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Thread:  Team ___In2My.Net___ asks: "Are you an online gamer!?!?" (All Welcome) |
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courine
Master Cruncher Capt., Team In2My.Net Cmd. HQ: San Francisco Joined: Apr 26, 2007 Post Count: 1794 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Actually its not to go faster, its to save power. The cost per watt-hour is much better and will pay off the transition before the machines loose their tax write-off incentive. If you wait until they die, you will pay more and get less as time goes on.
----------------------------------------What I did to fight this effect is much the same, but I have fewer machines and they are all in the same room. So I just swapped out all the socket 7 systems with a few duo's and a quad. I dropped my power usage in half and now pump over twice as much. If I didnt do anything, by now I would be having to cut systems due to costs. The reason why I say this, is that I dont want your brilliant DC career go down the tubes because some self-centered accountant thinks this is wasted money on a pipe dream. Oh and thanks for turning me onto tigerdirect.com. How do you think I afforded the cost of upgrading? I’m on a fixed income.     |
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courine
Master Cruncher Capt., Team In2My.Net Cmd. HQ: San Francisco Joined: Apr 26, 2007 Post Count: 1794 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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LOL, yes that might work for some things, but we have lots of machines that work for our purposes. Updating them wouldn't make our work go any faster, so we use what we have until they die. Many of the programs we run don't work on a client/server setup. I like the dual Quad Xeon setup. I think it would be a lot faster than my dual Xeon 2.66 core solo system. I need to check and see if that board would support dual or quad core Xeons with a BIOS update. It has XP Pro, not server. But I think I have a copy of Server2003 here somewhere that I got from MSDN.... Dual Xeon Quad Core 2.66 GHz 07/07/2008 0:003:13:47:38 10,444 13 07/06/2008 0:004:03:39:59 11,703 17 07/05/2008 0:007:23:39:00 23,295 29 07/04/2008 0:008:20:58:08 25,086 38 07/03/2008 0:007:05:28:21 20,481 33 07/02/2008 0:006:11:02:36 18,379 24 07/01/2008 0:006:01:32:12 17,416 26 06/30/2008 0:006:23:48:49 19,440 23 06/29/2008 0:008:10:49:35 23,857 33 06/28/2008 0:006:12:02:55 18,186 24 06/27/2008 0:007:06:00:29 21,761 26 06/26/2008 0:006:02:05:56 17,669 22 06/25/2008 0:006:06:38:16 18,015 27 06/24/2008 0:007:05:46:52 20,811 29 Dual Xeon Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz 07/07/2008 0:003:10:22:59 7,770 12 07/06/2008 0:002:01:43:54 4,961 8 07/05/2008 0:004:10:08:37 9,694 16 07/04/2008 0:003:19:23:59 8,627 14 07/03/2008 0:002:05:39:32 5,103 8 07/02/2008 0:002:23:33:09 6,958 10 07/01/2008 0:002:03:19:50 4,742 7 06/30/2008 0:003:18:10:56 7,870 14 06/29/2008 0:000:05:47:37 494 1 06/28/2008 0:000:05:38:25 483 1 06/27/2008 0:000:04:15:25 363 1 06/26/2008 0:001:08:57:07 2,993 5 06/25/2008 0:002:11:29:01 5,368 8 06/24/2008 0:000:18:09:46 1,665 3 Now you can make an informed decision on what a Quad can do over a Duo. Other than the processor core speed and number of cores, the rest of the boxes are basically the same, except one uses SCSI RAID 5 and the other has SATA RAID 5. I want more Quads. WooT!!! Here is what my q6600 does: 07/07/2008 0:004:03:20:58 11,705 15 07/06/2008 0:003:22:49:19 10,711 18 07/05/2008 0:004:04:05:46 11,436 16 07/04/2008 0:003:02:57:32 8,683 12 07/03/2008 0:004:00:42:39 11,389 16 07/02/2008 0:003:22:45:10 11,152 14 07/01/2008 0:004:07:28:44 11,630 20 and my C2D does: 07/07/2008 0:001:20:57:06 2,050 6 07/06/2008 0:002:07:58:55 2,768 8 07/05/2008 0:001:21:08:37 2,022 6 07/04/2008 0:001:16:05:39 1,772 5 07/03/2008 0:003:00:25:09 3,449 10 07/02/2008 0:001:03:33:45 1,359 4 07/01/2008 0:002:04:10:40 2,464 7 And as always, nice to see MM.  [Edit 2 times, last edit by courine at Jul 8, 2008 1:45:37 PM] |
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Lasis
Advanced Cruncher Latvia Joined: Apr 27, 2007 Post Count: 58 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Well, C2D and multi-cores are beautiful, but I've made up my mind - I'm not gonna upgrade until summer 2009, unless there will be something nice and tasty for pretty price.
----------------------------------------Yes, it's "old" (~3-4 years) single core, but before that I had AMD K6-2, it was ~8 years old when I get something better. Oh! I got my first Mega points on WCG! Which is.. wait  ... 1.54% of our teams total points.  |
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Former Member
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And as always, nice to see MM. You wont be seeing me much for the next 10 days or so. I'm going on vacation but my machines will be cruching. All except one laptop that is coming with me that will only be connected to the internet a few times in my absence. Doing the Dum Dum da Dum on Sunday. |
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courine
Master Cruncher Capt., Team In2My.Net Cmd. HQ: San Francisco Joined: Apr 26, 2007 Post Count: 1794 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Well, C2D and multi-cores are beautiful, but I've made up my mind - I'm not gonna upgrade until summer 2009, unless there will be something nice and tasty for pretty price. Yes, it's "old" (~3-4 years) single core, but before that I had AMD K6-2, it was ~8 years old when I get something better. Oh! I got my first Mega points on WCG! Which is.. wait ... 1.54% of our teams total points. Its time for a 1 million Woot salute! |
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Former Member
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I wonder if anyone has read it.
----------------------------------------Also, check t3h pi3! [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Jul 9, 2008 7:15:45 AM] |
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cargod01
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Apr 25, 2007 Post Count: 508 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Well, C2D and multi-cores are beautiful, but I've made up my mind - I'm not gonna upgrade until summer 2009, unless there will be something nice and tasty for pretty price. Yes, it's "old" (~3-4 years) single core, but before that I had AMD K6-2, it was ~8 years old when I get something better. Oh! I got my first Mega points on WCG! Which is.. wait ... 1.54% of our teams total points. WTG!! Keep after it. Every unit counts!    |
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Former Member
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If only I could get that rig for the same price here in Europe ... BTW, I switched off hpf and faah, check my scores go up! I think they ship worldwide. If not, I can, unless there is a trade restriction. I'm testing rice. But HCC is in the lead for me at the moment. I saw your post and thought you were speaking rhetoricly. I had to do a double take on the second post to see what you really ment. Sorry your post slipped by. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Jul 9, 2008 4:56:36 PM] |
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Former Member
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THNX General!
----------------------------------------For some reason prices (numerically) are the same here or higher, but the EURO is way ahead of your $ ... :( I guess they should even be customs free coz of a trade agreement on electronic goods. Next time I upgrade I might ask you to ship for me, coz u.s. stores usually don't ship to europe. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Jul 10, 2008 5:59:12 AM] |
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courine
Master Cruncher Capt., Team In2My.Net Cmd. HQ: San Francisco Joined: Apr 26, 2007 Post Count: 1794 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Let me check, I think they ship worldwide as well. But I would also help get products around.
----------------------------------------Let me ask you this, "Would you pay for shipping if I can come up with some used Xeons?" [Edit 1 times, last edit by courine at Jul 11, 2008 2:09:38 PM] |
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