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kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
Update on the quad... Oh yah......onboard vid sux........good luck with your new card....... "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
Daniel Send message Joined: 21 May 07 Posts: 562 Credit: 437,494 RAC: 0 |
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Seahawk Send message Joined: 8 Jan 08 Posts: 937 Credit: 8,157,029 RAC: 5 |
I found an old ATI 1950XT Pro in the junk pile to put in the quaddie. I think Betsy can live with it. Still on list to get: 2x sata HDs sata DVDR/W 4gig mem Win XP Pro 64bit The rac is starting to climb now. I will let system run awhile and see how it settles out before I start doing tweaks. I used to be a cruncher like you, then I took an arrow to the knee. |
1mp0£173 Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 8423 Credit: 356,897 RAC: 0 |
The watchdog cards are not processor dependent. They have a timer and some logic and run independently. They only use the bus so the system can "pet the dog." They can power down and power back up if needed. ... at least this one can. This way you don't even have to leave your armchair, just wait out the timer. |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
Oh criminy......why, oh why did you have to turn me on to that card????? The perfect answer to my occasional phased quaddy lockups when I am not at home to hit the buttons.....another $209.00 from the Seti Forever fund......(whimpers). "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
1mp0£173 Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 8423 Credit: 356,897 RAC: 0 |
I have one of these, on one machine here. I want that machine running. It, in turn, checks all the others. The other machines are plugged in to X-10 appliance modules with a suitable X-10 controller on the "watchdogged" machine. Nez (from another thread) probably has some kind of watchdog system so that he doesn't have to watch over the various boxes he has. |
Blurf Send message Joined: 2 Sep 06 Posts: 8962 Credit: 12,678,685 RAC: 0 |
To emphasize my obsession, I'm considering dumping my Hot Water Tank for a Tankless Water Heater and getting an EdenPURE heater to try and cut our electric costs... Anyone have experience with these??? |
Carlos Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 29832 Credit: 57,275,487 RAC: 157 |
To emphasize my obsession, I'm considering dumping my Hot Water Tank for a Tankless Water Heater and getting an EdenPURE heater to try and cut our electric costs... I am a home builder by profession. I have installed hundreds but not the EdenPURE unit. All of my installs, except for a few in commercial buildings have been gas units built by Bosch or Takagi. I have a Bosch in my own home and I love it. You never run out of hot water and my gas bill did go down about 20% This is a little off topic isn't it? |
ChrisD Send message Joined: 25 Sep 99 Posts: 158 Credit: 2,496,342 RAC: 0 |
To emphasize my obsession, I'm considering dumping my Hot Water Tank for a Tankless Water Heater and getting an EdenPURE heater to try and cut our electric costs... At first, a gas hot water heater will always be cheaper than a storage tank system, but consider carefully before buying. If You live in an environment relatively free of obstructions and not too far north, a solar powered water heater system with supplemental electrical heating in overcast periods, IS the cheapest way of getting Your hot water. Even at 57 degrees north lattitude (Gistrup Denmark, 57N 10E), I have free hot water from March 20 until Primo September using 6.6 sqare metres of water solar absorbers. I am using a hot water storage tank with a cpacity of 200 litres, it is equipped with 2 spirals, the lower is used for the solar power and the upper for my boiler to supply the hot water during the 6 months winter we have here. These tanks can also be equipped with an electical heater unit, in case You have no boiler. House heating: Consider very carefully before buying this EdnePUREHeater. Of course it purifies Your Home air, but heating is done with conventional quarts heaters, which gives 1 KWh of heat for 1 KWh of electrical power supplied. Go for an 'Air to Air converter'. Just look up this on the net. Panasonic and a lot of other companies sell these units that is just an air conditioner used for heating/cooling, but most of these units have a COP Value of at least 3.65 which means that You get 3.65 KWh of Heat for 1 KWh of power supplied. This is hands down the cheapest way of heating Your home, unless You have rural distributed heating based on burning garbage or bio mass or utilizing cooling water from a large electricity plant. An Air to Air converter is cheaper than an oil burner, even cheaper than a woodstove (unless You own Your own forest, that is :)). Need proof, just PM me and I will provide You with the details. Sorry Folks, this is a little out of topic, please forgive me. ChrisD |
