Posts by Waldo

I can track batches of shorties that my 24 core box is processing via its UPS load stats. It's only about a 2% difference drop in power when running shorties, but at that machines power level it is apparent.
Snapshot of the past few weeks.
http://www.hal6000.com/seti/images/ups_load-month.png

What software are you using to monitor the UPS?
I bought a couple of cheap 1400VA UPSs & the software that came with them was crap.

First off, AVG wasn't picking up SETI as a threat. (paid version AVG, fully updated)

However, AVG was causing my machine to bluescreen. I was getting 1-5 bluescreens per day, sometimes attended while active on the machine and sometimes not.

The errors varied. The most common was that there was pagefile activity in a non paged area of the disk, followed by memory management errors.

If you are experiencing oddball bluescreen errors, and run AVG subscription version, try uninstalling AVG in favor of something else for a while and see what happens. I'm pretty sure that AVG is working pretty hard on this because their webpages were "shut down for maintenance" a few days ago which (seems)to tell me that they were getting hammered by angry people and needed a delaying tactic before that had to speak to the public.

Currently using another antivirus program and no crashing. Not gonna name that program, no need to sound like an advertiser.

Win7 Home premium
Intel I7-2700k / 16GB RAM
Nvidia GTS560

I’m thinking of building a Ivey system.

I’d be using it for Seti & GPU GRID including other Boinc projects, racing games. + everyday tasks
Heres what I’ve come up with

MB: ASUS MAXIMUS V GENE INTEL Z77
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$2,719.56NZ/$2,210.46 USD

Only thing I’m missing is a case any recommendations? Would an after market cooler for CPU be recommended? I’m wanting to keep the price low as possible. Another reason for upgrade is to try n lower power bill (currently using 1st gen 980X)

Thx for any tips

I see 2 issues with the Maximus V GENE MB:
Its PCIe slots share the PCI lanes, so if you put 2 GPUs they will work at x8 each, and the slots are too close each other wich will make it hard to cool the GPUs... Other than that Asus MBs are really good...

If it were me I would try to get a P8Z77V Premium... http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_1155/P8Z77V_PREMIUM/
it has 4 PCIe, and you can use up to 2 at 16x and those are far enough to give better cooling to the GPUs... Not sure about the differences on prices, but i dont think they will be too high...
Or else the P8Z77V Deluxe http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_1155/P8Z77V_DELUXE/#specifications, it also shares the PCIe lanes, but the slots are not as close as in the Maximus...

About the case, for the system your thinking it has to be the bigger one you can get, prefferably with front, rear, side and top holes for bigger fans (bigger fans make less noise), its not needed that the case has all the fans there from the beggining, but having the place to add them latter will save you headaches trying to keep the temps lower, and will make it easy if you want to use liquid cooling sometime in the future.