Well, my 2nd post here: Don't like tooting my horn, but finally hit my goal: 4000+ RAC on #1 position (I'm sure 'anonymous' will have an answer and shoot for 5K RAC, 'cuz I'm not getting those ES's as quickly as he does).

Machine: 4 x 3.2Ghz/dual core Intel 7130's (8MB L2 each core). With hyperthreading, it's pulling in as 16 CPU's.

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Well, my 2nd post here: Don't like tooting my horn, but finally hit my goal: 4000+ RAC on #1 position (I'm sure 'anonymous' will have an answer and shoot for 5K RAC, 'cuz I'm not getting those ES's as quickly as he does).

Machine: 4 x 3.2Ghz/dual core Intel 7130's (8MB L2 each core). With hyperthreading, it's pulling in as 16 CPU's.

Sa-weeet :o)

Congrats.


Regards Hans

P.S: How many watts does this machine pull?

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Machine: 4 x 3.2Ghz/dual core Intel 7130's (8MB L2 each core). With hyperthreading, it's pulling in as 16 CPU's.

Good grief, that's one helluvarig :) Was wondering how it was reading 16 CPUs...

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Well, my 2nd post here: Don't like tooting my horn, but finally hit my goal: 4000+ RAC on #1 position (I'm sure 'anonymous' will have an answer and shoot for 5K RAC, 'cuz I'm not getting those ES's as quickly as he does).

Machine: 4 x 3.2Ghz/dual core Intel 7130's (8MB L2 each core). With hyperthreading, it's pulling in as 16 CPU's.

OUCH...That thing must get the power meter spinning...!!!. I'd hate to have your power bill.

Congrats on your milestone, it's one that few can touch.

One more post and I'm done for awhile...passed 200K SETI credits today!

WOOHOO!

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As of this post, I have 65,491 earned and 212 pending credits, putting me over

2^16= 65,536

EricVonDaniken
Joined: Apr 17, 2004
Posts: 177
ID: 2045612
Credit: 65,491
RAC: 1,039

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Although my BOINCStats sig has not yet updated, I checked the BOINCStats website and found that I have crossed the 300K threshold for total BOINC. Yeehaa!!!! Now on to 500K.... (-:<

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CAPT Siran d'Vel'nahr - L L & P _\\//
Winders 11 OS? "What a piece of junk!" - L. Skywalker
"Logic is the cement of our civilization with which we ascend from chaos using reason as our guide." - T'Plana-hath

Although my BOINCStats sig has not yet updated, I checked the BOINCStats website and found that I have crossed the 300K threshold for total BOINC. Yeehaa!!!! Now on to 500K.... (-:<

Nice work, Siran... dramatic change over the last couple of months... What have you done? Added a box? Got your Windoze to behave?

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Although my BOINCStats sig has not yet updated, I checked the BOINCStats website and found that I have crossed the 300K threshold for total BOINC. Yeehaa!!!! Now on to 500K.... (-:<

Nice work, Siran... dramatic change over the last couple of months... What have you done? Added a box? Got your Windoze to behave?

Thanks LGMFM! My *nix box just keeps crunching and crunching. No problems here. My Windoze box.... Well, it's Windoze. I have been toying with the idea that my Windoze PC problems are part hardware, part BOINC and part Windoze. I remember reading here that there is a problem with BOINC losing connections. BOINC will lose connection to the clients. BOINC will lose connection to the Internet. I see it all the time, hardly a day goes by where it doesn't. I've also been thinking that my CPU may be on it's last leg. Problem is, it's a PGA-478 pkg. It's old news and the MB is only a few months old. I just looked at a price list for the computer parts store I go to and they don't list a socket 478 CPU or MB any more. So my best bet would be to upgrade, again, to socket 775. Hmmmm.... That's what my *nix box is, an LGA-775 pkg. It's also 64 bit. Sounds like a plan.... (-:<

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CAPT Siran d'Vel'nahr - L L & P _\\//
Winders 11 OS? "What a piece of junk!" - L. Skywalker
"Logic is the cement of our civilization with which we ascend from chaos using reason as our guide." - T'Plana-hath

Passed 500K last week.

