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Sadly, My laptop is no longer gonna be crunching 24/7 :( , but i will have it on as much as possible, and investigate an ASIC to make up for lost credits! :)
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Hi Chris,

Shame about that but BOINC is supposed to be spare cycles anyway.

Good luck with getting an ASIC but even without one, every credit counts.

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UBT - Chris wrote:Sadly, My laptop is no longer gonna be crunching 24/7 :( , but i will have it on as much as possible, and investigate an ASIC to make up for lost credits! :)
Hi Chris,

That's a shame...but you gotta do, what you gotta do.

The thing about ASIC's is that they can earn far more credits than a CPU can....so, in a credit race, an ASIC is the way to go.

On the other hand, BOINC is about using your spare CPU cycles to help many and various projects...and in fact while my ASIC'S are hard at work on BU, the CPU's and GPU's are doing work on other BOINC projects.

So, when you can do some crunching and you have got an ASIC you can do double the workload, with the ASIC on BU and your CPU on something less intensive, such as Convector, WUProp etc.

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Very true, Mark and Tim, but I would love to catch up to everyone in the credit race asap, so I will just get an ASIC whenever I can!

thanks for the advice :D
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UBT - Chris wrote:Very true, Mark and Tim, but I would love to catch up to everyone in the credit race asap, so I will just get an ASIC whenever I can!

thanks for the advice :D
You're not doing badly already Chris, you're in the top 20% of team members and shot up 440 places in the last week! :shock:

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Wow! Really, Woodles???
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UBT - Chris wrote:Wow! Really, Woodles???
Hi Chris

He's not telling fibs - look here:

http://boincstats.com/en/stats/-1/user/ ... 3/overview
Accumulated more credit than % of all Team Users 79.12793%
then check out the "Last 40 days" tab to see how your ranking has improved ;)

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http://boincstats.com/en/stats/-1/user/ ... eb076/#943

You're in 943th place out of 4,518 team members, ie in the top 20.87%, improved by 440 places in the last week and by 15 places in the last day :)

Another day like yesterday and you go up another 11 places :D
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UBT - Timbo wrote:He's not telling fibs - look here:
I'm deeply hurt and offended that there was ever any doubt :( ... :D :P

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Wow, Timbo -  never thought I was that good! and 11 more in a day?? sounds tempting :)
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;) Don't be offended - Woodles - I just wanted to see it for myself, so I could see my progress.  :oops:
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UBT - Chris wrote:;) Don't be offended - Woodles - I just wanted to see it for myself, so I could see my progress.  :oops:
I wasn't really Chris :)

You've gone up six places in the past eight hours :D

Of course, your progress will slow down as you get higher up the table but you're heading in the right direction.

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Haha :D and nice - understood about harder to rank up as I get better :)
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