Build Log: 100,000 PPD by 1/23/2011

[lkiller123]

The fans look like they can power a lawnmower a motorcycle

Does the tubes look orange-ish or like straight-up diarrhea?

[trn]

Awesome setup!

You shoulda seen the FedEx tracking page for that shipment

Those fans look like they kind of blow.

And they really suck They are really doing their job and sucking fresh air into the garage and exhausting them through the Rads

The fans look like they can power a lawnmower a motorcycle

Does the tubes look orange-ish or like straight-up diarrhea?

Straight-up 拉肚子. I think its the heat that discolored the vinyl. The water temp was at least 95F or even hotter for a few weeks as I ran fan-less. Now they feel room temperature to the touch. I had one tube from my intake manifold running directly back to the collection reservoir and I had the ball-joints on that tube turned off so there is water + nuke in there but no heat (or water flowing through it, just still room temp water and nuke) and its still clear.

You can see the one ball joint turned off in this picture and the single clear tube, the rest of the tubing had hot water flowing through it. Maybe it was my Taco pump also, I never flushed that out :dunno:

[lkiller123]

Ugh, that's just tubes intestine

[Jaco]

what a ty watercooling system
I guess the brown color comes from the pump.

[EtaCarinae]

TRN I just discovered this thread which simply made me stare at your pics.
Congratulations for your farm.
14 Hexacores with a kind of general distributed watercooling system. WoW, that is impressive.
It gives the feeling of a kind of organic electronic brain pumping green fluid through arteries. You could do a hell of an artistic object there by carefully playing with coloured lights here and there and take glowing night shots.
On WCG, under which username are you registered. I can't find any "trn".

[trn]

TRN I just discovered this thread which simply made me stare at your pics.
Congratulations for your farm.
14 Hexacores with a kind of general distributed watercooling system. WoW, that is impressive.
It gives the feeling of a kind of organic electronic brain pumping green fluid through arteries. You could do a hell of an artistic object there by carefully playing with coloured lights here and there and take glowing night shots.
On WCG, under which username are you registered. I can't find any "trn".

14 soon to be 16 Hexa's When I get the farm all up and running some night shots with a real camera should be pretty cool, 13 rigs all running with a lot of blue lights on the Gigabyte mobo's.

I'm hiding in plain sight, "trn-XS" is my WCG name, i'm averaging about ~640,000 WCG right now; Once I finish getting the farm all up and running I should give you a better run for your money I'm pretty sure that right now your the top 'private' daily contributor to WCG all the other top producers look like Companies or Colleges.

[[Ion]]

That's absolutely incredible!!!

[EtaCarinae]

I'm hiding in plain sight, "trn-XS" is my WCG name, i'm averaging about ~640,000 WCG right now; Once I finish getting the farm all up and running I should give you a better run for your money I'm pretty sure that right now your the top 'private' daily contributor to WCG all the other top producers look like Companies or Colleges.

Found you on WCG. It is difficult to know who is private and who is a company, school, university etc.. There is a chance I am the top private one when running at over 700'000. I had a good series with five days in a row over 700'000 and three days in a row over 790'000 points. Unfortunately not able to reach 800'000.
I have some machines are going down for unknown reasons, I see them dying and I cannot access them from abroad at the moment. Yesterday I was around 580'000 and you were at about 520'000. But tomorrow you will surely beat me I am afraid.
I am very happy to have a powerful contender here. We will have the "clash of titans", two gods competing: RA (Representing the Solar System) vs Poseidon (my proposal for your system). I find this Poseidon name nice for your farm as you have so much fluid all over the place, but it is up to you to decide.
My farm will be finished I hope in two weeks. It should have in total 18 Hexas and one Quad. But due to family obligations full power will not be allways possible, so we'll see what I will be able to reach.

[haschioz]

oh my god you guys are awesome! great looking set up trn.

[OldChap]

Yep trn that is a fine looking setup ...and I reckon that EtaCarinae is a bit of a star too

[trn]

Found you on WCG. It is difficult to know who is private and who is a company, school, university etc.. There is a chance I am the top private one when running at over 700'000. I had a good series with five days in a row over 700'000 and three days in a row over 790'000 points. Unfortunately not able to reach 800'000.
I have some machines are going down for unknown reasons, I see them dying and I cannot access them from abroad at the moment. Yesterday I was around 580'000 and you were at about 520'000. But tomorrow you will surely beat me I am afraid.
I am very happy to have a powerful contender here. We will have the "clash of titans", two gods competing: RA (Representing the Solar System) vs Poseidon (my proposal for your system). I find this Poseidon name nice for your farm as you have so much fluid all over the place, but it is up to you to decide.
My farm will be finished I hope in two weeks. It should have in total 18 Hexas and one Quad. But due to family obligations full power will not be allways possible, so we'll see what I will be able to reach.

You are without a doubt the highest average daily contributor to WCG right now. Almost all the top daily producers are colleges or companies. And i'm nearly 100% sure that DAK is 3rd (and has been #2 or #3 for a while ) Stoneageman is #5 (not to even mention his astronomical GPUGrid output )

I've been eyeing your output ever since you returned to WCG a month ago, http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...39&postcount=1 A month ago you weren't producing as much as now so my comment is horribly outdated.