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I have been toying with the idea that my Windoze PC problems are part hardware, part BOINC and part Windoze. I remember reading here that there is a problem with BOINC losing connections. BOINC will lose connection to the clients. BOINC will lose connection to the Internet. I see it all the time, hardly a day goes by where it doesn't. I've also been thinking that my CPU may be on it's last leg. Problem is, it's a PGA-478 pkg. It's old news and the MB is only a few months old. I just looked at a price list for the computer parts store I go to and they don't list a socket 478 CPU or MB any more. So my best bet would be to upgrade, again, to socket 775. Hmmmm.... That's what my *nix box is, an LGA-775 pkg. It's also 64 bit. Sounds like a plan.... (-:<

Doncha just hate it when you have a problem and someone says: "It works perfectly for me"??

I'm running two boxes here... Win Server 2003 on a PIII 1 Gig and XP Pro on a 2.8 Gig Celeron. The XP box occasionally hiccups, but the PIII just keeps on chugging, 24/7. Only prob I had with it was when the original 280 Watt power supply blew.

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Now on to 1 million

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I have been toying with the idea that my Windoze PC problems are part hardware, part BOINC and part Windoze. I remember reading here that there is a problem with BOINC losing connections. BOINC will lose connection to the clients. BOINC will lose connection to the Internet. I see it all the time, hardly a day goes by where it doesn't. I've also been thinking that my CPU may be on it's last leg. Problem is, it's a PGA-478 pkg. It's old news and the MB is only a few months old. I just looked at a price list for the computer parts store I go to and they don't list a socket 478 CPU or MB any more. So my best bet would be to upgrade, again, to socket 775. Hmmmm.... That's what my *nix box is, an LGA-775 pkg. It's also 64 bit. Sounds like a plan.... (-:<

Doncha just hate it when you have a problem and someone says: "It works perfectly for me"??

I'm running two boxes here... Win Server 2003 on a PIII 1 Gig and XP Pro on a 2.8 Gig Celeron. The XP box occasionally hiccups, but the PIII just keeps on chugging, 24/7. Only prob I had with it was when the original 280 Watt power supply blew.

Oh yeah. Out of the blue I decided to get a new power supply for my XP box. Something told me it was part of my problem before. I swaped the power supplys and the new one looks like a Christmas tree with the multi-colored light flashing from it. Albeit unknown to me when I bought the thing. Anyway, there was a major drop in temp, causing me to believe the old [less than a year old] power supply had a problem. That's why I believe my CPU may be cooked and is just hanging in there. A new mother board and CPU will confirm that, when I can afford them that is.... (-:<

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CAPT Siran d'Vel'nahr - L L & P _\\//
Winders 11 OS? "What a piece of junk!" - L. Skywalker
"Logic is the cement of our civilization with which we ascend from chaos using reason as our guide." - T'Plana-hath

Oh yeah. Out of the blue I decided to get a new power supply for my XP box. Something told me it was part of my problem before. I swaped the power supplys and the new one looks like a Christmas tree with the multi-colored light flashing from it. Albeit unknown to me when I bought the thing. Anyway, there was a major drop in temp, causing me to believe the old [less than a year old] power supply had a problem. That's why I believe my CPU may be cooked and is just hanging in there. A new mother board and CPU will confirm that, when I can afford them that is.... (-:<

Silly question time again... Have you tried a disk check? If you've been running BOINC a long time, it may be causing wear and tear on your HDD, due to the write frequency of every 60 seconds.

I always enable SMART (in BIOS) when I fit a new HDD. At least then, I will have a timely warning if the HDD is about to fail.

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Simon.

