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mohrorless · Posted: Sat May 12, 2007 7:42 am Post subject:

JerWa it looks like you are screaming in on the half mil mark yourself there.
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JerWA · Prince Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 1497 Location: WA, USA

Indeed indeed, crossed it this morning.

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mohrorless · Posted: Sat May 12, 2007 5:34 pm Post subject:

Congrats!
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KWSN - Sir Brian C....... · Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 6:58 pm Post subject:

I think he's running scared ........he's started a reverse attack on me in Docking now....

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Al Dente · Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 8:51 am Post subject:

Well, I was getting a bit bored; you seem to have given up with Spinhenge.....

... and as for that rather laughable feint in Malaria...

But I must admit that I'm more interested in this thicket of kNi!ghts whose time has come....

...and it helps just a tad that Docking gives quite generous credit - I reckon the current shubbers in the "Dentery" should give me about 11½k/day.

It all helps to while away the time until next weekend, when I should be able to order the bits for my (first Laughing

) Q6600 shrubber.
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JerWA · Prince Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 1497 Location: WA, USA

You are the devil!

<~ that's you!

I've been borging machines left and right. Sadly, all of them combined is about 2/3rds of a single Core 2 machine.

I should have some new machines coming online soon, and will probably be about equal to your current farm around the time you upgrade again. Pardon me while I throw a tantrum.

Since I can't beat you, my only recourse is to submit your name on the alien sign up sheet.

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Al Dente · Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 12:57 pm Post subject:

I do my best .... #evil

I've got 11 machines on the go at present, and the current plans are to add one more about every 4-6 weeks up to 20 shrubbers (although heat constaints may limit me to just 16) - and from #12 on they should all be QUAD cores.

I must admit to being a bit anti-Intel/pro-AMD, but at the moment Intel's got the upper hand, so I'll go with them until AMD introduce their quads next quarter.

I haven't told Sir Fart yet, but NTL (my cable supplier) have got a special offer on an upgrade from 4Mb to 20 Mb at the moment, and it'll only cost a couple of £'s extra for the next year, so I may finally be able to escape his exhaust emissions in Majestic12.

BTW, I'm still smarting a bit after SIMAP ran out of work just as I'd started accelerating; never mind, there should be some more work next weekend, so start watching your rear.

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Fart in your gen direxion · Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 1:50 pm Post subject:

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The two TEC solutions I really like, but agree they're not cheap. That first one is interesting, you'd just have to make sure you installed it so the fan is blowing towards the back of the case (i.e. exhaust fans). Haven't seen any reviews of it, but I'm going to go digging to see how it actually works.

I still can't clock my XP 3k up more than a few %. I put it back up to 170 earlier today (from 166 stock) and it ran for a few hours and puked, so I clocked it back down to 168. <sigh> That system is very ready to be retired.
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JerWA · Prince Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 1497 Location: WA, USA

I'm not sure what the problem is with that system, it's never been very happy. It's a good motherboard, Abit NF7s, but there is a newer BIOS for it (released in 2004, to give you an idea how old it is lol). The fans are overkill, the CPU cooler is good, the graphics card has a Zalman on it now (the stock fan died recently), so that's good too. The memory is good, but I think it's my problem. I know jack about clocking memory, and I think that's the problem (I think it's good memory, but I can't remember).

I actually have another XP 3000+ CPU sitting in my parts bin, but I don't want to mess with taking the cooler off to find out if it'd be happier or not. I'm not interested in upgrading the system, it would just be throwing money away. Once I get a new system for myself, this E6400 Core2 will replace the XP 3k, which will replace the P4 1.3, which will likely be retired.

Edit: Oh, I forgot to mention. That AeroChill CPU cooler setup has to be installed so that the tubes point up. They use refrigerant in the heatpipes instead of water, so direction does matter (so that they will condensate properly inside the pipes). All the reviews look good, but I'm surprised that 150W is all they say it's good for. The high end copper heatpipe setups are all rated for around 200W without any fancy stuff like that one has.
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KWSN - Sir Brian C....... · Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 11:33 am Post subject:

OK Sir JerWA...

my recent attacks on him have paid off.... I've managed to get to put ALL his shrubbing poweron Docking.... so he's ready to take down in every other project out there!!!!

