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MyWCG
Cruncher Joined: Apr 24, 2013 Post Count: 6 Status: Offline |
Looking to expand my WCG work. Right now I'm running five Rikomagic 802IV TV sticks and am contemplating the new RKM V5 stick. Is there anything better and/or cheaper on the market? They need to be silent, so no fans.
http://www.cloudsto.com/new-mk802-v5.html |
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deltavee
Ace Cruncher Texas Hill Country Joined: Nov 17, 2004 Post Count: 4886 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Is there anything better and/or cheaper on the market? Better? No. Cheaper? Yes. Quad Core for $45. http://www.walmart.com/ip/Ematic-7-Tablet-8GB-Memory-Quad-Core-Yellow/28858641 I bought a couple of quad core tablets from them last year for $65 each, and even though they are of cheapo construction, they are still crunching. edit- yesterday's results on one of them. 05/07/2015 0:004:02:48:52 1,700 14 Terrible on points but still 4 days runtime. [Edit 1 times, last edit by deltavee at May 8, 2015 2:08:21 PM] |
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mymbtheduke
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I have considered buying some of these sticks. How are you running 5 at once? Pluging them into 5 diff TVs or monitors? Also, good is the CPU for WUs? My older phones and Tabs are taking 8-20 hours to do a WU. I do not want to get sticks that take 2 or more days.
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MyWCG
Cruncher Joined: Apr 24, 2013 Post Count: 6 Status: Offline |
The sticks I use will run without being plugged in to a TV or monitor, but two of the five need to be plugged in so they can start, then I can unplug them again. The FAHV WUs take 4-5 hours, the OET1 WUs around 9 hours. The power usage is about 4W each. I have opened them and added a small heatsink. They run at 1200-1400MHz.
----------------------------------------I have installed the Droid VNC server, so I can run them headless. The Boinc program can also be administered from the Boinc installation on my desktop PC. [Edit 2 times, last edit by MyLittleBoinc at May 24, 2015 4:21:43 PM] |
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mymbtheduke
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Thanks. I haven't looked too deeply into the Rockchip RK32xx chip but the big.SMALL Arm theory has two cores at full speed and 2 at lower MHZ. If that is true, wouldn't that be slower for WCG?
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mymbtheduke
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How about these? A Quad core for $35?
http://www.hardkernel.com/main/main.php or 8 cores for $99 Not bad http://www.hardkernel.com/main/products/prdt_info.php?g_code=G141351880955 |
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MyWCG
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I've been running an Odroid-C1 for a week to see what it can do and I've just ordered another, this one together with their eMMC module. The first one runs off a microsd card.
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Eric_Kaiser
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I'm running two odroid u3 and two odroid xu3 lite. They are running really fine.
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mymbtheduke
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The Rikomagics for $55-65 are probably the best choice. They are quad core and wireless and do not need flash SD cards as they already have all you need to run Boinc.
Thoughts? |
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mymbtheduke
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I bought the XU Lite board and am running 4.4.4 with Boinc. I shows 8 WUs running but the CPU monitoring via the settings tab only shows 4 cores running. The 1300Mhz cores are running but the 1400Mhz cores are not. Do I need to change a setting to run all 8 cores or are the CPU stats incorrect?
This board is very nice and fast. |
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