TPU's WCG/BOINC Team

[twilyth]

Need to buy a room a/c. I'm finally giving up this year. I have central a/c but aside from sleeping, I spend 99% of my time in one of 2 rooms. The first one has a window a/c to supplement the main system since it is on the higher side of a split level. The main system is really old and only has one zone. Everything has been upgraded but the duct work.

The second room is on the main level but only has one register, so it is always a couple of degrees hotter than out in the hallway where the thermostat is. Plus I have 2 rigs in there that are crunching on WCG 24/7 and that just adds to the problem. It's nice in the winter, but summers bite.

I've held back because I didn't think the circuit feeding that room could handle the extra load. But since the total TDP of the chips in those machines is only around 200 watts and I connected the color laser printer to a different circuit, I think it can handle a small 5200 BTU unit. There's one rated by Consumer Reports that has a EER of 11 and draws only 475 watts. With that installed, I should be able to keep the thermostat at 77 or 78 and have that room still be tolerable. Every degree counts since my peak summer electric bill is usually around $700.

 

[Deleted member 74752]

For $700 I would find another hobby myself.

 

[Bow]

For $700 I would find another hobby myself.

No shit

 

[twilyth]

It's not the rigs. They contribute, but all of them are pretty low power. I think 3 have a TDP of 135 and the other 2 are 95w. None are seriously overclocked at the moment. I dialed the ones that were at 4ghz back for the summer. On average they probably use about 100w. So for 5, that comes to about $70/month - about a tenth of my bill. And since I would be running at least 2 of those rigs anyway, it's not a huge difference.

It's just that electricity rates here are close to 20 cents per kwh and it's an old house. It's pretty well insulated except for the windows - single pane with storm windows. I'll eventually get around to replacing them. It's just such a hassle.

 

[ChaoticAtmosphere]

Hey Guys, sorry I've been non-existant but for some reason boinc throws my temps close to 61 degs C which is too hot for my CPU. I need to invest more money for a better CPU and cooler to continue.

Love you all.

 

[Chicken Patty]

Guys, please check this out:

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2290308&postcount=15

 

[Mindweaver]

hey guys i just noticed i broke into the overall top 200! I remember looking back and thinking i would never make it into the top 500...

 

[mstenholm]

Congratulations MW. I still don't think that I will pass the 2000

 

[Chicken Patty]

hey guys i just noticed i broke into the overall top 200! I remember looking back and thinking i would never make it into the top 500...

That's remarkable bro, keep up the great work!

 

[Mindweaver]

Thanks guys! Hopefully in the next 2 or 3 weeks I'll have my 2600k built and crunching. I'm still just waiting on a board...

 

[AlienIsGOD]

So im going to be moving over the next cpl days so my production will be down a bit. Im staying within the same apartment complex, just a unit with another bedroom for the extra child. The cable compnay is going to keep me connected until i switch units, but there may be several hours in between that I wont be running.

 

[(FIH) The Don]

good luck with moving man !!

 

[Chicken Patty]

Best of luck with the move!

 

[4x4n]

Playing around a bit this weekend trying to see what I could get out of this 2600k. Voltage is a little higher than I would like, but I figured screw it, temps are doing good.

 

[ChaoticAtmosphere]

Nice 4x4n, As long as the temps are good you are golden. Maybe drop the voltage by 0.125v at a time until you reach a stable compromise. Unless you already did that of course.

BTW all, I know I'm not crunching, and it's not about to start soon because it's summer and my current setup sends me to 61C in winter and now it's summer. But that does not mean I am not a cruncher. I will restart once I get my new CPU and cooler.

I'm just wondering why I lost my "WCG Cruncher" Tag in bottom left of my posts. Is it due to inactivity? CP? Master?

 

[Bow]

I'm just wondering why I lost my "WCG Cruncher" Tag in bottom left of my posts. Is it due to inactivity? CP? Master?

If I remember right, if you stop Crunching for a week or 2 it goes away. But I could be wrong.

 

[hat]

I changed out the Athlon II x2 240 in my main rig for a Phenom II 550 today. It should bring a very marginal benefit to the team, maybe another 100 points per day or so.

 

[BinaryMage]

I changed out the Athlon II x2 240 in my main rig for a Phenom II 550 today. It should bring a very marginal benefit to the team, maybe another 100 points per day or so.

Every little bit helps!

 

[bogmali]

Anybody from the Folding and Crunching team interested in the following:

Only CPU and Motherboard which are:

AMD Thuban Hex Core 1090T (CPU only).

Asus Cross-hairs IV Extreme AM3 motherboard.

PM me with an offer (low-balling will be ignored)

I will list these on the F/S/T sub-forum Monday.

 

[KieX]

I'm just wondering why I lost my "WCG Cruncher" Tag in bottom left of my posts. Is it due to inactivity? CP? Master?

Bow pretty much covered that, once you're able to resume you get it back. Also since free-dc.org is down at the moment nobody has any WCG badges

Playing around a bit this weekend trying to see what I could get out of this 2600k. Voltage is a little higher than I would like, but I figured screw it, temps are doing good.
http://img.techpowerup.org/110531/Capture063.jpg

Awesome! That's good for about 6K PPD. Don't worry about the voltage either, I got my CPU's when they came out and they need around 1.4v for 4.6GHz and have been crunching strong since february

I changed out the Athlon II x2 240 in my main rig for a Phenom II 550 today. It should bring a very marginal benefit to the team, maybe another 100 points per day or so.

Good to have another 100 Should mean 700 more points in the WCG Daily Numbers.

 

[Chicken Patty]

Great stuff there Jon, too bad I am out of cash for now (damn car). Good luck with the sale.

 

[(FIH) The Don]

hey, talk nice about your car lol, i think it looks pretty good atm

 

[BinaryMage]

Free-DC is back up!

 

[KieX]

It's surprising how much I depend on that website lol. Sometimes it's easier to tell if a machine is having problems from the PPD shown on that site than by remote admin into them.

 

[BinaryMage]

It's surprising how much I depend on that website lol. Sometimes it's easier to tell if a machine is having problems from the PPD shown on that site than by remote admin into them.

No kidding. Free-DC is really useful. I wonder why it was down for so long?