The ***OFFICIAL*** F@H Harassment and discussion thread!!!

[Sparky]

'Redefined Sparkle Day' has arrived (for GAM)!

I look ahead and all I see is Sparky giving me the moon
And so he should given he is 48,412pts ahead!!!!

Now I see why you said you think I shouldn't get that cheap A64 system, you don't want me pulling ahead even more

[GAM]

NO! I don't! But... nevertheless, it was still sound advice

I'm not going to be touching on your points in any forseeable future :sad:

[Sparky]

NO! I don't! But... nevertheless, it was still sound advice

I'm not going to be touching on your points in any forseeable future :sad:

Hehe well I agree with you on that advice though, I'm gonna save for that watercooling setup. But don't think I won't be watching my rearview mirror, in case you throw another system or two online to try and sneak up on me

[Sparky]

Hey embeejay, you awake? Your PPD has crashed man, what happened?

[Sparky]

AngryPickles is back!

Thought you disappeared on us, glad to see the numbers coming in again

[AngryPickles]

AngryPickles is back!

Thought you disappeared on us, glad to see the numbers coming in again

Its good to be back

[Sparky]

Its good to be back

So what happened that you disappeared for a little while, if you don't mind me asking?

[jimwah]

Hey great to see you again AP

[sc00p]

Angry Pickles overtook me again... I should really put my rigs on, but I got now the new Swiftech-wc goodies... just need some more parts... freaking shops here keep the stocks low
...my alucase project comes on... in the near future

[jimwah]

Good job overtaking me in the dailies Windforce It's likely to stay that way until I've re-overclocked my main rig e6400, and that box spends a lot of time gaming at the weekend too anyways.

And props to the team as a whole, we're punching out over 50K a day recently, we've gone a nice shade of red

[WindForce]

Good job overtaking me in the dailies Windforce It's likely to stay that way until I've re-overclocked my main rig e6400, and that box spends a lot of time gaming at the weekend too anyways.

And props to the team as a whole, we're punching out over 50K a day recently, we've gone a nice shade of red

Thanks! I would have been cruising at 6-7 k in the dailies, if it weren't for 2 rigs that died on me, and my main one ( x2 4800 , 2 GB OCZ Gold XTC, on phase at near 3.0Ghz ) is crashing like mad since i installed Vista Ultimate on it
On another note, just got my hands on a nice E6700, and i expect to put this one on water in a few weeks

[Sparky]

Great numbers going up for the team guys :thumbsup:

Unfortunately my numbers are about to crash I'm still having so many problems with my system, so now I am going to RMA my motherboard and my X1900XT. I don't know which it is that is causing trouble but some of the symptoms have been pointing to one or the other, so I'm RMA'ing them both to make sure I get the problem.

[embeejay]

Hey embeejay, you awake? Your PPD has crashed man, what happened?

Yeah i had to pull the plug on my c2d box here at home since it started behaving oddly... actually have been batteling with this machine for a while now and i am afraid i somehow messed up my cpu through OCing :/

Regular operations are fine, but anything that has to do with encryption and/or compression has something like a 2% failure rate all of a suddon (down from close to 15% when i was still OCing/running F@H).

I have completely disabled all overclocking on the system now, and even had to raise the vcore from the default to make it run close to stable... somehow the cpu just feels a bit too much like pentium 90 these days

At first i thought it was a software problem, but the problem persists across win xp and linux and is giving me heeps of trouble since a lot of encryption and compression goes on on my system... try to think how you'd feel if every time you use an ssl website there is a chance your browser crashes, or that everytime you try to unzip something there is a chance you have try unzipping it 20 times before you computer doesn't choke on it.... trust me it's no fun

crc32 and md5 checks are no longer reliable on my system... nothing is really, and it is killing me *starts crying like a baby*

Problem is... i have no clue if it is actually a hardware problem, and c2d's aren't really cheap so i'm afraid of wasting the money on a new one just to find out it doesn't fix the problem *sigh*

[Sparky]

Wow man that sucks Do you know anyone else with a 775 mobo that you could test your CPU in?

[jimwah]

Damn that sounds annoying, we've all been through it man, sometimes computers can make you want to live in the woods & eat berries & go back to simpler times eh

Have you tried running memtest86 in there, and some Orthos maybe - I find the various Orthos tests can be useful in finding the where the problem lies, RAM or CPU, or maybe mobo, if neither big fft or small ffts runs properly. You've probably had fun trying all these things already, but I thought I'd mention 'em.

[AngryPickles]

So what happened that you disappeared for a little while, if you don't mind me asking?

It got busy at work and the noise of 3 computers going 24/7 got annoying so i decided to scale back a bit.
Then my 3rd rig died with some sort of toxic ooze bubbling out of the motherboard, and I did a reformat of my moms computer and forgot to reinstall f@h as a service, so I went 4 weeks with out any points.
Now that work is quiet I had some time water cool my main rig and my 2nd comp in a different room, its much quieter, and i got a 1900xt 512meg cheap off ebay to throw in my 2nd comp, just need to get f@h back on my moms computer and tell her to leave it on 24/7

[jimwah]

Nice output AP, sounds like it's set to improve too

Let us know how you get on with the new e6700 Windforce, I've got to re-overclock my e6400 (I've ditched the horrible P5N32-Sli SE for a P5N-E Sli, a much better board). I thought the overclock was making games crash, but running at stock I found it seems to have been caused by an out of date DirectX9 - so I should be back on 3.2Ghz with that soon hopefully, very close in the dailies between you & me at the moment

[Sparky]

so much for me hoping to pass pickles Especially after the main rig died... blah.

[Sparky]

Waahhh I fell down to green stats now..

It's been awefully quiet over here anyone home?

[jimwah]

I'm always about mate I've noticed some relatively new names on the dailies too, Scott, mawsoccer, Firedart, shout up guys & make yourselves known maybe I just missed the introductions but the names don't look familiar.

[Sparky]

Yeah I saw them too, seems that we've got some mysterious crunchers. Speak up guys, we want to meet you

[Sparky]

Umm......

Click here

What has happened to the stats? Sudden crash, build back up some, then an even deeper crash! This isn't good... hmm maybe Angra's cluster is getting some more usage right now. And then I don't know what happened to mmnp or mele and AngryPickles dropped like a stone as well

Hopefully this is just an anomaly and things will go back to normal...

[jimwah]

The eoc stats site is struggling to load from here at the moment... I had a look at free-dc's page

Maybe we are getting caught up with some heavy units that are making the stats spike My stats have been up & down a lot more recently, I jumped from ~1k to ~7k for a few days, where normally I've churning out a fairly consistant 3k-5k.

[angra]

regarding my cluster...I have been running the same 16 AMD64 dual-proc nodes for a while now...I did have to reboot the NFS server, and I think the compute nodes freaked out, and possibly lost all their in-progress WU after that. my production has been way down the last couple of days, but hopefully it'll spike sometime soon to average it out.

[Sparky]

OK glad to know it is just a temporary drop.

Apparently all of mmnp's points came in all at once last night so his production is normal.