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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!

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Welcome to the team!  :hello1:

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!

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

Looks great Darren, cheers. What's RAC?

RAC - Recent Average Credit

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

Hi and welcome. Love your interests!

Shooting, tarantulas and computers

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

Welcome to the team  

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

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)

Hello and Welcome!

Hello, Good Evening and Welcome ...
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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: .

Welcome to the team!

Welcome 6.5x55. Nice to see you here  

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

I think you mean 'rigs'  :lol:

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

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

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  :!:

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