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[[Ion]]

Where did you get that case for kiev. I remember seeing very similar kinds for bitcoin rigs. They were home made.

Came like that when I bought it (Norton actually picked it up for me) from someone in Connecticut.

 

[15th Warlock]

Some Epic farms by our TPU crunching team

Here are my current crunchers:

Main rig / office:

i7 5930K, Asus ROG Rampage V Extreme, 16GBs of 3000MHz DDR4:

Den / Game room:

i7 4770K, MSI Z87-GD65, 16GBs of 1866MHz DDR3:

Media Center:

i7 3930K, Asus ROG Rampage IV Extreme, 16GBs of 1866MHz DDR3

Bedroom:

i7 2600K, Asus ROG Maximus IV Gene-Z, 16GBs of 1866MHz DDR3:

Stationary bike:

i7 4700HQ, MSI GS60 Ghost Pro, 16GBs of 1600MHz DDR3 RAM

And in past challenges I've even used my Kindle HDX, Nvidia Shield, iPhone 5 and Galaxy S4 and Note 4 to crunch LMAO

 

[Norton]

Came like that when I bought it (Norton actually picked it up for me) from someone in Connecticut.

That was a Spotswood case and he does mining setups, tech stations, etc..

Link:
http://richchomiczewski.wordpress.com/

 

[xvi]

Hey 15th, what's your opinion on that Turtle Beach headset you have at the media center? Looks like the XP510? I was thinking about picking up a refurb one from Woot next time it comes around.

 

[manofthem]

That's pure epicness @15th Warlock, every single system is baller status!

 

[twilyth]

That's pure epicness @15th Warlock, every single system is baller status!

What he said. I really like the 3 flatscreens all in a row in the game room up top. How big are those puppies? They look like they're pushing 30"

 

[15th Warlock]

Hey 15th, what's your opinion on that Turtle Beach headset you have at the media center? Looks like the XP510? I was thinking about picking up a refurb one from Woot next time it comes around.

Too be honest with you, out of all my headphones, those are the ones I like the least, don't get me wrong, they aren't bad by any means, but for their original price I think they lack oomph, I wouldn't pay more than $79 for them, and if you can find them at around that price they're definitely worth it

That's pure epicness @15th Warlock, every single system is baller status!

Thanks Matt! If any of you guys ever happen to be in California we can setup an epic lan party

What he said. I really like the 3 flatscreens all in a row in the game room up top. How big are those puppies? They look like they're pushing 30"

Thanks twilyth, the screens are 27" each

 

[[Ion]]

Some Epic farms by our TPU crunching team

~snip~

That is an incredible set of HW that you have there. Here most of us are with a motley collection of "well it was cheap when I decided to build another system" and then you have these stunners

 

[15th Warlock]

That is an incredible set of HW that you have there. Here most of us are with a motley collection of "well it was cheap when I decided to build another system" and then you have these stunners

Coming from you and other team members in this thread that's a big honor, the sheer amount of computing power most of.you guys have in your farms is just mind boggling...

And that's nothing compared to the relentless dedication of most of you to focus all that power in helping a good cause, seeing that restores my faith in humanity

 

[[Ion]]

Coming from you and other team members in this thread that's a big honor, the sheer amount of computing power most of.you guys have in your farms is just mind boggling...

And that's nothing compared to the relentless dedication of most of you to dedicate all that power to a good cause, seeing that restores my faith in humanity

It's certainly a lot of equipment I have here (~16 systems?) but it's lacking in elegance. A bunch of OEM towers, a laptop with a busted LCD, a system lacking a case entirely, another one with no top panel because it kept rattling and no GPU, two systems that have open 5.25" bays in the front + no side panel, an Atom system because why not, and approximately four generation of HW all working together. Sure, it's effective, you can check out BOINCStats or Free-DC and see that the cumulative result is considerable. But it's not neat, tidy, efficient, or particularly attractive. But on a student's budget, I'm entirely satisfied with it all

 

[twilyth]

