OK, thanks. I always worry when giving advice. That's one of the reasons I hated being in practice - there were never really any right answers just well informed guesses.

So I was busy last night and today if you saw any of my other threads. I put the 7870 in the server which didn't work so I tried to add it to another rig which didn't work. So then I pulled a 7950 out of the 1090T and put in crossfire config into one of the 2600k's. That eventually worked and now this machine has 20 threads running.

I put the 7870 into the 1090T and that has 7 threads. The remaining 2600k has 8 threads. So all tolled --> 35 threads.

I think what I'll do is get a new PSU for the 1090 so I can run another 7870 with the existing one in xfire and call it a day.

edit: BTW, I was thinking of building the last server and runing for people on the team for the cost of electricity. I think it will probably pull around 200watts, maybe less. My marginal rate on juice I think is 18 cents but that was over the summer, it might be lower now.

So worst case figure 200x24x30 = 144 kwhr x .18 = $26 per month.

However this assumes I can find an outlet to plug it into. I think I can plug it in in my office since I have a 700 watt a/c in there in the summer normally so that should work.

Just a heads up. It looks like the HCC project hasn't kept up with the demand for wu's and there is a temporary (hopefully) shortage. Here is the thread on it . We probably won't have any more wu's until next week, but that is just my supposition. Right now we don't even have an estimate so it could be shorter or longer.

Anyway, if you want to switch your rigs back to normal crunching, this is what I did.

1. shut down boinc
2. go to profile manager and set up a different profile that includes HCC but also at least one other project.
3. switch the rig to that profile
4. rename your app_info file. I just put a $ in front so it stays at the top of the directory listing.
5. restart boinc manager and update

This should pick up the new profile and start downloading new wu's. It should also pick up HCC wu's when they're available so you can be informed of when things change.

Congrats on the position; well deserved.

Any idea what has happened to Beth (GP). She has not been seen or crunched for a while

I don't actually know anyone here. I'm just a ringer they hired to play on their team.

Crunchin' bin berry, berry, gud to me.

Seriously though, I'm starting to get to know some of the people who can actually tolerate my missives on everything from gambling to quantum mechanics. It's like having your very own crazy, loquacious homeless person but without the smell and messy clean up.