Good afternoon team,

Hope everyone is keeping well. Good to see that the team thread is keeping busy and a new fresh look to the website. Keep up the excellent work everyone and welcome to the team Jim.

Ah the good old "just out of warranty"! It does sound as though the gfx card has unfortunately been cooked if it's been running gpu units pretty much all day every day.
Trying to get a new one is a bit like trying to find rocking horse poop at the moment.

Don't think I'll catch you up though, you're 25million points ahead of me in the team rankings and at the current rate, Dave's site reckons that's over 3500 days for me to overtake

I can sympathise DMNI. I've always looked on it as a charitable donation, but with the increased cost of electricity it becomes harder to justify. Also, with climate change very much on the agenda, I'm not convinced that running a computer more than absolutely necessary is the responsible thing to do. Unless of course you have your own source of renewable energy (I don't). Having said that, I'm still running mine for short periods as a contribution to heating the room when I'm in it. Still, even small contributions help towards the overall research goals, and the badges do appear eventually.

I'm going to do some testing to see what I can do to get my power usage to a minimum, regardless though, no matter what I do, I'm unable to run WCG. Same on my wife's computer.
I don't have any plans to sell my threadripper, it is a fantastic system for doing video work and other tasks that can utilise multiprocessing. The motherboard is amazing.
So many configurations are possible, and more connectors for devices than I would ever need.
I can setup a number of system profiles, one for low power usage and one for max processing and can switch them with a single click of the mouse. A reboot may be required if the number of active CPU's is changed though.

Would you be interested in buying it Rob?

I'm still running mine when the room is cold, but only when I sitting in front of the computer. It keeps my feet warm . It adds about 110W to the consumption (for 24 threads). Interestingly, the overall package power consumption hits 142W at about 18 threads, so I guess everything slows down due to power limitations above that.

You have solar panels I believe, DMNI, so hopefully you can do a bit of free crunching when the sun's shining? I'm sure we've not seen the last of you!