It's certainly a lot of equipment I have here (~16 systems?) but it's lacking in elegance. A bunch of OEM towers, a laptop with a busted LCD, a system lacking a case entirely, another one with no top panel because it kept rattling and no GPU, two systems that have open 5.25" bays in the front + no side panel, an Atom system because why not, and approximately four generation of HW all working together. Sure, it's effective, you can check out BOINCStats or Free-DC and see that the cumulative result is considerable. But it's not neat, tidy, efficient, or particularly attractive. But on a student's budget, I'm entirely satisfied with it all

Same here. I wouldn't even photograph any of my stuff. Maybe the dual octo core but only because of the 2 Noctua D14s I managed to cram in there. The heat fins actually have to mesh together to fit. But that's sitting on top of a cardboard box in the kitchen next to the other server.

 

[[Ion]]

Same here. I wouldn't even photograph any of my stuff. Maybe the dual octo core but only because of the 2 Noctua D14s I managed to cram in there. The heat fins actually have to mesh together to fit. But that's sitting on top of a cardboard box in the kitchen next to the other server.

No shame
It all crunches and that's the important part. In the kitchen...now that's impressive. I'd worry about something getting spilled on it

 

[twilyth]

I don't actually use the kitchen. Things are in a pretty sad state here. I pretty much live off of frozen food that I eat on the couch. If I can't make something in the microwave or the mini oven, it doesn't get made.

BTW if you're ever in the market for a small counter top oven, Breville makes one that is really amazing. It's sort of expensive but has features out the wazzoo.

It can handle up to a 12" pizza.

 

[agent00skid]

Electronics mess with my 2 low power systems in there.

And my good dekstop is under the table.

And the reason why I'm probably going to be keeping to low power systems.

 

[t_ski]

Kai, your pictures make me feel like I'm drunk

 

[[Ion]]

Kai, your pictures make me feel like I'm drunk

Yeah I'm sorry--I don't know where my 512mb card is, so I can't use my real digital camera ATM (it's old an doesn't support my 16GB card) so those are crappy (really, really crappy) phone pics. If I ever find the memory card, I'll take better pictures

 

[ThE_MaD_ShOt]

I haven't posted any updated photos of my little farm lately so here we go.

Selene and Eve (Fx 8350's)

From left to right: Neener (Fx 8350), BooBooChicken (Fx 8350) ,and Chewy2 (Fx 8320)

From left to right again: Alice (Fx 8150), Hobbit (i7 920) , Phenom II x6 ( 1090t)

The Newbie Dewey, just setting up tonight. (dual 6c/12t xeon rig)

 

[[Ion]]

Beautiful setup! I particularly like the new Xeon system--should do a fair bit more than the DP Xeon I have coming
What CPUs is it running?

 

[ThE_MaD_ShOt]

2x x5650's

 

[[Ion]]

2x x5650's

Yeah, that ought to do pretty much exactly 25% more than the dual-X5672 system I'm working on.

 

[t_ski]

I haven't posted any updated photos of my little farm lately so here we go.

Selene and Eve (Fx 8350's)

From left to right: Neener (Fx 8350), BooBooChicken (Fx 8350) ,and Chewy2 (Fx 8320)

From left to right again: Alice (Fx 8150), Hobbit (i7 920) , Phenom II x6 ( 1090t)

The Newbie Dewey, just setting up tonight. (dual 6c/12t xeon rig)

This man is in desperate need of a KVM

 

[[Ion]]

This man is in desperate need of a KVM

Realistically, BOINCTasks + PuTTY/Remote Desktop Connection is good for 99% of stuff that needs to be checked on dedicated crunchers...and for the 1%, I have a 17" LCD with no stand that I carry around and plug into things

 

[t_ski]

Call me OCD then

 

[Arjai]

Call me OCD then

Hello "OCD then" and welcome to TPU!!

 

[twilyth]

@ThE_MaD_ShOt - I like Eve's low cut, sexy case. I think she's in danger of a wardrobe malfunction though. Please post pix if that ever happens.

And I have to ask about that white bucket in one of the photos. I hope you're giving your rigs proper bathroom breaks and not making them use that bucket.

Seriously though, very impressive farm. Very nice!!!