WCG-TPU Cruncher's Hardware/Tech Support Discussion Thread

[t_ski]

I don't see why those cables would not work for you.

How much data does the family have that you need storage for?

 

[manofthem]

I don't see why those cables would not work for you.

Thanks, think i'll order them. right now, the 2 hdds are just sort of angled in the front of the case, lying against each other, and I'd like to get them tucked away where they belong soon

How much data does the family have that you need storage for?

Not that much, and I don't see a whole lot in the immediate future either. Currently I have a 1.5tb and a 3tb, and the 3tb is being used as a backup of the other, with space to spare. I used to backup my game files from Steam and Origin, but I don't bother anymore; should I decide to do that again, it would account for some more storage space.

 

[xvi]

Anyone think these will be ok?

Five eggs. Should be fine? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
HDDs are getting expensive and SDDs are getting cheap. Hold out!

 

[manofthem]

Five eggs. Should be fine? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
HDDs are getting expensive and SDDs are getting cheap. Hold out!

Thanks. Ordered them, now awaiting. For like $6 shipped, worth a shot

 

[manofthem]

Well something is up... checked in on the 4790 this morning and it was at 90C! . Had to shut it down remotely until I can get a few minutes to see what's going on. Maybe in all the excitement the cooler shifted and needs to be remounted.

I think too that I should not have switched the PSUs around, that little case is packed with cables

 

[manofthem]

checked in on the 4790 this morning and it was at 90C! .

Opened the pc today, messed with some cables, and turned it on. Ran it for a few minutes opened up, and it was going fine. As it was on, I put it all back, and I've been monitoring it for a while; it's been on 4 hrs and temps are holding in the mid 50s, ~54C. I'll be keeping an eye on it throughout the evening and into the night, want to make sure it's not sitting up at 90 again! But if it does run fine, it means that I don't know what was the cause of high temps. I guess time will tell


Edit: 8 hrs in and temps holding. Looks good

 

[jboydgolfer]

I saw newegg has the ....

Xeon E5 2620 V4 2.1ghz 8 Core 16Thread beasty ,20mb L3 @ $425.00 usd.

Sorry im on mobile,and cant post links.seems like it might crunch well

 

[Caring1]

I saw newegg has the ....

Xeon E5 2620 V4 2.1ghz 8 Core 16Thread beasty ,20mb L3 @ $425.00 usd.

Sorry im on mobile,and cant post links.seems like it might crunch well

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117629

 

[jboydgolfer]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117629

thank You.

 

[stinger608]

Okay team, not sure if anyone is interested but I will be putting up some stuff for sale at some point today.

I'll have an Adaptec 3405 RAID card that includes both the SAS and SATA cables, 4 to 6 15K Seagate Cheetah drives, and 4 almost new WD Vraptors.

Once I have this listed I'll post up the for sale link in this thread.

 

[stinger608]

Okay team, not sure if anyone is interested but I will be putting up some stuff for sale at some point today.

I'll have an Adaptec 3405 RAID card that includes both the SAS and SATA cables, 4 to 6 15K Seagate Cheetah drives, and 4 almost new WD Vraptors.

Once I have this listed I'll post up the for sale link in this thread.

Actually I have reconsidered and put up my almost new little HTPC system for sale. http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/awesome-little-htpc-intel-in-shuttle-case.222486/

Kind of bums me out as I didn't really want to sell that little jewel but alas, I'm needing to get some damn nagging bills taken care of.

 

[xvi]

I have a rig that can only get internet access via HTTP proxy. I've got something set up on my PC to act as a proxy and I can hit the web now, but BOINC gives me an error that says:

5/25/2016 10:25:40 AM | http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ | Scheduler request failed: Peer certificate cannot be authenticated with given CA certificates"
5/25/2016 10:25:41 AM | | Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.

Doing some research, and I can't find the page now, there's a wiki page that says you'll get this error if your proxy doesn't pass SSL connections. They say to add your SSL certificate to /var/lib/boinc-client/ca-bundle.crt, but I can't seem to get the certificate to pop up in my browser.
The proxy software I'm using is AnalogX's Proxy.

Anyone have any advice?

 

[stinger608]

Well, crap, one of my crunchers fried the motherboard a couple of nights ago.

It's an AsRock H81M mATX board sporting the 4771 chip.

I'll be looking for a good board around the first of the month.

If anyone has one or knows where to get a good board, please let me know!

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Shouldn't that still be under warranty?

 

[stinger608]

Shouldn't that still be under warranty?

