entertain me..
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Summer is coming, people are hiding
Main Rig:
- i7 2600k + Noctua NH-C14 - GTX 570
- 16 GB RAM - Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3
- 1x 256GB Corsair Performance Pro SSD
- 1x 256GB Samsung 830 SSD
No one here but us nerds
The Cardboard Master Crunch with us, the XS WCG team
Intel Core i7 2600k @ 4.5GHz, 16GB DDR3-1600, Radeon 7950 @ 1000/1250, Win 10 Pro x64
I've turned all my GPU power to Collatz... doing 500k BOINC point a day when I was barely doing 100k on WCG...
Don't worry, WCG GPU will be back at some point... and most of us will have way more GPU power...
once the gpu lovin stopped, I can't even see my progress on the daily stats until the old stuff scrolls off.
Overtaking inactive user stats like no other
still alive and kickin
Current: AMD Threadripper 1950X @ 4.2GHz / EK Supremacy/ 360 EK Rad, EK-DBAY D5 PWM, 32GB G.Skill 3000MHz DDR4, AMD Vega 64 Wave, Samsung nVME SSDs
Prior Build: Core i7 7700K @ 4.9GHz / Apogee XT/120.2 Magicool rad, 16GB G.Skill 3000MHz DDR4, AMD Saphire rx580 8GB, Samsung 850 Pro SSD
Intel 4.5GHz LinX Stable Club
Crunch with us, the XS WCG team
Desktop rigs:
Oysterhead- Intel i5-2320 CPU@3.0Ghz, Zalman 9500AT2, 8Gb Patriot 1333Mhz DDR3 RAM, 120Gb Kingston V200+ SSD, 1Tb Seagate HD, Linux Mint 17 Cinnamon 64 bit, LG 330W PSU
Flying Frog Brigade-Intel Xeon W3520@2.66Ghz, 6Gb Hynix 1066Mhz DDR3 RAM, 640Gb Hitachi HD, 512Mb GDDR5 AMD HD4870, Mac OSX 10.6.8/Linux Mint 14 Cinnamon dual boot
Laptop:
Colonel Claypool-Intel T6600 Core 2 Duo, 4Gb 1066Mhz DDR3 RAM, 1Gb GDDR3 Nvidia 230M,240Gb Edge SATA6 SSD, Windows 7 Home 64 bit
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no because it creates an even larger gap between normal people and people with tons of disposable income, those that have to rationalize uses for crunchers and those that just buy hardware just for crunching
before you would build a rig which is at least useful, now I can't rationalize spending 200$+ on something that can't do anything but crunch,
but its all good I suppose, projects are getting done, it just seems that I'm always that one step behind and its getting old, kinda killing my drive to want to crunch.
GPU crunching = CPU crunching when you think about it. Ya the GPU puts out more PPD but in the end, we are still crunching WUs. You can't run all projects on the GPU yet so we still need CPU technology.
edit: funny when the most active thread with 14 replies and over 1200 views is the most active thread.
i'm still around in lurker mode. just moved over to a friend's townhouse for the summer. i put my crunchers in the basement. now my bedroom is quieter and cooler. I'll probably be dropping one or two machines in the fall and upgrading to a workstation rig with multiple cpus. i have to consolidate some since i'll be paying for electricity soon.
Desktop (and Cruncher #1):AMD Phenom II x6 1090T @ 4.03Ghz | Gigabyte MA790FXT-UD5P (F8n) | G.Skill Ripjaws 2x4GB @ 9-9-9-24-1T 1680MHz | Radeon HD 5850 & 5830 | Silverstone ST75F 750W | 60GB OCZ Vertex 2 3x1TB WD RE3 (Raid 5) | Lian Li PC-A70B
Cruncher (#2): Intel Core I7 920 (stock) | EVGA X58 SLI | G.Skill Pi 3x2GB | 2x Radeon HD 6870 | Corsair HX850 | Some Janky HDD | LanCool PC-K7
Cruncher (#3): Intel Core I7 2600k (stock) | BioStar TH67+ | G.Skill Ripjaws 2x4GB | Antec Basiq550 | Some Janky HDD | Antec 300
Server: Intel Atom | 2x2GB DDR3 | ThermalRight TR2-430 | Some Less Janky Laptop HDD | Fractal Core-1000
Mobile: Lenovo X120e
This. I know (sorta) how you feel NKrader - when the GPU crunching started I got passed by over 20 team members, but I just reminded myself that it's for the science, not the points - and not all of the projects can use a GPU, so they still need us CPU crunchers to keep going.
Also, keep in mind slow and steady wins the race. Over on GPUGrid, I've never had more than 2 GPUs going at once and that was only for a month. The vast majority of my progress has been 24/7/365 for years... and it's paid off. Not only has an incredible amount of science been done, but next month it looks like I'll take a spot in the top 10 on the team.
Don't get discouraged. Do what you can, when you can - I know the scientists are thankful for your contributions, and our team definitely welcomes the help.
Current: AMD Threadripper 1950X @ 4.2GHz / EK Supremacy/ 360 EK Rad, EK-DBAY D5 PWM, 32GB G.Skill 3000MHz DDR4, AMD Vega 64 Wave, Samsung nVME SSDs
Prior Build: Core i7 7700K @ 4.9GHz / Apogee XT/120.2 Magicool rad, 16GB G.Skill 3000MHz DDR4, AMD Saphire rx580 8GB, Samsung 850 Pro SSD
Intel 4.5GHz LinX Stable Club
Crunch with us, the XS WCG team
And as always being said in this forum.
It doesn't matter how much you contribute.
It matters that you DO
Main Rig:
- i7 2600k + Noctua NH-C14 - GTX 570
- 16 GB RAM - Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3
- 1x 256GB Corsair Performance Pro SSD
- 1x 256GB Samsung 830 SSD
Not that I wasn't happy with the GPU crunching, but I knew I wouldn't be able to keep up with some of our team members. Not that I can with CPU only.
No problem for me. I'm not here for the points. It is fun and a helps you do better, but it is all about the work being done.
Adding more GPU's will raise the power bill to high for me. And as long as we don't know what GPU's will be used in the future I will not spend to much on this. The 7770 will be in my gaming rig soon.
But like the others said. Do what you can, when you can.
And if others can do a lot more, that will be good for the projects and the team.
Now we just need to get the numbers back up and some new projects. With HCC ended and HPF2 and GFAM ending soon, there are only 4 active projects left.
Some fresh projects will be a good motivation to crunch even harder.
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