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    Ragnarsdad reacted to Chiyawa in What's something from an old build that you miss in your current one?   
    Me? Well, 5.25 drive bays. They are the best expansion ever made. Not enough front USB ports? Chug 5.25 inch USB expansion into it. Your case doesn't have USB-C but your motherboard has a header? Chug one in. Controlling fan from software is tedious? Chug a fan controllers with knobs that can manually control fan speed. Need a small screen for AIDA hardware monitoring software? Buy a LCD screen and chug it in the bays. Always find yourself swapping HDD or SSD in and out? Get one swappable cage and chug it in. Ever need a drawer? You can chug in one. Lots and lots of usage there.
     
    Too bad modern PC cases don't even bother to include one because of unicorn rainbow puke and the 'fashion sense' gone horribly awful that the fashion police should put an end so the public are not being tortured further. Sad to see this super useful features are going to extinct. It also saddened me more that people just under utilising it.
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    Ragnarsdad reacted to Gorgon in BOINC Community Board   
    WooHoo! - Finally after over a year - 100 years CPU time on World Community Grid's OpenPandemics:

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    Ragnarsdad got a reaction from Captainmarino in BOINC Community Board   
    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.
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    Ragnarsdad got a reaction from Gorgon in BOINC Community Board   
    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.
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    Ragnarsdad got a reaction from Gorgon in BOINC Community Board   
    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.
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    Ragnarsdad got a reaction from leadeater in BOINC Community Board   
    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.
     
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    Ragnarsdad got a reaction from Ithanul in BOINC Community Board   
    WCG just announced a new project aimed at Covid 19 and future pandemics
     
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    Ragnarsdad got a reaction from Ithanul in BOINC Community Board   
    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.
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    Ragnarsdad got a reaction from rkv_2401 in BOINC Community Board   
    WCG just announced a new project aimed at Covid 19 and future pandemics
     
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    Ragnarsdad got a reaction from yoerik in BOINC Community Board   
    WCG just announced a new project aimed at Covid 19 and future pandemics
     
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