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TPU's WCG/BOINC Team

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 ;)
 
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.
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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.
 
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. :p

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

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

What was I thinking when I got this monster? :kookoo:
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Pics please xD Sounds like a beast!
 
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? :laugh:

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

What was I thinking when I got this monster? :kookoo:
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What is inside? 7400 series and how many?
 
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?
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Challenge???
 
Snow-pocalypse!!! :eek::banghead:

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12-18" of snow expected for Tuesday :wtf:
 
bubbleawsome said:
I'm pretty excited to see ryzen 8c/16t crunching performance.
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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

:)
 
Norton said:
Snow-pocalypse!!! :eek::banghead:

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

:)
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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?
 
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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?
 
@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?
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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.
 
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?
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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
 
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? :laugh:
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shoot me a portal and i'll help :p
 
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there another alternaties that cant catch that attention ... but useful !
 
All of my crunchers were down due to a power outage. Almost restored, though.
 
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!
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