Have you looked at Amazon. I see the 3900X listed and in stock at its normal $499.99 MSRP price.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07SXMZLP9/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

That is amazing. Its "in stock"!

Tom

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A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association).

I use SETI to heat my home as well as monitor for abnormalities in my voltages, cooling and clock speeds. I started contributing my resources thinking there would be some definitive proof long ago.

Greetings,

NordVPN has been hacked in 2018! JayzTwoCents has a video about the hack and was also a promoter of NordVPN.

Here is a link to the article where NordVPN confirms the hack.

Jay says they (NordVPN) are "spin doctoring" the whole thing and has sent them an email stating that he has suspended his promotion of their service until such time that NordVPN comes clean.

Have a great day! :)

Siran

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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

Greetings,

Dang! I gotta get a new battery for my UPS. Both of my PCs were down immediately. NOT a good thing! The UPS maintaining the modem and router kept the Internet alive throughout the outage. How cool is that? :) I should probably get an UPS for my 3 Pis too.

We had an outage yesterday. A transformer blew on the power pole. Lines burnt and melted off the connections and were lying on the ground. The fire dept. showed up and then the utility company. The outage was over an hour sooner than was predicted. Woohoo! :)

I believe that transformer was on its way out for several months. We consistently had brown outs and short blackouts for quite a while. Hopefully that will be a thing of the past now. :)

Have a great day! :)

Siran

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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

I have watching the leaderboard's RAC's and it looks like everyone's RAC has gone up a couple thousand. I am assuming its the mix of data we are crunching. I believe I have seen it before.

Anyone got a better idea?

Tom

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A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association).

It’s the Arecibo data.

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Seti@Home classic workunits: 29,492 CPU time: 134,419 hours

Greetings,

Dang! I gotta get a new battery for my UPS. ...

Amazing how cheap decent quality batteries can be had on eBay. Just did an augment here a while back, and there's several places out of LA with decent prices including shipping.

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I picked up a 2U Cyberpower 1000VA/900W sine wave UPS. Will stick it in my 12U short-rack to backup:

3U FreeNAS/VM/Jail box- 2x E5-2680v2 + 8x HDD, ~250W avg load
1U Plex transcode server C2758 Atom 8-core w/ GTX 1660, ~30-40W avg load
1U Cisco 18-port gigabit switch
RPi (Pi-Hole)
altogether about 310W load (According to the meter)

If I like it, maybe I'll pick up a 2200VA/1980W model to backup the one 120V system I have (7x2070, 1250W load)

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Seti@Home classic workunits: 29,492 CPU time: 134,419 hours

Greetings,

Dang! I gotta get a new battery for my UPS. ...

Amazing how cheap decent quality batteries can be had on eBay. Just did an augment here a while back, and there's several places out of LA with decent prices including shipping.

Hi Jim,

Me? I stay away from eBay! I've read too many horror stories about people getting screwed by buying from eBay. Granted, eBay may step in and cover you if you get deceived, but I don't want to go through that hassle. I stick with Newegg and sometimes Amazon or even Best Buy (if I need it same day like when my monitor died a few weeks ago). And I don't buy refurbished or open box items.

I did find a generic battery for my UPS on Amazon for $34.99. I'll be ordering it soon, maybe even order 2. Nah, I'd hate to have a new battery for a UPS that decides to head south for something other than a battery failure. ;)

Have a great day! :)

Siran

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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

I just did a quick price check on ebay, amazon and RS in the UK for a battery for one of my UPS. RS, a company that is "famed" for not being the cheapest came out a few pounds less than either of the "low cost" suppliers when one included delivery and other costs. So it certainly pays to shop around and treat the "low cost" suppliers with a large dose of caution.

Word of caution - don't "stock-pile" a battery as that is one of the worst things you can do unless one can do all the "storage maintenance" required - and this includes "dry, charged" and "dry, un-charged" batteries - there have been some very nasty incidents when bringing long term stored "new" batteries into service where the storage maintenance and "bring back to life" have not been followed to the letter :-(

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

If you have a wet cell storage battery, they make battery maintainers that cost less than $10 that you plug into mains and then hook up to the battery. Keeps throwing a pulse charge at the battery and keeps them topped up and keeps them from discharging from internal resistance and sulfating out. I have ten year old batteries that can still deliver their demand load.

