Howdy MOT
I took some time away from the garden and finished the build on the machine with 3 9800GT's. With the new MoBo I had to do a complete, clean reinstall of Vista to convenience Balmer that I actually owned the operating system. It took over two hours to do updates. The rest went smooth except BOINC only sees 2 cards. The device manager sees 3 cards with the correct drivers, Precision sees 3 cards and Speedfan sees 3 cards. With PhysX off BOINC only sees 1 card and with it on it sees 2. I don't know what else to do. Anyone have any ideas??
The good news is the temps are very good; GPU1 72C, GPU2 69C, GPU3 45C (because it is not doing anything)
I ran out of Artic Silver; when it gets here in the morning I will build the machine with 2 GTX260's.
BOINCStat's has been real slow to update the ranking for the last 2 days. I think we are #186 but we may actually be #185.

Question:

I have been seeing 6 core CPU's starting to be advertised.. and i'm sure 8 core cpu's can't be too far behind? Will wcg recognize 6 cores, or will people only be able to run 4?

Dr. Mike

I'm at YoYo and GPUGrid too. We are doing very well there. Only 70K more credits and I will get a gold muon badge then only 500K more and I get double gold (master level). It takes a heap of crunching to get badges there.
We'll kick some bootie at GPUGrid if I get that 3rd 9800 and the two 260's back up and running.

MyOnlineTeam Daily Statistics for 06/25 - Active Members

Active team members report
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                                                     Current          Points
Active member name            Rank      Change       Points        This Period
=========================     =====     ======     ===========     ===========
marysduby                         1          0      32,184,407          57,245
nl59056                           2          0      14,958,205           1,676
RT                                3         +1      14,653,943          64,249
Dataman                           4         -1      14,592,887           1,770
parmesian                         5          0      13,964,495          24,116
Coingames                         6          0      11,863,826          41,122
Esteban69                         7          0       9,998,267           9,679
Dave Bell                         8          0       8,263,677          18,891
Blizzie                           9          0       7,859,081               0
keithhenry                       10          0       7,278,850          14,823
Fanie                            11          0       6,645,544             457
Mushball                         12          0       6,393,728               0
esoteric17                       13          0       5,762,391          38,737
Jonathan Figdor                  14          0       5,429,932             802
frans6nl                         15          0       5,296,432           6,943
PohSoon                          16          0       4,937,987           2,840
sulcata                          17          0       4,098,786           8,719
Vuj                              18          0       3,157,747          10,242
stares                           19          0       3,115,833           5,132
Blueprint                        20          0       2,653,344           1,534
brown chris                      21          0       2,647,669          15,437
Tomwp                            22          0       2,388,070             389
The Aspens                       23          0       2,237,955               0
lawrencehardin                   24          0       2,132,077           2,480
siseberg                         25          0       1,714,545             807
wrr                              26          0       1,624,416           2,393
Wunderwuzzi                      27          0       1,612,587               0
smcclarigan                      28          0       1,385,184           2,831
Sunny L. Kae                     29          0       1,325,309           3,868
NiceMedTexMD                     30          0       1,313,583          20,314
AStafford                        31          0       1,015,477             359
johng                            32          0       1,006,465             951
laughing66607                    33          0         751,656               0
Dresser                          34          0         740,651           8,593
Jockin                           35          0         686,449             957
harry_i_c                        36          0         634,247              98
Airwolf_Liu                      37          0         623,184               0
Bravehart                        38          0         621,527               0
elpe                             39          0         576,237               0
Bon Kuhlman                      40          0         493,428           1,436
imin                             41          0         316,463           1,683
darth_vader                      42          0         307,972           2,625
Momentary Lapse of Reason        43          0         295,491               0
mapplebeck                       44          0         256,390               0
madambaster                      45          0         214,789               0
cknotty                          46          0         169,159               0
Natalino                         47          0         151,353               0
WindmillMan76043                 48          0         102,877           1,900
gr8buddha                        49          0          55,576           1,682
rwgreen89                        50          0          34,426               0
stonechild                       51          0          20,625               0
jamesjr934                       52          0          15,603           1,428
bta803@msn.com                   53          0           7,407               0

Note: Active members are those who earned points in the prior 30 days.

Top Twenty active members returning points today:
01: RT - 64,249 points
02: marysduby - 57,245 points
03: Coingames - 41,122 points
04: esoteric17 - 38,737 points
05: parmesian - 24,116 points
06: NiceMedTexMD - 20,314 points
07: Dave Bell - 18,891 points
08: brown chris - 15,437 points
09: keithhenry - 14,823 points
10: Vuj - 10,242 points
11: Esteban69 - 9,679 points
12: sulcata - 8,719 points
13: Dresser - 8,593 points
14: frans6nl - 6,943 points
15: stares - 5,132 points
16: Sunny L. Kae - 3,868 points
17: PohSoon - 2,840 points
18: smcclarigan - 2,831 points
19: darth_vader - 2,625 points
20: lawrencehardin - 2,480 points

Total points returned today: 379,208
Active members returning points today: 37
Average points per member active today: 10,248.8649

One of the device profile settings is the number of CPUs to use. As long as that number is equal to or greater than what you have, BOINC will use all of yours. As for the true 8 core CPU, it's just a matter of time though I wonder just how far we can go in that direction that's practical. The thing with CPUs is the industry does what makes money, not what's best technically. First it was hyperthreading, then you had a real dual core. The first quads were two dual cores together. The i7 is a quad with HT. Now you start to hear about six cores. Go figure.