TPU's WCG/BOINC Team

[Toothless]

I used to heat my room in the winter entirely with bitcoin mining, and roast myself in the summer. Now that I have my own place I fold in the back room. Still heat my home partially with crunching/folding.

Oh we have the whole house heated to like, 70 anyway. My desktop really doesn't help with how hot it can get. Maybe it's time for a new fan setup for me?

 

[agent00skid]

I used to heat my room in the winter entirely with bitcoin mining, and roast myself in the summer. Now that I have my own place I fold in the back room. Still heat my home partially with crunching/folding.

Partially? Sounds like you need more computers.

 

[xvi]

Oh we have the whole house heated to like, 70 anyway. My desktop really doesn't help with how hot it can get. Maybe it's time for a new fan setup for me?

Custom watercooling to an outdoor radiator? Only issue is it would probably push block temps below ambient in the house and you might have to worry about condensation on the board.
I think it was Linus Tech Tips that decided to plum four or five machines together and have it all watercool outside.

I was thinking it might be nice to pick up a car radiator and have the stupid thing running passive outdoors. Might even be able to run the fan off 12v, depending on the amps (Google says ~3A?). I've been toying with similar ideas in my head, but it seems like a $50-80 for a radiator (new?), an $11 digital thermal relay, 12v PSU, misc parts and fittings.. could end up with a wicked awesome, dead silent cooler. Only issue might be corrosion with the radiator likely being aluminum though.

 

[Toothless]

Custom watercooling to an outdoor radiator? Only issue is it would probably push block temps below ambient in the house and you might have to worry about condensation on the board.
I think it was Linus Tech Tips that decided to plum four or five machines together and have it all watercool outside.

I was thinking it might be nice to pick up a car radiator and have the stupid thing running passive outdoors. Might even be able to run the fan off 12v, depending on the amps (Google says ~3A?). I've been toying with similar ideas in my head, but it seems like a $50-80 for a radiator (new?), an $11 digital thermal relay, 12v PSU, misc parts and fittings.. could end up with a wicked awesome, dead silent cooler. Only issue might be corrosion with the radiator likely being aluminum though.

I was thinking of using a H60 for my CPU and maybe some dedicated AIO loop for my GPU. Issue is that my case doesn't have the fan spots unless I cut it open. Maybe I'll have the guts to do a custom loop one day.

 

[BUCK NASTY]

So while I'd love to have my desktop running more WCG, there comes that issue that I don't think many have.

My desktop heats my room to 75+ Fahrenheit and I hate anything above 67.

I can't keep my window open for if my father saw my window open, he'd be very angry.

Back in 08'/09' when I had roommates, I had 20 GPU's set up in my bedroom. Got so damn hot in the summer, that I had to sleep on the couch in the Den. Don't miss those days.....

 

[xvi]

I was thinking of using a H60 for my CPU and maybe some dedicated AIO loop for my GPU. Issue is that my case doesn't have the fan spots unless I cut it open. Maybe I'll have the guts to do a custom loop one day.

Kraken X40 with their fancy GPU bracket, perhaps? Custom water would allow for one radiator to be used, but I wouldn't expect it to be inexpensive. Can always do what I did and go for standoffs off the back of the case. It's a fairly easy way to mount it externally.

 

[AlienIsGOD]

The i5 is in! But there's no overclocking. The highest I can change the multi to in BIOS is 34, and doing that doesn't even lock all 4 cores to 3.4GHz. If I use the OC Genie thing, nothing happens... nothing obvious, anyway.

Failure to read the whole story...

Just press the OC Genie button or enable OC Genie II function in BIOS menu, the CPU performance (P67 series) or the 3D performance of iGPU (H67 series) will be highly improved.

yea the board matters >_< i have a Z68 board so o/cing was a breeze .

There are alot of 120/140mm AIO that the G10 bracket is compatible with http://www.nzxt.com/product/detail/138-kraken-g10-gpu-bracket.html

 

[Nordic]

Partially? Sounds like you need more computers.

If I had more money, a lot more money, I would get myself a better house. I would then custom design a server based home heating system. How does 100-300 cores sound for home heating and cherry pie. If I threw some gpu's in there I could really heat things up.

 

[xvi]

If I had more money, a lot more money, I would get myself a better house. I would then custom design a server based home heating system.

Home colocation HVAC (HC-HVAC?)! At the very least, it could just go in front of the furnace to pre-heat the air. Hotter air = quicker warm up. Quicker warm up = turns off sooner. Turns off sooner = save money/environment.
Quick! Patent it for Team TPU! All proceeds go towards our WCG power bills.

Another nifty idea I've seen are water to water heat exchangers that take the normally wasted heat from things like shower drains and transfer the heat in to the cold water supply of the water tank. Warmer water in = less energy required to heat it up.
A quick Googling found this image to illustrate the concept, although this one looks like it recirculates the water already in the tank.

 

[Nordic]

Both those ideas I remember seeing people do with bitcoin mining. The water preheating was really popular. They would pump water through to preheat the water, and then to a radiator to get rid of any excess heat not dropped in the preheating. Some bitcoin miners were really ingenious in there ways of saving energy. One guy even tried to partially heat a hot tub with 30 gpu's.

Reading through some old bitcoin threads about trying to use the generated heat I found a guy heating his bathroom floor.

 

[hat]

The i5 is working for WCG now. 4 3.2GHz threads of sandy bridge goodness...

At some point a stock q6600 will join once I get some rebuilding done around here. I'm swapping out my old DFI P35 board and 3.2 certified Q6600 for my friend's 650i or 680i board that does not like quads. He's having problems even at 3GHz.

