I did something kinda crazy yesterday, so I'll share that with you all soon
Be interesting to see if everyone has the same sort of issue
Right here we are again, just getting sorted out with things going on as its Christmas
So, the crazy thing I've done was to be able to get all of the PCs on over night. Sadly I never tried the two Dell servers as well, this was just the PCs I had on for a bit... So, over view of what was on....
2 x 5900X + RTX 3080
3950X + RTX 3070
2700X + RTX 3070
2700 + RTX 3070
8086k + GTX 1080 TI
1700X + GTX 1080 TI
3970X + RTX 3090
One of the rigs above were just running FAH (8086k) but the rest was running everything as far as possible. I had noticed that some of the CPUs had got 100% loads on them, I believe WCG wasn't downloading as much as it normally would do for some reason but they where all on
I managed to grab some photo's from our SMART meter, I found them pretty interesting but at the same time, scary!
The reason for that was the sheer power that these few PCs where taking...
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And with other things sometimes going on, but nothing more than usual, here's what was used in a single day...
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Now generally, I try and keep to about 5 to 10kW used a day, so you can imagine my surprise when I saw nearly 70kW in a single day.... Now I will mention that its not including everything on ALL day. Over the course of the day, a few of the machines where shut down (I had a few upgrades to do
) and I did eventually turn on the two Dell servers, I had them working I think for about 6 hours each?? As mentioned some CPUs where also not folding 100% of the time, but the power usage, I was stunned by..
If I was on a standard UK tariff for electric, those 70kW, are roughly chargable around 28p/kW I believe... That's a total of £19.60 for
just the day.... I think had I been running everything here (including the servers from midnight) and had my other AMD build running with another 3080 (for folding again
) I believe a 100kW could have been sucked from the grid
Sadly the solar was not great and it basically sucked.... As you can see from the screen shot below, the price of electric was some what cheap for the day
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I did shut off folding and most of the hardware about the peak time so I think it was roughly 4pm till 8pm? Or just after.. However the one thing I'm very happy to mention was the FAH total I was able to produce, which was just shy of 20 million points and I think I was quite close to
@Norton with WCG points as well, which I thought was amazing too
I'm extremely grateful for all this hardware I'm able to use, so any times that I find out of a price drop etc., I will be putting things on trying to make as many points as I can
Just like tonight, there's another price drop from midnight till about 9am, so I've a few machines on again tonight that I will leave on to help our amazing TPU team and the projects that I'm currently supporting
Thanks for reading and getting this far, I just wished to explain my madness for the day
Any questions please fire away!!
Until the next time!!