TPU's WCG/BOINC Team

[phill]

You sir are a star!! Thank you I'll post my findings as soon as possible

 

[stevorob]

Well had a drive failure on the FX rig after Ubuntu updated to 17.10... really weird...

Luckily, had a spare laptop hdd laying around that I reinstalled a fresh copy of 17.10 onto and just got it started back up crunching. We'll see how it holds up.

 

[Recca29]

CPU OC'd again to 3.65 GHz, stable at 67°C.
Shutdown issue resolved after bios update to ver 1001.

Edit: 3.65GHz not stable, drooped OC to 3.6GHz. will do some tweaking in the weekend.

 

[Norton]

Nice 1600X/Asrock X370 Taichi combo w/ram FS here for $450:

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/amd-ryzen-5-1600x-bundle-for-sale-used-for-review.238684/

 

[Arjai]

I just took MCM off my list of projects. All in the hopes of boosting the other projects and, well, boosting my badges in those other projects!

It is the majority of my tasks, MCM, and has been for a while. I have a 10 year badge, on that one. Hoping that by dropping it, for the time being, I can improve my other badges and, maybe, my PPD.

My work schedule is crazy, still, but, I do get 2 days off now. The issue is that they are not together, Sun and Wed.

I don't want to complain about it but, I am going to.

Or, maybe not.

Point is, with so many things to do, my box building has been "boxed out" because of time restraints! So, I am most likely stuck with what I got, for the upcoming challenge.

I should be done with the MCM by then and, if one can believe the "remaining time" on the BOINC, I will be returning results on the two i3's at 4 an hour and on my laptop, about 4 every 1.5 to 3 hours. Which beats the hell out of the 5 hours of MCM on the i3's and the 7 hours of them on my laptop.

Which will be good for the challenge by almost 2 times (or more) the WU's returned (not to mention a possible move up the personal standings!).


Edit, Still hoping to get the "Opticon" switched over to the i7, after the next paycheck, on the 16th. It's a tough call because of the money, I toasted something doing it myself. Either the HDD or the Memory, the diagnostic flashes could mean either ( Dell's codes vary from box to box, it seems) and since it is a second hand box, and no real time to tinker, I am going to pay a local shop to cure it.

But on that front, it is questionable. My landlord, or lady in the office that works for the Landlords, did not cash a check I wrote last month, until last Monday. Meaning my account is now, nearly, $200 overdrawn. It is kind of a setback. But, if I can, I am going to try and negotiate a reasonable price for the switch from the people I bought it from. Maybe by fibbing a bit. Probably not, I am a bad liar and don't like doing it.

I see so many people get away with it though...I have enough of a hard time sleeping, as it is!

I will still try, without lying, to negotiate a fair price. It's not like the shop doesn't have a few sticks of DDR3 or a spare couple of HDD's lying around!

 

[infrared]

@Wastedslayer has a decent R7 1700 & a Crosshair VI Hero going for a really decent price, maybe one of our American crunchers will be interested?

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/ryzen-r7-1700-asus-crosshair-vi-hero-x370.238708/

This is 24k PPD capable while OC'd or >18K with stock settings if efficiency is high priority for you. (based on linux OS and SCC project)

 

[Norton]

WCG 13th Birthday challenge is on- details here:

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/wcg-13th-birthday-challenge-11-16-11-22-2017-calling-all-crunchers.238851/

CRUNCH ON!!!

 

[thebluebumblebee]

I got some HSTB's!

Oh by the way, is there a way to get a little read out like thebluebumblebee has in his signature?? I just noticed a few of the people here have that..

I'll try to get you an answer on this soon.

 

[stinger608]

I'll try to get you an answer on this soon.

As I recall, the cruncher has to have 100,000 points to get the cruncher badge?

 

[NastyHabits]

@phill Here's how @thebluebumblebee and I got our signature goodies

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/?nav=IMAGES

These are for Folding at Home, not for WCG.

 

[phill]

Thanks for the replies guys, Norton put me right on a few things last night but my brain was melting at near midnight to try and get the pic to work in the signature (not the folding at home one!!) but it's fine, I'll just swing by every so often

 

[Norton]

Thanks for the replies guys, Norton put me right on a few things last night but my brain was melting at near midnight to try and get the pic to work in the signature (not the folding at home one!!) but it's fine, I'll just swing by every so often

Edit/change "url/sigpic" to "sigpic" to fix that signature pic

Also, enter your WCG user name in your preferences to get your WCG cruncher badge displayed:
https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/account/preferences

 

[thebluebumblebee]

About those widgets:
IRC, you can get (at least) 3 different ones for WCG to put in your signature. @Norton 's already pointed out the one from FDC. There is also one at WCG when you log into your account under settings. There's also one available here: https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,29840

 

[Arjai]

Saw this...

