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AndrewWang
Cruncher Joined: Dec 2, 2009 Post Count: 13 Status: Offline |
I have an early (2008) Intel Quad Core Q6600 in Sugar Land, Texas that makes a decent 10,000 points a day. I'm looking for an excellent, close-knit team with top of the line quad core desktops.
I'm also looking at buying an AMD Phenom X4 CPU to double production.  Was apart of the Houston team, but decided to leave as I saw my one desktop alone was producing 1/4 to 1/3 of their daily points. |
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Movieman
Veteran Cruncher Joined: Sep 9, 2006 Post Count: 1042 Status: Offline |
Never feel that what you have is "too small"
----------------------------------------It just plain is what you have and what you can offer to help. At Xs we have app 220 guys that contribute daily. Some small, some large but I'll tell you God's truth no one is judged by how much they contribute, only by what is in their hearts. You'd be more than welcome to join us.   |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18665 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Movieman's right. Everyone does what they can and that's what matters. I'm sure any team would love to have you. The real question is what do you want from a team? Do you want one that's global so you can get to know folks from all over or one more locally focused for example. Let us know and I'm sure there's a team out there just for you.
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Richard Mitnick
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Feb 28, 2007 Post Count: 583 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I am interested in how you have the quad configured for crunching, prefs, etc.
----------------------------------------I just bought a new machine with Win7 64 bit, and I7-920 processor. I am not getting anywhere near 10,000 points a day. I mean, I do not care about points per se. But I do care about doing as much work as possible for all of the projects to which I am attached. I have been getting incredibly good help from the CA's, especially Sekerob here, and most recently a project admin at BOINC's message boards. I bought this machine strictly to be able to do more work. Beyond that, my wife uses it for email. So, all it has on it is BOINC and Firefox. So, it is US$1800. for crunching. So, I am interested in how you are getting 10000 point per day. For example, are you using GPU? What are your settings in local prefs? Any information you can provide would be very helpful. >>RSM |
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Khyron
Advanced Cruncher Joined: Mar 17, 2006 Post Count: 103 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Come on over to the Minnesota Crunchers team. We don't have many members and are quite active - and have a some quads running.
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mikaok
Senior Cruncher Finland Joined: Aug 8, 2006 Post Count: 489 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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So, I am interested in how you are getting 10000 point per day. For example, are you using GPU? What are your settings in local prefs? Any information you can provide would be very helpful. >>RSM Hmm.. you mean WCG points? 10 000 points per day shouldn't be a problem for your computer. Just set your your boinc to run something like 90 % of the cpu time from the preferences, let run for few days and see how much you get!
to infinity and beyond
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Sekerob
Ace Cruncher Joined: Jul 24, 2005 Post Count: 20043 Status: Offline |
Warning: 90% will cause the task to run 9 seconds and pause 1 second in alternation, a method to control system temperature originally designed for laptops. For Desktops it is of little use unless in a real hot climate and then for the Windows users the TThrottle utility specially build for BOINC is the far superior tool. Just set the temperature ceiling.
----------------------------------------And Welcome AndrewWang... may your crunching at WCG become a long and successful.
WCG
----------------------------------------Please help to make the Forums an enjoyable experience for All! [Edit 1 times, last edit by Sekerob at Dec 4, 2009 1:36:53 PM] |
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AndrewWang
Cruncher Joined: Dec 2, 2009 Post Count: 13 Status: Offline |
That's exactly right. My quad core is earliest, most basic model Core 2 Quad bought in early 2008 before even Phenoms came out to drive down the price and it still screams. I can just imagine how an i7 runs. For an OS, I have XP 64-bit and for GPUs I have two NVIDIA GeForce 8600s.
Considering how quad core desktops are less than 500 dollars now, I'm surprised there aren't much more people with mad points out there. |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
snip ... I'm surprised there aren't much more people with mad points out there. Come on over to XtremeSystems (this is the team Movieman was talking about) and you will see plenty of people with MAD points ... I am pretty far down the list and I am runing 2 i7-920s overclocked, 1 at 4.0 Ghz and the other 4.3 GHz  I am also running a GTX 295 and a GTX 285 for GPUGrid. As a team we participate in a number of other DC projects also. We all work together to find the best tweaks and optimizations (all prefectly legit, no cheats) to crunch to the best of our ability.[Edit 2 times, last edit by Former Member at Dec 4, 2009 2:53:45 PM] |
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RaymondFO
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Nov 30, 2004 Post Count: 561 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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AndrewWang,
Team Andrax is a small yet dedicated team that produces impressive daily results. Give us a look and our team captain posts the teams daily crunching results at https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/...766_lastpage,yes#lastpost. Good luck on your decision. Ray |
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