Thanks Grant. Thought it might be something on those lines. It's an FX8320 8 core running a 210 gpu, 6 HD's, 2 optical drives & 4 120mm fans. All external drives etc are running off their own supplies.
Have ordered another 750w but it won't be here until late next week (est 26th) It just downloaded 102 tasks for WCG earlier last night - deadline 26th. :-(
Was thinking of just installing the 450w & connecting only the c drive so basing on what you said, will that be okay to run at 50% cores?

Was thinking of just installing the 450w & connecting only the c drive so basing on what you said, will that be okay to run at 50% cores?

It'd be ok running all cores with only the C: drive connected (it should be OK even with with all drives connected, but taking the load of 5HDDs off will give it plenty of extra headroom).

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Thanks for the help Grant, appreciated. Been a devil of a morning.
1st off, forgot how heavy a Coolermaster Cosmo case is fully loaded.
2nd, even though old psu removed, as it was modular all cables disconnected & removed but had an issue with the 4pin connector.
The Noctua NH-D14 cooler was blocking it, so had to remove it because of the bar across the case. :-(
3rd the 4 pin connector on the replacement psu was 1.5 inch too short. Forgot that the Cosmo psu fitting was bottom up instead of top down.
No problem with the 24 pin, but...
Oh well, at least it got a good service & ready for the new psu when it arrives.
At least Ebuyer have been pretty good in the past, so should receive an e-mail Mon giving delivery date.
However, there have been occasions in the past when delivered early, so here's hoping.

Someone obviously had way, way, way too much time on their hands during the various Virus lockdowns, but this is just brilliant.
Using Task Manager on a 3990X to re-create a music video.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Generally for a maximum sustained load on a PSU you want it to be no more than 75% of the units rating.
85% to 90% of it's rated load is Ok for a hour or 3 here & there. You don't want the PSU to ever have to run at it's rated load, even for short periods.

Back up & crunching. Was concerned a bit when delivery arrived & had to check my account. I made a mistake in my original post, ordered 700w not 750w.
Unpacked then installed it & ended up with heart in mouth. :-( It wouldn't boot, no post signal, nada.
All connected correctly, so kept hitting the soft reboot button.
After several attempts, it booted up so entered bios, all drives connected. Booted into O/S all's well. :-)
Must've been a mischievous gremlin.
Aborted 89 of the 102 tasks as they wouldn't make the deadline, crunching last 2 now.

. . I had hoped that with no further crunching to do some of the more enthisiastic people would have made a meeting place out of a thread, maybe such as this one ???

Stephen

? ?

And what exactly are the "High flyers" that are you referring to there chap?

Cheers.

Rob is number 47 by total credit, Wiggo is number 90, I'm number 140, Stephen is number 144 - I think we've all done our fair share of posting.

Me thinks that someone is getting very narrow sighted and misses the obvious somehow with accusations like that.

Cheers.

Me thinks that someone is getting very narrow sighted and misses the obvious somehow with accusations like that.

Cheers.

. . But at least it sparked a few messages :) Nice to see you guys still around ... :)

Stephen

:)

The volume of message traffic has plummeted for sure. I visit every day to see if any new posts have surfaced. Rarely.

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A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association)

I had hoped that with no further crunching to do some of the more enthisiastic people would have made a meeting place out of a thread, maybe such as this one ???

IMHO, I think that crunchers suffered a double blow, the hibernation of the project & the pandemic forcing them to focus more on themselves & those they care for. As a result, DC takes a lower priority.
One thing is for certain, if I had partner who suffered from COPD, I certainly would not be so flippant over lockdown procedures.

FWIW, I wish they had not shutdown the scheduler server so soon. I would've like to seen all tasks in the wild timeout & report, as well as keep my stats current.

