TPU's WCG/BOINC Team

Nordic · Mar 19, 2015

That cooler looks bigger than my megahelem stuffed inside an itx case.

Toothless · Mar 19, 2015

james888 said:
That cooler looks bigger than my megahelem stuffed inside an itx case.

I have a couple issues with it that make me want to go with an AIO cooler but then again, I like air cooling.

It indeed is massive.

stinger608 · Mar 20, 2015

LOLOL, I know this is waaaaaaaaaay off subject but I just wanted to mention this:

Man, I so wish the nice weather season lasted longer here.

I have a home built VW trike that I purchased about a year and a half ago. I have done a ton of modifications to the trike and now finally have it about finished.
So, I had it licensed last year and was able to ride it bit, but not much........This year is a totally different story. :peace:

Its now sporting a 1935cc engine that has a full circle counter weighted crank, Engle 110 cam, Scat fully polished and ported heads, and dual Weber 44 IDF carbs with velocity stacks. This engine has been built by yours truly. :rockout:

(Yes, for anyone wondering, it will do about 100mph in about a single city block with the front wheel off the ground! I know, I really need to put wheelie bars on the back. Overkill you ask? Oh hell yea!!!)

Now here is the crazy part; I took it down to my local Progressive insurance agent today and they insured the trike for a full year for $76!!! And the tags are $36.

My God, I wish I could tag and insure one of my 4 wheel vehicles for $112!!!! :eek:

Anyhow, as I said, I know this is way off topic but I just wanted to share the info.

And of course once I get it all cleaned up there will be pics to come.

Caring1 · Mar 20, 2015

Ha ha ha, you just reminded me how shitty the brakes were on my Superbug, I built a 2.2L monster that flew but was a bugger to stop.

librin.so.1 · Mar 20, 2015

I got a slice of this pie today

librin.so.1 · Mar 20, 2015

P.S. Yes, that's a moon in the photo

The moon's in foreground.
...And the crescent is the sun, eclipsed by the said moon.

Photo taken by using a piece of glass meant for a welder's mask as a filter, slapped on the objective of my Nikkon D60
I bought that piece of glass for this kind of occasions two years ago. Finally came in handy, heh!

mjkmike · Mar 21, 2015

stinger608 said:
LOLOL, I know this is waaaaaaaaaay off subject.

Nice bike Bro. But please stay on topic with pics :nutkick:

xvi · Mar 21, 2015

Quoting a post from the Milestones thread over here just to keep that thread clean.

bubbleawsome said:
My numbers went down the tube today. Accidentally left WCG off after a reboot.

I've never noticed any significant performance loss when running BOINC during gaming or anything of that nature. The only time I pause it is if I need to reclaim a bit of memory (on low memory systems). Tasks generally run on low priority, so just about everything else shouldn't have to compete with it, right?
I assume others find running BOINC to give noticeable drops in performance? How many people pause it for gaming or other resource intensive applications?

Nordic · Mar 21, 2015

It pauses itself for me.

Caring1 · Mar 21, 2015

If it is set correctly, it will pause while you continue gaming or *cough* working.

bubbleawsome · Mar 21, 2015

It doesn't pause for me, just keeps working. My CPU is nearly always at 100% load. Only games I have to turn it off for are star citizen and some NPC-crazy places in elite dangerous. Also when I am rendering. I can host a minecraft server and play on it and crunch and see a very small impact on game performance. Seems to be good at getting out of the way.

librin.so.1 · Mar 21, 2015

xvi said:
I assume others find running BOINC to give noticeable drops in performance?

Running boinc as nice 19, I only ever needed to stop boinc on some (but far from "all" games); And with some games that would have stutter or serious performance issues, it often used to be enough to just set boinc to use 100% –> 50% cores, i.e. free up half the cores. And I I'd stop it if I had to compile something. (it appears boinc would only react to CPU load from processes with zero or negative niceness and ignore load from nice processes when it comes auto-stopping due to CPU load)

Note #1: it's all in past tense because I don't run boinc on my computer anymore due to prohibitively high power bill
Note #2: all of this observed on Linux

BUCK NASTY · Mar 21, 2015

Norton said:
My 4P rig is down Need to find some time to get a monitor over to it to see what happened.

It seems to start up ok so I'm hoping that it's something easy like a bad ethernet cable or wonky hard drive...

Norton said:
UPDATE!

The 4P is back up and running!

Think it just hung up on restart. All I had to do was hook up the monitor and turn it on... booted right up and went back to work. Temps are good at 38-40C and I finished around 80 wu's over the last 4 hours.

