I find myself in an interesting situation and I will state from the outset I have made a decision and know what it is I'm going to do.

Here's the position: I find I have a couple of hundred pounds spare and I can either donate it to SETI or buy a big beefy graphics card to Do More Scienceâ„¢.

Now, without saying "Split it between a donation and a less powerful graphics card" what would YOU do? Donate, or Do More Scienceâ„¢?

~W

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I find myself in an interesting situation and I will state from the outset I have made a decision and know what it is I'm going to do.

Here's the position: I find I have a couple of hundred pounds spare and I can either donate it to SETI or buy a big beefy graphics card to Do More Scienceâ„¢.

Now, without saying "Split it between a donation and a less powerful graphics card" what would YOU do? Donate, or Do More Scienceâ„¢?

Personally, I think the project has more need for the money so I think I'd go that way. That's what I've tried to do over the last couple of years, although I was fortunate enough to also upgrade my graphics card. I have deferred the 2nd computer. You could recruit a couple of new users to accomplish the "more science" objective.

Either way, it's going to be helpful.

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Another Fred
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I'd say donate, Seti can sure use it!

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Now that's a lot of Mac's.

Maybe use some of it for your power bill?

Cheers.

Looked at your computer list also. At one time I had 14 quads running and my RAC was a little more than it is now, but my power bill was over $1,000 a month.
I suggest invest in the card, retire some of slower macs and donate from the power savings.

Won't be needing the heating on much with that lot going.

I agree with Carlos' suggestion.

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Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge.

I agree with both what Carlos and the Simonator said, do what Carlos suggested.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

I am putting out the best RAC ever
for me but my power bill is still very good,
I suggest the 'Carlos solution'....

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Were it me, I'd donate to the project. But I'm not a power cruncher.

Since you seem to be interested in doing plenty of crunching, I'd say you should get the card.

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Donate to SETI. The name of the game, certainly, appears to be
numbers of crunchers, rather than a few IBM main-frames in some
basements.

(Convince CERN of that, by the way.)

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I too would donate - the project is certainly "cash tight", but there are plenty of "big crunchers" out here in the wild, and you have to spend big bucks in both capital and revenue terms to get into the big league.
Actually, even a relatively cheap modern GPU can push your crunching ability up a long way - take a look at my middle cruncher - a stock GTX760 will cost about £180, and won't need a new PSU, but will more than double your daily output with virtually no impact on your power bill. And you can donate a few hundred to the project on top of that.


(Obviously I'm quoting an Nvidia card, but I only know how the Nvidia cards perform, there's probably an ATI/AMD card that will do much the same for similar money)

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?