Ladies and Gents, Start Your Crunchers

[TC]

That's right - get ready to burn some work units :cool: I have set the teams. Each has the capacity to produce roughly 290 work units per day, with the exception of Team Horsemen - since their output is between 30-300/day I took half of that into consideration for the total daily output. I will pull the starting stats at midnight tonight and we are off :burn: Here are the teams:
http://www.ocsetiteam.com/weekly/team_races.htm

[[Oc]acaridans]

Awsome, less than 4 hours to go

[Yodums]

Had to delay my one week Prime95 Torture Test Marathon for this...


Good Luck everyone.

[JeepZJ]

Under Team Horsemen it should be JeepZJ instead of ZeepZJ.

[beau_safken]

Wow..I'd better get a job at a computer place quick so I can help contribute more WU's.....OMG

[TC]

Originally posted by JeepZJ
Under Team Horsemen it should be JeepZJ instead of ZeepZJ. Oops sorry about the typo - I'll fix that.

[beau_safken]

Well based on my calculations: Team TC will mop you guys up in 24.824 days. You'd better secure your diapers...Because I am bringing up the Rear BABY!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOO

[katelin]

When will the race end? Is it based on time or on when a team reaches a predetermined # of WUs?

I better get my dead power supply replaced soon.

[TC]

In the past it was the first team to reach 7500 units. We can do that, or just run it for a fixed period and the winner has the most points at the end.

[beau_safken]

Lets stick with the 7500 WU's race. We can always do this again later but using a time limit.

[Gravity Man]

::revs Delta, glares at poeple on the other teams::

[Yodums]

Team Landshark will win.. You all know that...!

[beau_safken]

Based on averages team Landshark will have to pull and extra 17ish WU's per day to compete with Team TC....I think we all have to watch out for GregM..........He's unstable but with moodswings that produce between 177-300 WU's per day....I'm scared..

[jazztrumpet216]

Originally posted by Yodums
Team Landshark will win.. You all know that...!

Darn tootin!

[Gravity Man]

Team Horsemen's gonna dominate!

[rogerdugans]

Thank you everyone for your participation in this event, and conratulations to the winners.....
Team TC!














:D

[none1]

Uh, is it too late to me too me too?

Just joined yesterday, missed the team signup.

Let me know ifn I can get on a team. OR, throw me in to whom so ever is losing after the first day.

:-)

Later

[Gravity Man]

Try sending TC a PM...

[LandShark]

Based on averages team Landshark will have to pull and extra 17ish WU's per day to compete with Team TC....
17wu? that's it?! piece of cake buddy!! ;) :D :eek: :burn:
Team Landshark will win.. You all know that...!
that's FOR SURE!! :beer:

the only real "black horse" is those 4Horsemen!! their output is still an unknown(?)!! but school won't start till at least next week, so we all get a week time to run away!!

Norsemen? it's very hard to tell too(?)! even though he'd mentioned his output is more to the downside than up, but.....u know, as for any "forecasting", we'll see......

as for we Team LandShark, i've mentioned i'll be up my output another "couple" notch!

guess Team TC is the most stable team. and in the end, consistency could be the key!

good luck everyone & hope we all will have some Fun!!!! :cool:

[Cy]

Good luck to the other teams! :)

Cy

[beau_safken]

You'd Better watch out Sharky...My big HUGE 3.7 WU's per day will chew you up..HAHAHAH................................sigh... ...

[katelin]

I think Team Norsemen is listed at the top of the page for a reason ;)

[Yodums]

Originally posted by katelin
I think Team Norsemen is listed at the top of the page for a reason ;)

First to go ;) Just kidding, hence the wink.

How's the XP Trouble Shooting?

[katelin]

Originally posted by Yodums


First to go ;) Just kidding, hence the wink.

How's the XP Trouble Shooting?

LOL...good one.

Need to get a new power supply. I'm almost positive it's that. If not then I'm gonna freak out cuz I don't know where to begin.

