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Bearcat
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 6, 2007 Post Count: 2803 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Here is the case.....
----------------------------------------http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811123130 Not bad little case. Plan on moding the top to add another fan. Already put my E5420's back in there. Was looking for a bigger case but the plan was to get rid of my slow woodcrest chips. I listed it on craigslist to see if I get a bite. Will hate the temp come Sunday through Wednesday. Brrrrrr. Stinks I'm missing out on all the overtime the guys at work are getting. Have to go get a disco gram in couple weeks. Dreading that procedure. 
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Warpedcow
Advanced Cruncher Joined: Mar 21, 2009 Post Count: 148 Status: Offline |
I was reading somewhere on this board that Boinc and the CEP2 project work really well running on a ram drive or ssd drives for some reason. I just skimmed over the post. I will try and find it again. That doesn't make any sense. These projects should all run exclusively in real, physical RAM. I guess if you just don't have enough of that, you could improve things by moving your swap file to an SSD, but it's gotta be cheaper to just buy more RAM unless you're out of empty DIMM sockets... SSD vs. HDD Interesting results, though not conclusive. I'd be curious what XS_fallwind has for swap file or page file settings on both machines, as well as how often BOINC is configured to write to disk, as well as what sort of write caching is configured in his operating system. I would think you could configure your OS to do non-blocking write caching to your HDD, then have BOINC write often enough to disk such that all the writes fit in cache. Even physical HDDs usually have 32 or 64MB of cache... which should be plenty if you're writing results often enough.... then the OS could cache amounts above that into your physical RAM...
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Bearcat
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 6, 2007 Post Count: 2803 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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http://www.microcenter.com/specials/email/CPlanding1210.html
----------------------------------------Here is some specials from micro center. I picked up 2 32gb ssd's. 50 bucks each after rebate. Will put one in one of my crunchers replacing the hard drive. 32 gb should be enough. Brink must be putting his new toy together. No word from him yet.
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7850 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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http://www.microcenter.com/specials/email/CPlanding1210.html Here is some specials from micro center. I picked up 2 32gb ssd's. 50 bucks each after rebate. Will put one in one of my crunchers replacing the hard drive. 32 gb should be enough. Brink must be putting his new toy together. No word from him yet. Those are all nice deals. $50.00 for the 1T drive looks like quite a bargain along with the SSD's. Who would have thought you get that kind of storage at that kind of price. Amazing  Cheers
Sgt. Joe
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txvb
Cruncher Joined: Mar 24, 2010 Post Count: 9 Status: Offline |
Heh, Brink are you going to try this with all that ram?
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Up and running on my new i7 950.
----------------------------------------So far so good. Got windows loaded so I can play with the mobo and graphic's utils. Was going to run all night but forgot to turn off the power saving stuff. Got boinc loaded just now going to see how that runs using the boinctasks program. txvb, not working on Linux yet. Definitely later today I will install it. Maybe will install when the wife and boy are out shoveling the driveway.  [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Dec 11, 2010 4:49:30 PM] |
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7850 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Maybe will install when the wife and boy are out shoveling the driveway. Sounds like it will stay snowing for a while yet. No use wearing out the help before the snow stops  Cheers
Sgt. Joe
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Bearcat
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 6, 2007 Post Count: 2803 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Should stop snowing pretty soon. When the wind kicks up, the drifting will be a pain. I ordered 2 of those ssd's but got a response an hour later that they are back ordered. Hope I get them. 32gb should be enough for OS, boinc and a program or two.
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
We have over a foot of new snow so far. The drifts are 3-4 feet here in Bloomington. I bet out-state they are 6-8 foot drifts by now especially south of the metro where 20" is expected.
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txvb
Cruncher Joined: Mar 24, 2010 Post Count: 9 Status: Offline |
The wind is whipping up here, 3,4,5+ foot drifts...
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