Maybe, if they go off of serial number and not purchase receipt. That board is the one that was a system from the challenge giveaway. It was in the parts for the system that I won for my daughter.

She has since gone to just laptops so I had the system here at the house crunching for about 6 months.

 

[t_ski]

Perhaps if the original owner could be identified from the thread, they might be able to assist?

 

[stinger608]

I did some checking, and that series of boards only has a 1-year warranty. I've had the board longer than that.

So, once again, if anyone knows where I can grab a cheap Socket 1150 motherboard, please let me know!

 

[HammerON]

Alright folks, I need your help/advice. I decided after my recent upgrade to the X99 system in specs that I should ditch the i7-4770K rig and get something different. I remember seeing that a TPU member found a good deal on a 14-core Xeon CPU and I thought that I could do the same.
So I have a Intel Xeon E5 2683 V3, ASRock X99 Extreme4/3.1 LGA 2011-V3, and G.Skill TridentZ 16GB 3200 on order to replace the i7-4770K cruncher. My question is will Windows 10 (Home I think) recognize all 14 cores or will I need to look at another OS option such as Linux?

 

[slozomby]

Alright folks, I need your help/advice. I decided after my recent upgrade to the X99 system in specs that I should ditch the i7-4770K rig and get something different. I remember seeing that a TPU member found a good deal on a 14-core Xeon CPU and I thought that I could do the same.
So I have a Intel Xeon E5 2683 V3, ASRock X99 Extreme4/3.1 LGA 2011-V3, and G.Skill TridentZ 16GB 3200 on order to replace the i7-4770K cruncher. My question is will Windows 10 (Home I think) recognize all 14 cores or will I need to look at another OS option such as Linux?

windows 10 still is per socket ( max2); home supports 128gb of ram and 256 cores. so core count isn't an issue. however if its a dedicated cruncher I don't see why you wouldn't run Linux on it. its free and from what I've seen has a 5-10% performance gain ( when I compared rac vs the same machine running windows server 2012R2) . installing Ubuntu or centos and getting boinc running takes maybe 20 minutes, not counting downloading the iso. if you're adding gpu crunching as well, its a little harder to get the NVidia drivers installed if you want to sign the kernel module. but theres plenty of good walkthroughs of the process on Ubuntu.

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Installing_BOINC_on_Ubuntu

 

[stinger608]

will Windows 10 (Home I think) recognize all 14 cores

It will see them all, no problem.
I had Windows 10 running on the 2P systems with 16 cores showing.

 

[Bow]

Hey guys,
I have been out of the loop for a while. Got any challenges coming up?
Going to add another PC at work so I will have 1 at home a 4 at work helping.

 

[xvi]

Got any challenges coming up?

Norton's usually the man for that, but it sounds like he's been very busy recently. Looks like he was last online on the 14th. Someone said they made contact with him recently though (@manofthem?)

Edit: Maybe we should get a "We miss you, Norton" challenge going.

 

[alucasa]

Alright folks, I need your help/advice. I decided after my recent upgrade to the X99 system in specs that I should ditch the i7-4770K rig and get something different. I remember seeing that a TPU member found a good deal on a 14-core Xeon CPU and I thought that I could do the same.
So I have a Intel Xeon E5 2683 V3, ASRock X99 Extreme4/3.1 LGA 2011-V3, and G.Skill TridentZ 16GB 3200 on order to replace the i7-4770K cruncher. My question is will Windows 10 (Home I think) recognize all 14 cores or will I need to look at another OS option such as Linux?

Are you talking about me?

 

[manofthem]

Norton's usually the man for that, but it sounds like he's been very busy recently. Looks like he was last online on the 14th. Someone said they made contact with him recently though (@manofthem?)

Edit: Maybe we should get a "We miss you, Norton" challenge going.

I did talk to Norton about a week ago, I think. I said that the Team was missing him and that we hope all is well. he said he as alright but very busy lately. Anybody who knows him knows how true that really is, even on a good day

Hopefully we'll see him again soon. I haven't tried to get in touch since that day but I think tonight I'll give it another shot, just to say hey and send out greetings.


I think Norton as well as members of the team had mentioned the possibility of an upcoming challenge, maybe October when things start to cool down. We can kick around some ideas and such, and then the Captain can make it official when he gets back; need his Captainage to make challenges official and open the challenge on WCG.




And in other news, I lost a gold star on my badge

 

[stinger608]

If you do give him a holler @manofthem , tell him that we are all very concerned and worried about him!!!