WCG May 2014 Challenge planning thread

[stinger608]

Well guys I not sure if I am going to make the challenge. I lost one of the x58 rigs today and it is got me thinking of selling the other and cut my loses. I may crunch part time but I can't afford to replace crap. I don't want to kill any other rigs so I am seriously thinking of having a sale and let some things go.

That is WHY I try to crunch with Xeon processors! AMD's can handle running 100% 24/7 but Intel's don't do so well unless they are Xeon processors; then they shine!

hey master crunchers I has a 3770K clocked up now to 4.7Ghz for the cause,

Is it better to let it crunch 4c 8t or 4c 4t?

Wow, hard to say. I usually run with Hyperthreading enabled to try and get all I can out of a processor, but I have heard that shutting Hyperthreading down will result in better PPD..........That is actually a good question.

 

[Durvelle27]

hey master crunchers I has a 3770K clocked up now to 4.7Ghz for the cause,

Is it better to let it crunch 4c 8t or 4c 4t?

I've been crunching with my i7-4770 @4ghz w/ HT on and have generated 1,706 points so far but i don't know what that means lol

 

[ThE_MaD_ShOt]

Some will dispute whether hyperthreading helps or hurts. I crunch 4c 8t because well I think it helps. The more threads the better I think.

 

[yotano211]

I run on a laptop so I have no choice but to run 4c 8t. But I always wondered about that.

 

[Nordic]

My 2500k does about the same as a 2600k. I don't think it hurts but is highly marginal

 

[TRWOV]

HT helps but not much,10% tops. Even if you see 8 threads, it's still a quad core.

 

[Norton]

HT helps but not much,10% tops. Even if you see 8 threads, it's still a quad core.

Depends on the workload.... the chance of getting all 8 threads to work together and getting a nice boost is about 50/50

 

[ThE_MaD_ShOt]

Okay guys, I fired the 1055t rig back up and it is crunching along nicely. Wcg seems to want to be stingy with wu's for it right now. It is just giving it 8 wu's in the buffer and I have the buffer set to 5 days. But where it's a hex core 8 at a time is fine.

 

[Norton]

Okay guys, I fired the 1055t rig back up and it is crunching along nicely. Wcg seems to want to be stingy with wu's for it right now. It is just giving it 8 wu's in the buffer and I have the buffer set to 5 days. But where it's a hex core 8 at a time is fine.

That's normal- you'll get a full batch once those are done

Switched my other 8350 rig over to Ubuntu this morning and it did the same thing...

 

[ThE_MaD_ShOt]

Looks like to low output is coming to an end atleast for my 8350. Don't know what the deal was for the last few days but it seemed like a chore to break 12k when I should be easy 17 to 19k.

 

[Norton]

UPDATES!
@T-Bob has donated a Windows 7 Home Premium key for the cruncher rig build

8 more Teams have signed up for the Challenge (29 Teams total so far)

 

[Doc41]

I'm always running

 

[Bow]

I also have a copy of ARMA 2 Combined Operations on Steam to donate

 

[ThE_MaD_ShOt]

I also have a copy of ARMA 2 Combined Operations on Steam to donate

You can pm manofthem with the details. He is handling the game giveaway.

 

[manofthem]

I also have a copy of ARMA 2 Combined Operations on Steam to donate

You can pm manofthem with the details. He is handling the game giveaway.

Got it, thanks! I think the game giveaway will end up being pretty spectacular, thanks to everyone's generosity!

 

[ThE_MaD_ShOt]

You d bomb manofthem. And a great thanks to all the contributors.

 

[manofthem]

You d bomb manofthem. And a great thanks to all the contributors.

Thanks. This team is full of awesome bombs!!! ... and I love your new avatar

 

[ThE_MaD_ShOt]

Thanks. This team is full of awesome bombs!!! ... and I love your new avatar

My new girlfriend is badass LOL

 

[xvi]

Just started spooling two 6970s and two 5870s for the folding side and I'm hunting down every last core I can for WCG. Might even manage to get a couple ARM tablets crunching.

Is it better to let it crunch 4c 8t or 4c 4t?

Back in the Pentium 4 days, SETI@Home saw about a 30% increase with HT enabled. I rarely deal with (good) Intel chips these days, but as far as I'm aware, that hasn't changed much. Only thing I've heard is that disabling HT can net you a better overclock, but I don't think you'd get an extra 30% increase in clock to make up for having HT disabled.

 

[Norton]

Just started spooling two 6970s and two 5870s for the folding side and I'm hunting down every last core I can for WCG. Might even manage to get a couple ARM tablets crunching.

 

[Norton]

UPDATE- Team France joined the Challenge today as the 30th Team

Spoiler: Team list so far

No worries Arjai... just another Team

 

[manofthem]

UPDATE- Team France joined the Challenge today as the 30th Team

Spoiler: Team list so far

No worries Arjai... just another Team

Haha, Arjai is going to flip out, and he's going to be on our butts everyday if they pull ahead

But we can do it

 

[yotano211]

oh the frenchies, there goes the hood.

 

[Doc41]

are wcg servers down or something? i have projects pending uploads since midnight and still won't upload

EDIT: never mind

 

[Peter1986C]

Edison has been put up and running, so I am not at the promised four but at the max of 6 cores! For the duration of the challenge at least.