TechpowerUp's Spring 2017 WCG Challenge (3/22 thru 3/30)- crunch/fold with TPU and WIN!!!

[manofthem]

And edit: @manofthem what voltage are you feeding that chip? PM me if you like as I've worked with them chips for a few years and can give ya some advice on what and what not to enable

I don't remember exactly right now, but when I got it setup, I went as low as I could undervolt. I'll try to check when I can and get back with you. My guess is that the cooler is wonky and needs to be reseated. but I'll be in touch with you, thanks!

But unfortunately, just logged in and found temps up in the 90s, back to what it used to do. Gotta take the cooler off but won't be able to do it til after work... it'll be down for today

 

[Sasqui]

I don't remember exactly right now, but when I got it setup, I went as low as I could undervolt. I'll try to check when I can and get back with you. My guess is that the cooler is wonky and needs to be reseated. but I'll be in touch with you, thanks!

But unfortunately, just logged in and found temps up in the 90s, back to what it used to do. Gotta take the cooler off but won't be able to do it til after work... it'll be down for today

Better airflow?

 

[fullinfusion]

The little LG running full out.. All 6 cores. Couldn't handle more then 3 cores before it throttle and pause bit being on the road I thought I'd have some fun and cool the phone.. Hey @manofthem .. Look how cool this is

 

[manofthem]

The little LG running full out.. All 6 cores. Couldn't handle more then 3 cores before it throttle and pause bit being on the road I thought I'd have some fun and cool the phone.. Hey @manofthem .. Look how cool this is

That is pretty cool right there. I'm going to get my old phone going tonight too, hopefully it'll run as smooth and cool as yours.

 

[Papahyooie]

I have a moto G farm. 4 cores apiece, 16 cores total. I needed the chargers for other things, so all but one are down at the moment, but they'll be back up as soon as I can lol.

 

[fullinfusion]

That is pretty cool right there. I'm going to get my old phone going tonight too, hopefully it'll run as smooth and cool as yours.

Lol ya Bette take the rear case off and point it at the vent of an air-conditioning unit
Like I said I couldn't go more then 3 workloads or it throttle or say will resume once the battery cools down. Default it's 40*c but I took it to 42 just to be able to text oh come on here. Yesterday when I was running 5 cores for a while it was hitting 100+*c so I had to just run on 3 cores.. Right now I have. The back cover off and sitting in front of the trucks vent and have the A/C on lol.. It's 50* out and got the AC on and wearing my jacket too.. Soon I'll have my tooke on haha

 

[twilyth]

Be careful about upping the default cutoff temp. I tried that on one of my previous phones and the battery started to swell. I nearly pushed the back cover off. Now I can barely get the cover to stay in place. Swollen batteries, especially lithium ion, are NOT the sort of things you want around.

I would seriously consider reducing the temp to 38 or 39 C. Even at those temps your phone can get pretty hot. And really, does it matter if the phone shuts down even 50% of the time to cool off? You're not really doing that much useful work on a snapdragon or other chip. The only good reason I can see for even using a phone on WCG is to get the runtime credit. 4 cores is still 4 cores as far as your runtime goes.

 

[manofthem]

So, I was able to take off the h80i and inspect it, repaste it, reseat it and give it a go. Resut: shot up to 90* in under a minute No idea what's wrong with it other than the pump is failing on the cooler, or the coolant is gone. I can hear a lot of sloshing around so perhaps some did leak out?

Then I took that off and got out the little air cooler I've had laying around here for a while but never used. It's an Raijintek Aidos, and it seems to be doing ok for the last 15 minutes keeping cpu temps in the mid 60s.


@fullinfusion, @twilyth Good info. I plugged in my old Oneplus One to charge so I'll see how it does crunching this evening. It'll probably get hot, it used with intense apps.

 

[Norton]

Just over 24 hours to go!!!

Last lap- lean hard into the turns Team!!!

 

[XZero450]

Man.. This thing is going to finish just in time for me to get my 5930k going.. Not fair. One arm tied behind my back.

 

[stinger608]

A very commanding 3rd place!!!!!! Awesome, awesome work team!!!!

 

[fullinfusion]

A very commanding 3rd place!!!!!! Awesome, awesome work team!!!!

Hell yeah It's been to long and forgot the fun this is, Umm... it screws up my ocd though

 

[manofthem]

Hell yeah It's been to long and forgot the fun this is, Umm... it screws up my ocd though

Hopefully you can stick around and spend some time with the team afterwards too. Doesn't have to be full time, but we'd appreciate a little pop-in here and there You can still do your tinkering of course!


I got BOINC and CPUz installed on my old phone and it's crunching now. Battery was in the mid 30s and cpu in the 70s I think. Gotta check on it and make it it didn't go full note 7 on me

 

[fullinfusion]

Hopefully you can stick around and spend some time with the team afterwards too. Doesn't have to be full time, but we'd appreciate a little pop-in here and there You can still do your tinkering of course!