What happened?- idk

Will it happen again- idk

I have a KVM switch here somewhere and I'll be hooking that up soon so I can check on it once or twice a day.

My 4P's have always been very sensitive to fluctuations in the power grid. Even the slightest event would hang the servers, when other rigs would continue to run. They don't reboot, but just sit there until PSU is reset. Have to check them daily in the morning and at night. Thought about UPS's to smooth things out, but a real failure would deplete the small units within a few minutes.

stinger608 · Mar 21, 2015

mjkmike said:
Nice bike Bro. But please stay on topic with pics

Yep, there will be pics!!!

Heaven7 · Mar 22, 2015

xvi said:
I've never noticed any significant performance loss when running BOINC during gaming or anything of that nature. The only time I pause it is if I need to reclaim a bit of memory (on low memory systems). Tasks generally run on low priority, so just about everything else shouldn't have to compete with it, right?
I assume others find running BOINC to give noticeable drops in performance? How many people pause it for gaming or other resource intensive applications?

Well, I tried to increase the allowed CPU load to 95% and experienced serious lags even with everyday use. Back at 90%, there are absolutely no performance issues at all. Even started a VM today (8 cores / 12 GB RAM config), and it ran absolutely fine, save for just a very slight slowdown during boot. I'd say that BOINC really works great even with increased CPU load. Probably gaming will require to pause it, as I'm not a gamer I don't know.

krusha03 · Mar 22, 2015

Heaven7 said:
Well, I tried to increase the allowed CPU load to 95% and experienced serious lags even with everyday use. Back at 90%, there are absolutely no performance issues at all. Even started a VM today (8 cores / 12 GB RAM config), and it ran absolutely fine, save for just a very slight slowdown during boot. I'd say that BOINC really works great even with increased CPU load. Probably gaming will require to pause it, as I'm not a gamer I don't know.

I have experienced the same (games included) on my FX-6300. if it's at 100% it will lag on everyday use and sometimes not suspend when the CPU is needed so i keep it at 87% (5 cores) when working on the PC. The same thing happens with one of the i3 computers that I am using that streams camera feeds but the i5s and another i3 have no issues at all

Heaven7 · Mar 22, 2015

krusha03 said:
I have experienced the same (games included) on my FX-6300. if it's at 100% it will lag on everyday use and sometimes not suspend when the CPU is needed so i keep it at 87% (5 cores) when working on the PC. The same thing happens with one of the i3 computers that I am using that streams camera feeds but the i5s and another i3 have no issues at all

You did add those resource intensive programs to the "exclusive applications" list, of course?

Sorry, just wondering.

krusha03 · Mar 22, 2015

Heaven7 said:
You did add those resource intensive programs to the "exclusive applications" list, of course? Sorry, just wondering.

Nah when i leave 1 core available on both systems everything runs great so couldn't be bothered

Norton · Mar 22, 2015

krusha03 said:
I have experienced the same (games included) on my FX-6300. if it's at 100% it will lag on everyday use and sometimes not suspend when the CPU is needed so i keep it at 87% (5 cores) when working on the PC. The same thing happens with one of the i3 computers that I am using that streams camera feeds but the i5s and another i3 have no issues at all

An FX 8 core will generally experience no lag at all when crunching full load on all cores no matter what else you're doing

The only time I got a lag on mine was when it was running a backup while crunching.

ThE_MaD_ShOt · Mar 22, 2015

Norton said:
An FX 8 core will generally experience no lag at all when crunching full load on all cores no matter what else you're doing

The only time I got a lag on mine was when it was running a backup while crunching.

I concur. I game while crunching most of the time and don't see any slow down in my main rig.

manofthem · Mar 22, 2015

ThE_MaD_ShOt said:
I concur. I game while crunching most of the time and don't see any slow down in my main rig.

Hmm, makes me want to give this a try. I've started gaming before which crunching because I forgot to turn it off, and I seem to remember some slow downs...not that I have an AMD CPU.

