Careful Wiggo - climb much higher and you will need Oxygen :-)

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

Careful Wiggo - climb much higher and you will need Oxygen :-)

So I'd better get a bottle of the stuff before my 3570K rig gets the treatment you reckon. ;-)

Cheers.

Having now "done the deed" it will be interesting to see how this all shakes out. There won't be any CPU work happening here, but these 980s still have life left ...
Kudos and thanks to TBar and Petri.

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Careful Wiggo - climb much higher and you will need Oxygen :-)

So I'd better get a bottle of the stuff before my 3570K rig gets the treatment you reckon. ;-)

Cheers.

Won't Ether spray work almost as good? :) It starts up my car when it's reluctant...

Tom

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Having now "done the deed" it will be interesting to see how this all shakes out. There won't be any CPU work happening here, but these 980s still have life left ...
Kudos and thanks to TBar and Petri.

Welcome to the "dark side" of the Force Jimbocous. Too bad you don't have any spare cores to use the -nobs parameter.

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Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours

A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association)

Having now "done the deed" it will be interesting to see how this all shakes out. There won't be any CPU work happening here, but these 980s still have life left ...
Kudos and thanks to TBar and Petri.

Welcome to the "dark side" of the Force Jimbocous. Too bad you don't have any spare cores to use the -nobs parameter.

:)
Entirely possible that once the summer rationing of power ends I'll convert one Z600 to this as well, which has dual hexacore Xeons. Down side is it probably won't outperform this old core2Q so much, just because HP boxes are lousy when it comes to PCIE performance.
Guess we'll see. Still in the early part of this...
l8r, Jim ..

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Ok, I just reconnected the Windows drives on the 2500K rig and I'm now running the w/u's that it still has there (at least I only have to hit the F11 key if I want to boot into Win7 otherwise it just boots back into Mint). Meanwhile I'm just letting the 3570K cool down while I take a coffee break before it takes a trip downstairs to get the dust blown out, then it gets its Windows drives disconnected and new SSD and CPU fan installed.

Then it'll be time to install Mint on it too.

Cheers.

Having now "done the deed" it will be interesting to see how this all shakes out. There won't be any CPU work happening here, but these 980s still have life left ...
Kudos and thanks to TBar and Petri.

Welcome to the "dark side" of the Force Jimbocous. Too bad you don't have any spare cores to use the -nobs parameter.

:)
Entirely possible that once the summer rationing of power ends I'll convert one Z600 to this as well, which has dual hexacore Xeons. Down side is it probably won't outperform this old core2Q so much, just because HP boxes are lousy when it comes to PCIE performance.
Guess we'll see. Still in the early part of this...
l8r, Jim ..

I have run a Z400 with Linux/Tbars all in one. I had a couple of gtx 750Ti's on there. And they were processing at comparable paces to my other machines. So once again, top end Pcie performance may not have major slowdowns on Seti. Other projects?

Tom

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I have run a Z400 with Linux/Tbars all in one. I had a couple of gtx 750Ti's on there. And they were processing at comparable paces to my other machines. So once again, top end Pcie performance may not have major slowdowns on Seti. Other projects?

Tom

Hey, Tom,
I'll be playing with both my Z400s and Z600s this summer, and see how it goes. I'll keep you posted.

I remain amazed by how the ancient Gigabyte mobo I have supports 4 980's so nicely. Being a socket 775 (Core2Q Xeon), it's way too weak to do any CPU jobs, of course.
But, three full days on crunching and it already has a 45k RAC on the all-in-one.
Even in a Win 7 (BIOS can't make the trip to Win 10) mode with 2x980and 2x750, it tended to do mid-30s. I would not be shocked if it busted 100k as it all averages up.
On the HP stuff, it seemed like once I got past 2 GPUs the higher numbered ones tended to do a lot of waiting. Of course, they were also doing CPU jobs. X5675s, all.
May do a dual boot on one of the 400s and see what 3x980 looks like.
Hard to measure, until I can come up with some measurement tools to replace the Win stuff I'm used to.
Not doing other projects as long as SETI has work for me. Only turned that stuff up when SETI was struggling earlier this year.
I want the RAC, but $200 is a bit more than I should be putting into KWH to run these each month.

