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Thread:  Team ___In2My.Net___ asks: "Are you an online gamer!?!?" (All Welcome) |
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Former Member
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yeah well, I own the company so i am paying for alll my PCs doing work for these projects...
the cumulative bill matches your household's costs for electricity and its becoming too much  |
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Lasis
Advanced Cruncher Latvia Joined: Apr 27, 2007 Post Count: 58 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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My home/gaming PC runs only BOINC some 9-12 hours per day with monitor turned off. For economy reasons I would like my next PC to be with something like mainboard NVIDIA’s hybrid technology or it's AMD's analogue (if there will be such) - it uses good gaming card when 3D power is needed and onboard GPU when using only 2D with powerful card automatically pushed on stand by.
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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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What I have done is upgrade slowly, grabbing deals here and there. I turn over 6 times the flops, but I use less power than I did back at the grid. I dropped from 8 to 4 machines. My minimum system is an Athalon 3000+XP with 2 gig of pc3200 ram. It was a 500mhz K6-2.
----------------------------------------Now that times have changed, the costs of power have made is possible to cost effectively upgrade, sooner than later. Right now I have 2 dual core machines facing off a q6600. In only a few months of operation, I have recovered about 1/2 the cost of the q6600 in power savings. Another project I have been pushing is to get sponsors. What I have done so far is get enough from running a website for a friend to power the unit. In return I get all the rest of the time. I have another machine about ready and have a new guy who will sponsor that one. I have room for 2 more like this. It is costing about 10usd in power per machine and I can run 10 sites easy per system, as the sites are not complex. They more allow the sponsor to have an ad free persona that reflects their contribution to this cause, as well as their general activities online. If It will help, I have some socket am2 CPU’s coming available. 2 AMD 64’s 2800+ and a Semperon 2400+. If this helps you Lasis, let me know. Would make a nice wedding gift.     |
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cargod01
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Apr 25, 2007 Post Count: 508 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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yeah well, I own the company so i am paying for alll my PCs doing work for these projects... the cumulative bill matches your household's costs for electricity and its becoming too much I have 14 computers in the house that contribute to the bill, plus the fridge, lights, A/C, etc. The price of power is getting out of hand, but unless we are willing to go back to using candles (and have you looked at the price of those lately?)...LOL I got the new dual core today and set it up to replace a dead P4 1.5Ghz. I put the new one on the wife's desk and moved her P4-2Ghz out to the computer room for the kids. I also found a 256MB PCIe card on my shelf, that will help a little since the new machine came with onboard graphics/shared memory.    |
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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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Wow, we zinged by the 10,000,000 BOINC credit mark here at yesterday! We have been past the 10,000,000 mark combined for awhile. Just now its across the board.  WooT [Edit 1 times, last edit by courine at Aug 9, 2008 4:26:06 AM] |
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cargod01
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Apr 25, 2007 Post Count: 508 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Wow, we zinged by the 10,000,000 BOINC credit mark here at yesterday! We have been past the 10,000,000 mark combined for awhile. Just now its across the board. WooT Go TEAM!! I looked at the dual core (AMD 2.2Ghz per core) BOINC GUI, it showed FAAH as being under 3 hours and HCC as a little over 5 hours. That is considerably quicker that the P4-2Ghz. As I remember, it does an HCC unit in about 18 hours. This dual core 3Ghz (not core 2) does HCC in about 11 hours per core. Considering this was a $59 drop in replacement for a Celeron 3Ghz, that isn't bad. |
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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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Wow, we zinged by the 10,000,000 BOINC credit mark here at yesterday! We have been past the 10,000,000 mark combined for awhile. Just now its across the board. WooT Go TEAM!! I looked at the dual core (AMD 2.2Ghz per core) BOINC GUI, it showed FAAH as being under 3 hours and HCC as a little over 5 hours. That is considerably quicker that the P4-2Ghz. As I remember, it does an HCC unit in about 18 hours. This dual core 3Ghz (not core 2) does HCC in about 11 hours per core. Considering this was a $59 drop in replacement for a Celeron 3Ghz, that isn't bad. Yes, I'm waiting for the AMD 64 x2 4400+ to drop. Its not a bad drop-in for single channel socket AM2 mobo's. Right now its 50usd, but it should drop in the next few months, as AMD is dropping prices across the board. When it hits 40usd, I will have some spare AMD 64 CPU's a month later. Let me know if there is a place these processors can find a happy home. |
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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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Current Crew Manifest:
----------------------------------------123ferice, NEW! Adywebb, Retired transitional Bane_Seraphin, MIA, Seraphin tester becca_cet, KIA, Committed forum suicide cargod01, Lt. Cmdr. chux77, Pursor courine, Captain CourinesLegs, Retired transitional, reserved for adywebb crazee_biker, Retired? Dasasa, MIA? Eonis, Crew Gen.Patton, VIP, Spirit officer halberd7, Retired ISIS1, Crew, Network in repair jack21222, Crew Lasis, Crew meowpao, Lt. JG MonsterMash, Lt. Special Op's Pepe88, Lt. Remote Op's Roger The Dodger, VIP, Ship's Champion Royden, Retired, currently on patrol. Sentinel Vickers, Crew ShadowBob, Retired? Soulidan, Retired? Spathever, MIA? Stormbringer, MIA, Seraphin tester Sudit, MIA? tootallgavin, MIA? VX_Seraphin, MIA, Seraphin tester Wil D., Crew zim01, Retired Bold names = Currently crunching ? = No forum contact. If you would like to hold a ships rank, let me know. [Edit 6 times, last edit by courine at Aug 24, 2008 2:09:35 PM] |
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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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 Looks like Roger is back! |
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cargod01
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Apr 25, 2007 Post Count: 508 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Looks like Roger is back! Welcome Back! [Edit 1 times, last edit by cargod01 at Aug 13, 2008 4:45:12 AM] |
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