I scored another 8 tasks this morning. ;-)

Even on my CPU's they won't last very long.

Cheers.

Hi Julie,

We might want to consider the possibility that the S@H servers & db have decided that once again its holliday season and that they are entitled to some time off:-)

This kinda reminds me of 2012 around this time of year there was a significant outage as well.

Perhaps we should be thankful that S@H only decides to holiday every 2 years or so:-)

Regards,

I think the db might be working overtime with all the work going on in the background to move the data into a new table. At least I imagine it would be more than us poking it x number of times a second.

Only one of the three databases is working overtime - and it's not the one we poke.

I almost panicked. My GPU Bata cache was down to 4 WU and the Status page was all red. Than BOOM the downloads started and my cache filled. Status page is green again. Crisis avoided. Milkyway and Einstein can stay on the back burner.

Yes, DA has been busy, he's fixed Seti Beta's Server Status page, only took a minimum of four years, might have been longer.

Claggy

Well, http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/beta/status.php sure isn't fixed ....
and http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/beta/server_status.php isn't updating the daemon jobs as that report is from 12/1 and the task data is from 12/3!

I'd say he is working towards a repair.

Oh, as to those long names, he took the lazy man's route and printed the entire command line that started the program including option switches [which maybe should not be public for security reasons], not just the program name and instance number.

He's calmed it down a bit. Still got some detail which is only meaningful to project staff, but the option switches have been hidden.

Hi Wiggo,

Dunno about your CPU, but my bright, new and better CPU just popped its clogs:-(

So I'm back to the old 8350 again.

Just got to wait for the supplier to send a RMA and I'll try another 9370..

Regards,

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Cliff,
Been there, Done that, Still no damm T shirt!

Cliff, saw your comment and was interested in your 9370 experience. Were you running it at stock speeds? What kind of CPU cooling were you using? I looked at the 9370 briefly when it was introduced but got scared right away when I saw the 225 watt TDP. So, I guess you saw enough of a improvement over the 8350 to go forward with a replacement? What do you like over the 8350??

Cheers, Keith

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Hi Wiggo,

Dunno about your CPU, but my bright, new and better CPU just popped its clogs:-(

So I'm back to the old 8350 again.

Just got to wait for the supplier to send a RMA and I'll try another 9370..

Regards,

ATM I'd rather stick with the 2 i5's that I have Cliff. ;-)

They may have cost a few $'s more than the top AMD's of their time, probably the 8350 when I got my 3570K, ( but not many at all actually), but I've saved $'s (very many actually) in the long run when you've compared the power costs and I don't mind 9 of their cores doing an V7 AP every 4.5hrs on average either. :-)

My GPU's I just let chew through MB's 24/7/365, but I won't use their iGPU's as it's just not worth to IMO.

Cheers.

18:00 GMT 23/12 will be my guess :-)

Your guess for what?

It seems an old joke really does have some meaning in today's world...

"Dear John,
I'm writing this letter slowly as I know you can't read fast.
Love
Mother"

Hi Keith,

9370 running at stock, water cooled using H100 with 4 fans in push pull, the TDP is 'supposed' to be OK for my Asus Sabertooth FX990 R2 according to the Asus website.

I'm a little peeved since its a Black Edition CPU and should have been able to run overclocked, that it died under low load is a bit of a surprise.

Particularly given it had a much better than stock cooling solution fitted.

Actually there was little improvement over the 8350, but I hadn't tried any tweaking before it went pop. Was waiting for S@H to provide some WU before doing anything to up its throughput.

It does have a bigger cache 16MB but since I was only running 2 CPU tasks at a time and leaving the rest of the cores to supply my GPU's so if I'd had some less CPU hungry WU on hand I'd have upped the CPU tasks to 4.. But didn't have time or WU to try it:-/

I'll see what happens next time around.

Regards,

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Cliff,
Been there, Done that, Still no damm T shirt!

Must have been defective. Did the Sabertooth adjust anything automatically for it or did you go into Advanced settings and adjust stuff like LLC? Shame you didn't get to play around with it to see what it was capable of overclocking. It should have easily been capable of running stock with no load with that cooler.