I'm still here. I've subscribed to a couple of threads so I get notified in boinc when there are new posts. I miss this place. The joy of lots of work, the wondering how long Tuesday's maintenance/backup window would be, and the shared frustration of down time. It made me feel like part of a clan. I don't crunch much with one slow machine, but still there was a place for me. I don't know when I'll feel that again. I crunch at World Community Grid. I'm on a team. I love the monthly updates from the scientists. I love the silly badges, but this is still where I know I can get computer help/ boinc help quickly.

I hope everyone is doing ok. This world is so weird now. Stay safe and keep crunching and come back to tell the tales

p.s. I got my gold badge in openpandemics on WCG

+1

We'll always be out there, Unixchick, helping where we can. This was a nice meeting place, but there are many active and worthy projects to help.

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I had hoped that with no further crunching to do some of the more enthisiastic people would have made a meeting place out of a thread, maybe such as this one ???

IMHO, I think that crunchers suffered a double blow, the hibernation of the project & the pandemic forcing them to focus more on themselves & those they care for. As a result, DC takes a lower priority.
One thing is for certain, if I had partner who suffered from COPD, I certainly would not be so flippant over lockdown procedures.

. . Getting off topic oops forgot which thread we were in but, while I may complain if I think restrictions have increased unreasonably I am totally supportive of them generally. Caution is not simply advisable, it is essential! And no matter how low the curve may have fallen, fundamental caution (social distancing and hygeine measures) will remain essential until there have been NO new cases in more than 2 months. Victoria here in OZ and its subsequent spread into NSW are all the evidence you need for that. We are now facing another round of harsh limitations and that will hurt even more businesses and jobs than before :(. And 90% of the resurgence is down to irresponsible individuals ... Why do so many people fail to get the message???

Stephen

Why do so many people fail to get the message???

Hubris?

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I'm still here. I've subscribed to a couple of threads so I get notified in boinc when there are new posts. I miss this place. The joy of lots of work, the wondering how long Tuesday's maintenance/backup window would be, and the shared frustration of down time. It made me feel like part of a clan. I don't crunch much with one slow machine, but still there was a place for me. I don't know when I'll feel that again. I crunch at World Community Grid. I'm on a team. I love the monthly updates from the scientists. I love the silly badges, but this is still where I know I can get computer help/ boinc help quickly.
I hope everyone is doing ok. This world is so weird now. Stay safe and keep crunching and come back to tell the tales
p.s. I got my gold badge in openpandemics on WCG

. . Its great to see you are here as well Unichick. I devoted my CPU reources to 'smash childhood cancer' but those tasks dried up so I moved to the general cancer project and eventually added the open_pandemics project but FWIW I now have my bronze badge in that :). But stay healthy and stay with us.

Stephen

:)

I'm still here. I've subscribed to a couple of threads so I get notified in boinc when there are new posts. I miss this place. The joy of lots of work, the wondering how long Tuesday's maintenance/backup window would be, and the shared frustration of down time. It made me feel like part of a clan. I don't crunch much with one slow machine, but still there was a place for me. I don't know when I'll feel that again. I crunch at World Community Grid. I'm on a team. I love the monthly updates from the scientists. I love the silly badges, but this is still where I know I can get computer help/ boinc help quickly.
I hope everyone is doing ok. This world is so weird now. Stay safe and keep crunching and come back to tell the tales
p.s. I got my gold badge in openpandemics on WCG

. . Its great to see you are here as well Unichick. I devoted my CPU reources to 'smash childhood cancer' but those tasks dried up so I moved to the general cancer project and eventually added the open_pandemics project but FWIW I now have my bronze badge in that :). But stay healthy and stay with us.

Stephen

:)

Thank you for the "good old days" check. I needed that refresher :

Tom M

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

Warning!

. . I was using Avast as my virus checker and everything has been very well for the last 4 years, but since it's last update several days ago it has taken a dislike to boinc.exe. I have tried to get it to see boinc.exe as an exception but it won't take and it continues to kill boinc.exe and manager, so in the end I had to remove it and go to another checker. The reason it gives for the antagonism to boinc.exe is "behaviour problem".

. . So just in case others are running Windows and relying on Avast keep an eye on it.

Stephen

:(