New WCG-TPU team member welcome thread

[Heaven7]

I don't know if anyone has covered this with you, but have you gone to advanced view?

From simple view, click on 'view' and then 'advanced view'. Then under the 'tools' menu option click 'computing preferences' and you should see something like this.

select the first tab and the then set the last 2 items to 100%

Thanks, set "while processor usage is less than..." to zero. Default was 50.

 

[Para_Franck]

I don't know if anyone has covered this with you, but have you gone to advanced view?

From simple view, click on 'view' and then 'advanced view'. Then under the 'tools' menu option click 'computing preferences' and you should see something like this.

select the first tab and the then set the last 2 items to 100%

Thanks, but I already did that, on day 1. It is just weird that the windows performance thing only shows 4 treads and 50% being used, but I am crunching 8 jobs at the same time. I can snap shot proof when I get home, if you want.

 

[twilyth]

No proof required. Check your disk and memory usage tab. The only other thing that I've seen that causes wu's to be suspended is setting memory usage too low. In fact, I have mine set to 2% when the computer is in use because for some types of wu's, that was the only way I could keep the machine from lagging when I was on it.

 

[Heaven7]

Just wanted to tell you that everything's running really great here. I'm well into my second day of crunching and there's absolutely nothing for me to be worried about. I increased the allowed CPU load to 90 percent, CPU temps are 69/79 degrees C max (CPU 0's exhaust passes through CPU1's cooler, therefore the difference). Nothing at all seems to affect the performance of my standard tasks a bit, so I'll keep crunching 24/7 for some time, unless some of my occasional CPU consuming tasks have to be done, however there are none to do at the moment So, it'll be crunchin' all the way in the meantime... Let's see how it works!

 

[peche]

nice ! keep it working @Heaven7 , i had to repaste my processor today, so i suspended crunching today on work computer for a while,
now im back to the game .........!

By the way, peche passed 20K !

Regards,

 

[Heaven7]

nice ! keep it working @Heaven7 , i had to repaste my processor today, so i suspended crunching today on work computer for a while,
now im back to the game .........!

By the way, peche passed 20K !

Regards,

Thanks, peche - I read about that! Silly question - what did you mean by "re-pasting" ? A new thermal compound? If so, which one is it???

 

[peche]

@Heaven7 correct i used coolermaster Ice Fusion, i had a flask for repasting work computers, my old TIm was like a year and half old, on a computer that works almost 27/4 365 days per year, so it was overheating a bit, also since monday i was working on thermal throthling mode, i will have to save some money for a decent aftermarket cooler...

Regards,

 

[Heaven7]

Good to know! Don't want to stray from the topic - it's all about crunching here, alright? Just one thing - what's wrong with your avatar? It's blank! It happened to me before - best upload it again, I liked the one you had

 

[manofthem]

Just wanted to tell you that everything's running really great here. I'm well into my second day of crunching and there's absolutely nothing for me to be worried about. I increased the allowed CPU load to 90 percent, CPU temps are 69/79 degrees C max (CPU 0's exhaust passes through CPU1's cooler, therefore the difference). Nothing at all seems to affect the performance of my standard tasks a bit, so I'll keep crunching 24/7 for some time, unless some of my occasional CPU consuming tasks have to be done, however there are none to do at the moment So, it'll be crunchin' all the way in the meantime... Let's see how it works!

Very awesome to hear. The Team always appreciates a few more (in your case not so few) threads for the Grid!

With 100% CPU usage, my pcs work fine, other than a few programs like Word or some Adobe things. Other that, everything works just peachy.

 

[peche]

@Heaven7 correct i used coolermaster Ice Fusion, i had a flask for repasting work computers, my old TIm was like a year and half old, on a computer that works almost 27/4 365 days per year, so it was overheating a bit, also since monday i was working on thermal throthling mode, i will have to save some money for a decent aftermarket cooler...

Regards,

Correct all here is about crunching .. but new members!
HEre you can find infinte topics and threads about crunching take a look:

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/forums/world-community-grid-wcg.68/


pretty weird!
im able to see all avatars... even my own ..

Regards,

 

[Heaven7]

Very awesome to hear. The Team always appreciates a few more (in your case not so few) threads for the Grid!

With 100% CPU usage, my pcs work fine, other than a few programs like Word or some Adobe things. Other that, everything works just peachy.

Thank you! I only use WordPad , so this shouldn't be an issue. No Adobe stuff here either, I'll give that 100% load a try! Crrrrruuunch.....

 

[Heaven7]

pretty weird!
im able to see all avatars... even my own ..

Must be my system playing tricks on me while crunching... Thanks for the link!

 

[peche]

Must be my system playing tricks on me while crunching... Thanks for the link!

problem still?
are you able to see other people avatars?

 

[manofthem]

Thank you! I only use WordPad , so this shouldn't be an issue. No Adobe stuff here either, I'll give that 100% load a try! Crrrrruuunch.....

