The "Oh My, Look Who Has Pie" Thread

[SiGfever]

I joined the team a few months back for Movieman's big points challenge. Have been on WCG since June 09 and BOINCing Rosetta and a few other projects for a few months before that. I'm pretty much exclusive WCG for a year now, chasing badges and improving my number positions on WCG. I have been replacing my BOINCfarm fleet of mostly old Dell business GX P4 Northwood and Prescott machines I bought off Ebay last summer with some newer stuff. Run both Win XP and Linux crunchers. I thought I was a big time cruncher until I got to looking around the XS forums. It was a humbling experience. Unfortunately for me and my credit card, I live 45 min. from a Microcenter. I was trying to improve my team stats for XS and surprised to get pie a couple times now, I figured some of the regular eaters must be on vacation or too hot. Everything I have is factory air cooled and bone stock speeds, that was the next phase I was looking to start this fall to dabble in OC'ing some of the new rigs.

But around here we limit speaking "The name that shall not be spoken!"

[w0en]

Did I correctly just count 25 machines all returning points from your DC stats?

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Welcome Fitseries!

That could well be - I don't run that many all the time and I no longer have enough power to run them all at once, but I do exercise the old ones once in a while to be ready if someone asks for "everything including the kitchen sink"! There has been some recent new project activity and I needed to throw more crunchers out there to get a new badge color, some recent BETA activity as well. Many of my old Dells no longer get WU on the newer projects because they only have 500 meg memory. The old ones take so long to finish a WU they are good for badges that count time in hours crunching and in the meantime I was trying to improve my # of results returned score. PPD and PP watt are poor on these so I was adding multicore rigs to improve my score while decreasing my utility bill! It's hard to spend upgrade money on old used memory for a P4HT space heater rig or increase a core 2 CPU from 1.8 to 2.66 when I can get an AMD 2.8 Athlon II 630 X4 with a free MB for 90$ at Microcenter! So far I am having the best ppd luck with an i5-750, seems to be better points/core than the i7-930's, remember all are stock speeds yet. In the plastic bag yet from last Friday another Athlon II 630 X4 and another i5-750. Other than the 3 Supermicro Sossaman servers I got off Ebay I haven't had the time/$$$ yet to move into the multichip serverboard arena, but I am casting covetous eyes towards certain folks with SR-2 rigs!

[stoneageman]

Here's Sundays hallowed pie. But no rest days for the crunchers

[Gamekiller]

After Dave's challenge I got removed from the first page and just when I thought my days of cleaning the tire tracks off of my back were over.... here comes USZ! He's moving up in leaps and bounds. Nice rigs btw, usz!
You guys just wait till I win the lottery!

[stoneageman]

[stoneageman]

[Biker]

Woo!

My best pie ever!

YUM!

[stoneageman]

[stoneageman]

[=[PULSAR]=]

0o0o0oo look what an SR2 can do

[WhiteFireDragon]

w0en, sorry i took so long to notice you, but !! my goodness, you got pie a few times on all stock machines . be sure to learn to OC them, you lose nothing, but can gain more pie. many here are more than glad to help you learn to OC . and if those pci-e slots on your board are not filled yet, be sure to take a look over at our GPU folding or crunching forum. it's quite addicting also

ryan, your one SR-2 gives you pie?? i have 4 i7's and a bunch of little machines, but i'm nowhere near WCG pie yet

EDIT: oops, i forgot you also have (or had) that 980X. btw, did you get it RMA'ed for a new one?

[trn]

[Movieman]

PIE! ...

[SiGfever]

PIE! ...

Congratulations, that is a tough crowd to take PIE from.

[stoneageman]

Forgot just how good blueberry tastes

[Movieman]

Forgot just how good blueberry tastes

Blueberry is good pie..
Don't think I ever had that..
Cherry one day, but never blueberry!
Congrats!

[Rob_B]

I want some pie too.

Great crunching, guys.

[trn]

Forgot just how good blueberry tastes

Gonna be short lived, looks like Muddy just revived his farm

[stoneageman]

back muddy. Back to reality pie for me

[SiGfever]

You guys are kickin arse and taking names. I can almost remember what getting PIE was like.

[Movieman]

You guys are kickin arse and taking names. I can almost remember what getting PIE was like.

2 years ago the points needed for blueberry pie wouldn't get you arse pie today!

[SiGfever]

2 years ago the points needed for blueberry pie wouldn't get you arse pie today!

Ain't that the truth.

[Movieman]

Ain't that the truth.

Me today..and not even a smell of a crumb..
Statistics
Date Total Run Time(y:d:h:m:s) Points Generated Results Returned
8/2/10..... 0:045:00:35:54 .............. 149,186........... 324

[SiGfever]

Me today..and not even a smell of a crumb..
Statistics
Date Total Run Time(y:d:h:m:s) Points Generated Results Returned
8/2/10..... 0:045:00:35:54 .............. 149,186........... 324

I know, it is like swimming in a pool of Great Whites with a cut on my leg. I don't even make good chum.

[Movieman]

I know, it is like swimming in a pool of Great Whites with a cut on my leg. I don't even make good chum.

I love the analogy!
I'll be back into it soon..
Got some toys coming that should add ..oops..
We'll, they will add a few points a day..