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Al Dente · Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 8:09 pm Post subject:

Yep, you've managed to get me to paint myself into a corner. At current rates, I reckon I've got ~ 4 days on Spinhenge (HoC) and QMC (nathanh, vaguely followed by JerWA); a week on Malaria (Ib Rasmussen), 2 weeks on Proteins (JerWA) and a month on WCG (again JerWA).

In all the excitement, I missed BURP:-

and nearly missed Leiden:-

but both have now been taken care of.

With SIMAP primed for major attack as and when work arrives, I may just have to give you best on Docking, for a little while at least; rest assured revenge will be sweetly savoured at the appropriate moment.

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to you all, wishing you the best of shrubbing in your futile endeavours.

BTW, I've just noticed that this Docking lark has moved me up to #3 in the KWSN shrubbing rate stakes here, so a whole bush of

to you.
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KWSN - Sir Brian C....... · Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 5:29 am Post subject:

Al Dente · Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 7:13 am Post subject:

Sitting at home on a dank and miserable Bank Holiday, I started thinking (always a pastime fraught with danger) in a vain attempt to ignore some of those "little jobs" that always seem to rear their ugly heads on days like this.

After a considerable time, interrupted only by a slight whirring and buzzing from between my ears, I came to the conclusion that this little Docking spat is extremely silly, bringing all that shrubbing power to bear on just one project.

But after a little while I had another thought: isn't that what the kNi!ghts are best at, being extremely silly?

So let battle continue unabated.

Expect 1,000,000 up by the next Bank Holiday at the end of August (if you've the resolve to take it that far!!).

I think I'll treat this like an arm-wrestling contest. Apparently the secret to successful arm-wrestling is not to go for immediate victory. Instead, simpy aim to hold your opponent at bay, allowing them to exhaust themselves (or get bored) before suddenly going for the kill.

If anyone goes past me in other projects, well, it's only a flesh wound; I can always catch up another day.

Spoken with the confidence of a fool and loon, no doubt fortified by all that Belgian Beer I've downed to get to #1 in the team and #8 in the world in that extremely silly (but fun) little project.
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JerWA · Prince Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 1497 Location: WA, USA

Al,

On the subject of all on one project, I've been studiously avoiding it myself. My rule, up to this point, has been to aim for at least 250/day on a project and then pick a new project when more machines come online. Some, like Proteins, make that difficult (BOTH cores together on my E6400 are barely managing 250/day for that project). My original plan, when it was just the 3 Core 2 Duos, was one core per project. Now it's more like the output of one core per project, because I've added a lot of older machines.

The loss of my SETI optimized clients has really hurt my daily credits. This machine, crunching half SETI and half Proteins, was doing almost 1,000/day. On just Proteins it's doing 25% of that. Sooo, I think I'm going to shuffle Proteins off to one of my remote systems that's currently on Malaria, just to keep the project going without sacrificing my big machine for it.

The exception to the spread-the-love plan is SIMAP, because it's my only periodical project. It's rather fun to attack it with the entire farm, and the credit rate is very good, so that helps. I disallow new work for all projects as soon as SIMAP work shows up (I may try doing it earlier this time, to see if I can get the queues cleared sooner) and suspend the other projects once they run dry of work. Last time that meant they all spent 48 hours clearing queues before going fully over to SIMAP.

At any rate, it's fun. I just wish I could get some more systems up to present more of a challenge for you (and to boost the teams stats, as well as my own, of course).
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Al Dente · Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 1:16 pm Post subject:

Fully agree on the multiple projects, I generally run 4 to 8 on each machine. But I couldn't resist the chance to really let the farm show what it can do and Docking with it's high credit is the ideal project for that.

I can't understand your lack of Proteins credit; these are my current shrubs per hour figures (the E6400 figures are scaled from my E6300 by the clock ratio - 2.13/1.86GHz)