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mikaok
Senior Cruncher Finland Joined: Aug 8, 2006 Post Count: 489 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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These threads (Summer Shutdowns 2010) are definite signs of summer. But what a coincidence, almost exactly a year earlier! It seems that you can always count on the summer
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sk..
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Crunching is way too polarized, more of you should emigrate to the southern hemisphere
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astrolabe.
Senior Cruncher Joined: May 9, 2011 Post Count: 496 Status: Offline |
Tomorrow our electrical rates go from 6.4 to 7.3 cents per kwh (average over 24 hours). Already shutdown 2 systems (3 cores) for good.
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BSD
Senior Cruncher Joined: Apr 27, 2011 Post Count: 224 Status: Offline |
I'm consolidating my 5 (2 are laptops) old devices down to 3 updated component desktop devices by replacing old hardware with better energy efficient components (motherboard, DIMM, PwrSup, hard drive, and additional CPU cores. Just counting CPU cores and TDP watts: 5 old - 8 cores, 265 watts 3 new - 10 cores, 255 watts Just need to get better CPU coolers than the noisy stock AMD ones and I'll be all set. Replaced the stock AMD CPU cooler with a H.D.T. type. Now it's quiet and lower temps, only hear the PSU fan. Much, much, better now.  BOINC load Stock H.D.T. |
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Coleslaw
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Mar 29, 2007 Post Count: 1343 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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My dual P3 Slot 1 processor machine finally bit the dust. So, I am gonna fire up another low end P4 class system to take its place. Going from 2 550MHz processors system to the 1.4 GHz system. Since I'm not worried about badges right now, it is better for points. That is the last legacy system I can afford to run right now. I may even have to shut it down since more heat is on the way.
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Hardnews
Senior Cruncher England Joined: Oct 11, 2008 Post Count: 151 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Hi there,
I'm an occasional cruncher, live in the UK. July summer temps here are currently just 19 C. I leave my old Prescott P4 crunching to keep the place warm, 85 watts or so of hot Intel silicon helps keep the cat happy too. There's something odd with stuff here, I set up a MK I Asus EEEpc with a clockwork 900 MHz Intel Celeron M 353 to crunch full-time at 100%, so far it's put out four times the work units of the 3.2 GHz Prescott, for 10% of the heat. We need some kind of fuel cell which converts heat directly to electricity. Anyone got one? |
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sk..
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Neither CPU is up to much and the Prescott is very dated now.
----------------------------------------The Celeron might have run different tasks than the Prescott; HCC tasks would take much less than CEP2 tasks for example. Reported tasks might also be a consideration; they could have finished but just not been reported. If you run the same task types on both systems and watch for when they reach the 50% mark, that will give you a better idea of relative performances. - Temperatures not an issue for me at present, and I know my SB stays reasonably cool even when its up to 25degC indoors (hot for here). [Edit 1 times, last edit by skgiven at Jun 22, 2011 1:16:22 PM] |
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Hardnews
Senior Cruncher England Joined: Oct 11, 2008 Post Count: 151 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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"the Prescott is very dated now." Indeed. 2005 vintage.
The P4 has actually caught up, tasks weren't reported, I think, as you divined. The creaking EEEpc knocks out a unit a day, rain or shine. No good as a room heater, though, but has immense novelty value, like the Prescott. There's an i3-2100 arriving this week, that should shake the trees a little more. |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
IIRC it was brinktastee proposing that I'd move to a Mac lap of some kind on next replacement [to cover all OSses], but too much issue with Jobs' way of doing business, so my eye has fallen on an I5-2410M [35W-TDP 32 nanometer], quite affordable/competitively priced device, by HP... half the price of what was paid at the time for the Sony Vaio Duo Centrino, which I think is now about to croak... involuntary shutdown for the summer so to speak. Will squeeze out the last cycle until it does... All's been backed up and the disk ready to be extracted to preserve the client installation.
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Coleslaw
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Mar 29, 2007 Post Count: 1343 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Is it bad when the electric company sends you a special letter informing you that you are using double the average electric usage of all your neighbors? (This is my second one. I figured they liked my checks every month) They also sent me the helpful hints and tips on how to conserve energy at home which I already pretty well do. (CFL bulbs, added insulation, newly caulked windows, etc...) This is even after shutting down 4 of my lower grade crunchers and selling my laptop.
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