I don't know about your case but wait to see the results of those units you sent in.

On another note.. I have a E6600 running at 3.2 GHz which can finish Cancer/AIDS units in about 3-4 hours.

My new Q6600 at stock 2.4 GHz is taking 15 hours for a unit.. What in the world is up with that? =/ All cores are crunching, 4 units at a time, 100% CPU usage. What's up with this? Haven't been able to figure it out. 2 GB of RAM.

Both running on 5.10.22.

Hi Night Owl,

The "slightly overclocked machine"? Undervolting and overclocking is an art-form that can go together with strange behaviour, and often goes together with "but not my rock solid machine" incredulous moan.

My recommendation is to go back to base i.e. stock speed and see if the premature 'conclusions' do not occur anymore and run some thorough hardware tests. 1-1.5 Minutes duration jobs you'll find at other DC projects, but not here. The phenomena was reported here once or twice and obviously always converted from at the end to be 'Invalid'.

@Blizzie, that is likely the HCC jobs that in (un)certain configurations become very inefficient. Reading about a backward going TTC (Time to Completion) and graphics being displayed going together, it might in fact be a cause of promoting that inefficiency.... cant test to watch taskmaster as service installs i have don't provide graphics. Something is special that generates many Page Faults and a delta of that, but what? If only we'd be able to figure that out (Discussed finding in other long thread).

ttyl

Dengue workunits are fast, but not that fast. 25 minutes is about the best average around on a fast Intel "quad" Dual Core Duo. That was just pushing the 50 workunits/core/day line, so that was increased to 75 workunits/core/day for the moment. Even if you assigned all cores to the same workunit, I'm not sure you could get a normal one done in less than 2 minutes.

I can do one in about an hour on AMD 2.4Ghz, ranging from between 40 minutes and 1.5 hours. I have an AMD 3.2GHz X2 6400+ Black Edition waiting for memory, better mobo and some cables. It should be good for at least a 35 minute cost effective turnaround. The first AMD Phenoms are not fast enough to match the core speed of what I already have, so I went with the last gasp X2 for now.

Those one minute thingys sound like BOINC scheduler tests if they are just waiting. If they have truly completed, then I wonder whether they are some kind of leftovers, tests or mistakes. I haven't seen any, but I'm only doing DDD-T right now. Another overclocking thread has fast workunits coming out as "inconclusive", right on the edge of what is good and what is not. In that situation, WCG sends out more workunits to make sure and flip them to valid or invalid. I suspect that those will end up as invalids.