Have you got pie today?

[Caring1]

You are an Aussie?

Sure am

 

[Norton]

Time for Pie.....!
March 16th, 2015

Are you in our Top 20?

Or almost there?

Spoiler: Positions 21 thru 40 Today

Some Minion wisdom for Monday's!

Congrats to All of our crunchers!!!

 

[Norton]

Time for Pie.....!
March 17th, 2015

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Or almost there?

Spoiler: Positions 21 thru 40 Today

Here's my green for ST Patty's Day!

Congrats to All of our crunchers!!!

 

[Norton]

Time for Pie.....!
March 18th, 2015

Are you in our Top 20?

Or almost there?

Spoiler: Positions 21 thru 40 Today

Just for fun- Jim Carrey playing Vanilla Ice!

Congrats to All of our crunchers!!!

 

[manofthem]

that's a great video!

And I just got squeezed out of the top 20 I need to do something to rectify this issue, but I just can't do much...yet...

Great work pie eaters!

 

[Norton]

Time for Pie.....!
March 19th, 2015

Are you in our Top 20?

Or almost there?

Spoiler: Positions 21 thru 40 Today

March Madness!!!!
Some basketball with Key & Peele

Congrats to All of our crunchers!!!

 

[agent00skid]

Uhhh. Almost there. :O

 

[Dicfylac]

I´m almost in top 60´s, missed by a black nail and large electric bill.

 

[Norton]

Time for Pie.....!
March 20th, 2015

Are you in our Top 20?

Or almost there?

Spoiler: Positions 21 thru 40 Today

Here's a rare cutie!
Meet the Ili pika

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ili_pika
Congrats to All of our crunchers!!!

 

[stinger608]

Man o' man I need to just get one more cruncher going!!! I always seem to be on the threshold of the top 10 and once in awhile make it, but usually right in the 11th to 13th spot.

 

[manofthem]

What a cute little guy!

Man o' man I need to just get one more cruncher going!!! I always seem to be on the threshold of the top 10 and once in awhile make it, but usually right in the 11th to 13th spot.

That's a mighty fine goal. bring it on!


I find myself with a similar goal, still wishing to throw a new CPU in or add in another PC altogether. I just gotta deal with the wife. Yesterday she was complaining about the power bill already.

 

[stinger608]

Yesterday she was complaining about the power bill already.

And, that's the major draw back; the power bill that is.

 

[mstenholm]

And, that's the major draw back; the power bill that is.

Well that is part of the reason why there are some slots open. I toke down one rig, one is now down to base clock and another is now only running part time. I got my bill for Dec-Feb and despite there where no surprice it's still not nice to see. Yes I know folding is the big culpit so in the proces three GPUs are frezzeing as well. Best of luck staying in/getting in top 10. I will be back

 

[Dicfylac]

I just gotta deal with the wife. Yesterday she was complaining about the power bill already.

That happened with me a couple times and when half of me complains I must hear.

And, that's the major draw back; the power bill that is.

Damn devils, those companies of electricity always charge more and more,
Probably they live in the house of good intentions and they need all the money just to keep things hot.

 

[SirKeldon]

Damn devils, those companies of electricity always charge more and more

The energy companies in the south of Europe ... almost as good as the phone ones ... lovely countries yours and mine in that sense </irony>

Lucky to see anyway that the pie and top 20/40 is a good multi-nation group almost always, keep up the good work team no matter how much we pay for the electricity bill

EDIT: Thanks to my english teacher

 

[Norton]

Time for Pie.....!
March 21st, 2015

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Spoiler: Positions 21 thru 40 Today

Cruncher Pron!
Intel QSSC-S4R server

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[t_ski]

I find myself with a similar goal, still wishing to throw a new CPU in or add in another PC altogether. I just gotta deal with the wife. Yesterday she was complaining about the power bill already.

If you are going to build for crunching/folding alone, it's best to build efficiently. TBH, the GPUs you have folding are probably costing you more than the CPUs you have crunching.

 

[manofthem]

If you are going to build for crunching/folding alone, it's best to build efficiently. TBH, the GPUs you have folding are probably costing you more than the CPUs you have crunching.

Amen, those 290s aren't all that efficient. They're not folding currently though, I stopped them before the challenge. But I need to fire them up again to hit 30M soon. . The main reason I don't fold as much as I'd like is the whole power issue

If I build another rig, it'll be a dedicated Cruncher with power efficiency in mind, hence my interest in the Xeon chips. This is particularly important for me because summer is already upon me down here with the heat already intolerable. It's going to be an expensive summer with the AC and everything else.

 

[FireFox]

If I build another rig, it'll be a dedicated Cruncher with power efficiency in mind, hence my interest in the Xeon chips.

I can't wait you put together a new rig with a Xeon chip
It seems that many of us are building Xeons Machine and that's a good choice,
I can't wait to finish the Dual socket Machine

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Xeons dont have to be expensive...........

Intel® Xeon® Processor E5620
(12M Cache, 2.40 GHz, 5.86 GT/s Intel® QPI)

cost me £ 10.49
$ 15.69
E 14.50
oops i shouldnt forget the 2.50 postage............

Not new admittedly but still efficient, 10 watts per thread.


Wahey !!!

 

[Heaven7]

I find myself with a similar goal, still wishing to throw a new CPU in or add in another PC altogether. I just gotta deal with the wife. Yesterday she was complaining about the power bill already.

I'm kinda glad I'm a "single" cruncher! However...

And, that's the major draw back; the power bill that is.

I only get my power bill once a year, so I'd better be careful. Yet, @SirKeldon seems to have provided the solution already:

keep up the good work team no matter how much we pay for the electricity bill

If I build another rig, it'll be a dedicated Cruncher with power efficiency in mind, hence my interest in the Xeon chips.

That's what I plan to do as well. A dedicated crunching machine without any additional power consuming hardware, just to crunch. It looks like @Knoxx29 and @CAPSLOCKSTUCK have the same goal. I'll give it a try with an additional dual Xeon E5620 setup next week.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

@Heaven7 just for reference ( as i know you are not UK) 2 x x5550 failed to sel for £ 35.00 on ebay UK a couple of days ago. They were $1000 each when they were released now they dont sell for a shade over $ 50.00

16 threads for £ 35.00.......... 95 w each though.


EDIT.......they are relisted at £ 25.00 ..........someone is gonna bag a bargain.

 

[Heaven7]

@Heaven7 just for reference 2 x x5550 failed to sel for £ 35.00 on ebay UK a couple of days ago. They were $1000 each when they were released now they dont sell for a shade over $ 50.00

16 threads for £ 35.00.......... 95 w each though.

Tell me about it... I payed 700€ for my two E5620s back then, 80w each. Better not buy that stuff boxed and new, that's what I learned. You'll be very pleased with your new E5620 setup, though - I'm sure (as it will be my 2nd machine's setup as well)

 

[t_ski]

Amen, those 290s aren't all that efficient. They're not folding currently though, I stopped them before the challenge. But I need to fire them up again to hit 30M soon. . The main reason I don't fold as much as I'd like is the whole power issue

If I build another rig, it'll be a dedicated Cruncher with power efficiency in mind, hence my interest in the Xeon chips. This is particularly important for me because summer is already upon me down here with the heat already intolerable. It's going to be an expensive summer with the AC and everything else.

For a dedicated cruncher, I would look at a dual Xeon 1366 rig. Try to find the fastest 6-core chips you can, but stay away from the highest TDP to save you a few watts of heat output.

 

[FireFox]

@Norton Wake up Wake up

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