Guzza wrote:Hi everyone,
Thanks to admin for (finally) approving me!
Hi Guzza
Welcome to the Team and to our Forum. Apologies for the slightly delayed "approval" - as Mark said, I was away until late Monday night and have slowly been getting back into the swing of things.
The "admin approval" measure is actually a recent introduction, as we had been targeted by some spam-bots and the normal phpBB extensions weren't working too well (to keep them out). So, I had to introduce the admin approval to ensure that accounts were "allotted" to genuine members.
I'm an ex-BOINCer that is starting up again with a new profile.
Are you aware that, even as an exBOINCer, if you still have access to your original email address, your earlier credits can be added to your new credits - though this won't work if you have two accounts on the same project
Likewise, on projects where you have just the one account, I believe you can log in to your account and then change the email address to your new one...and that projects credits, should then be assigned to your new account....though it might take a day or three for the merging of credits on the stats websites.
I used to have a Dream PC of the year but it's now sat in my room gathering dust as it's borked.
So now I have a more basic PC and will be running an i7-4790 and a NV GF 730 GPU. It's stock cooled so I run BoincTasks and TThrottle to keep the temps in range.
Whilst I can't churn out huge credits etc happy to be part of challenges if my CPU/GPU is up to the task.
I'm currently doing the PrimeGrid challenge with 2 other UK BOINC Team members that ends tonight - I should be able to get another 17k credits by the end. Does everyone here do challenges much anymore?
Any tips welcome.
~G~
A 4790 + NV 730 is still a good combination and should churn out a good whack of credits...so, your contribution will be greatly appreciated.
As far as challenges goes, I've got Willy at BOINCstats to "auto-include" UBT in all of his challenges...and likewise, I've tried to do the same at WCG, but that varies from month to month.
On the individual projects websites, I don't get reminders from them as to when they are starting up a new challenge, though sometimes I might notice one in the "Notices" section of BOINCTasks (which I use too, in preference to BOINC Manager).
Sadly however, I don't think we have enough regular forum visitors these days, (compared to say 5 or more years ago) to truly be able to muster a significant number of members to actually compete "well" on a challenge.
Having said that, one challenge that has generated some member interest is Formula-BOINC, for which no registration is required...and all that this website does is to add all the members credits together that have been earned within the calendar year and to produce a table which is based on the points system used in Formula 1 (25 pts for 1st place, 18 for 2nd etc).
http://formula-boinc.org/index.py?lang= ... &year=2016
Thus far we're in League 2 (as our Team RAC is between 1M and 10M) and we're currently in 8th place. So, if you have any spare CPU capacity, then take a look at the projects where we are either within a points scoring position (and could earn more if we had just a few extra credits) or where we are in 11th or 12th place (and just a few extra credits could put us into the points
).
Hope this helps
regards
Tim