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

A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association)

According to our cpu list the single most popular cpu that is either crunching Seti@home tasks or at least driving gpus to do it is

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790 CPU @ 3.60GHz [Family 6 Model 60 Stepping 3] 1506 7.96 4.21 33.51

And it has some close relatives that are up near 1,400+.

The single most popular Amd cpu appears to be:

AMD FX(tm)-8350 Eight-Core Processor [Family 21 Model 2 Stepping 0] 873 7.93 3.28 26.00

Trailing a little behind it is ever popular:

AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Eight-Core Processor [Family 23 Model 8 Stepping 2] 563 15.81 4.90 77.47

And there are an amazing [based on my testing/opinion] (87) TR2 2990wx cpus on our list.

Tom

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A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association).

Hi Jim,

Me? I stay away from eBay! I've read too many horror stories about people getting screwed by buying from eBay.

I've done 5-6 orders from expertbattery on the bay over the years, in rebuilding several UPSs. Never had an issue. It's pretty easy to tell the real companies from the rip-off artists and solo incompetents... If someone's sold >3000 of a given battery, they're probably legit ...

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I've bought several UPS replacement batteries from http://www.refurbups.com/ Never had a problem with them or the batteries.

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

A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association)

I've bought several UPS replacement batteries from http://www.refurbups.com/ Never had a problem with them or the batteries.

Hi Keith,

They don't have a replacement battery for my UPS. :(

They don't list my UPS and they don't list my battery type. :(

[edit] I do like their prices though. :) [/edit]

Have a great day! :)

Siran

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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

Greetings,

Who'd a thunk chewing gum, after it has been chewed for quite some time (usually when the flavor is all gone) would come in handy for fixing things? I did. :)

I am really hard on keyboards. Since I have started gaming I have probably gone through half a dozen or more keyboards. I got cheap ones. They lasted the least. I got the more expensive "gaming" keyboards. They lasted a bit longer. I had a Logitech gaming with their Romer G switches. The caps were help on by 2 tiny little pins the recessed into the switch receivers. Those pins broke off fast. I tried fixing one with superglue. Somehow, the switch no longer sent a signal to the computer. I didn't use that much glue. The switch still worked, just no signal to the PC. The switch was dead. Ok, so I got another one and consciously tried not to be so hard on the keys. Not so much. Key cap pins broke again.

So this time I got a Logitech keyboard with Cherry MX switches. They lasted about twice as long. No matter how much I try not to be hard on the keyboards, I just am. I was trying to come up with a way to fix the key cap that broke on this keyboard. I got to thinking about chewing gun and how really sticky it can be. I chew gum every day. I got a wad that I tossed out and pulled a small piece off of it. I placed it in the key cap and installed it and it worked! It works!!!

I had one of those thin plastic feet on my mouse that kept coming loose. It finally got to the point where it would no longer stay. Old chewing gum to the rescue. I smeared a tiny piece in the recess that the foot fits in and put the foot in. It works!

Who'd a thunk that old chewed gum would be as versatile as WD-40? :)

Have a great day! :)

Siran

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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

That's interesting.

This box: https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=8684146 is setup via the Website for a group of "gpu only"
crunching. Yet this morning it picked up a cpu task from Seti@Home. I do know as a default I accept "other tasks" but that is weird.

Tom

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A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association).

3°F here again for the second night. Grateful for the warmth of 11 GPUs :)

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3°F here again for the second night.

That's just nasty.
The coolest it's been here for a while is 24°c (75°f)

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Grant
Darwin NT

Who'd a thunk chewing gum, after it has been chewed for quite some time (usually when the flavor is all gone) would come in handy for fixing things? I did. :)

I am really hard on keyboards. ...

Seeing your post reminded me of this silly ear worm ditty...

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