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Message 1700143 - Posted: 10 Jul 2015, 12:26:21 UTC - in response to Message 1700090.  

This is my main cruncher:

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It looks like it is made out of chocolate. I might be hungry...
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Message 1702110 - Posted: 16 Jul 2015, 9:48:38 UTC

Right then, here's mine:




Well, one of them. Here are (some) of the others.

Some Mac Pros


iMacs and a couple more Mac Pros


2 venerable Xserves and 4 new Mac Minis (including the split personality machine, Pluto


A stack of older Mac Minis


And of course, the machine I'm posting this on, my 27" iMac. Yes, I have 2 screens attached to it, I'm a showoff, obviously :)


I have a couple more at home, Just an old and a new iMac. Machines come and go as I need to let users have desktops, but I usually have a few iMacs sitting around donating cores to the cause.
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Message 1702145 - Posted: 16 Jul 2015, 13:36:56 UTC
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Loving that Outlander machine. How well does your Titan run Seti tasks? I was looking into used Titans, and Titan Blacks for the double precision for other projects.
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Message 1702146 - Posted: 16 Jul 2015, 13:57:20 UTC - in response to Message 1702145.  

Loving that Outlander machine. How well does your Titan run Seti tasks? I was looking into used Titans, and Titan Blacks for the double precision for other projects.


Originally I had 2, but burned one out and was getting a RAC of about 55k. Now with the Titan and 2 750ti I'm getting a RAC of about 46k

They're definitely worth it, but a 780ti works better I believe and would be cheaper than even a second hand Titan.

And then when you really get down to it a 980ti spanks the both of them, so...

Having said that, if you can get a Titan for a good price (I got mine effectively for free) then they're certainly built for it!
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Message 1702161 - Posted: 16 Jul 2015, 15:03:42 UTC - in response to Message 1702146.  

You know I'm going to say that the Titans beats 980.

The 780 Ti does out produce the 980 but..It runs a whole lot hotter and uses much more electricity ( I used to have a case with 4 780 Tis)

Don't have a 980TI to compare with, unless someone wants to donate it for testing????....no? Oh well..

Maybe next year, i'll be able to get 1 or 2 to see how they compare with the Titan Xs.
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Message 1702164 - Posted: 16 Jul 2015, 15:11:42 UTC - in response to Message 1702161.  

Looking at the 780ti, and 980tis they consume the same power as your titan Xs. I'm already heating up my basement with just my 960/970s. After I get my dual 980 setup going Ill look into the 980ti in the fall, hopefully after a price drop.
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Message 1702166 - Posted: 16 Jul 2015, 15:16:05 UTC - in response to Message 1702164.  
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780Ti ran about 15C hotter than the 980s. But were faster.

The Titans are about 20% more productive {faster in processing}/per hour than my 980s. (added up over a day that pretty significant)

So there are trade off to everything ;)
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Message 1702299 - Posted: 16 Jul 2015, 20:42:55 UTC - in response to Message 1702146.  

Loving that Outlander machine. How well does your Titan run Seti tasks? I was looking into used Titans, and Titan Blacks for the double precision for other projects.


Originally I had 2, but burned one out and was getting a RAC of about 55k. Now with the Titan and 2 750ti I'm getting a RAC of about 46k

They're definitely worth it, but a 780ti works better I believe and would be cheaper than even a second hand Titan.

And then when you really get down to it a 980ti spanks the both of them, so...

Having said that, if you can get a Titan for a good price (I got mine effectively for free) then they're certainly built for it!

Hmm, we've got two 980Tis on order for my cow-orker's N-body simulations. I'd hoped to snaffle his S2070 for one of my 20-core Xeons, but he has other ideas...
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Message 1702403 - Posted: 17 Jul 2015, 5:21:17 UTC - in response to Message 1702299.  
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Hmm, we've got two 980Tis on order for my cow-orker's N-body simulations. I'd hoped to snaffle his S2070 for one of my 20-core Xeons, but he has other ideas...


One day, when I can slap 8 nVidia K80 in a box, I will.

Until I win the lottery I worked out yesterday I can probably trade up to 3 x 970 (second hand) for Outlander at little cost to me given what I could trade in for them (the Titan, the 2 x 750ti and a couple of old phones I have lying around doing nothing).

Performance-wise 3 x 970 will be only a shade more expensive (£30 or so) than 2 x 980 but quite a bit more than £30 more powerful. Looking at various benchmarks the 980 is only ~15% more powerful for a lot more than 15% of the price. [edit: Just had a look and the 970 appears to be ~150% more powerful than the 750ti, and as near as dammit comparable to the Titan with the added 'value' that now all the cards in Outlander will be the same)

I will investigate further on Saturday.