Been running my 8350s at 4.2 GHz when I was cooling with CM 212 EVOs on air. Moved up to 4.4 GHz when I switched out to Corsair H105s with Noctua NFF-12 fans pushing only. During the summer only got to 58 degrees C. full load on all cores with 6 cores crunching CPU tasks and 2 cores reserved for feeding twin GTX670s. I have my CPU and chipset load lines on standard settings for one cruncher and on moderate for the other cruncher to achieve a stable 4.4 GHz overclock. Just using a multiplier overclock of X 22 to achieve the 4.4. I played around with the FSB clocks a bit to get to 4.4 - 4.7 GHz but decided the multiplier route was most stable at stock VID voltages and 4.4 GHz. I'm happy with the moderate overclock as long as it has proved extremely stable with no issues with BOINC or Windows 7 64bit Home Premium. The Sabertooth FX990 R2.0 has been a fantastic motherboard for me so far. No issues at all. I never was tempted with the FX-9300 series because of the TDP, at least when I was on air. Now with the AIO, I wonder if I could give one of them a try. I would have to be able to gain some overclock over stock though to justify the cost. Enough of a clock gain over my clocked 8350s to make it worth the effort. If I could get to 4.7 or 5.0 GHz, full load; stable, I think I might be enticed. Or not. I would give back the 100 watt savings I just picked up with the 970's that I just put in. See that most of the FX-9300 series is sold out everywhere, I wonder if that is because of Black Friday/Cyber Monday sales. Or is AMD having troubles binning those parts out now??

Good luck with the replacement part and hope you are able to overclock it.

Cheers, Keith

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Must have been defective. Did the Sabertooth adjust anything automatically for it or did you go into Advanced settings and adjust stuff like LLC? Shame you didn't get to play around with it to see what it was capable of overclocking. It should have easily been capable of running stock with no load with that cooler.

Good luck with the replacement part and hope you are able to overclock it.

I'm guessing it was defective, but I have gremlins in residence right now:-(
The Sabertooth didn't require anything other than the standard F1 when the bios detected a change in CPU.. All I needed to do was save settings and exit.

Just after my last post my monitor went blank.. Nothing on screen:-( Shut down the rig and tried another monitor on the same GPU.. worked OK but was pretty ancient [like me:-)] so I have now re-instated the monitor that went blank on me and its working.. go figure.. My guess its the power brick for it that might be on the way out:-(

So now I have to either get another monitor, or some new cabling to try and get a 27" Dell monitor to work, needs a display port cable, but not the one it came with for the new GPU cards:-/

I've got a Maplins nearby so I might just scoot across to them and see what they have that might work..

Regards,

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Cliff,
Been there, Done that, Still no damm T shirt!

Must have been defective. Did the Sabertooth adjust anything automatically for it or did you go into Advanced settings and adjust stuff like LLC? Shame you didn't get to play around with it to see what it was capable of overclocking. It should have easily been capable of running stock with no load with that cooler.

Good luck with the replacement part and hope you are able to overclock it.

I'm guessing it was defective, but I have gremlins in residence right now:-(
The Sabertooth didn't require anything other than the standard F1 when the bios detected a change in CPU.. All I needed to do was save settings and exit.

Just after my last post my monitor went blank.. Nothing on screen:-( Shut down the rig and tried another monitor on the same GPU.. worked OK but was pretty ancient [like me:-)] so I have now re-instated the monitor that went blank on me and its working.. go figure.. My guess its the power brick for it that might be on the way out:-(

So now I have to either get another monitor, or some new cabling to try and get a 27" Dell monitor to work, needs a display port cable, but not the one it came with for the new GPU cards:-/

I've got a Maplins nearby so I might just scoot across to them and see what they have that might work..

Regards,

Maplins stock what you need, but are expensive for this sort of stuff.

CCL Online have adapters for your existing cabling at around a third of the price, even allowing for postage costs. Probably one of these two, but they have a wider range if I haven't picked exactly right.

DisplayPort-to-HDMI-Cable
DisplayPort-to-DVI-Cable

Hi Richard,
Thanks for the links, I'll take a dekko.

Regards,

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Cliff,
Been there, Done that, Still no damm T shirt!

I went a different route. I bought a flat screen tv to do the job.

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All my computers are hooked up to tvs. Most tvs gave at least 2 hdmi connections now a day.

On Black Friday I was looking at either a 28" 4K monitor or a 40" 4K TV to use for my gaming computer. As the pricing was the same ~$600 USD.

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I got a 42 vizio from Sam's Club on Thanksgiving for 298 USD

Started some Cosmology tasks here in the meanwhile.

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I got a 42 vizio from Sam's Club on Thanksgiving for 298 USD

I got a 42" RCA + fully articulating wall mount + Mohu Leaf for $100 on Craigslist.

So there!

And my Mom is prettier than your Mom, too!

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My next TV will be a Vizio 60", not the high end one, just one with 4 HDMI inputs on it, but the soonest I can go for that so far is June 2016.

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You are correct the graph is a WOW event.

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