TPU's WCG/BOINC Team

[Bow]

Hey guys,
Question. I have not changed my settings in BOINC in years, maybe even 2 PC's ago.
What would optional settings be for me setup, see spec's. BTW running stock fan.

Thanks!!

 

[phill]

I don't think I've changed my settings ever if I'm honest... I just let it crack on and go from there if I'm honest. The only time I touch the settings are when putting it on laptops but since stopping that I just let it do it's thing

Is there something you're thinking about or worried about in particular??

 

[Bow]

No, not really.
just wondering how much disc space and what not I should devote to crunching. Just want to get the most out of of my system without overclocking.
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[phill]

To be honest Bow, I've never really ran into problems with leaving everything at default settings. If you have a lot of cores, I find a day or twos work units in reserve more than enough since I'm not using my crunchers 24/7 (couldn't afford the electric bill!) but I'd only really change things if something isn't working..

Are you having issues with anything at all?

 

[Bow]

No problems at all,

 

[phill]

I'd then just leave alone to be honest Why mess with it if it's working? I'll finish with....

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it"

 

[mstenholm]

So both x2700/Linux ran out of OpenZika during the night. The alternative is 50-60% points output and less time to my 100 year MCM badge.

The x570 review was a mixed bag - poor OC (OK could be fixed with the proper BIOS) and poor RAM scaling. Not so good with 4000 MHz incoming. Danish retailers seems to think that 99% of their profit should come from MBs so I put them on hold for some weeks and try my luck with one of my X470s. That being the TPU tested MSI M7 AC so I know it will perform decent at stock. Now waiting for the ordered 3900X that clearly will benefit from the 480 mm rad that I plan for it. The 3900X is not sipping watts but coming from an 32 nm hex Intel I doubt that I will see any difference on the meter.

Happy crunching team.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

The 3900X is not sipping watts

Actually, it is. It has twice the cores and threads of the 8700K, but only uses ~20 watts more. Did you want 12 cores AND 45 watts?

For the Linux users among us, be warned: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ryzen-3700x-3900x-linux&num=1

Edit: TLDR: the 3000 series Ryzens are not booting with the latest Linux kernels. Use Ubuntu 18.04 LTS or a distro based on it.

 

[mstenholm]

Actually, it is. It has twice the cores and threads of the 8700K, but only uses ~20 watts more. Did you want 12 cores AND 45 watts?

For the Linux users among us, be warned: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ryzen-3700x-3900x-linux&num=1

I wasn't expecting it to be anywhere near 105 W and I'm not disappointing with the sub 200 W. I only got to page 2 in your link so I might return with an edit tomorrow, but Ubuntu 18.04 seems to boot and then I'm happy. I was expecting some hick ups but mostly in the driver department. Now I will start up with a proven MB/driver/OS combo and should be good.

 

[phill]

So both x2700/Linux ran out of OpenZika during the night. The alternative is 50-60% points output and less time to my 100 year MCM badge.

The x570 review was a mixed bag - poor OC (OK could be fixed with the proper BIOS) and poor RAM scaling. Not so good with 4000 MHz incoming. Danish retailers seems to think that 99% of their profit should come from MBs so I put them on hold for some weeks and try my luck with one of my X470s. That being the TPU tested MSI M7 AC so I know it will perform decent at stock. Now waiting for the ordered 3900X that clearly will benefit from the 480 mm rad that I plan for it. The 3900X is not sipping watts but coming from an 32 nm hex Intel I doubt that I will see any difference on the meter.

Happy crunching team.

I've been having a bit of a shock today with my X58 SR-2 system.. Recently my mate sent me some X5675's over to me, a bit of an upgrade from a pair of X5650's anyways.. Did some testing today and wow was I surprised at what the rig was pulling... 200w idle and nearly 385w under load for the two X5650's at STOCK 2.67Ghz speeds... Sweet jesus.....
That said, I've thrown the X5675's in and it's pulling more or less the same power.. I've seen it hitting 400w under load but that's the highest so far.. I'll try and get some pictures put up.. It's been a busy day with my little lady but otherwise it's been good

 

[mstenholm]

I've been having a bit of a shock today with my X58 SR-2 system.. Recently my mate sent me some X5675's over to me, a bit of an upgrade from a pair of X5650's anyways.. Did some testing today and wow was I surprised at what the rig was pulling... 200w idle and nearly 385w under load for the two X5650's at STOCK 2.67Ghz speeds... Sweet jesus.....
That said, I've thrown the X5675's in and it's pulling more or less the same power.. I've seen it hitting 400w under load but that's the highest so far.. I'll try and get some pictures put up.. It's been a busy day with my little lady but otherwise it's been good

That SR-2 board uses 50 W just being in the box . My hex pulls around 220 W with water cooling and fans en mass so double up the cores with the same consumption is fine by me.
Yes yesterday was busy for the geeks. I ended up getting one of the three 3900x the dealer had coming in, well most likely I get it around the 15th. I still don't know if/when I get my overkill 4000 MHz Samsung B-die kit but the 3200 MHz ditto I have now apparently don't slow things down by much so I don't push for it.

 

[HammerON]

So both x2700/Linux ran out of OpenZika during the night. The alternative is 50-60% points output and less time to my 100 year MCM badge.

The x570 review was a mixed bag - poor OC (OK could be fixed with the proper BIOS) and poor RAM scaling. Not so good with 4000 MHz incoming. Danish retailers seems to think that 99% of their profit should come from MBs so I put them on hold for some weeks and try my luck with one of my X470s. That being the TPU tested MSI M7 AC so I know it will perform decent at stock. Now waiting for the ordered 3900X that clearly will benefit from the 480 mm rad that I plan for it. The 3900X is not sipping watts but coming from an 32 nm hex Intel I doubt that I will see any difference on the meter.

