Software	Ubuntu Desktop