 

[Nordic]

Apparently this guy heated his pool somewhat with 4 gpus, probably about 800-1200w of heat depending on what gpu's he used.

To combat the heat, Eric got a little crafty: He integrated a cooling system with his backyard swimming pool, pumping water out of the pool and through a radiator to cool down the rig. “The pool-cooling was experimental and definitely not standard,” he said.
(real picture of his setup.

 

[twilyth]

Both those ideas I remember seeing people do with bitcoin mining. The water preheating was really popular. They would pump water through to preheat the water, and then to a radiator to get rid of any excess heat not dropped in the preheating. Some bitcoin miners were really ingenious in there ways of saving energy. One guy even tried to partially heat a hot tub with 30 gpu's.

Reading through some old bitcoin threads about trying to use the generated heat I found a guy heating his bathroom floor.

Interesting. That's the same kind of setup you'd use for most geothermal setups. You dig a hole and drop in a couple hundred (thousand?) feet of tubing. Fill it with water and circulate it through the ground to pick up heat in the winter or dump heat in the summer. Then bring it back through a heat exchanger that's shared with the heat pump.

 

[Nordic]

I think it would be really cool if I actually owned my own home and had enough crunching and folding rigs to warrent a water heat exchange system into something. With all @buck_nasty's gpus and cpu's he is probably almost at a point where this could make sense. Ion has a ton of cpu's but they just don't put out the heat gpu's do.

I can just imagine a server rack set up with tons of universal waterblocks and quick disconnects.

 

[xvi]

Alright guys. I'm going to run a little experiment here.

What is this?

 

[twilyth]

Had to do a reverse image search. Interesting. I would have guessed scallion - but it's not.

 

[Nordic]

It is a chlorophyll based plant from earth. You have to be specific on what kind of answer you want.

 

[stinger608]

It is a chlorophyll based plant from earth. You have to be specific on what kind of answer you want.

Bhahahahaha that was just funny @james888

I would say its a Leek?

 

[xvi]

I would say its a Leek?

Congratulations! You passed the leek test! I did too, which means tonight is going to be fun!

Spoiler: The punchline

 

[Nordic]

In the back right, that looks like the whole computer case. If so that is attached weird. The cpu block is supposed to be inside the case. Otherwise, if that is a radiator with a pump on it.... it might be perfect.

 

[xvi]

In the back right, that looks like the whole computer case. If so that is attached weird. The cpu block is supposed to be inside the case. Otherwise, if that is a radiator with a pump on it.... it might be perfect.

Radiator with a pump. Swiftech something or other. Just using it as a res/pump combo to test the block.

Been piecing it together for a while now and was waiting for the reveal, but now that I've picked up the last piece I'd needed (CPU), I'm giving it its official debut.
I'll be migrating over to it as my main rig in the future, but its first task in life will be to put reliable PPD numbers on each project and to test how much performance is gained with HyperThreading.

I'm hoping it'll put a definitive answer to some PPD questions. I seriously doubt HyperThreading will be worth the extra cost of the CPU, but I hope to at least put actual numbers to it. Additionally, WCG advertises average PPD per hour of runtime, but it's been theorized that our better-than-average computers are more efficient at heavier workloads than others, giving us better than average return on those versus easier projects that have workloads that may not take advantage of our increased resources.

If it wasn't for WCG, that processor would have been a Pentium.

It is a chlorophyll based plant from earth. You have to be specific on what kind of answer you want.

 

[Nordic]

Oooh sexy fans. What are they? They have a big hub making me think they are powerful, but they still look 25mm.

If you desire possibly better temps, and have the space you should look into putting an empty fan shroud between those fans and the radiator. I had some old slow 25mm case fans that I took the fan out of just for that.

 

[xvi]

Oooh sexy fans. What are they? They have a big hub making me think they are powerful, but they still look 25mm.

Delta FFB1212EHE, I think. I'm not entirely sure. Definitely Delta fans and something very similar if not those. They are not quiet. Not even a little.

Edit: Okay, okay. Rebranded Delta. Koolance FAN-12038HBK-184. 12v 2a 4000RPM.

 

[Nordic]

Delta FFB1212EHE, I think. I'm not entirely sure. Definitely Delta fans and something very similar if not those. They are not quiet. Not even a little.

Oh god, 190 CFM! Those things could levitate. Those kinds of fans really would see the benefit of a little space between the fan and the radiator. But your going to be maximizing your radiators cooling capacity anyways.

 

[xvi]

Oh god, 190 CFM! Those things could levitate. Those kinds of fans really would see the benefit of a little space between the fan and the radiator. But your going to be maximizing your radiators cooling capacity anyways.

I have two Black Ice GTX 360s (and a 240) I was hoping to use instead. I wanted to make a little acrylic semi-airtight box that the radiators could sit in. Have the Koolance fans (or perhaps a hoard of spare SanAce fans) sit pushing air in with the two radiators as the only exit out. It would act as a shroud and an external radiator mount. Slap a couple quick disconnects on it and it makes the rig portable. See attachment for basic idea. I've determined it won't work since if it's a (nearly) airtight box, there'd be no way to get the radiators inside. I might try a removable lid, but it's going to be a lot of planning and will likely come much later, if at all.
Currently, I have no good way to mount the radiator on the Lian Li case I was hoping to put this in, so it looks like I'll continue after work tomorrow.

Going to move future updates to a build log thread. I think I've cluttered up the WCG thread enough for now. Just excited to start laying down some real numbers!