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Bearcat
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 6, 2007 Post Count: 2803 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Unless your putting this unit outside or away from the family, suggest you keep the Ghz down a little as clovertowns do get quite hot, especially in a 1U and 2U box. Those little fans will sound like its ready for blast off. I think I still have a pair of small heatsinks/fan if you need any. Collecting dust in a box somewhere downstairs. Learned real quick not to use something like this where the computer is in the living room.  The 2950 is in an outbuilding, away from the house. There is no way I would put any of the servers in the house, even the basement. They are just too loud. I have brought them in to do work on them in the basement in the winter and I can hear them upstairs. The 2950 is a 2U unit and there does appear to be sufficient air flow through the unit to keep everything cool. I will monitor the cpu temps to see how it is doing. I appreciate the offer of the heatsinks, will let you know, but I think the existing ones should be sufficient. I am still in the experimental phase with this unit. Cheers Sounds good. You can have them if you need them. Hate to throw away computer parts. If you can get lucky and find the L series 5300 clovertowns, will help on your electric bill.
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ryan222h
Senior Cruncher Joined: Sep 4, 2006 Post Count: 425 Status: Offline |
Thanks, Bearcat. I am using the 7770 as it seems to be one of the best in terms of price/performance ratio. Currently using 5 of them, best day so far was 923,000  923,000  Holy crap, thats outstanding. 5 separate systems or multiple cards per cruncher? One of the draw backs of using server boards is only 1 x16 slot. Decided my next build will be a cheap quad with ability to hold 2 or 3 cards. Seeing some doing 4 GPU wu's per card here at WCG, thinking 2 will do depending on what gard to use. Not sure if I'll wait for the 8000 AMD series cards coming out by end of year or go for a 7900 series card. My 6950 is doing pretty good now but only one at a time. Are you able to crunch more than one wu at a time on your 7770? How long does one wu take to crunch? Appreciate the info.I have 2 gpu on each of my i7-2600k machines. The i7's run at 4.5 ghz to keep the CPU times down, still with HT on though. Each work unit averages 2:00 minutes total cpu + gpu, so with those 2 machines I finish a wu every 30 seconds. Then I have another gpu on an AMD 1055t machine at 3.5 ghz on which the total time is 2:40 per wu. I'm only doing 1 wu per gpu at a time. Tried adding an app_info.xmll but it doesn't seem to work for my graphics card, so I deleted it and they're just running normal now. The 7970 guys seemed successful at running 4 at a time though with theirs.  |
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Bearcat
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 6, 2007 Post Count: 2803 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Nice setup.
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Bearcat
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 6, 2007 Post Count: 2803 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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322,807 points tonight.
---------------------------------------- First time ever getting this high. Been treaking the GPU's a little in CCC. Almost pulled the trigger on a 7950 but decided to wait for the sales coming up. With the 8000 series supposedly coming out by end of year, maybe catch a sweet deal. By then HCC should be done but hope another is in the pipe line.
Crunching for humanity since 2007!
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ryan222h
Senior Cruncher Joined: Sep 4, 2006 Post Count: 425 Status: Offline |
Nice total...yeah those 7000 series cards are on a different level in terms of compute power and power consumption. Pick one up if you find a good deal.
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Bearcat
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 6, 2007 Post Count: 2803 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Nice total...yeah those 7000 series cards are on a different level in terms of compute power and power consumption. Pick one up if you find a good deal. Its too bad AMD is doing so bad as a whole right now...their stock has been taking some major blows recently due to losses. Hope they can find a way out. Got a bad feeling someone is going to buy them with the way they are going. Dumping allot of folks. Ripe for the picking. Thought maybe apple could snag them after seeing TSMC will be making apples arm chip, which AMD uses too. I did some comparison of my 6950 to a 7950 and don't see a real big difference in single or double precision computing power. A little higher on the core clocking though. Might try nanoprobe experiment to see if my 6950 could handle 2 at a time.
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7846 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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My better half gave me a scare on the computer. She was playing some game on facebook and a screen popped up saying it was from the FBI and had locked the system until we paid a $200.00 fine. I immediately figured it was malicious spam and shut down the system. When I restarted Avast immediately blocked about 5 different files, but it was unable to prevent the virus/trojan/worm from restarting every 5 minutes. It did continue to block though. I ran a malwarebytes scan and it found it and removed it. This what it found:
----------------------------------------C:...\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\ctfmon.lnk (Trojan.Ransom.Gen) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully. I do not have a facebook account and have no intention of getting one. This is not the first time this has occurred from her playing a game on their site. I was not pleased, but at least it is now gone. I am putting this out there so anyone else who gets it is warned. 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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My better half gave me a scare on the computer. She was playing some game on facebook and a screen popped up saying it was from the FBI and had locked the system until we paid a $200.00 fine. I immediately figured it was malicious spam and shut down the system. When I restarted Avast immediately blocked about 5 different files, but it was unable to prevent the virus/trojan/worm from restarting every 5 minutes. It did continue to block though. I ran a malwarebytes scan and it found it and removed it. This what it found: C:...\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\ctfmon.lnk (Trojan.Ransom.Gen) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully. I do not have a facebook account and have no intention of getting one. This is not the first time this has occurred from her playing a game on their site. I was not pleased, but at least it is now gone. I am putting this out there so anyone else who gets it is warned. Cheers Would suggest anyone using windows to check this site regularly. These folks keep on top of bugs like you have. Your in particular has been out for a bit. Myself, I don't play any games that resides on a central server. This cloud computing crap that we are getting steered towards will make it worst. http://www.sevenforums.com/security-news/ You actually got lucky it didn't bury itself before you caught it. Once it gets deep, not much but a reinstall will fix it.
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kateiacy
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 23, 2010 Post Count: 1027 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Its too bad AMD is doing so bad as a whole right now...their stock has been taking some major blows recently due to losses. Hope they can find a way out. Got a bad feeling someone is going to buy them with the way they are going. Dumping allot of folks. Ripe for the picking. Thought maybe apple could snag them after seeing TSMC will be making apples arm chip, which AMD uses too. I'm rooting for AMD, too. They have done so much right with respect to both graphics cards and the Fusion chips.  |
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7846 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Its too bad AMD is doing so bad as a whole right now...their stock has been taking some major blows recently due to losses. Hope they can find a way out. Got a bad feeling someone is going to buy them with the way they are going. Dumping allot of folks. Ripe for the picking. Thought maybe apple could snag them after seeing TSMC will be making apples arm chip, which AMD uses too. I'm rooting for AMD, too. They have done so much right with respect to both graphics cards and the Fusion chips. If AMD goes under that would leave Intel with a monopoly. AMD is the only viable pricing constraint on Intel. Intel would have 98 to 99% of the market. That would be a bad thing. The two companies are pushing each other for innovation, the one without the other would give higher prices and little incentive to keep pushing the envelope. Neither the industry nor the consumer would benefit from AMD's demise. Had a power blip last night. Some systems were Ok, but one of them threw every job into an error status.  And a couple of them were HFCC jobs with more than 24 hours on them. Bummer.Cheers
Sgt. Joe
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