Yeah I'll have to try this out again today

Norton · Mar 22, 2015

krusha03 said:
Actually i am really interested in points/watt and points/$ figures

HP and Dell made 4P servers and I've seen them on ebay but the cost on many is pretty high. Like I was saying in the Crunchers Helping Crunchers thread- watch for folders to retire their 4P rigs

Points per watt? I get 20-22k ppd for 500w so that would be around 40-44 ppd/watt

krusha03 · Mar 22, 2015

Norton said:
HP and Dell made 4P servers and I've seen them on ebay but the cost on many is pretty high. Like I was saying in the Crunchers Helping Crunchers thread- watch for folders to retire their 4P rigs

Points per watt? I get 20-22k ppd for 500w so that would be around 40-44 ppd/watt

You pull 500w from the wall? While that is much more efficient than my home rig (it uses around 235W for 3300PPD or about 14ppd/watt), for a dedicated cruncher @Knoxx29 xeons are much more efficient and are doing like 70-75ppd/watt

PS. I was thinking of doing the same (quoting your reply here) but since i saw the discussion was continuing there i continued the off-topic. sorry :oops:

Norton · Mar 22, 2015

krusha03 said:
You pull 500w from the wall? While that is much more efficient than my home rig (it uses around 235W for 3300PPD or about 14ppd/watt), for a dedicated cruncher @Knoxx29 xeons are much more efficient and are doing like 70-75ppd/watt

PS. I was thinking of doing the same (quoting your reply here) but since i saw the discussion was continuing there i continued the off-topic. sorry

An Opteron 4P may not be the most efficient in ppd/watt but there are 48 cores running in one machine meaning it only needs 1 psu, 1 HDD, etc... so there's a savings there too.

Also, here's a list of the highest output hosts on WCG:
http://boincstats.com/en/stats/15/host/list/16/0/0
Mine is #42 in the Top 100 atm but note this stats site got a little mixed up over the past week so I would watch it closely over the next week or two to see how the rigs stack up.

theonedub · Mar 23, 2015

Norton said:
Also, here's a list of the highest output hosts on WCG:
http://boincstats.com/en/stats/15/host/list/16/0/0
Mine is #42 in the Top 100

Very nice

Processor	7800x3d
Motherboard	Gigabyte B650 Auros Elite AX
Cooling	Custom Water
Memory	GSKILL 2x16gb 6000mhz Cas 30 with custom timings
Video Card(s)	MSI RX 6750 XT MECH 2X 12G OC
Storage	Adata SX8200 1tb with Windows, Samsung 990 Pro 2tb with games
Display(s)	HP Omen 27q QHD 165hz
Case	ThermalTake P3
Power Supply	SuperFlower Leadex Titanium
Software	Windows 11 64 Bit
Benchmark Scores	CB23: 1811 / 19424 CB24: 1136 / 7687

System Name	Veral
Processor	7800x3D
Motherboard	x670e Asus Crosshair Hero
Cooling	Corsair H150i RGB Elite
Memory	2x32 Corsair Dominator
Video Card(s)	Powercolor 7900XTX Red Devil
Storage	Crucial P5 Plus 1TB, Samsung 980 1TB, Teamgroup MP34 4TB
Display(s)	Acer Nitro XZ342CK Pbmiiphx + 2x AOC 2425W
Case	Fractal Design Meshify Lite 2
Audio Device(s)	Blue Yeti + SteelSeries Arctis 5 / Samsung HW-T550
Power Supply	Corsair HX850
Mouse	Corsair Nightsword
Keyboard	Corsair K55
VR HMD	HP Reverb G2
Software	Windows 11 Professional
Benchmark Scores	PEBCAK

System Name	Dean Machine/2020 Ryzenfall
Processor	Intel 4790K/AMD Ryzen 5800X
Motherboard	MSI 1150 Gaming mATX/Asus ROG STRIX B550-F Gaming Wifi
Cooling	Cooler Master Hyper 212 LED/SilverStone AH240 AIO
Memory	16 gigs Crucial Ballistix Tactical Tracer/32 gigs G.Skill TridentZ NEO DDR4
Video Card(s)	Gigabyte 1660 Super/EVGA GTX 1080 FTW Hybrid Gaming
Storage	Crucial SSD 256 and 2TB spinner/Dual Samsung 980 Pro M2 NVME 4.0
Display(s)	Overlord 27" 2560 x 1440
Case	Corsair Air 540
Audio Device(s)	On board
Power Supply	Seasonic modular 850 watt Platinum/EVGA T2-850 Titanium
Software	Windows 10 Pro/Windows 10 Pro

System Name	Lenovo ThinkCentre
Processor	AMD 5650GE
Motherboard	Lenovo
Memory	32 GB DDR4
Display(s)	AOC 24" Freesync 1m.s. 75Hz
Mouse	Lenovo
Keyboard	Lenovo
Software	W11 Pro 64 bit

