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[leadeater]

22 minutes ago, Windows7ge said:

Hey @leadeater give me a handicap till I can set them up again.

I'll actually be turning 5 2690v3 VMs off soon, set them to no more tasks a day or so ago and they'll be finishing in the next 10 to 18 hours.

[Windows7ge]

21 minutes ago, leadeater said:

I'll actually be turning 5 2690v3 VMs off soon, set them to no more tasks a day or so ago and they'll be finishing in the next 10 to 18 hours.

Works for me.

[Windows7ge]

@leadeater I really can't complain about taking these rigs offline for hopefully no more than a couple weeks. They've been running since ~Oct of last year 24/7. Here's 8~9 months of strait compute:

 

5960X Rig:

 

3930K Rig:

 

The 5960X rig had a 4.5GHz overclock and never Kernel Panicked. I hear people recommending 24 hour burn-ins to verify O.C. stability. Is ~8 months 24/7 sufficient? Can I call it stable now? 

 

I wanted to O.C. the 3930K but I was using a VERY insufficient PSU and it just wasn't having it. I'm thinking of picking up a pair of Corsair RMx 650W. One for each. In general I need a few more spare PSUs.

[leadeater]

@Windows7ge

Update for you, I'm just hitting 15 years now for OpenPan 

[Windows7ge]

2 minutes ago, leadeater said:

@Windows7ge

Update for you, I'm just hitting 15 years now for OpenPan 

 

Eh, I'll get there eventually. If it wasn't so hot outside I'd be doing almost double. Let me know when you're at 50 years. That's what I have if I add up all my diamond badges.

[leadeater]

3 hours ago, Windows7ge said:

Eh, I'll get there eventually. If it wasn't so hot outside I'd be doing almost double. Let me know when you're at 50 years. That's what I have if I add up all my diamond badges.

Winding down the 5 servers at home, job queue will empty in 2 days. Going to hit 2 MWh this month lol, too much power and their output isn't exactly "great". Need to get some LGA2011 motherboards for the bag of CPUs I have, also not very high end ones but at least more power efficient than the X5650's.

[Windows7ge]

6 hours ago, leadeater said:

Winding down the 5 servers at home, job queue will empty in 2 days. Going to hit 2 MWh this month lol, too much power and their output isn't exactly "great". Need to get some LGA2011 motherboards for the bag of CPUs I have, also not very high end ones but at least more power efficient than the X5650's.

Ye ol landlord complained that I have too many servers. Blasphemy, there's no such thing!

 

A pair of 2670's draw ~400W. There is some long term value in LGA2011 even though they cost more in the 2nd hand market compared to LGA1366.

[leadeater]

@Windows7ge

 

[Windows7ge]

@leadeater

 

 

*again

[Ragnarsdad]

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.

[Ragnarsdad]

On 5/28/2020 at 7:36 AM, leadeater said:

Winding down the 5 servers at home, job queue will empty in 2 days. Going to hit 2 MWh this month lol, too much power and their output isn't exactly "great". Need to get some LGA2011 motherboards for the bag of CPUs I have, also not very high end ones but at least more power efficient than the X5650's.

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.

 

[leadeater]

4 hours ago, Ragnarsdad said:

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.

 

I want rackmount but it's also possible I'll just buy a bunch of just motherboards and PSUs and run them bare for FAH/BOINC events then pack them away.

[Ithanul]

On 5/24/2020 at 2:33 PM, leadeater said:

Anyone know how we enter WCG Teams challenges? Does the team leader have to do it? Maybe we need to address the whole issue of the team leader not being active here anymore and get them moved to @Ithanul

 

https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/stat/viewTeams.do

 

Hmmm, most likely the team lead for the team there would have put the team in.

[GOTSpectrum]

Alright you crazy lot, looking to dump 16 threads on a BOINC project, I'm looking to have the highest points yield and I'm indifferent to what the cause is. 

[mattheginger]

On 5/26/2020 at 5:12 AM, rkv_2401 said:

Well, to give you a point of comparison; my i5 3450 pulled around 2k RAC on Rosetta@home, and my R5 3600(@3.5Ghz) does around 6k. I don't have a specific number for WCG, because I split my resources into 3 projects(Ibercivis, Rosetta and WCG); and besides, I heard that the points may vary between the projects you choose.