archae86 Send message Joined: 31 Aug 99 Posts: 909 Credit: 1,582,816 RAC: 0 |
I think you are referring to the category of device which has been usually called a "heat pump" in the USA. They are wonderfully efficient for heating at a moderate outdoor temperatures. |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
LOL..I have 8 heat pumps crunching Seti.......they just pump heat into the air..... "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65745 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
Haha, A real heatpump as I'd think You'd know also cools the air, The PCs only heat the air and two aren't enough to heat this house in the winter I've found, Hopefully My current swamp cooler once It has new pads will do until I have a better unit installed. The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
AndyW Send message Joined: 23 Oct 02 Posts: 5862 Credit: 10,957,677 RAC: 18 |
Well well well! I thought I had it bad! Before I moved house I had 4 Shuttles all dedicated to running SETI - my own SETI farm as it were. I had a 5th Shuttle which was running a SETI Work Unit server (back in the classic SETI days) and a 6th Shuttle which was my PC and running SETI in the background. My electricity bills were reasonable at about £65 a month ($140) but electricity around here has gone up nearly 100% since then! I am back on the SETI scene and will be setting up at least 2 dedicated PIV 2.4Ghz machines (being given to me for free!) later this week and have my eye on a couple of 3.2Ghz PIV machines for the right price too. I don't know how bad the electric bills are going to be, but my plan is to put them in my conservatory which is heated by a small gas wall heater 24/7 at the moment, so chances are the heater can go off, offsetting the cost of the electricity slightly. It's easy to get sucked in isn't it?! |
DJStarfox Send message Joined: 23 May 01 Posts: 1066 Credit: 1,226,053 RAC: 2 |
I have one of these, on one machine here. I want that machine running. Ned, I have a watchdog timer in my motherboard's BIOS. I assume this can do the same thing? It has a featured called "watchdog timer". Is this the timeout value before rebooting the machine you were talking about? Do you think a BIOS implementation would work? |
1mp0£173 Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 8423 Credit: 356,897 RAC: 0 |
I have one of these, on one machine here. I want that machine running. Good Question.... I'm not sure how a true BIOS implementation would work. I know that several common chipsets have watchdog functions, it wouldn't take that much silicon on the typical northbridge or southbridge. Normally, there is something high-level that "pets the dog" periodically, and one should not assume that the system will handle this itself (i.e. that it'll access disk, etc.) but hey, you can always try it. I have two industrial motherboards with watchdogs on the motherboard. They both need to be "petted." -- Ned |
Abinu Send message Joined: 26 May 01 Posts: 12 Credit: 159,840 RAC: 0 |
I guess that i am rather on the obsessive side (some even say nuts): P3-650 dualie, P3-750 dualie, Athlon MP2400 dualie and P3-700 Xeon hex-server allow me to keep the heating down, but don't ask my about the bill for electricity ... And in the basement another P3-900 Xeon octo-server is waiting for 3 missing cpus and a special power cable to go crunching. I also want to make a test how low the hardware can be to still run a SETI-WU. In preparation i have an AMD 5x86-133 with 256 mb ram, EISA graphics and EISA SCSI controller. Of course, this is for experiment only. |
Terror Australis Send message Joined: 14 Feb 04 Posts: 1817 Credit: 262,693,308 RAC: 44 |
Is it considered obsessive if you find yourself checking your account page hourly to keep an eye on your current score and pending credits ???? This might be because my leading box about to crack 100,000 credits and am just about to crack the top 10,000 crunchers (2 Days MAX) <wipes foaming mouth and practices his relaxation therapy> It's a worry, :-) Brodo |
dcappello Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 261 Credit: 170,969,320 RAC: 0 |
I have 13 multi-core boxs running - I just turned off my last P4 - 13 is an odd number so I have been looking at another MB since I have a Quad 6600 new in the box that needs some power, memory and a case (micro center was giving them away at $199.00 usd) Thinking about an ABIT IP35V - newegg has it for about 90 bucks - anybody crunching with this MB ? -David |
AndyW Send message Joined: 23 Oct 02 Posts: 5862 Credit: 10,957,677 RAC: 18 |
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Valerie Chilton Send message Joined: 14 Jan 08 Posts: 53 Credit: 20,682,710 RAC: 0 |
Brodo, Only once an hour? Seems like you may be slacking a bit :) |
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