Up to you. Even at 90%, that's a nice crunch, and with all those threads, that's beast!

If you go for 100%, just keep an eye on temps, but I'm not familiar with those CPU's as to what's safe and what you want to be under.

 

[Heaven7]

problem still?
are you able to see other people avatars?

Yes, all of them, except yours. It's probably only my browser config or something. Please don't worry about it

 

[Heaven7]

Up to you. Even at 90%, that's a nice crunch, and with all those threads, that's beast!

If you go for 100%, just keep an eye on temps, but I'm not familiar with those CPU's as to what's safe and what you want to be under.

Well, I'd like to stay below 80° C, if possible. This should be a convenient temperature IMO, as many other components of my system (chipset coolers and especially the PCIe-SSDs produce the most heat by far and will affect the CPU coolers in the process. Actually, I'm heating up my apartment now by ways of crunching - my old electric heater has been turned off for good! CPU temps are really well within the limits, as you can see here:

Looks like I'm safe for now. As long as there is nothing else I have to do with my system, it'll crunch 24/7!

 

[peche]

well i preffer HWinfo 64 for temps monitoring!
here are my temps for today, i did thermal repaste this morning, like 4 hours ago!

completely satisfied with the new results!

 

[krusha03]

well i preffer HWinfo 64 for temps monitoring!
here are my temps for today, i did thermal repaste this morning, like 4 hours ago!

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completely satisfied with the new results!
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Is your i7 overclocked? You are hitting 90c which i think it's a bit high. What where your load temps before?

 

[manofthem]

Well, I'd like to stay below 80° C, if possible. This should be a convenient temperature IMO, as many other components of my system (chipset coolers and especially the PCIe-SSDs produce the most heat by far and will affect the CPU coolers in the process. Actually, I'm heating up my apartment now by ways of crunching - my old electric heater has been turned off for good! CPU temps are really well within the limits, as you can see here:

Looks like I'm safe for now. As long as there is nothing else I have to do with my system, it'll crunch 24/7!

I just gandered a google, and quick search shows the feeling of around 70C is safe max, maybe 80. I'd try to stay below the 80 like you said. Keep an eye on it and make sure it all works ok: no pc problems and no WU error issues.

 

[krusha03]

I just gandered a google, and quick search shows the feeling of around 70C is safe max, maybe 80. I'd try to stay below the 80 like you said. Keep an eye on it and make sure it all works ok: no pc problems and no WU error issues.

I think it should be fine based on the Tj. Max. The Dell workstation with E5-1620 i was running during the challenge hit about 80-85C on the cores and the Tj max for that cpu is 97C

Edit: Well either that or Dell had inadequate cooling to this workstation which wouldn't be surprising

 

[peche]

Is your i7 overclocked? You are hitting 90c which i think it's a bit high. What where your load temps before?

is not... but is using the stock cooler...i have to save some money for a decent cooler,
when i took the screenshots temps were high take a look of this graph:

Temps are up and down due core usage and shit...

so .. stock cooler is safe for now, but i should improve.
Regards,

 

[krusha03]

is not... but is using the stock cooler...i have to save some money for a decent cooler,
when i took the screenshots temps were high take a look of this graph:

Temps are up and down due core usage and shit...
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so .. stock cooler is safe for now, but i should improve.
Regards,

For my FX-6300 both temps and cpu usage is pretty much constant. Make sure those dips are not of your cpu throttling because i see the minimum frequency of you i7 being registered at 1160MHz

 

[peche]

cpu is not throttling take a look over here:

Temps are pretty intense... they move up and down because im runiing several tasks here because of my job,
Regards,

 

[peche]

also here is a screenshot of the behavior before repasting...

You see the option: "Core #X Thermal Throttling on yes...
i passed like a week working on throttling mode...
The minimum temps you seen on the other image are the values on computer on iddle at all...

Regards,

 

[Heaven7]

well i preffer HWinfo 64 for temps monitoring!

Me too! If you're interested, you can check out my temps here:

Spoiler: Take a look

is not... but is using the stock cooler...i have to save some money for a decent cooler

Your temps have already dropped quite a bit after repasting, but you need to get that new cooler ASAP! Then you'll be much better off.

Aside from that, it appears there is a problem here! Looks like I ran out of stuff to crunch on! BOINC Manager told me today "There is no work to be done for this project" Can't be true, can it? Hope I didn't overlook something - I read this can happen at times, so to crunch on I selected another project, it works fine:

However, what's with this "Transfer" info here:

Is that new work to be done for the WCG? It was downloaded alright, but it doesn't show up in the "Tasks" tab. I really would prefer to crunch 24/7 for the WCG, so I hope that alternate project I chose to "fill the gap" didn't get some priority (like first run, first served), over the WCG. If it did, it'll be gone before it knows what hit it! Please help...