First Month

[AngryMochi]

Celebrating my first month of 24/7 crunching. I hit 20,000 BOINC points and I'm pretty excited. It isn't much but hey, I'm still happy.

Thanks to everyone who gave me quick, helpful, and concise answers on all of my question threads when I first joins I know there were a lot of them.

[7Losses]

Sweet! Me too Welcome aboard

[=[PULSAR]=]

Welcome aboard and thanks for sticking around...its sure going to be a hot summer

[7Losses]

Welcome aboard and thanks for sticking around...its sure going to be a hot summer

Not here in New Zealand! It's freezing here at the moment

[D_A]

Are you on the South Island? I heard it gets REALLY freezing there.

[slaveondope]

My first month too.
Have you started digging out old parts, try hijacking your family and friends rigs, or spent a pay check or two at newegg yet?
If not dont worry it will come

[AngryMochi]

My first month too.
Have you started digging out old parts, try hijacking your family and friends rigs, or spent a pay check or two at newegg yet?
If not dont worry it will come

Put together a new dual core system for crunching from a bunch of old pieces... and a shiny new intel processor.

[7Losses]

Are you on the South Island? I heard it gets REALLY freezing there.

Actually im in whats considered the warmest part of NZ, Hawkes Bay in the North Island. So yeah, no super freeze like the South Island

My first month too.
Have you started digging out old parts, try hijacking your family and friends rigs, or spent a pay check or two at newegg yet?
If not dont worry it will come

I actually Hijacked my Sisters and Grandmas Comp (yeah they are extremly slow!) Also just got one of my friends onto the job too

[don_xvi]

Thanks to everyone who gave me quick, helpful, and concise answers

How did you get concise answers out of this crew?
If you say they stayed on topic, also, I'm going to call you a liar!

Seriously,

Thanks for contributing!

[Rise]

congrats guys! nice work so far, keep it up

[[XC] mysticmerlin]

It is GREAT to see you guys and gals stay after the "Super Computer" week and still have the passion to keep at it.

20k

[Sparky]

Glad you're sticking around! That is what we like to see.

and Newegg/Microcenter/Frys/etc love it too...

We'll kick that cancer where it hurts

[jcool]

Congratz on the 20k and thanks for staying on

What are you running? Is it overclocked?

[Otis11]

Congratz on the 20k and thanks for staying on

What are you running? Is it overclocked?

Look at the name of the forum and feel free to tweek some things before you answer.

It's nice to have you man, congrats on the stone.

[7Losses]

Ok, don't laugh at this one My Main Rig is....drum roll please....
- Pentium Dual Core E5200 overclocked to 3.2 Ghz
- Asus PK5KPL/1600 motherboard
- 4 GB RAM
- Radeon 4760

I'm considering upgrading to a Quad Core Q9400 here:
http://www.pbtech.co.nz/index.php?item=CPUITQ9400

I don't have the cash for a full upgrade (i7 upgrade) but should be able to scrape together enough for this processor. What kind of difference do you think it will make?

[jcool]

E5200's are nice budget chips.. I once overclocked one to 4.3Ghz on stock air
I guess you could crank it up to around 3,6Ghz 24/7

Getting a Q9400 (and overclocking it) should pretty much double your WCG production.
Although I am doubtful the mobo will hold up to an OCed Quad for long.. just had a look at the P5KPL/1600, the VRM does NOT look good. 3 phase analog with no cooling whatsoever, I fear you might blow up the board crunching 24/7 with a Quad. At the very least I would recommend to put some mosfet coolers on it.

Maybe save up a bit more, and either go the AMD or S1156 route.

[7Losses]

E5200's are nice budget chips.. I once overclocked one to 4.3Ghz on stock air
I guess you could crank it up to around 3,6Ghz 24/7

Getting a Q9400 (and overclocking it) should pretty much double your WCG production.
Although I am doubtful the mobo will hold up to an OCed Quad for long.. just had a look at the P5KPL/1600, the VRM does NOT look good. 3 phase analog with no cooling whatsoever, I fear you might blow up the board crunching 24/7 with a Quad. At the very least I would recommend to put some mosfet coolers on it.

Maybe save up a bit more, and either go the AMD or S1156 route.

Yeah I think the motherboard may be the problem. I've heard that the E5200 can go much higher but I seem to have problems above around 3.3 (with stock cooler). Above 3.3 I have random lockups and reboots, above around 3.4 the computer refuses to boot all.

I did buy it on the cheap though

[dendanger]

I'm also at a month and a few day's. I have 32,944. I should go check on the computer crunching, it seems like it should do more?

[radaja]

me too.1 month in and counting
total boinc

and by rac


congrats,AngryMochi,7Losses,slaveondope and dendanger on our 1 month anniversary

[AngryMochi]

Congratz on the 20k and thanks for staying on

What are you running? Is it overclocked?

Unfortunately I'm underclocked due to some pretty severe heating issues. Keep on breaking 90c.

[DAK1640]

You guys are a bunch of addicts...

[Biker]

So sayeth the master addict



*dies of irony*

[Plan.B]

Indeed. Welcome to the circus that is XS WCG friends!

[dendanger]

I'm also at a month and a few day's. I have 32,944. I should go check on the computer crunching, it seems like it should do more?

Aha, I knew it. I was staring at my stats and in the last month there have been 15 day's with no output. I was scratching my head about and the kid wanted to know why I was messing with the junk computer in the corner for. Oh ya, his buddy has been gaming on it in the evenings, and turning Boinc off, and forgetting to turn it back on when he's done.

[jcool]

Aha, I knew it. I was staring at my stats and in the last month there have been 15 day's with no output. I was scratching my head about and the kid wanted to know why I was messing with the junk computer in the corner for. Oh ya, his buddy has been gaming on it in the evenings, and turning Boinc off, and forgetting to turn it back on when he's done.

If he does that one more time, I'd ban that kid from the house