System Name	my box
Processor	AMD Ryzen 9 5950X
Motherboard	ASRock Taichi x470 Ultimate
Cooling	NZXT Kraken x72
Memory	2×16GiB @ 3200MHz, some Corsair RGB led meme crap
Video Card(s)	AMD [ASUS ROG STRIX] Radeon RX Vega64 [OC Edition]
Storage	Samsung 970 Pro && 2× Seagate IronWolf Pro 4TB in Raid 1
Display(s)	Asus VG278H + Asus VH226H
Case	Fractal Design Define R6 Black TG
Audio Device(s)	Using optical S/PDIF output lol
Power Supply	Corsair AX1200i
Mouse	Razer Naga Epic
Keyboard	Keychron Q1
Software	Funtoo Linux
Benchmark Scores	217634.24 BogoMIPS

TPU's WCG/BOINC Team

Nordic

Toothless

Tech, Games, and TPU!

stinger608

Dedicated TPU Cruncher & Folder

Caring1

librin.so.1

librin.so.1

mjkmike

xvi

Nordic

Caring1

bubbleawsome

librin.so.1

BUCK NASTY

4P Enthusiust

stinger608

Dedicated TPU Cruncher & Folder

Heaven7

krusha03

Heaven7

krusha03

Norton

Moderator - Returning from the Darkness

ThE_MaD_ShOt

manofthem

WCG-TPU Team All-Star!

Norton

Moderator - Returning from the Darkness

krusha03

Norton

Moderator - Returning from the Darkness

theonedub

habe fidem

Processor	just a few i7's all AMD's gone to friends
Motherboard	Mother F%#@& am I board
Cooling	It's called Alberta Canada.
Memory	Don't remember.
Video Card(s)	Hope for blckjack
Storage	hurt my toe's when droped
Display(s)	never big enough
Case	I think they call it a lost case
Audio Device(s)	What speek up I'm old.
Power Supply	Good old coffee
Software	when you get this old everything is soft
Benchmark Scores	Always on the bench never on the field.

System Name	Rainbow
Processor	Intel Core i7 8700k
Motherboard	MSI MPG Z390M GAMING EDGE AC
Cooling	Corsair H115i, 2x Noctua NF-A14 industrialPPC-3000 PWM
Memory	G. Skill TridentZ RGB 4x8GB (F4-3600C16Q-32GTZR)
Video Card(s)	ZOTAC GeForce RTX 3090 Trinity
Storage	2x Samsung 950 Pro 256GB \| 2xHGST Deskstar 4TB 7.2K
Display(s)	Samsung C27HG70
Case	Xigmatek Aquila
Power Supply	Seasonic 760W SS-760XP
Mouse	Razer Deathadder 2013
Keyboard	Corsair Vengeance K95
Software	Windows 10 Pro
Benchmark Scores	4 trillion points in GmailMark, over 144 FPS 2K Facebook Scrolling (Extreme Quality preset)

Processor	5900x
Motherboard	MSI MEG UNIFY
Cooling	Arctic Liquid Freezer 2 360mm
Memory	4x8GB 3600c16 Ballistix
Video Card(s)	EVGA 3080 FTW3 Ultra
Storage	1TB SX8200 Pro, 2TB SanDisk Ultra 3D, 6TB WD Red Pro
Display(s)	Acer XV272U
Case	Fractal Design Meshify 2
Power Supply	Corsair RM850x
Mouse	Logitech G502 Hero
Keyboard	Ducky One 2

System Name	Main Rig
Processor	AMD FX-4130 @ 4.8Ghz
Motherboard	ASUS M5A99X Evo
Cooling	Coolermaster Hyper 212+
Memory	8GB GSkill DDR3 1600
Video Card(s)	ASUS GTX 970 Strix @ 1503Mhz Core
Storage	Corsair Force 90gb SSD/ WD Caviar Blue 750gb
Display(s)	ASUS 24" IPS
Case	Coolermaster Centurion 590
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
Power Supply	Antec TP750 80+
Software	Windows 7 Ultimate 64

System Name	Desktop / Laptop
Processor	AMD Ryzen R7 5600x / Intel i5-4200U
Motherboard	ASUS TUF B550-Plus / Lenovo MB
Cooling	Arctic Liquid Freezer II 280 / Stock
Memory	Corsair Vengeance 2x16GB DDR 3800 / 8GB DDR3-1600MHz
Video Card(s)	AMD Radeon 6900XT / Intel HD 4400
Storage	2.5TB SSDs + 4TB HDD / Samsung 850 EVO 500 GB
Display(s)	34" LG Ultrawide / 12.5 " 1080p IPS Touchscreen
Case	Fractal Design R6 / Lenovo X240
Audio Device(s)	Onboard / Onboard
Power Supply	Enermax REVOLUTION87+ 1000W / Lenovo 40W
Mouse	Razer Basilisk X
Keyboard	Dell Business Multimedia Keyboard
Software	Windows 10 Pro 64 bit
Benchmark Scores	Chicken Invaders 5 @125+ FPS