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Oh yeah. Out of the blue I decided to get a new power supply for my XP box. Something told me it was part of my problem before. I swaped the power supplys and the new one looks like a Christmas tree with the multi-colored light flashing from it. Albeit unknown to me when I bought the thing. Anyway, there was a major drop in temp, causing me to believe the old [less than a year old] power supply had a problem. That's why I believe my CPU may be cooked and is just hanging in there. A new mother board and CPU will confirm that, when I can afford them that is.... (-:<

Silly question time again... Have you tried a disk check? If you've been running BOINC a long time, it may be causing wear and tear on your HDD, due to the write frequency of every 60 seconds.

I always enable SMART (in BIOS) when I fit a new HDD. At least then, I will have a timely warning if the HDD is about to fail.

I did run a few disk checks, and no problems were reported.

My backup PC [FreeBSD v5.4] has a HDD that is about 10 years old. I had that drive when I started with "Classic" SETI back in 1999, with Win98. Back in 04 I started BOINC with that same PC and HDD with WinME. I then built a new WinXP box and decided to dabble in *nix, so I installed FreeBSD v5.4 on my old PC. I crunched BOINC on it until BOINC upgrades caused me to go into no-crunch mode. I decided not to continue crunching with it and put it into crunch retirement and backup PC mode. It stays shut down. When My WinXP and FreeBSD v6.0 boxes went down, I fired it up to stay connected to things on the Internet.

My point is, all my HDDs are Western Digital. I will buy no other brand. If a HDD can go for 10 years and have no problems, I am sold on the manufacturer.... (-:<

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CAPT Siran d'Vel'nahr - L L & P _\\//
Winders 11 OS? "What a piece of junk!" - L. Skywalker
"Logic is the cement of our civilization with which we ascend from chaos using reason as our guide." - T'Plana-hath

My point is, all my HDDs are Western Digital. I will buy no other brand. If a HDD can go for 10 years and have no problems, I am sold on the manufacturer.... (-:<

I once had a WD disk that lasted a whole two months :D Come to think of it, that was about 10 years ago *lol* One of those very very big 1Gb disks that DOS couldn't handle so I had to install a harddrive manager - and an extra harddrive controller as computers back then couldn't handle more than two drives (before EIDE). Hmm. Come to think of it - my new one can't either... MY GOD! I've travelled back 10 years in time!!! *lol*

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Time for me to crow just a little bit. During this weeks little outtage, my mini-farm (four boxes, of varying age and speed) broke the 300,000 mark!

My 2 WinXP boxes (Dells - Inspiron 2650 + Dimension 3000) each have over 100,000.

And my ancient/slow Celeron (Mendocino) is about to break the 10,000 mark!

Roy

My point is, all my HDDs are Western Digital. I will buy no other brand. If a HDD can go for 10 years and have no problems, I am sold on the manufacturer.... (-:<

I once had a WD disk that lasted a whole two months :D Come to think of it, that was about 10 years ago *lol* One of those very very big 1Gb disks that DOS couldn't handle so I had to install a harddrive manager - and an extra harddrive controller as computers back then couldn't handle more than two drives (before EIDE). Hmm. Come to think of it - my new one can't either... MY GOD! I've travelled back 10 years in time!!! *lol*

My first PC, a 486 DX2-66 screamer, had a 1.2GB WD HDD and it went belly up in 96, after 6 months of ownership. That was when I got this 8GB WD HDD and it is going strong to date. I replaced the generic IDE controller with a Promise EIDE. Had DOS v6.22 and Windoze v3.11. Moved up to Win98 and haven't looked back.... (-:<

P.S. We're a bit off topic. But it was my fault.... (-:<

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CAPT Siran d'Vel'nahr - L L & P _\\//
Winders 11 OS? "What a piece of junk!" - L. Skywalker
"Logic is the cement of our civilization with which we ascend from chaos using reason as our guide." - T'Plana-hath