Yeah I suspect the points do vary, but it sounds like the latest gen ryzen is light years ahead anyhow 

[rkv_2401]

8 hours ago, mattheginger said:

Yeah I suspect the points do vary, but it sounds like the latest gen ryzen is light years ahead anyhow 

I'm really impressed with the power efficiency of Zen 2. It is quite a bit ahead on performance, yes, but I'm more awed by the performance/watt comparison.

 

Running it with a package power limit of 50W means I can leave it running all day. Even with just 30W going to the CPU(the rest goes to the memory controller and SoC), it clocks at ~3.5Ghz on all 6 cores and 12 threads. On my Ivy Bridge i5, I had to set it at a meager 2.4-2.5Ghz to get the same power draw! The overall power efficiency of this platform is so much better, I get 3x the work done for the same power costs, and this is with just a lowly-binned Ryzen 5 chip. 

[LandJ]

On 5/29/2020 at 7:50 PM, GOTSpectrum said:

Alright you crazy lot, looking to dump 16 threads on a BOINC project, I'm looking to have the highest points yield and I'm indifferent to what the cause is. 

@GOTSpectrum 

Einstein@Home seems to yield well. But that is based on what i am able to crunch at the time.

 

Also any one been able to get WU from the LHC project? latest news implies its functioning but not able to pull WU.

[vsral]

I just want to quickly introduce myself here, since I'm pretty new here on the forum.

 

I have been Folding on and (mostly) off the last 9 years. First with i7 920 and GTX570 (I remember hitting around 60k PPD), and since a few years x5650 and RX580. Still, with the (in my opinion disproportionate) quick return bonus, it's no fun Folding with a bit outdated hardware, so I went with BOINC since a couple weeks. Still need to learn a lot, especially with multiple systems/remote acces etc. Since I found relevant info here, and it seems this forum here is relatively active with folding/boinc I thought I would join and crunch for LTT.

At the moment I only have my old x58 system but I'm in the process of buying another pc. 

Still not sure if it's worth it to let my NAS fold as well. (How is the performance/watt of a Celeron j3455?)

 

Best regards from Belgium.

[OIIOOIOI]

2 hours ago, vsral said:

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Still not sure if it's worth it to let my NAS fold as well. (How is the performance/watt of a Celeron j3455?)

 

Best regards from Belgium.

If your NAS runs anyway let it crunch BOINC. 10W TDP of the processor aint much. It wont give you this much points per day, but continous extra bonus points help a lot .

[vsral]

I got a new mITX rig with a 2700x and 1660 Ti.

CPU is always on Rosetta, 1660 Ti is mostly folding, but I let it try Einstein as well when I don't want the pc to stay on for almost 5 more hours.

However, my old RX580 just destroys the 1660 Ti in Einstein it seems.

 

Do you guys now of any other gpu projects that would benefit relatively more from a 1660 Ti? 

[dogwitch]

so i been running farm of pc in night time.

di to bein in fl.

but am pulling 2k watts total.

that on 3 rigs atm.

 

 

also this is a updated post.

it look lie we have a few admin of  ltt boinc group disspear. i going to start asking to be admin of those groups. have some one that still on boinc projects

Edited August 25, 2020 by dogwitch
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[Windows7ge]

This sucks a little bit. Despite being stable for months and months and months running 24/7 my 5960X overclocked BOINC rig suddenly decided to stop being stable and has crashed multiple times every week for weeks now.

 

Finally today it crashed in such a way that hitting reset wasn't enough to get it going again.

 

Got it hooked up to KV and decided to reduce the O.C. from 4.5GHz to 4.4GHz. See if it crashes any less often.

[rkv_2401]

Just hit a million credits for Rosetta@home. 

 

 

[dogwitch]

just a update. am now the admin/founder of primegrid. OG no longer on their. so i took over

[Windows7ge]

@Gorgon Just out of idle curiosity (definitely not because I think you're gunning to overtake me ) I see you have the 20 year diamond badge for OpenPandemics. How much higher are you above that exactly? :3