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Well the rig that I thought would give me probs isn't the 1 that is as my 3570K wouldn't recognise the new SSD so I've had to resort to putting the SSD into my USB dock to get the install to happen. :-(

Hopefully after that's done maybe the drive will work plugged into a SATA port and work, but only time will tell I guess (or I'll just have to get a proper USB enclosure for it).

[edit] Well it looks like I'll have to get an enclosure for it after all. :-(

Cheers.

Well after a frustrating few hours I'm now posting from my 3570K as its crunching away. :-)

Cheers.

Well after a frustrating few hours I'm now posting from my 3570K as its crunching away. :-)

Cheers.

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Well my RAC has passed 120K, the 2500K's RAC has passed 79K while the 3570K's RAC has passed 9.5K.

The 3570K's APR has reached 57.90 GFLOPS while it's 1060's have reached 1,227.00 GFLOPS.

Meanwhile the 2500K's APR is 45.80 GFLOPS while it's 1060's are at 1,222.87 GFLOPS.

Not bad for a pair of old mid range computers. :-D

Cheers.

Great info Wiggo for the consequences of converting a typical, mid-range consumer Windows computer. Thank for the updates.

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Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours

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Well my RAC has passed 120K, the 2500K's RAC has passed 79K while the 3570K's RAC has passed 9.5K.

The 3570K's APR has reached 57.90 GFLOPS while it's 1060's have reached 1,227.00 GFLOPS.

Meanwhile the 2500K's APR is 45.80 GFLOPS while it's 1060's are at 1,222.87 GFLOPS.

Not bad for a pair of old mid range computers. :-D

Cheers.

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Great info Wiggo for the consequences of converting a typical, mid-range consumer Windows computer. Thank for the updates.

Most people around here reckon that my 2 HAF-942 cased jobs are and what's in them is totally mad, but my "Borged" Antec Titan 650 server case for some reason seems to blow them away even more, maybe I should see about getting a couple of 1050Ti's to replace its GTX 660's and sauce it too Keith (just joking). :-D

Anyhow, I've always thought it worth noting all the changes/upgrades that I've done over the years here as that gives others the chance to see just what is possible with a base that can evolve. ;-)

But my whole 2500K setup is now 2yrs past what I use to consider as retirement time (my 3750K rig has just hit that 6yr point as well), so a new evolution case is needed to replace the HAF-942's and the PSU's are also getting a bit long in the tooth as well (the last case/PSU upgrade came at the same time that the 2500K did).

Also the 2500K replaced an AMD system and I would like to have another new 1 again, maybe AMD's up coming Ryzen release might be good enough to tempt me to take another evolutionary step (it's either that or another i5, but with 6 cores this time). ;-)

Cheers.

If I remember correctly, the longest I ever had a system running on just the basic platform with only small peripheral changes was back when I ran OS/2 Warp/eComStation for ten years in a tall server case.
Which I still have in the closet in its original box.
That system ran Classic for ten years. I have changed/upgraded much more frequently since I jumped to Windows in 2011 and now I am back to Linux.

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Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours

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Also the 2500K replaced an AMD system and I would like to have another new 1 again, maybe AMD's up coming Ryzen release might be good enough to tempt me to take another evolutionary step (it's either that or another i5, but with 6 cores this time). ;-)

Cheers.

Once the Ryzen 9000 actually start shipping you may see significant drops in the price of a Ryzen 7 2700 (8c/16). Mine is mostly crunching at less than an hour on the cpu. I just got a 2600 (6c/12t) and it is munching through the cpu tasks in less than an hour (it already has had a price drop).

If you are not talking about running a lot of cpus, most any B350 MB should be fine. If possible I would get a late enough release that you can benefit from the Zen+ improvements in process scheduling.

Tom

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I've been trying Linux distro's for years (I was really brought up with M$), but since the demise of Vista those Linux distro's have improved so greatly that even those in the 70/80/90's here now have no problems doing what they need/want to do (well in Mint anyway).

Cheers.

I must say that I find it very funny with the stats with such a quickly climbing rig.

ATM my 3570K is list at 599th and 546th spot by RAC at the same time (I thought that I was imagining it with the 2500K, but it's happened again so I wasn't), but at times it can't be located at all.

Cheers.