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6.5x55 · Post by **6.5x55** » Sun Feb 21, 2010 1:58 pm

Hi guys, I've just joined! Was very into Seti a few years ago until the leccy bills caught up with me. Current rig is a 6600 quad core with a Nvidia GTX275. Won't be running 24/7 but will be on quite a lot. Dreaming of an i5 or an i7 but aren't we all - sigh...

Anyway, hello!

Temujin · Post by **Temujin** » Sun Feb 21, 2010 2:21 pm

Hi there and welcome to the team

Post by **UBT - bobuk** » Sun Feb 21, 2010 2:55 pm

Welcome to the best team in the UK.
May your stay be along one.
Need any help ? Then just ask there is
always someone around to give advice.

b.

hgblade · Post by **hgblade** » Sun Feb 21, 2010 2:57 pm

Welcome to the team! :hello1:

6.5x55 · Post by **6.5x55** » Sun Feb 21, 2010 3:25 pm

Cheers guys :) . How long does it take my credits to appear in my sig? I've got about 120,000.

Edit: They've just appeared - cool!

Darren · Post by **Darren** » Sun Feb 21, 2010 4:05 pm

You did not put your CPID in when you registered for a signature so....

Assuming your username in Seti is Astra...
I have changed it for you.

Let me know if that is not correct.

Darren

6.5x55 · Post by **6.5x55** » Sun Feb 21, 2010 4:10 pm

Looks great Darren, cheers. What's RAC?

hgblade · Post by **hgblade** » Sun Feb 21, 2010 4:20 pm

RAC - Recent Average Credit

UBT - Rick Horn · Post by **UBT - Rick Horn** » Sun Feb 21, 2010 5:14 pm

Hi Guy, and a very warm welcome to the team. :hello2:

Post by **UBT - Mikee** » Sun Feb 21, 2010 5:45 pm

Hi and welcome. Love your interests!

Shooting, tarantulas and computers

Feel like shooting my computers sometimes (or am I missing something!)

Joshrandom · Post by **Joshrandom** » Sun Feb 21, 2010 6:18 pm

Welcome to the team

6.5x55 · Post by **6.5x55** » Sun Feb 21, 2010 10:12 pm

Cheers guys, you're making me feel very welcome :) . Just waiting for the servers to start accepting completed WU's now :?.

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Mon Feb 22, 2010 12:21 am

6.5x55 wrote:Dreaming of an i5 or an i7 but aren't we all - sigh...

Yes sir! :lol: Welcome aboard, like you mine isn't on 24/7 either but i do what i can which a certain few members here are probally going to taunt me about (timby, bob, melter - im sure!) :roll:

Although with that GTX275 you can attach to a project like Milkyway, Collatz to get super amount of points per hour, if you wish that is.

GPUGrid is another good project (does studying of diseases) although can take alot longer per work unit (6-12 hours)

melter65 · Post by **melter65** » Mon Feb 22, 2010 9:25 pm

Hello and Welcome!

Rotwang1985 · Post by **Rotwang1985** » Mon Feb 22, 2010 9:34 pm

Hello, Good Evening and Welcome ...
:wav:

6.5x55 · Post by **6.5x55** » Tue Feb 23, 2010 8:06 am

Just had a good look at your sig Darren, are you running some kind of rendering farm at your house or have you put Boinc on every computer at your work - lol :shock: :lol: .

Dan · Post by **Dan** » Tue Feb 23, 2010 8:32 am

Welcome to the team!

Ice · Post by **Ice** » Tue Feb 23, 2010 1:19 pm

Welcome 6.5x55. Nice to see you here

6.5x55 · Post by **6.5x55** » Tue Feb 23, 2010 1:31 pm

Cheers Ice, you look like a fairly serious Boincer! What's your rig?

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Tue Feb 23, 2010 2:08 pm

I think you mean 'rigs' :lol:

The big crunchers are usually using GPU's (or graphics cards) to get the big numbers. :)

6.5x55 · Post by **6.5x55** » Tue Feb 23, 2010 2:19 pm

LOL - I was going to change it when realised that no way could one rig generate those kind of numbers

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Ben · Post by **Ben** » Tue Feb 23, 2010 2:22 pm

Usually not, but some mad crunchers such as UL1 have something like 3-4 HD5000 series GPU's in his machines and are capable of doing in the region of 600k per day.. Per machine! :shock:

Although you can just imagine the electricity meter!

Take a look at these top hosts RAC (recent average credit):
http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/top_hosts.php :!:

Ice · Post by **Ice** » Tue Feb 23, 2010 3:58 pm

I doubt whether any of my rigs would rate as 'top' since the best of mine is no more than a desktop with a duo processor in it, and a HD4870. I have a couple of HD4870s and some HD4850s but mostly in crappy old PCs which I saved from landfill dumps because they had a PCI express slot.

Electricity costs are certainly a factor, but I've tried to crunch on a budget by managing to get hold of old PC's and investing in one or some ATI cards.

It was about this time last year that I figured out that if I had one PC with one ATI card I could get rid of all my other PCs, have reduced electricity cost, but still have the same credits as all those PCs. I would say that this still holds true, except that I kept getting another ATI card and started up another mothballed PC. And now I'm on a 100 million a year later after being on just 3 or 4 mill.

It's really doesn't take much to be a 'mega cruncher' and to help to haul this team up a bit higher

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