"Courage" in now online Crunching for Cancer

[Johnmark]

After several hours trying to install the O.S. without a CD drive I finally gave up and transferred one from another machine. I don't really understand why I couldn't get a bootable USB image to work, but I couldn't. I must have tried a dozen different USB boot programs and could easily boot the machine but the OS would not install properly. Never mind trying to do an install without a USB keyboard, they finally got rid of old PS2 connector on this Mobo. I have a IOgear KVM switch, but for some reason it isn't working properly either. But in the end she is up and running at 4.8Mhz/3.4v/62c.

I really haven't played around much with my 2600k setups and was surprised to see that every program I ran gave me a different CPU voltage reading, many had a delta of .6 volts or more! So I used Asus's voltage readings. She's pulling 186 watts from the wall which is a lot higher than my other two 2600k's running at 4.6Ghz(143w&167w) so I may still play around to see if I can get that down a bit more. I inadvertently OCed the onboard video so maybe that is all I have to adjust.

Setup is:

Core™ i7-2600K Processor
HyperX Genesis 8GB DDR3-1600MHz CL9 Dual Channel Kit (2 x 4GB) w/ Intel XMP
Corsair Hydro H100 Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler
Corsair Carbide Series 500R Case, White
Corsair Enthusiast Series TX750M Modular Power Supply
Corsair Force Series GT SATA III Solid State Drive, 60GB
Asus P8Z68-V PRO/GEN3 Motherboard
Asus USB-N53 Dual-Band Wireless N Adapter
Windows 7 Professional x64 (64-bit) SP1 DVD - OEM

I'm up to 47 days on HCC and 15 days on HFCC, all machines have been reverted back to crunching HCC only as it seems there are still a lot of W.U's available, so with a little luck I'll hit my goal of 62 years.

As a side note the price of power in our area has doubled in the last month due to our stupid Government and greedy Utility companies, I don't know how much longer I have on my 5 year contract at 7c a KW/h but hopefully it's enough to get me to my goal as my power bill is already very high when all the surcharges are added in.

[D_A]

w00t!

[Hondacity]

wooooo +1

[retro77]

Congrats on the new cruncher!

As far as problems with USB install of Windows, I know I had problems way back because I was on a 32-bit version of Windows, trying to make a USB for 64-bit media. It won't work, at least it didn't back then. I just use a DVD drive that I disconnect once Windows is installed.

Cheers!

[Johnmark]

Congrats on the new cruncher!

As far as problems with USB install of Windows, I know I had problems way back because I was on a 32-bit version of Windows, trying to make a USB for 64-bit media. It won't work, at least it didn't back then. I just use a DVD drive that I disconnect once Windows is installed.

Cheers!

Thanks Guys, I just found the grill for the cruncher that DVD drive was in and will just hook it up to whatever machine needs it. Much simpler in the end than dicking around with USB's

Got the new machine running at 4.75 Ghz at 3v, so I'm now pulling 162w and the temps are all under 60c and it is even Linx stable.

[[XC] Oj101]

Nice speed, IBM XT with a 0.02 MHz underclock?

[D_A]

Nice speed, IBM XT with a 0.02 MHz underclock?

and 2.0v undervolt

[Johnmark]

Dang, got me again

[NKrader]

so dumb question can somone pm me how to get that wcgrid siggy? ive looked and cant seem to find it..

[D_A]

You have to go to the Chat Rom sub-forum at WCG and ask a guy called "Snurk" to do one for you. All the relevant info is in the thread. https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.or...d_thread,29840

[Sparky]

*Sparky likes this*

[Johnmark]

You have to go to the Chat Rom sub-forum at WCG and ask a guy called "Snurk" to do one for you. All the relevant info is in the thread. https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.or...d_thread,29840

Sounds like some kind of Cloak and Dagger situation lol

BTW how come you have a crown beside your name and I have what appears to be a kid ?

[D_A]

Sounds like some kind of Cloak and Dagger situation lol

BTW how come you have a crown beside your name and I have what appears to be a kid ?

Shhhhh! Secret Squirrel!

Only thing I can think of is the difference in dates we joined, coz you out crunch me in every other stat on that image.

[retro77]

Sounds like some kind of Cloak and Dagger situation lol

BTW how come you have a crown beside your name and I have what appears to be a kid ?

The kid on yours means you're a first year member

Check out this link for the others.


edit: Sorry the filled in kid is the first year member. I went back and looked and you're like me, a normal person, not the brown baby.

[Johnmark]

Thanks for the link but I still don't get it, I've been here longer than 1 year and Run Time/Project is more than 1 year.
Don't dispute the fact that the old fellow D_A is a "Gurus [senior & 90+% science badges & beta]", like how did Snurk know that D_A is a Senior
I think Snurks code must be haywire

[Otis11]

Yours is a silver kid - the bronze kid is less than 1 year.

Silver doesn't seem to have a key.

[D_A]

how did Snurk know that D_A is a Senior

I yelled at him to get off my lawn, I think.

[Otis11]

I yelled at him to get off my lawn, I think.