TPU's WCG/BOINC Team

[twilyth]

I seem to be having a weird problem with the BOINC manager. If I snooze it before I launch Black Ops, soometime when I'm in game, it starts processing again, using up 100% of my resources. Gotta just quit the manager now before I start gaming.

Anyways, question: Whats the ideal amount of RAM for a crunching rig?

If you use advanced view and in the menu bar click 'activity', there is an option to suspend. This will suspend indefinitely and not just snooze. It will even survive a reboot, so if you forget you did that and don't set it back to 'run based on preferences', the machine won't do any work.

I would set my preferences for the cpu so that it does not run when you are on the machine. Then, when you're in a game, it should register that the machine is in use.

If you ONLY want it to stop when gaming, just go into 'activity' and set it to 'run always' whenever you're not gaming and 'run based on preferences' when you are.

 

[Radical_Edward]

I seem to be having a weird problem with the BOINC manager. If I snooze it before I launch Black Ops, soometime when I'm in game, it starts processing again, using up 100% of my resources. Gotta just quit the manager now before I start gaming.

Anyways, question: Whats the ideal amount of RAM for a crunching rig?

Snooze only works for a hour if I remember correctly.

 

[xbonez]

aah, wasn't aware of that.

My other question went un-answered. Whats the ideal amount of RAM for crunching? Initially I was intending to only fold on my new rig so I only got 1GB of RAM. Will that be enough for crunching too or should I get more? I'll be crunching on a quad core C2D Q6600.

 

[Chicken Patty]

For a dedicated cruncher, you can probably get away with 1GB if using XP, but some projects take a lot of RAM so 2GB is desirable, especially if you have >2 threads.

I had a cruncher once with XP and 1GB of RAM and it was fine, but used very close to the 1GB.

 

[theonedub]

The AMD rig I had ran 2gb fine with 4 projects WCG, 1 F@H client, and a small instance of FF.

 

[xbonez]

I'm starting off with 1gb. I'll add another stick very soon or as soon as I get a great deal. I won't worry about matching sticks since I'm sure the tiny added bandwidth that comes with dual channel won't affect crunching and/or folding.

 

[twilyth]

Let me know what you think is a good deal - but I don't ave single sticks, min. would be 2.

The CEP2 wu's can be a beast. I'm going to stop running them as soon as I hit 2years. I have to set my main machines to not run when I'm using the machine because they slow everything down to a crawl sometimes. That's with 8gig of ram on w7x64. XP can get buy with a lot less ram. Normally people run with 2gig, but if the rig is just going to crunch, that should work. I don't know about CEP2 though.

I just started them up and most are taking over 100meg. I think I've seen them use up to 300meg or more.

edit: If you set boinc to not run when user is active, on the disk and memory tab, uncheck the box at the bottom that says 'leave apps in memory while suspended'. Otherwise, if they are chomping 500-1000gig and they don't free up the memory, you'll be hitting your page file like a $5 hooker.

 

[xbonez]

I'd say a good deal is about 2x1 GB sticks for about 30ish, i guess. Not looking to get any spectacular ram. Either ways, I won't buy it this year I guess. Spent a lot already, so I'll start with 1GB and if it feels painfully less, I'll get more.

 

[xbonez]

Anyone looking for a PSU? This is a great deal.

Refurb OCZ/PCP&C 750W Quad SlI Certified PSU for $40

 

[(FIH) The Don]

should have a PII 925 up and running in a few days i hope, made a killer deal on the following

GTX-460 1Gb, PII 925, 750w psu, 2x1tb hd, some dvd drives, and a case for 300$ in total

 

[Josh154]

should have a PII 925 up and running in a few days i hope, made a killer deal on the following

GTX-460 1Gb, PII 925, 750w psu, 2x1tb hd, some dvd drives, and a case for 300$ in total

Awesome man! I need a new HDD and case for the old p4 rig. My raidmax is so dam ugly and it's all hacked up lmao.

 

[xbonez]

should have a PII 925 up and running in a few days

Lol...i was thinking Pentium II !!

 

[(FIH) The Don]

Awesome man! I need a new HDD and case for the old p4 rig. My raidmax is so dam ugly and it's all hacked up lmao.

if you didnt live so far away id give you one of the hds for the shipping

Lol...i was thinking Pentium II !!

lol

 

[Josh154]

if you didnt live so far away id give you one of the hds for the shipping



lol

Hmm how much would shipping be to 57033? I could put the 1tb in my main rig and throw the 320 in the old p4.

 

[xbonez]

Considering he lives outside the US, you could get a 500gb, or maybe even a 1tb for less than the price of shipping.

 

[(FIH) The Don]

its around 40$ f or the shipping lol

 

[Josh154]

Considering he lives outside the US, you could get a 500gb, or maybe even a 1tb for less than the price of shipping.

Yeah true

 

[xbonez]

I can send you a WD green 1TB for 50 shipped. What say? I currently use it in my external storage which uses 2 x 1Tb WD Green HDDs, but I don't really need 2 TB right now. I can sell it to you, use the cash for now, and always get another drive when I do feel the need for it.

Sold one to a friend, kept two for myself.

 

[(FIH) The Don]

fine deal right there^^

 

[Josh154]

Ehh id love to but i need to make sure i have enough to get my mobo and ram first! Can't do anything with a HDD without a working comp!

 

[xbonez]

true. My offer stands. let me know.

 

[Josh154]

will definitely remember that for in the future

 

[Chicken Patty]

should have a PII 925 up and running in a few days i hope, made a killer deal on the following

GTX-460 1Gb, PII 925, 750w psu, 2x1tb hd, some dvd drives, and a case for 300$ in total

Thats ridiculous!

 

[(FIH) The Don]

me likes lol

he will be here dec 23rd or dec25, so should be rather good

will use PII for gaming rig, and put i7 to crunch 24/7

dont really need i7 to play bf1942 and cod + l4d lol

 

[(FIH) The Don]

say hello to : Fjordmonkey

joined today hope you will stay on the team, you are going to have some fun moments here, best team there is!

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