Ragnarsdad

First time attempt at liquid metal, everything was fine then 2 months later it leaked. Killed my ryzen 2700x, msi carbon 470 motherboard and my msi gaming 1080. I stick with paste now.

For me it is everything from 286 through to p4 (as far as ibm clones go anyway). I am currently building a socket 423 system on a NOS intel board I picked up on a whim. Would love to pic up a 486 or socket 7 machine bit prices for parts are crazy, I remember when the millennium bug was a worry you couldn't give away 486 and earlier parts as people were worried about the bug. I did have a nice dual cpu socket 8 system back in the day and most of my machines had scsi drives which are hard to get now. The first new pc I bought was a 486 sx25mhz and I still keep an eye out on ebay to see if I can find e the same model, even if I did have to pay £300 to get an external cd-rom drive for it.

Some Xeons can be used in home pc's, I used to use an e5 1650v2 in my main rig. However, the type that you have would not really be suites as they are high core count but low frequency. As has been said you are better off selling them and using the money to buy something more suited to home use. I still have a few older Xeon machines that I use for running boinc but I am slowly swapping them out for Ryzens.

Glad to hear it is going well, for comparison my GTX980 takes almost 4 minutes per work unit running one at a time. AMD cards really are the way to go for double precision tasks. At the moment i think MW@H is the only project using it but there may be more again in the future.

Ok so for Milkyway@home with an R9 280x you need to do the following: (BTW i don't know how good you are at this sort of thing so appologies if i seem like i am being a bit simple) Create a new blank notepad document on your desktop, save it with the name App_config.XML Copy and paste this into the new document <app_config> <app> <name>milkyway</name> <max_concurrent>0</max_concurrent> <gpu_versions> <gpu_usage>0.33</gpu_usage> <cpu_usage>0.33</cpu_usage> </gpu_versions> </app> </app_config> Once saved copy the file into the Boinc data directory for the MW@H project, this is usually something like C:\ProgramData\BOINC\projects\milkyway.cs.rpi.edu_milkyway (you may have to unhide folders to be able to see it) Finally restart the boinc client At this point you should be able to see three tasks running at once. i tried mine with more but found that after three the benefits dropped off significantly. the advantage of doing this is that your card stays at a constant workload so it isnt ramping up and down anywhere near as much plus of course much more work completed. if you get stuck with anything let me know.

Worthy of note is that for an r9 280x (same card as my old hd7970) you are best running multiple tasks at once for mw@h, I used to run 3 at once and it would triple my output. I will find a guide on how to do it tomorrow, really easy and well worth doing.

Can't help with your prime grid issue but with an r9 280 you should look at the milkyway@home project as your card has high double precision compute capability. Some of the older amd cards are great for that project, my old HD5850 that cost me $15 outperforms a gtx 1080ti because of its double precision compute capability.

I had a morpheus vega imported to the UK from the USA, from what I can tell the only difference between the vega and the morpheus 2 is the printing on the box. The internal contents of the box are the same and the installation manual makes no reference to vega. It also ended up costing me twice the price of a morpheus 2 which I could have sourced locally. As far as the cooler itself goes I tried it on my vega 56 but kept getting black screens and I didn't want to risk it so in the end I fitted it to a gtx 980 and it is doing an awesome job, reduced temps by 20 degrees at full load.

I managed to pick up a couple of cheap Dell T5610's last year from ebay that worked out ok, only downside was cooling but i managed to rig them up with some noctua's, might be worth considering for your socket 2011's if you see one cheap enough.

It is a bit warm, i have had to turn off my ryzen so i just have my old T7500 crunching in my garage, i have now made it into the top 50 for the team on WCG though. I will be downgrading the T7500 with a pair of L5640's to replace the current X5670, not a huge saving but shouold save me about 30p a day on electricity and i am just recovering from my previous monthly bills of £250 on electricity mainly through boinc.

Well the work started coming out again at the beginning of March, to me that is a while, i mean nothing by it.

Has had them for a while, just for info for anyone reading SCC runs best on linux, i currently have my old workstation doing 22 tasks at once and the run time for linux is half that of windows. also if anyone unaware Microbiome Immunity Project is a real hog for level 3 cache, you are best limiting it down to 2 or 3 tasks at once with MIP or it will drag your runtimes down (if i run 11 MIP tasks on my ryzen 2600X it takes upwards of three hours per task, if i run 3 MIP and 8 other tasks the MIP runtimes reduce to about an hour)

WCG just announced a new project aimed at Covid 19 and future pandemics

Hi Joined the team a few days ago. Although I heard about SETI and WCG back in the early 2000's and thought it was a cool idea i never got around to looking into it further (alas same for bitcoin back in 2011). i started crunching on Boinc in the crypto rush of 2017, I gave up on crypto a while back but i do love the science so i am still crunching. I have had to cut back my crunchers in a big way as it was costing me upwards of £250.00 per month on electricity (that was for around 10 dual CPU workstations running old westmere xeons, a few socket 2011's, a few Ryzens, Core 2's and a laptops thrown in. Vast majority of the crunchers have now been sold to try and cover some of my last leccy bill) I will be crunching on WCG with half a ryzen 2600X and will be switching on my Dell T7500 (dual L5640 Westmere) in a few days.

When i crunch on Boinc with all my machines, CPU crunching only, it costs me around £120.00 per month in electricity. If i crunch on GPU's as well i can add an additional £150.00 to that. (CPU's crunching include a couple of ryzen's and 10 dual processor Xeon workstations running a mix of socket 1366 and 2011 Zeons. GPU crunching is primarily AMD HD7970/7990 for double precision) Suffice to say i have had to cut back on my crunching.