I like the suggestion for the farm name; I'll work on that, once completed I think I need a christening ceremony. Right now with my sewage brown water and huricane force winds i'm thinking Katrina might be a better name

[[Ion]]

That's not such an attractive description....I much prefer Poseidon

[D_A]

The amount of wind and shyte flowing around those pipes, I'd call it Kenny (one for the Aussies )

[Kryja]

... with my sewage brown water and huricane force winds i'm thinking Katrina might be a better name

That + Kenny made me think of that old episode of South Park where Mr Hankey does a Fantasia with the brown stuff from the sewers

Nice work as always Trn

[D_A]

Aussie toilet humour has gone international?

<sniff>

I'm so proud!

[Kryja]

<sniff>

I'm so proud!

Sorry, I'm still a child at heart

[jcool]

Dammit. I need moar Hexas... I feel like I need to run at least 10 now
Just fired up a 970 @ 4Ghz earlier today to make me feel better. Still, one short

[trn]

Dammit. I need moar Hexas... I feel like I need to run at least 10 now
Just fired up a 970 @ 4Ghz earlier today to make me feel better. Still, one short

Jcool I was on the fence about asking 'Snurk' for one of those sigs (https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.or...29840_offset,0) But now that I see you using it I need one And I now know the lightning bolts on the globe (like Jcool's) are for 100 years of runtime on a project

How do you like that 970? Not many people using them, I've only seen myself, SAM and now you. I have two ES's and they overclock well, same Vcore's as my A Batch 980x's.

[jcool]

Yeah, that sig rocks!
As to the 970, I am rather impressed with Intel's continuing work on 32nm. This is the 2nd (retail) one I have now, I started using them for customer rigs only a week ago. Both CPUs have been able to run 4Ghz at stock Vcore (1,200V load) and stay VERY cool and power-efficient while doing so. I haven't maxed either of them but I think crunching at 4,5Ghz would be no problem. I may try tomorrow
I paid 610€ each (w/o taxes), and in my opinion, they are well worth that if you can't get your hands on ES

[[Ion]]

That's just awesome, my i7 860 struggles to do even 4ghz (3.8 seems to be a reasonable max for it).

Amazing

[trn]

Yeah, that sig rocks!
As to the 970, I am rather impressed with Intel's continuing work on 32nm. This is the 2nd (retail) one I have now, I started using them for customer rigs only a week ago. Both CPUs have been able to run 4Ghz at stock Vcore (1,200V load) and stay VERY cool and power-efficient while doing so. I haven't maxed either of them but I think crunching at 4,5Ghz would be no problem. I may try tomorrow
I paid 610€ each (w/o taxes), and in my opinion, they are well worth that if you can't get your hands on ES

Those are great results, I run all my gulftowns at 4.2GHz which requires 1.34v under load for stability. 980x's and 970's that I have require the same Vcore. Benching's not really my thing but if I would have to take a guess I would think your 970's ought to run 4.5GHz stable at 1.41v under load or less (thats what my 980's take.)

For those without shady underground chip mafia ES connections theres always EBay, ~$750 buys an ES 970 which saves a few bucks vs retail.

[trn]

That's just awesome, my i7 860 struggles to do even 4ghz (3.8 seems to be a reasonable max for it).

Amazing

And the future is looking even brighter with SB, early indications show the 4c/8t SB's OC'ing very well. If I don't break my 100,000 PPD average with what I have now I think I'll hold out for a new SB setup to cross the finish line in style

[jcool]

Those are great results, I run all my gulftowns at 4.2GHz which requires 1.34v under load for stability. 980x's and 970's that I have require the same Vcore. Benching's not really my thing but if I would have to take a guess I would think your 970's ought to run 4.5GHz stable at 1.41v under load or less (thats what my 980's take.)

For those without shady underground chip mafia ES connections theres always EBay, ~$750 buys an ES 970 which saves a few bucks vs retail.

I'll give this 2nd 970 a real workout tomorrow
I've tested 4,2Ghz successfully at 1,25V and the machine is equipped with some heavy-duty watercooling, so I shouldn't be temperature-limited. I am having issues with the GB UD7 board though. It worked great with the old Bios (F4 from half a year ago), but as soon as I updated to the latest F7 it suddenly started taking minutes (!) to pass the post screen. However, it does not always do that. Internet forums says the problem is due to the SATA3 chip, but disabling it in Bios didn't help
Really weird for GB to have issues like that.. aynway, getting OT

[[Ion]]

And the future is looking even brighter with SB, early indications show the 4c/8t SB's OC'ing very well. If I don't break my 100,000 PPD average with what I have now I think I'll hold out for a new SB setup to cross the finish line in style

Yeah, I can't wait to see what they can do. I personally can't imagine going back to a main rig with less than 8 threads (WCG ), so the 4c/8t ones are all I really care about (and no way I can afford a 6c/12t chip w/ the job I have)

[Otis11]

Yeah, I can't wait to see what they can do. I personally can't imagine going back to a main rig with less than 8 threads (WCG ), so the 4c/8t ones are all I really care about (and no way I can afford a 6c/12t chip w/ the job I have)

You say that... but ramen and tomato soup go a long ways.
(I only have income 3 months out of the year, so trust me, I feel ya)