I got BOINC and CPUz installed on my old phone and it's crunching now. Battery was in the mid 30s and cpu in the 70s I think. Gotta check on it and make it it didn't go full note 7 on me

For sure Matt I'll hang around and keep WCG on my rig and let it run while I'm away.. Mind you it wont be the 5.1Ghz I'm working on right now but in time I'll find the sweet spot and let her go

She's running in the back ground ATM with re-boots but that's what I do and yes I'd be more then happy to help out off season as I'd call it.

Once I get my Ryzen I wont care, I'll let it rip at stock seeing how well they chomp away so no worries bro.

 

[manofthem]

For sure Matt I'll hang around and keep WCG on my rig and let it run while I'm away.. Mind you it wont be the 5.1Ghz I'm working on right now but in time I'll find the sweet spot and let her go

She's running in the back ground ATM with re-boots but that's what I do and yes I'd be more then happy to help out off season as I'd call it.

Once I get my Ryzen I wont care, I'll let it rip at stock seeing how well they chomp away so no worries bro.

Awesome, that'd be fantastic! Like I said, we'd appreciate the anything for sure. 5.1 is pretty beast so maybe a good idea to find a lower 24/7 clock set to crunch with, like you said.

I'm looking to go Ryzen eventually as well, hopefully in the next few months. I guess I'll wait for it to mature and get some nice boards out. you?

 

[krusha03]

It seems by i5 stopped crunching yesterday at some point. Weird as the PC was on yesterday when I came home in the evening. Need to check what's going on

 

[Recca29]

System Down. PSU fried.
2nd one in the 3 months.
waiting for the weekend to get a new one.

 

[RizeAllard]

System Down. PSU fried.
2nd one in the 3 months.
waiting for the weekend to get a new one.

What kind of PSU are you using? Is there any over voltage/current protection behind it?

 

[manofthem]

I left this morning without grabbing the Challenge results from yesterday. Could someone grab and post them? They never seem to look right when I try from my phone.


And today is the last day of the CHALLENGE, after burners on!! Sounds like a few of us have had some hardware casualties: Downed rigs, fried psus, dead coolers... It's all in the name of science!

 

[Sasqui]

I left this morning without grabbing the Challenge results from yesterday. Could someone grab and post them? They never seem to look right when I try from my phone.


And today is the last day of the CHALLENGE, after burners on!! Sounds like a few of us have had some hardware casualties: Downed rigs, fried psus, dead coolers... It's all in the name of science!

Oh so close to 100,000,000 Wow! That's a lot of zeroes!

Edit: added for dramatic effect;

 

[fullinfusion]

Awesome, that'd be fantastic! Like I said, we'd appreciate the anything for sure. 5.1 is pretty beast so maybe a good idea to find a lower 24/7 clock set to crunch with, like you said.

I'm looking to go Ryzen eventually as well, hopefully in the next few months. I guess I'll wait for it to mature and get some nice boards out. you?

Na I'm not going to bother with Ryzen till next year. By that time they'd got it all figured out and have new revisions that can actually clock.

I'm happy I took this road when I upgraded tbh. I was supper stoked about Ryzen, but the fire was quickly put out after all the issues at launch.

I had my other rig sold and the local guy said just hand onto it till you upgrade, he paid me and I didn't want to keep him waiting to long so I said screw it lets try a proven system so I did.

I'll have this thing crunching part time @ 4.5ghz with 1.120v and still tinker to see where the balance is going to be.

I'll have to hit stinger up on his pumps he has for sale as this one is about 8yrs old and it wont last forever so I don't trust it tbh.

 

[infrared]

I decided to turn the wick up on the 6700k for the last bit of the challenge, without an extra 500w heating the loop the temps are excellent haha.



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[fullinfusion]

I decided to turn the wick up on the 6700k for the last bit of the challenge, without an extra 500w heating the loop the temps are excellent haha.

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Dam that's a lot of voltage, and a hell of a good cooler

I was running all week @4.5 1.120v and last night I thought I'd make up some down time so turned it up to 4.7ghz and just stabbed a 1.20v to the core..

well it held up all night and even now.. fans are on lowest speed and room temperature it 20.7c So I think I did a dam good repaste under the lid

 

[Antykain]

Wish I could have had the 6166HE x 4 4P G34 rig up and running.. Was hoping to have it going for this Spring '17 Challenge. Still have to grab myself a PSU and another HDD for it.. Not to mention a case or open-air bench. Been crunchin away using a i7 4790k and 8350 for the time being until I can get another rig in the game.

 

[Sasqui]

Wish I could have had the 6166HE x 4 4P G34 rig up and running.. Was hoping to have it going for this Spring '17 Challenge. Still have to grab myself a PSU and another HDD for it.. Not to mention a case or open-air bench. Been crunchin away using a i7 4790k and 8350 for the time being until I can get another rig in the game.

My 4790k 8t is kicking butt compared to each of the 12t X5670 chips... thread:thread about the same GHz. I swear the 4790k is one of the best consumer chips intel has put out to date.