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JmBoullier
Former Community Advisor Normandy - France Joined: Jan 26, 2007 Post Count: 3715 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Just got my sapphire.. Congratulations, first!Next, don't worry: when you reach the "new badge level" that you wish it will have been announced for a while, most probably. New levels will be tougher and tougher to reach... Keep on crunching! Jean. |
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Hypernova
Master Cruncher Audaces Fortuna Juvat ! Vaud - Switzerland Joined: Dec 16, 2008 Post Count: 1908 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Before going to a new level on top of the atmosphere, you can crunch to have a jewel box full of blue gemstones. The other projects are jealous not to have reached the sky (Sapphire)
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Just got the emerald badge today - I love my i7 :)
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Hypernova
Master Cruncher Audaces Fortuna Juvat ! Vaud - Switzerland Joined: Dec 16, 2008 Post Count: 1908 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Your first emerald it seems. Excellent
---------------------------------------- apogiffa I do fully agree with you. i7 is the way to go. The best CPU. For a long time AMD did better but now with this design Intel has let AMD in the dust. I hope AMD will come back with better designs as we need competition if we want to keep prices low. |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
For crunching purposes, i7 definitely head and shoulders above the P2. But for mainstream use, the differences are relatively minor.
Since most people don't buy machines for crunching, there's no need to worry about the prices getting out of hand. |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Yeah, the market is miles away from perfect competition, also more than two major chip-producers would definitely be good for the customers.
With my old single-core computer it took me more than two years to reach the gold badgets, one result per day was normal, two were already good (about 12 hours, I switch my machine off at night). With my i7 920 mildly overclocked to 3,2Ghz about 25 HCC results per day are normal  I would buy it again immediately! |
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Hypernova
Master Cruncher Audaces Fortuna Juvat ! Vaud - Switzerland Joined: Dec 16, 2008 Post Count: 1908 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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apogiffa never switch the machine off at night. I give you here some hints why:
----------------------------------------1) A full day has 24 hours and not 12. You loose 50% of your crunching capability.  2) You also loose some excellent mild heating in your room in winter time.  3) The air in your room will stay stagnant. With your PC you have excellent air circulation. Btw I have five 120mm fans in each of my crunchers.  4) The low frequency humming noise is excellent for relaxation after a stressfull day. It will allow you to sleep like a baby  . And if you add to that a screensaver that shows an acquarium with coral fishes and the sound of the sea waves I bet you do not wake up next day  . So do not forget the military siren for your morning wake. Otherwise I am afraid you will loose your job.  5) Switching your computer on and off is the worst thing to do. I can feel from here his pain. This type of brutal event is electrically and thermo-mechanically terrible. Your PC goes from hot to cold and hot again every day twice. Voltages and currents spike around the PC's nervous system. The CPU, power unit, all components are submitted to an awful stress. Keep it running non stop, and your PC will reach a steady state nice temperature and hum along forever. Do not forget to dust-off from time to time.  |
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Former Member
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Haha, these are very good reasons to let my machine also crunch at night.
 I just need to find out how to reduce that noisy GPU, the only part that really prevents me from falling asleep. Maybe I should sleep with earplugs Is it really better for the computer to let it run constantly than switching it off every day? My temperatures are around 60, should be still in the green.. |
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Hypernova
Master Cruncher Audaces Fortuna Juvat ! Vaud - Switzerland Joined: Dec 16, 2008 Post Count: 1908 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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In principle and in very general terms a thermal and electrical steady state is better than abrupt changes to these parameters.
----------------------------------------Now if you switch twice a day that is nothing. Modern power supplies have protections over spikes, overvoltages, micro power cuts. Condensators are of much higher capacity and can absorb long and important variations. Just to have an idea, check the power led on the power supply how long it stays on, even after you have pressed the main power switch off (not the PC power switch). The electronic components and integrated circuits on board today are much better protected (and better designed) then 25 or more years ago. So you can switch off before going to sleep and be happy. |
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tombell12
Advanced Cruncher Australia Joined: Oct 8, 2009 Post Count: 87 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Hello, I would like to introduce myself. I'm Tom
 I have done about 0:014:01:11:12 on HCC and currently have a Bronze badge to show for it |
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