Asus recalls 10,000 Z690 Hero motherboards because of a backward capacitor.

Did you buy a flagship Asus motherboard for your 12th Gen Intel processor anytime before December 2021? You’d best check if it’s the ROG Maximus Z690 Hero and get it swapped out if so because it could potentially start a fire in your house.

In January, a savvy YouTuber figured out that Asus installed one of that $600 board’s capacitors backward, and the company promised to work with government agencies on a replacement program. Today, seven months later, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and Asus are finally formally announcing that recall...

Cheers.

Haha hahah HaH. LOL. That's a good one.

From the forums . . . . . . "I need help, my cpu temps are atrocious!!!"

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

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9-25-2022 at 12:22 PM - PDT

OK, I've been trying on and off MANY times during the day to Reload the Collatz' Project's Web Page - to NO avail.
Firefox keeps telling me that there is a PR End of File Msg, and that the Certificate isn't right anymore.

I keep checking "Is it down for everyone, or just me?" Site and it keeps telling me that Collatz is down for everyone.

This has been going on, now, for a good couple of months.... Is Collatz down for good? Does anyone know?


TL

[EDIT:]

Trying to get here... But every page of the Site gives the same error.


TL

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TimeLord04
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Collatz was taken down many months ago as the owner moved to a new house or something like that.

this was posted on the collatz forum on June 6th:

Finish Up Your Work
I'll be losing my "computer room" in my basement this week while water seepage mitigation is done. After that, the house goes on the market as I'll be relocating to a state with nicer climate with fewer corrupt politicians and lower taxes. The result is that the Collatz project will be down for some time. Please set your machines to get no new work because you likely won't be able to return the work before it times out. The work starts Wednesday so I have to have everything cleared out prior to that so it may be Monday or Tuesday when it gets shut down. Once I move, I don't know how reliable the broadband will be, but I'm hoping that since it will be fiber and not cable TV based, it will be decent. It should be faster and less expensive, but I can't predict when the Collatz project will be back online at this time.
6 Jun 2022, 2:54:49 UTC

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

Collatz was taken down many months ago as the owner moved to a new house or something like that.

this was posted on the collatz forum on June 6th:

Finish Up Your Work
I'll be losing my "computer room" in my basement this week while water seepage mitigation is done. After that, the house goes on the market as I'll be relocating to a state with nicer climate with fewer corrupt politicians and lower taxes. The result is that the Collatz project will be down for some time. Please set your machines to get no new work because you likely won't be able to return the work before it times out. The work starts Wednesday so I have to have everything cleared out prior to that so it may be Monday or Tuesday when it gets shut down. Once I move, I don't know how reliable the broadband will be, but I'm hoping that since it will be fiber and not cable TV based, it will be decent. It should be faster and less expensive, but I can't predict when the Collatz project will be back online at this time.
6 Jun 2022, 2:54:49 UTC

4:47 PM - PDT

Thanks for that. At least, now I know.

I knew it had been several months, I just lost
track of time and didn't realize that they'd been
down since June.

I never saw the Home Page with this message, I'd
spent my time in the Café. I'd been having these
troubles for months, but didn't know why, AND
didn't see any posts here, or elsewhere. So, again,
thanks for the update.


TL

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TimeLord04
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Best place to check for project outages, awol project(s), etc is BOINC FORUMS/Message boards : Projects
or
BoincStats forums

Asteroids@home seems to be out of its recent coma... but not yet fully awake. The project home page comes up and the server status page comes up with the correct date and time. But... scheduler_reply is all messed up. The last work units I had were July 2021. I'll monitor the project and see if Boinc will recover on its own; or do a project reset if the project status recovers to "normal" and I'm still not communicating with it. My feeling is there's no point in banging it with a "reset project" if it doesn't look ready. Maybe even limit scheduler requests to just occasional instead of the boinc managed retries.

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Grant
Darwin NT

A liquid cooled rack
In the rack were two identical servers running the same workload. One server was air cooled, the other connected to the racks water cooling system to cool it's CPUs.
The difference in temperatures was 30°c

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Grant
Darwin NT

Nvidia does u-turn after backlash.

Nvidia 'Unlaunches' 12GB GeForce RTX 4080.

Cheers.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Add #7:

"Nobody told me they'd done THAT before it crashed".

What's the best project to put a RTX 3080 to use on running Windows 11?

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What's the best project to put a RTX 3080 to use on running Windows 11?

depends on your interests.

Einstein Gamma Ray #1 will probably generate the most points as long as you have a recent driver (app v1.28).
Einstein BRP7/MeerKAT also has a Windows CUDA application that will work on your 3080

Asteroids@home has a CUDA application that will work with it also

there's a few number theory/math/prime projects too like PrimeGrid

GPUGRID has apps that work with the 3080, but they really only have their python apps recently which need a lot of system resources (uses lots of system RAM and many CPU cores)

Milkyway will work, but performance will not be very good on a 3080 since it's FP64 ability is really lacking and MW thrives on FP64.

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

Thank you Ian and Steve for your feedback. Appreciate the heads up I was unaware Asteroids@home had restarted. Einstein appears to be struggling to give out tasks at the moment.
Think I will help PrimeGrid for a wee while.
Out of interest what run times do you get over at Asteroids? I am aware that you are not running Windows.
Thanks again for your feedback

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Einstein is actually back to full production. my systems have been getting steady and consistent work for about a week now. the work shortage was only on FGRPB1G, but BRP7 has always had consistent work. and they are gearing up for another Gravitational Wave campaign soon, O3MDF.

Asteroids tasks will probably run about 5mins per task on your 3080, they vary in runtime a bit. make sure you have the recent drivers installed, there've been some reports that the server doesnt send the tasks unless you have the new drivers. (520+)

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

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Grant
Darwin NT

Dolts. Do they not know how to read???

A "50 Inch Class TV" is not 50 inches across. The measurement is aproximately 50 inches DIAGONAL.

From a Amazon ADVERT FOR TV's

TV Screen Size:
The size of the TV's display, measured diagonally.

I saw a review for Ortho Weed AND GRASS Killer Ground Clear complaining that it killed their grass. Not only is it in the name, but it has a warning on the label, "WARNING: KILLS GRASS".

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You always see plenty of bad reviews about, but most of them are from people who don't have a bloody clue and refuse to read the instructions and specs. :-(