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Killerrabbit · Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 4:59 pm Post subject: My new rig

My old computer finally died, not the hard drive but the power supply. So I bought a new computer and tranferred my data over.

It is a quad core AMD processor with 8GB DDR3 memory, some sort of Radeon graphics. It shall BOINC once more.

Ni
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Killerrabbit · Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 5:16 pm Post subject:

I have restarted BOINC with Yoyo and PrimeGird. So weird when I watch it that it is running three tasks at once. When on my old machine it struggled with one at a time.

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Nuadormrac · Prince Joined: 13 Sep 2009 Posts: 506

With a Radeon gfx card, Distr will be your friend #ni-1

Might want to put a slight bit of crunch time into it Wink

Grats on the new comp
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Pooh Bear 27 · Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2012 4:11 am Post subject:

The Wabbit's going to get some speed now.
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branjo · Prince Joined: 05 Jan 2006 Posts: 746 Location: Slovakia

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Killerrabbit · Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2012 1:44 pm Post subject:

Question.

My computer keeps going to sleep and it stops BOINC. How do I solve this problem so it can BOINC all the time and I can get a lot of credit?

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branjo · Prince Joined: 05 Jan 2006 Posts: 746 Location: Slovakia

Running Wins? Go to some sort of "Control panel", could have some "Power Options" - set:

- Turn off monitor: let say 5 mins (this is important to minimize your Power bills)
- Turn off hard discs: Never
- System standby: Never

If your computer is a notebook, in the same "Power Options" find "Power Buttons" (probably in Advanced Tab/Section), and set "When I close the lid of my portable computer" as "Do nothing"

Or something similar (this is from my Win XP - Win 7 and 8 should have something similar if not the same).

Cheers and #ni-2

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Killerrabbit · Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2012 2:43 pm Post subject:

I believe I have figured it out. Time to rack up the credit.

Ni
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John Galt 007 · Prince Joined: 31 Dec 2007 Posts: 1206 Location: Wisconsin

Congrats on the new PC...

#ni-1

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branjo · Prince Joined: 05 Jan 2006 Posts: 746 Location: Slovakia

Concrete-mixing Moose · Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2012 5:41 pm Post subject:

Congrats on the new machine. Now you can really post even more and not effect the crunchin'!

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Nuadormrac · Prince Joined: 13 Sep 2009 Posts: 506

A few more things, I'd leave the "when on battery power" alone, you really shouldn't be trying to crunch 24/7 on battery; but for "plugged in", set your CPU, graphics, and all that to max performance, 100%, no throttling, etc. Active cooling, just max out all the options... On, and obviously on the screen saver, set it to none...

Someone was right the monitor uses more power, just turn that off (it won't effect crunching), but never go to screensaver, that does suck power out of BOINC...

The other thing is projects. Now if you had an nVidia, POEM pays well (Distr on CUDA doesn't pay as well as it does on OpenCL, as on OpenCL it takes a bit longer to complete)... Some, by their forums have tried an appinfo file to get it to use OpenCL on an nVidia card, with mixed results (some reported success and better crunch times, others, not so good as it bawlked about them not having an ATI card). But you do, so...

There's a little more, but as all forums here are open to the public at large (and there are no member's only forums), I'll leave it at that...
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PhastPhred · Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2013 9:05 pm Post subject:

Ima thinking of getting a Refurb one very similar - HP Pavilion h8-1234 Refurbished Desktop PC - AMD FX-6120
3.5GHz, 10GB DDR3, 1TB HDD, DVDRW, AMD Radeon HD 7450, Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit - Model#: RB-HPH2L72AAR

BOINC should be happy, but I need youze guys to hLep me out - Not very experienced in GPUs...

http://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/300/AMD_Radeon_HD_7450.html

That's an AMD Radeon HD 7450 and 1GB, complete w/ HDMI and 2x DVIs

Will my $500 investment be good enuff? I ain't no rich man, but this'll be the PHastest thing I ever had...

Thanks in advance!

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Plomos · Prince Joined: 26 Apr 2011 Posts: 859

I compared it to my card here

http://www.hwcompare.com/10277/radeon-hd-6450-oem-1gb-vs-radeon-hd-6870/

and you can see the differences. you can also compare it to other cards to see how it stacks up.

Note. Your card is a relabled 6450 OEM
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branjo · Prince Joined: 05 Jan 2006 Posts: 746 Location: Slovakia

Hi PhastPhred,

What project(s) are you going to focus with your new PC? Maybe this info would help kaNI!ghts to post some insights regarding it Smile

Anyway, it seems to be very good Value-For-Money rig IMO.

Cheers and #ni-1

Edit to add: there is only one concern: AMD recommends 400 Watts Power Supply, the PC has 300W PSU. But I am guessing HP knows how to assembly good PC #ni-2

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PhastPhred · Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2013 8:19 pm Post subject:

This will be a PotM rig - As for P/S, I like 750s or better...
I am HOPING I can snag one every few months and build some
sorta PHarm here with rigs as identical as I can get 'em.
I appreciate everyone's input, hope I will show it in numbers soon!
#ni-1

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Joe Bloggs · Squire Joined: 12 Jan 2013 Posts: 19 Location: Hong Kong

I wonder if you can find or build a computer around the older phenom II x6? It had 6 full cores as opposed to the newfangled fx series which has only 1 fpu per two cores. I scrunged one up for a slot-in upgrade on my old am3 mobo and can't be happier Laughing

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