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JerWA · Prince Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 1497 Location: WA, USA

Been a good few months for me. Got some new systems online (Q6600 Core 2 Quad, dual Opteron 250, Core 2 T7200, PS3), bumped my RAC by about 3x (from 4,500ish a day to what looks like will settle around 12,000), and will be bringing another system (Athlon 64 3800ish) online by the end of this week with the potential of upgrading it to an X2 3800+. I also broke 2,000,000 total credit last week in BOINC combined, and am starting to enter the purchasing phase of my next system, a Core 2 Q9300 quad.

http://boincstats.com/stats/boinc_user_graph.php?pr=bo&id=0f741dcc57d0944ef82a0c15bd4d42cc

That said, here's the latest:
Accumulated more credit than % of all BOINC users 99.816%
BOINC World position based on credit (based on incremental update) 2,531

Accumulated more credit than % of all Team members 99.055%
Position in Team 31 out of 3280

Accumulated more credit than % of all fellow citizens 99.73570%
Position in Country stats 964 out of 364928

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The Athlon 64 won't do much, maybe 500/day?, but if I upgrade it to an X2 3800+ it would suddenly be much more interesting. Figure in the overclocked Q9300 Quad and I might actually stop losing ground to Al Dente! He'll have to fire some machines back up for a change. Twisted Evil

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KWSN Im Not Dead · Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 7:27 am Post subject:

Wow, congrats!
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That is some serious $$ but it is for a good cause Smile

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Al Dente · Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 8:45 am Post subject:

Well Done (or maybe that should be Well About To Do).

I'm not so sure about the "not losing ground" bit, but at least you won't fall behind quite as quickly. Laughing

Remember I'm using quite a few cores for non-BOINCing and am still managing 16-17k RAC. 20k is a more realistic aiming point.

As for expansion of the Dentery, I've reached a physical space/power/heat limit, so I've started giving away Shocked

3800x2s so I can replace them with quads.

Not intended to belittle your excellent efforts, but maybe to spur you on to even greater heights - watch out top 20, JerWA's on his way.

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KWSN-HoC · Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 3:48 pm Post subject:

Congrats JerWA, I just can manage somewhat around 8500 RAC .... better than nothing, isn't it?

After buying the house in a few weeks I've calculated a budget (declared as refurbishment, hehe) for one or two Quads (maybe two Phenom 9750, or a 9750 + 9850 or an Intel Quad + a Phenom Quad) ......

Cheers

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KWSN imcrazynow · Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 5:51 pm Post subject:

Did You Say Giving? Shocked

I'll take one!

Sir Papa Smurph · Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 2:33 pm Post subject:

Yeah Baby...

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JerWA · Prince Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 1497 Location: WA, USA

I'm probably going to retire the XP 3k+ system and leave the 64 3200+ as-is for the time being. Or maybe replace the Pentium 4 1.3 system with the XP 3k. I'm only a handful of parts away from my Q9300 system (went on a spending spree this weekend), but that'll put me around 15k/day I think, still not enough to catch you Al.

I am, however, working on a few systems at work that I might be able to get online part time. Not expecting much there though, the labs I support are perilously close to their heat capacity and that's without everything churning and burning 100% of the time like BOINC would. I'd already be in the 15k/day range right now if I hadn't of gotten my boss hooked on stats. He was fine with all his machines being under my name until I showed him BOINCStats, now he's trying to catch up to me. Laughing

As for X2 3800s, send one my way. If you've got a socket 939 one that'd be perfect, just send me the chip hehe.
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Al Dente · Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 3:35 am Post subject:

Well, I ordered the bits for a Phenom 9850 Black today (thought I'd give AMD another try after the disappointment that's the 9500), but I'm going to retire my ancient XP1800+ from active duty (only 150-200/day, but there's a sentimental attachment as it was my first shrubber).

I've then got 5 3800x2s to replace, probably at 6-8 week intervals, so I'll be offering them to worthy causes as they become surplus - I'd much rather keep them shrubbing for KWSN than donating them to local schools.

So by Christmas I should have gained another 10k+ (more if I can add some dual-quads).

Just to keep you on your toes,

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mohrorless · Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 5:20 am Post subject:

Sweet!
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KWSN imcrazynow · Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 9:16 am Post subject:

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KWSN imcrazynow · Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 2:46 pm Post subject:

No, it has a seperate graphics card. Nvidia 6600. What got me was no lights on keyboard or anything. Just a blank monitor screen. I don't have any speakers to hook up to it without some major rearranging. I was leaning more towards a graphics card problem but the keyboard lights threw me off and made me wonder if maybe it was the MB. I guess i'll have to go get a graphics card to explore further? I just didn't want to spend unnecesary money. I need that for gas! #ni-1

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KWSN imcrazynow · Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 10:58 am Post subject:

JerWA · Prince Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 1497 Location: WA, USA

Al, while I still cannot hope to surpass you, I am putting forth an effort to at least stymie your charge into the distance hehe. Most of the projects are still on the same equipment, with the exception of the Athlon 64 3200+ which has finally become an X2 3800 (the end of that machines upgrade path unfortunately, but still a pretty nice setup). I have some of the parts to start it's eventual replacement to a quad Opty or something similar, but that's months off at least.

My new Q9300 should be done and built around the end of this month, maybe into the first week of next month. Plan to overclock it as far as I can on air cooling (and with an $80 CPU cooler and some kick butt DDR2 1066 that should be pretty far), so we'll see how that works out.

I've also got something brewing on World Comm. since we're still getting our collective butts handed to us there. I can't really go into details, and the project gets the dubious honor of being the first and only project I've got host stats hidden on, but it's looking like we'll be moving up the ranks a bit soon. By the way, I passed you in this project. Nya nya!

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Al Dente · Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 12:43 pm Post subject:

Don't belittle your efforts - yesterday I shrubbed at 6th in the team. you were 7th, so there's not too much difference in output.

I've got to within 100k of Sir Brian during his absence, but he's due back today, so when he cranks up that infernal fruit machine of his I'll be choking in his dust again.

Glad to see you noticed that gracefully executed reverse pass in WCG, but it's all designed to lull you into a false sense of security. I was about to stick a bit on that when Wize kicked back in (and mightily), so we seem to have seen off the immediate threats, and are busy gaining places again.

I must admit, I've been concentrating on projects where we can gain a few places - ABC, RCN, Yoyo, Superlink (I gave up Lattice as a bad job) and we're doing well in Ralph - up 5 places recently, another 10-12 in the next month or so = 32nd to 15th in 10 weeks, plus a few of the newer projects.

I'm currently waiting for my next shrubber to arrive - a fully stuffed blade rack, with 16 x dual-quad Oppies*

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It should be with me soon after I win the Lottery Laughing

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KWSN - Sir Brian C....... · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 2:21 am Post subject:

Al Dente · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 5:09 am Post subject:

Yes, that would do very nicely.

I'd been day-dreaming of a brick sh^h^h out-house, with one end louvres, the other a 6' fan and a few racks with fully-stuffed blade chassis in the middle. (12 x 10U chassis, each with 16 x dual-quad Oppies/Xeons = 1536 cores @~500/core = 768,000 RAC). I'd also be able to grow frost-tender shrubs at the louvre end Laughing

Unfortunately, that also means ~150kW, or ~£900/day at current prices!!!

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Then I woke up.

Reality can be very boring. Crying or Very sad

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mohrorless · Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 4:52 am Post subject:

Agreed. Reality sucks @$$.
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dtruchan · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 9:11 pm Post subject: Congrats JERWA

Very nice indeed, I haven't been around in a while, last time I was, it seems like you just hit 1 million.

Congrats...

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