Thought about this!

 

[phill]

Edit/change "url/sigpic" to "sigpic" to fix that signature pic

Also, enter your WCG user name in your preferences to get your WCG cruncher badge displayed:
https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/account/preferences

I tried that Norton but it's not even showing anything including the text?? I think I missed something out there!!

About those widgets:
IRC, you can get (at least) 3 different ones for WCG to put in your signature. @Norton 's already pointed out the one from FDC. There is also one at WCG when you log into your account under settings. There's also one available here: https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,29840

Thanks thebluebumblebee, I'll see if I can give it a go

EDIT - I think I've done something wrong because it's not working or showing up lol

 

[thebluebumblebee]

I see you get a decent throughput with the 2600k under Linux, do you have it overclocked at all?

I have one at stock and one at 4.4 GHz. They're running OET only which is one of the highest PPD Projects for Linux systems. Look at the numbers for that 6600K though. Very impressed with it.

 

[stinger608]

I know it's too little too late, but the system that went down a couple of days ago; I got it back up and running again. Had to format and reinstall Windows............Must have been a bad install as it's doing great now. Well, so far. LOL

Also finally got the ole 1156 with i7-860 up and running and both are crunching along..............Wish this could have happened a couple of weeks ago.

 

[Norton]

Nice 1600X/ASUS Prime B350M-A/CSM combo at Newegg for $269.98 (Ryzen 1600X on sale for $199)

https://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboBundleDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.3705944

Good for 16k+ ppd in Linux!

 

[phill]

I have one at stock and one at 4.4 GHz. They're running OET only which is one of the highest PPD Projects for Linux systems. Look at the numbers for that 6600K though. Very impressed with it.

Mines running at 4.4Ghz too It seems to be pretty happy there, no worse than 60C under load.. I figure that's ok I take it you run it 24/7? I just use Boinc which I guess is what you refer to? Do you run Linux on the 6600k?

I'll run my systems until I wake up in the morning hoping that will help a little more to bump us up a level or something If I get my server running, if there's anything I can do to test on it which would run better, I'd be happy to hear it At the moment it runs VMware and a WM of Server 2012 R2 and Linux I was hoping to see if I could put it to a bit of cancer crunching....

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Do you run Linux on the 6600k?

On FDC, you can click on each system ID and it will bring up everything about it. You can also hover the mouse over the system ID and it will give you an abbreviated version, like this:

 

[phill]

You guys are amazing I wish I had left my 2600k rig on today, the sun is out and I could have crunched for free!! Damn English weather.... lol

 

[infrared]

On the last day of the challenge I was having a look about at some of the higher ppd members of other teams, one guy from HardOCP has 3x AMD threadripper 1950X's and an Intel i9 7960X. (both 16C 32T)

http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=user&proj=bwcg&name=782631

Looks like they're very evenly matched, putting out 70K-72K average each! With the same throughput the 1950X is insane value at half the price

Edit - on closer inspection the high average is due to sandbagging on 1st day of challenge, in reality it's more like 55-60K. still nuts!

 

[stinger608]

Had installed RealTemp on the 1156 and 860 system running Windows 10. Fired up RealTemp and within about 5 minutes the system rebooted. This happened every time I started RealTemp.

Uninstalled it and all is working as it should.

 

[phill]

On the last day of the challenge I was having a look about at some of the higher ppd members of other teams, one guy from HardOCP has 3x AMD threadripper 1950X's and an Intel i9 7960X. (both 16C 32T)

http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=user&proj=bwcg&name=782631

Looks like they're very evenly matched, putting out 70K-72K average each! With the same throughput the 1950X is insane value at half the price

Now that has just made me want one even more!! These new AMD CPU's are amazing

 

[stinger608]

Had installed RealTemp on the 1156 and 860 system running Windows 10. Fired up RealTemp and within about 5 minutes the system rebooted. This happened every time I started RealTemp.

Uninstalled it and all is working as it should.

EDIT: Well, so much for it being RealTemp!!!! It just crashed again about 5 minutes ago. Suppose I better run memtest on the ram to make sure it isn't something there.