Got to love CEX!
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Message 1703796 - Posted: 21 Jul 2015, 21:47:53 UTC

My little puter... AMD FX-8350 @ 4300mhz, 16gigs of G-Skill Ripjaws PC12800, 2 - Powercolor R9-280Xs on a Gigabyte MOBO, in a HTPC case. Respectable RAC...


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Message 1712222 - Posted: 13 Aug 2015, 9:46:24 UTC
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This morning I started my computer and found that the water cooling fan made quite a racket, a bit weird as the whole thing is only sitting there since a couple of weeks. So I opened it up, something that needed to happen anyway as the other day I'd found that despite me following the water cooling build to the manual, the fan on the radiator was blowing instead of sucking, and the fan on the back of the case was sucking instead of blowing.

Took the side off my system and was met by cat hair. On the new fans, on the radiator, on the PSU. This on the Aerocool case that's got more filters than your dust buster has. But it also has some holes here and there to allow more cool air in, and there's no filters there. So cat hair can creep in undetected. Until, that is, the fans start to make an odd racket, due to hair clinging on them.

Anyway, I forgot to make photos again of the inside of the case, will do that next maintenance round next month.
But here's at least now some shots of it in the computer room:


Nice tower, sits snug under my desk. No cat's used it yet as an option to jump on my desk, so they never hit the power button yet.

The window. Difficult to photograph through though. Difficult? No, impossible.

Magnetic filter on the top. the radiator is right underneath it.

Without the filter.

Got these slits on both sides, and they easily suck in cat hair.

One of the culprits: Wokkel,

and the other one as well: Twiggles.

Turning the fan around on the radiator did make a difference: idle temperature was 32C before and is now 27C.
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Message 1713170 - Posted: 15 Aug 2015, 1:43:02 UTC
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Message 1713189 - Posted: 15 Aug 2015, 2:39:26 UTC - in response to Message 1713182.  

Nice PC Andrew Scharbarth!

I'm actually a little unhappy with the tower. It doesn't quite have enough room for the optical drive with the model of radiator I have installed. That was an annoying surprise.
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Message 1713195 - Posted: 15 Aug 2015, 2:56:02 UTC

It's larger than it looks, it was an oversight on my part. I didn't take into account that the radiator for the corsair H100i GTX Extreme was made thicker.

It gives a nice cooling performance boost and keeps the toasty unlocked 4790k I'm running at 4.6 at 130f (in an unairconditioned room that's about 80f).

Overall I'm happy with the tower, It's just gonna take a little dremel work to adjust for that extra quarter inch.

I don't know why dyypc insisted on having the optical slot mounted so high; there's a ton of room under it. I guess it was a design oversight on their part, too.
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Message 1713203 - Posted: 15 Aug 2015, 3:06:54 UTC - in response to Message 1713195.  

Andrew, do you need the optical drive?

I run 2 computers without any drives other than for when I install the OS. After that I remove them. Save's money on not needing to get a new one for each computer.

If i ever do need to reattach them I just run the cable out of the box and use the drive. When I'm done, I unconnect it and put the cable back into the box.

Just an idea


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Message 1713205 - Posted: 15 Aug 2015, 3:10:49 UTC

here at the office i just borrow an external usb optical drive to install the os

my boss is worse, he only wants to install os from bootable usb flash drives
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Message 1713206 - Posted: 15 Aug 2015, 3:15:23 UTC - in response to Message 1713203.  
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Zalster: That's exactly what I did. This tower is hooked to an hdmi splitter that goes to my TV as well, so the intent of the drive was to be able to pop in blu rays when I want to watch something I that's in my physical media library.

All I really have to do is drill a different set of mounting holes for the radiator so it sits back further in the tower. As is, it's set up equidistant between the front and back of the chassis.
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Message 1713241 - Posted: 15 Aug 2015, 5:17:37 UTC - in response to Message 1713170.  

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I have a similar case, the steam castle by deepcool. Ugly as hell but functional, picked it up cheap when it was on shellshocker. I'll take some pics of it when I get home from work tomorrow. I'm running a single 750 in there with a dual core on a cheapo mb, but it works like a champ, though I have to dedicate the entire cpu to the graphics card. If I use just one core it throws a fit.
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Message 1713695 - Posted: 16 Aug 2015, 0:33:18 UTC

My Deepcool system. I bought these items cheap and re-purposed them. The case was $40, the PSU was $20, the MB was $20, Ram $20, HDD from a busted external USB drive, reused old heatsink from a previous build, the GPU from ebay for $99 and the G3258 CPU was $60. The machine produces around 11-12K aday using the gpu only. It acts crazy when I take a core away, so it gets feed by the whole cpu.



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