System Name	Main PC- Gamer- Main Cruncher/Folder and too many crunching/folding rigs
Processor	Ryzen 5900X- Ryzen 5950X- Ryzen 3950X and etc...
Motherboard	Asrock X570 Extreme4- MSI X570S Tomahawk MAX WiFi- MSI B450M Bazooka Max and etc...
Cooling	Noctua NH-U14S (dual fan)- EK 360 AIO with push/pull fans- Corsair H115i RGB Pro XT and etc...
Memory	2x16GB GSkill FlareX 3200/c14- 4x8GB Corsair Vengeance 3600/c16- 2x16GB Team 3600/c18 and etc..
Video Card(s)	MSI Gaming RX 6800- Asus RTX 3070 TUF OC- MSI Ventus GTX 1660Ti and etc...
Storage	Main PC (1TB WD SN850- 2TB PNY CS 3040- 2TB Seagate Firecuda) and etc...
Display(s)	Main PC (2x24" Dell UltraSharp U2414H)
Case	Phanteks P600s- Seasonic Q704- Fractal Meshify C and etc...
Audio Device(s)	Logitech Z625 THX 2.1 speakers
Power Supply	EVGA 750 G3- SeaSonic DGC 750- EVGA P2 850 and etc...
Mouse	G300s
Keyboard	Corsair K65
VR HMD	N/A
Software	Windows 10 Pro or Ubuntu
Benchmark Scores	Why sit on the Bench when you can get in the game and Crunch!!!

System Name	Selene / Yoda
Processor	Fx 8350 @ 4.4 / Phenom II x6 1090t @ 3.6
Motherboard	Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 r4.0 / Gigabyte 890XA-UD3
Cooling	H100i / Xig Dark Knight
Memory	4x 8gb G.Skill Snipers / 4x 4gb G.Skill Ares
Video Card(s)	Gigabyte R9 290x / XfX DD & VisionTek HD6850's C'fired
Storage	256gb ssd, 2x 2tb Wd Blacks & 1x 1tb Wd black / 1x 1tb
Display(s)	Dell Ultra Sharp 2408 WFp / Hp w2207
Case	Raidmax Vampire / Chieftec Alum. Dragon Blue
Audio Device(s)	Onboard Hd Audio / Onboard Hd Audio
Power Supply	Corsair TX 850 watt / Corsair TX 750 watt
Mouse	Logitech G500s
Keyboard	Corsair Strafe
Software	Win 10 pro / Win Vista Home prem. 64 bit
Benchmark Scores	What are benchmarks anyway?

Processor	3900X @ 4.0
Motherboard	Asus ROG Strix X570-E
Cooling	DeepCool Castle 360EX
Memory	G Skill Trident Z Neo 32GB 3600
Video Card(s)	RX 5700 XT Pulse
Storage	Sabrent Rocket Q 1TB
Display(s)	LG 34UC88
Case	Thermaltake P3
Power Supply	Super Flower Leadex III 750w
Mouse	Logitech G900
Keyboard	G Skill KM570 MX Silver
Software	Windows 10 Pro

System Name	Erakith \|\| AsRock NUCS
Processor	AMD ThreadRipper 2990WX ES (32c/64t 3.5ghz@1.02v) \|\| Intel i7 1360P Raptor Lake-P
Motherboard	MSI X399 MEG Creation \|\| AsRock OE
Cooling	EK Supremacy TR4 Full Nickel, D5 w/ EK Top, 2X EK-CoolStream XTX 360 & Photon 270 Res \|\| OE
Memory	32GB (4x8GB) Corsair Vengeance PRO RGB DDR4 3000\|\| 2x16GB Corsair DDR4
Video Card(s)	Vega 64 EK FC\|\| Intel Iris Xe
Storage	250gb WD Black NVMe & (2) 2TB Intel 660p NVMe \|\| 2TB Corsair MP600 Pro
Display(s)	34" Dell Ultrasharp U3415W
Case	CaseLabs Merlin SM8 \|\| Aluminum Unibody
Power Supply	Corsair HX1000
Mouse	Corsair Harpoon Wireless RGB
Keyboard	Corsair Strafe RGB w/ Cherry MX Silent
Software	Windows 10 Pro x64 \|\| WIndows 11 Pro x64
Benchmark Scores	WCG & F@H Only