It is very cool to hear the setups you guys have going on. You put a whole new perspective on things for me. My box is sitting on my bedroom floor with multiple fans inside it. Must get better cooling.

I would love to hear more about peoples setups. Probably should start a new thread for that eh?

Thanks!
Mike

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(Don't you have your doctor on speed dial????)


Estimating power usage before the changes in technology is an "interesting" exercise. I'm fortunate in that in the UK our mains voltage is double that of the USA, and that many properties the age of mine have a 100A feed. And I could go and talk to the power company about getting a 100A/phase supply if I were truly mad or power hungry (but the bill would make my eyes water - its bad enough as it stands)

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

So I'll have 100 amps available for GPUs and 100 Amps available for an Air Conditioner!

I find your air conditioning comment interesting...I come from a photography background and temperature control is an absolute necessity when processing film and paper images. A necessity that I found COULD NOT be controlled by air conditioning. Air conditioning and refrigeration are different...at least in my experience with liquid chemical temperature. Been there, done that. Air conditioning makes no difference when applied to liquids and I would expect the same with equipment temperatures. Air conditioning affects humidity making it's human master more comfortable...machines want ice cubes cooling its feet.

This is better left to an engineering expert in that field.

So I'll have 100 amps available for GPUs and 100 Amps available for an Air Conditioner!

I find your air conditioning comment interesting...I come from a photography background and temperature control is an absolute necessity when processing film and paper images. A necessity that I found COULD NOT be controlled by air conditioning. Air conditioning and refrigeration are different...at least in my experience with liquid chemical temperature. Been there, done that. Air conditioning makes no difference when applied to liquids and I would expect the same with equipment temperatures. Air conditioning affects humidity making it's human master more comfortable...machines want ice cubes cooling its feet.

This is better left to an engineering expert in that field.

I disagree. It also drops the temperature. When its 95 F out side my house stays at 78 F. If all it did was remove humidity than it would be 95 in my house, only it would feel like Arizona, no humidity.

an air conditioner and a reridgerator have a compressor,Evaporator coil and a Condensor coil. They both work by removing latent heat.
If you add a four way valve to the system and reverse the flow you have a heat pump. You remove the latent heat from out side and add it to your house. Heat pumps were big in Florida the last I knew.

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Old James

I stand corrected. I should have stuck my head further out of the box and taken a better look. After all you were were talking about adding 100 amp service which would convert to a lot of AC cooling. Converting that to "ice units" could require a "ton of ice". (my attempt at humor). My problem would appear to have been not having a big enough wall for all of the needed AC units or the required electrical power.:(

I assumed something that was false.

That's ok by me. At least you are "cool" about it.

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Every since I disabled the built-in Intel GPU, this 780 has really kicked into gear. My Avg. work done has gone from 18,000 to over 31,000 with no other changes. Well I did turn the CPU fan to full blast also, but as someone else pointed out, the fan speed should have increased anyway as needed.

Also, is 'Ave. work done' the same thing as RAC?

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RAC - Recent Average Credit is rolling average, with a fairly long tail so reacts gently to changes....

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

So it's not the same as Ave. work done as shown in the Boinc client under projects?

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So it's not the same as Ave. work done as shown in the Boinc client under projects?

Your first guess was right. BOINC just displays the same average with varying names.

                                                                   Joe

Thanks Joe. I appreciate the straight forward answer with no guessing involved :)

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... power requirements... Most home users don't think about that until after the fact.

Home computing doesn't require thinking about power anymore than any other appliance, they are designed to run with no user thought. Of course many of us do not crunch with off the shelf home computers. My thinking is I can justify $100 a month more in electric bills in winter because it provides heat, not $100 dollars worth but it is for science.

The word in the professional "coin" mining community is "Iceland" with abundant hydro power and glaciers for cooling.

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