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

[[Ion]]

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)

I'm 16 and I make $25-35 a week. No hex for me

[D_A]

I'm 40 and don't even make that! (student with working wife)

[lkiller123]

I am 15 and has like $100 a month, so rich

[trn]

Preview pic; been working hard to try and get everything up by Supercomputer week. Moved most everything under water tonight, two linux host did not come back up so I need to look into that... tomorrow night.

Still to do before supercomputer week:
- Overclock!
- Build a dualie!

[D_A]

<Connery>
Scheckzy!
</Sean Connery>

[Plan.B]

Holy Shiznit! Looking Great!!

[lkiller123]

Night shots please

[Johnmark]

Very nice job trn ! What can I say that already hasn't been said...

BTW you going to put a filter inline somewhere to clean up that dirty water? Hate to see your water blocks degrade with all those high end CPU's !

[[Ion]]

You're telling me you have a dozen WCed hexs at stock?

In that case, I can't wait to see what they do OCed

[EtaCarinae]

Kudos trn. I bow low. And believe me it is not often.

[trn]

BTW you going to put a filter inline somewhere to clean up that dirty water? Hate to see your water blocks degrade with all those high end CPU's !

Not a bad idea at all, I didn't include a drainport anywhere in my system so its a tear down of the WC system if I want to flush and refill For now i'm just happy to be up and running, i'm going to monitor things for awhile and just make sure it doesn't get out of hand.

You're telling me you have a dozen WCed hexs at stock?

In that case, I can't wait to see what they do OCed

err.. I mean, finish overclocking. I was at maybe 80% OC before, I didn't have enough good air coolers to overclock everything before, some rigs were on Intel stock coolers which aren't good for much of anything.

Kudos trn. I bow low. And believe me it is not often.

Thanks but it is I who bow to you who kicks some serious scientific ass!

[jcool]

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

YATH (yeat another thread hijack):

Tested the retail 970 on prime for a while, and found it needs 1,37V load Vcore to run fully stable at 4,5Ghz (180x25)
It's now crunching at that speed. However, power draw has gone up by 70W compared to my 4Ghz setting (1,2V Vcore).

[Origin_Unknown]

woah TRN thats amazing

[trn]

YATH (yeat another thread hijack):

Tested the retail 970 on prime for a while, and found it needs 1,37V load Vcore to run fully stable at 4,5Ghz (180x25)
It's now crunching at that speed. However, power draw has gone up by 70W compared to my 4Ghz setting (1,2V Vcore).

Hijack away! Thats a great result OC! Was that with your chiller?

[Rise]

you may have answered this - but what's the temperature like in your garage compared to the rest of the house?

[jcool]

Hijack away! Thats a great result OC! Was that with your chiller?

No, silent watercooling system @ 35C water temp (~75C CPU) My Chiller is connected to the SR-2 rig.

[EtaCarinae]

Excellent trn.

You achieved over 842'000 WCG points (over 120'000 Boinc credits) yesterday. Seems Poseidon is lashing at us mere mortals in full fury

[ggdh]

120'000 BOINC points. That's impressive. You are doing some serious damage at pie's table

[D_A]

I'd be pretty damn happy to manage 100,000 WCG, never mind 100,000 BOINC!

[shoota]

Geez that's alot of points! Good job trn

[SMTB1963]

After seeing the massive numbers trn's been putting up all week, I decided to read through this thread this morning. Half way though, I was reminded of that old Dylan song:

Come all without, come all within
You'll not see nothing like the mighty trn

Now I can't get that friggn tune out of my head. It's been playing over and over and over all day.

Thanks, trn. Thanks a lot.

[EtaCarinae]

trn I suppose that your rig is now up and running.
I wonder when you get at 800'000 WCG points what kind of total power your system does pull.

[trn]

trn I suppose that your rig is now up and running.
I wonder when you get at 800'000 WCG points what kind of total power your system does pull.

I'm never quite finished it seems I still have one more rig to build and then 2 total to put in the water cooling system and overclock. The 800,000 was not really an average day for me; I unloaded my finished WU que early to report on Monday and give the team one last push. I've set my crunchers to report only at times when I'm not home or asleep, I think I might scale back the reporting times even more drastically too, maybe only 4 or 5 hours in the middle of the night for reporting. When I am up and running with everything, I expect to be in the 670,000-700,000ish ppd range depending on how well my last two stubborn CPU's OC.

I did a rough estimate before that with everything going I think I use 3.7KwH, my estimates are always a little low so figure 3.7KwH - 4.0KwH might be a bit more realistic.

[EtaCarinae]

I stand at 4 kW with 18 machines. Of these 18 machines 4 run the 950 and 14run the 980X. Of the 18 machines three are not OC and run stock. Of these machines at stock speed two are 950 and one is 980X.

[trn]

Thats excellent efficiency, and especially since your still running some 45nm's! Good to know both of our power companies won't go out of business anytime soon