TPU's WCG/BOINC Team

[stinger608]

Does anyone have a HDD that they'd be willing to sell me? My only requirement is that it's SATA. Don't care the capacity or physical size. As long as it's 40GB or more it'll do--just something to get a cruncher going. The 100GB drive I was going to use turns out to not work (click of death, yay!) so I just need something that will get a system operational. Cheap is more important than anything else.

I think I have a 160 gig SATA II 2.5" @[ion] I'll have to check though for sure man. If I still have it, and its all good, your welcome to it man for free.

 

[[Ion]]

I think I have a 160 gig SATA II 2.5" @[ion] I'll have to check though for sure man. If I still have it, and its all good, your welcome to it man for free.

You sure? I'm not trying to ask for free stuff, just to buy something unused
But thanks!

 

[Norton]

FYI- here's the code to tag Ion

[USER=75675][Ion][/USER]

 

[twilyth]

Just out of curiosity I checked on Amazon and they have a bunch of sub 500gb drives for about $20 that include Amazon Prime shipping.

 

[manofthem]

FYI- here's the code to tag Ion

[USER=75675][Ion][/USER]

Yeah thanks Kai for having a name with brackets I assume that's why you're difficult to tag.

 

[[Ion]]

Yeah thanks Kai for having a name with brackets I assume that's why you're difficult to tag.

Well, I originally did the [Ion] to pad my name out to five characters for sites that had that as a limit. TPU does not, as evidenced by hat, but going by Ion some places and [Ion] other places was going to be too much to remember. So it's not just to make your lives difficult, I promise

 

[Peter1986C]

Well it is easier than Aperture_Science_Innovators ([Ion]'s BOINC name).

 

[stinger608]

You sure? I'm not trying to ask for free stuff, just to buy something unused
But thanks!

Ah, no problem bro. Yea I have a 160 gig Hitachi that I tested late last night and it works great man.
Shoot me a PM with your address and I'll get it shipped Friday or Saturday morning for ya bro.

 

[xvi]

When I bought my server, it came with 6 250g and 2 160g drives. One failed (ALWAYS do RAID5 when you have than many drives, btw), but the server was rather inexpensive, tbh. Ended up putting them all to use for storage, but I'm thinking I might need to nab a few for other uses. I considered taking all but one or two of the drives out just so I'd have a bunch of spare drives.

Edit: Buy something dual socket, but with only one of the slowest processors (Xeon 5405 in my case). They mark those ones way down and the processor can be upgraded to an 80w E5450 for about $25 each. (Got mine cheaper than the market price back in the day for $33 each, so the current price is actually quite good.) I think I ended up spending no more than $300 including shipping and it does about 5-6k ppd. If I do it again, I might invest in a blade.

 

[[Ion]]

Ah, no problem bro. Yea I have a 160 gig Hitachi that I tested late last night and it works great man.
Shoot me a PM with your address and I'll get it shipped Friday or Saturday morning for ya bro.

YGPM

 

[Nordic]

You know what team, I do not understand my power bill. I have ramped up crunching for the challenge, yet my power bill goes down! I am happy to pay less, but I don't understand why.

 

[twilyth]

You probably have an estimated bill. I think my power company can do an estimated bill for up to 3 months before doing an actual reading. Compare your bill to last year if you can. You should be able to see old bills online. If it went down from the previous month last year, that would explain it.

 

[Nordic]

You probably have an estimated bill. I think my power company can do an estimated bill for up to 3 months before doing an actual reading. Compare your bill to last year if you can. You should be able to see old bills online. If it went down from the previous month last year, that would explain it.

I have only been in this place a year, and last year this month would not be representative. Last year's bill was half of what it is now which is almost the minimum.

 

[manofthem]

You know what team, I do not understand my power bill. I have ramped up crunching for the challenge, yet my power bill goes down! I am happy to pay less, but I don't understand why.

That is a problem I'd love to have. Lately My wife has been complaining about the power bill because it's been pretty high lately.

Maybe you should see just how far you can push it. Keep increasing the Crunchers and/or folders and maybe soon you'll be making money

 

[twilyth]

I have only been in this place a year, and last year this month would not be representative. Last year's bill was half of what it is now which is almost the minimum.

I didn't mean that you should compare them for the absolute value, but for the direction. For example my bills tend to decline from August to Sept and from Sept to October - regardless of what the absolute amount happens to be.

If you're getting an estimated bill, they will follow this pattern - at least until they do an actual reading.

BTW, your bill should tell you if the amount is based on an actual or estimated reading.

 

[Nordic]

Looking at my history, starting october 2013 I go up each month (heating the home) until february where it starts to drop little by little until now which is the lowest it has been since last october.

August of 2014 is an exception where it actually jumps significantly because I had more crunching/folding going on with hardware I no longer have.

 

[[Ion]]

I now have a pair of Xeon X5672s on the way
Wasn't planning on it, but I got them at less than $80 for the pair off of someone on [H].

 

[xvi]

That is a problem I'd love to have. Lately My wife has been complaining about the power bill because it's been pretty high lately.

Gotta turn that around, man! Make her want more folding! https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3707.msg53879#msg53879

I now have a pair of Xeon X5672s on the way
Wasn't planning on it, but I got them at less than $80 for the pair off of someone on [H].

I want cheap Xeons too!

 

[thebluebumblebee]

How about the (almost) biggest/baddest Xeon 1366's made? (not cheap) http://portland.craigslist.org/clc/sop/4732721520.html

 

[[Ion]]

How about the (almost) biggest/baddest Xeon 1366's made? (not cheap) http://portland.craigslist.org/clc/sop/4732721520.html

Yeah, those would be awesome, but at almost 7x the price, I think not
I can get a board/coolers for no more than $140 on Ebay, which means that I'll have spent $220 tops on this (using stuff I have lying around, too), which for an 8c/16t setup seems pretty solid

 

[TRWOV]

I've been hunting for a pair of L5645s (2.4Ghz 6c/12t 60w) but the only one I've seen is an ES. I don't plan to upgrade the 1366s until next year anyway and the 3770K build I have coming should round things up for a while.

 

[[Ion]]

I've been hunting for a pair of L5645s (2.4Ghz 6c/12t 60w) but the only one I've seen is an ES. I don't plan to upgrade the 1366s until next year anyway and the 3770K build I have coming should round things up for a while.

Honest question, what's wrong with an ES? The X5670 I have is an ES and it does a damn fine job.

 

[TRWOV]

Nothing really, I just fret over the board not recognizing it or something. I don't know how temperamental server boards are. Besides I want a pair and that ES one was like 300 bucks... too rich for my blood.

At worst I'll go for a pair of L5640s. I've seen pairs goig for $150.

 

[[Ion]]

Nothing really, I just fret over the board not recognizing it or something. I don't know how temperamental server boards are. Besides I want a pair and that ES one was like 300 bucks... too rich for my blood.

At worst I'll go for a pair of L5640s. I've seen pairs goig for $150.

Yeah $300 is awfully pricey. I went with an ES because it was actually the cheapest X5670 available.
To the best of my knowledge, ES CPUs aren't any less likely to be recognized...just anecdotal evidence, but still.

 

[twilyth]

The vendor should be able to tell which server boards will work and often they'll put that right in the ebay ad description. If not, if you ask, they'll usually know. Supermicro is generally a safe bet.