Crunchers Break Room...

three6ohchris · Post by **three6ohchris** » 03-29-2006 02:28 AM

Pam Heinze wrote: Awesome, buddy! What motherboard did you put that on?

Got an ASUS A8N5X 939 w/Nvidia nForce4

oh yeah, the x2 is manchester btw

Originally posted by Keith L Dick
Hey **three6ohchris**..

I'm fine I think everyone else is sleeping... hehe...

Glad your aboard and Cranking as you are...

Me, not gonna Overclock this machine, maybe the next one... I just run it for around 20-hours at a time that's enough for now...

hehehe

Thanks! I don't keep it OC all the time... My board came with a utility from Asus that allows me to adjust without going into my BIOS, although I still go in when I change to confirm it has been adjusted

She has been running 24/7 since I installed BOINC and joined the team.

On a side note, it appears like I lost some points or something... darnit! Oh well, life goes on!!

three6ohchris · Post by **three6ohchris** » 03-29-2006 02:30 AM

Keith L Dick wrote: I'm running a AMD x2 4400+ dual core 1-Gig RAM and an Optimized Seti Client...

Lucky! lol

How can I "optimize" my client?

Keith L Dick · Post by **Keith L Dick** » 03-29-2006 02:53 AM

This is the MOBO I got for it...

*** Asus A8N-SLI Premium nForce4-SLI Chipset w/7.1 Sound, Dual Gb LAN, S-ATA Raid, USB 2.0, IEEE 1394, Dual PCI-E MB***

As far as Optimized Clients ask TABwebmaster he has the link to the best ones..

Average Credits seem to go Up & down when ever they want to... Nothing to worry about....

Pam Heinze · Post by **Pam Heinze** » 03-29-2006 08:34 PM

three6ohchris wrote: Lucky! lol

How can I "optimize" my client?

Make sure you run your cache dry before you change to the optimized Seti app. I have used the Crunch3r apps for a while now, I think they are still the fastest. I don't always bother with optimizing BOINC and I've heard about a "calibrating client" by Trux that is supposed to claim better credits, since doing the work faster makes the credit claims smaller, but since you are averaged with other users I thought it didn't make a difference.

I would like to build a dual core , I will have to drop some hosts so the electric bill doesn't get any more out of hand than it is now. I think the Athlon XP's will have to go and I can cannibalize them for cases, drives and ram and that should save some money.

You guys are using great boards, I think the A8N5X is more in my price range and I don't think I would ever take advantage of SLI anyway. I am also thinking about a Gigabyte GA-K8U-939 board that has AGP, so no need to buy a PCI express card. I asked Everette Dobbins about that board and he said he has one and likes it.

Keith L Dick · Post by **Keith L Dick** » 03-30-2006 02:12 AM

Wait until AMD comes out with their new CPU Slot's and the older dual-cores will come down in price and save ya a few more bucks..

TABwebmaster · Post by **TABwebmaster** » 04-04-2006 10:08 AM

Sorry, been taking a siesta here:D Nice idea for a thread Keith!

I'll make it sticky right now.

Keith L Dick · Post by **Keith L Dick** » 04-12-2006 03:31 AM

Thanks Mark...

Now if we can get people to show up and Post that would be nice...

You email any of the Team Members at all??

TABwebmaster · Post by **TABwebmaster** » 04-16-2006 03:37 AM

Not yet...still trying to widdle down the list so it's not so long with addresses that no longer exist.

zargon · Post by **zargon** » 04-27-2006 04:47 PM

I'm here...

how's it going?

Keith L Dick · Post by **Keith L Dick** » 04-27-2006 09:19 PM

Going kinda slow...

Seems like very few of the Team ever stop by to chat...

SetiCruncher · Post by **SetiCruncher** » 04-27-2006 09:29 PM

It seems we have a very small and quiet, but dedicated group here.

Keith L Dick · Post by **Keith L Dick** » 04-27-2006 10:26 PM

That it does SC...

Pam Heinze · Post by **Pam Heinze** » 04-27-2006 11:32 PM

Hello, fellas. So it's quiet in here, eh? Well you can count on me to fix that.

I thought I'd try out the beta Ubuntu 6.06. I downloaded the AMD64 iso last night and tried it out tonight, I thought it was just a live cd, but you can also install it. Well, the live cd found the wireless card and connected to the internet! So I downloaded BOINC and let it benchmark and it was a little better than what I had in Linspire. So it looked like installing it would be a good idea. So I did. And could not find the wireless card. So I go the the Ubuntu forums and find out that today, just today, the beta2 was released that fixes this problem.

I'll let you know how beta2 works tomorrow night. I have two and a half hours left on the iso download and it is past my bedtime.

I should have known better than to try installing a new OS so late at night.

Keith L Dick · Post by **Keith L Dick** » 04-28-2006 12:19 AM

Pam Heinze wrote:

I should have known better than to try installing a new OS so late at night.

Yes... hehe

I played with KNOPPIX (Live) for quite awhile tho I never installed it...

Next machine will be Linux tho...

Pam Heinze · Post by **Pam Heinze** » 04-29-2006 02:42 PM

Hey, guys! I'm posting this from a wireless computer with Ubuntu 6.06 beta2!

Right away I like that it shows in my computer list as the name I gave it an not localhost.localdomain. And it didn't spawn a new host, as I feared it would, being 64 bit. I copied my boinc folder (with the work cache drained away) onto the new install and let it grab new work.

Dapper Drake is supposed to be released in June, but I'm liking this beta2.