Happy crunching team.

I ran out as well. Thanks for the reminder. I hadn't checked my stats as I was camping this weekend. Looked last night and saw that I was sitting idle.

 

[phill]

That SR-2 board uses 50 W just being in the box . My hex pulls around 220 W with water cooling and fans en mass so double up the cores with the same consumption is fine by me.
Yes yesterday was busy for the geeks. I ended up getting one of the three 3900x the dealer had coming in, well most likely I get it around the 15th. I still don't know if/when I get my overkill 4000 MHz Samsung B-die kit but the 3200 MHz ditto I have now apparently don't slow things down by much so I don't push for it.

I can't wait to see how well it gets on The SR-2 is a piece of history for me, however inefficient it is I was rather surprised to see 400w under load mind, last time I looked I thought it was nearer the 300w marker but oh well It's only on whenever the solar is producing enough

I ran out as well. Thanks for the reminder. I hadn't checked my stats as I was camping this weekend. Looked last night and saw that I was sitting idle.

I hope you had a great time camping I hope that the weather was good for you?

 

[HammerON]

Way to hot. We have been having record temps for the last couple weeks. Plus it has been smokey as there is a large forest fire burning not to far away. We cut our camping short by one day. Still had fun though!!!

 

[thebluebumblebee]

I'm only running my 1700 with 4 GB of RAM. That was fine with Zika, but it's running out of RAM with FAAH!

Edit: Robbed Peter, and now it's running 16 threads, not all of them FAAH, some HST thrown in, and it has 7% system memory left.

 

[phill]

Way to hot. We have been having record temps for the last couple weeks. Plus it has been smokey as there is a large forest fire burning not to far away. We cut our camping short by one day. Still had fun though!!!

It's been rather warm over this side of the pond but since cycling to and from work for the last month or so has been made much nicer with this, I can't really argue, I just wish it wasn't so hot as I sweat like a kid in a computer games shop!! lol
I'm glad you had fun even with the forest fire, that's a shame to hear

I'm only running my 1700 with 4 GB of RAM. That was fine with Zika, but it's running out of RAM with FAAH!

Edit: Robbed Peter, and now it's running 16 threads, not all of them FAAH, some HST thrown in, and it has 7% system memory left.

I found so far @thebluebumblebee, running 19.1 Cinamon on my rigs even with 8 threads, it's using up 8Gb of ram easily... I've recently found a cheapy 4Gb stick of DDR4 to throw in my 6700k cruncher as 4Gb was way too little to have it running properly. It kept showing up, "Waiting for memory" when running the tasks... Not what I was hoping for but hey...

I'm seriously considering when I have some spare cash as I'd mentioned it another thread, that I'll be putting in 32Gb in my Z77 and Z97 systems and the same for my DDR4 systems as well... It's just a shame it's taking so much memory now... But it's not the end of the world I'm half tempted to swap out my spinny drives for SSDs also.. I think they are a little bit of a bottleneck even in the cruncher PCs...

 

[thebluebumblebee]

RAM, part II:
I remembered that there was some Ballistix Sport LT 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 on sale for $62 at Newegg. I was considering buying some, but when I checked, they were out of stock. Not only that, but Newegg only had 3 different sku's of 2 x 8GB DDR4-3200 PERIOD. Looks like the clearance sales have worked.

I ended up chuckling to myself with this RAM issue. 2 GB was just fine with 4 threads, but I've got up to 16 threads now. My thinking must adapt!

On Linux, htop will show how much RAM each thread is using.

 

[phill]

For my 1700X's @thebluebumblebee I have 16Gb in there and that is sometimes uses up to 60% or so.. 16Gb seems to be about the minimum for it now Even with 8 threads funnily enough.....

 

[thebluebumblebee]

IIRC, what has always been recommended around here is 500 MB per thread. I just forgot to take into account the number of threads I have now. Nice problem to have.

 

[Boatvan]

Hoping @manofthem and @Norton are OK. I've been quiet over here. My A/C can barely keep up with the heat without my servers being on. Hope you all are doing well!

 

[phill]

It's been getting rather warm over here, my poor CPU water temps have been hittin 40c!! Crazy warm and with no air con, not so comfortable to sit in either... still the sun has been out and solar has been kind, so everything has been crunching away that can

I've messaged Norton a few times to see how he is etc, but I'm not sure if he's even been on the site at all. Whatever is going on, I hope he's alright I've not seen Manofthem either, so I hope he's doing well too That said, a few regulars have dropped off their local visits, which is a shame

What's the temps like over where you are @Boatvan ?

 

[Deleted member 67555]

Hoping @manofthem and @Norton are OK. I've been quiet over here. My A/C can barely keep up with the heat without my servers being on. Hope you all are doing well!

Right...I happened upon this thread looking for Norton..
Been a few months.. Beginning to get worried.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Right...I happened upon this thread looking for Norton..
Been a few months.. Beginning to get worried.

His systems are crunching away, so I'm not concerned.

 

[mstenholm]

His systems are crunching away, so I'm not concerned.

Knowing the problems he had in the past with internet connections on the various rigs placed around, I would say he is still active working to get things going. It's OK to take a break away from the forum.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

LINK

For the Linux users among us, be warned: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ryzen-3700x-3900x-linux&num=1

Edit: TLDR: the 3000 series Ryzens are not booting with the latest Linux kernels. Use Ubuntu 18.04 LTS or a distro based on it.

AMD Releases BIOS Fix To Motherboard Partners For Booting Newer Linux Distributions

Phoronix is required reading for Linux users.