[Digital Pimp]

team shark all the way... gonna get my 386 online... and it will (hopefully) pump out a winning wu before the end ....LoL......umm yeah

Digital

[Godfodda]

Alright! Time to bring the loud fans back out! :D

[beau_safken]

So if your pulling results from today...Does that mean our monday totals will be the starting mark for the contest???

[TC]

Originally posted by beau_safken
So if your pulling results from today...Does that mean our monday totals will be the starting mark for the contest??? Yep I took the starting totals at 12 - all except for Cuper...I can't find his stats. I PM'ed him to see what his team name is. Everything else is posted and we're off, for the most part ;)

[Yodums]

Haha if you guys didn't know the secret, if your CPU was handing in a result before 12 and Driver was set to auto transmit you could have unclicked it and get a 1-2 WU headstart depending how big your farm was ;) That's what I did with mine! bwahha!

Good Luck everyone.

[TC]

Originally posted by Yodums
Haha if you guys didn't know the secret, if your CPU was handing in a result before 12 and Driver was set to auto transmit you could have unclicked it and get a 1-2 WU headstart depending how big your farm was ;) That's what I did with mine! bwahha!

Good Luck everyone. Just manually subracted a few from your total :p

[Gravity Man]

I've already got 2 more than I started with, and I only had 1 ready to transmit in SETI driver. :D Anyway, tomorrow (today?) should be my biggest day ever, since I've currently got 3 24/7 crunchers, I'm finished tweaking my XP for the time being, and I'll be riding my motorcycle all day, so I won't be able to screw up my WU times by playing games/spontaneous benchmarking, etc.

[lonewolf1983]

woot and we are off!
GO team Landshark!!

DDR400 is going into my box sometime this race, so hopefully that will boost my output a little, plus i should also crack 2k wu's.
Looks like a good one.

Happy crunching and good luck to all :)

[LandShark]

i'm working on something that i'm sure everyone of u will LOVE to have!! ;)

hint hint: team race related

haven't finish yet, may be i'll post it later......

[LandShark]

OK, for everyone who is in the Team Race

HERE (http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=115603) you go!! ;)

[beau_safken]

Thanks Landshark this will come in handy :D

[Greg M]

Let's go Team Norsemen!!! I'm counting on the rest of you guys to pull us to the finish line!:burn:

[SkyHook]

guess Team TC is the most stable team.

Being saddled with the "Village Idiot" definately makes Team Too Crazy a force to be reckoned with, but not because of stability.

Be Afwaid - Vwery Vwery AFWAID!

SkyHook

[racecar12]

Go Team Horsemen!!!!!

Been doin a little preparing for this:burn:

[Sir-Epix]

Originally posted by racecar12
Go Team Horsemen!!!!!

Been doin a little preparing for this:burn:

I have been doing some tweakin on my rigs...and well I almost blew up me Celeron 1.2@1.68...so I backed down. Oh well would have been sweet. Keep going guys. Don't worry about this weeks stats. Next week is when The Four Horsmen Should Shine!

[Yodums]

Originally posted by TC
Just manually subracted a few from your total :p

*Smacks TC* ;)

I'm not handing it in till the end of the week. When exactly do those Team Stats get updated?

[LandShark]

it should be updated once a week on our weekly update.

but w/ my SETITeam file, u could keep your eye on it anytime!

::: Team Race Breifs Report :::
As of right now, 8/20 9:25am

Team Norsemen has 109WU

Team Horsemen has 55WU

Team LandShark has 116WU

Team TC 150WU

Crunch On!!

[Yodums]

Originally posted by LandShark
it should be updated once a week on our weekly update.

but w/ my SETITeam file, u could keep your eye on it anytime!

::: Team Race Breifs Report :::
As of right now, 8/20 9:25am

Team Norsemen has 109WU

Team Horsemen has 55WU

Team LandShark has 116WU

Team TC 150WU

Crunch On!!

Thanks, I got it setup. I have 4 units to hand in, I won't hand it in till my cache is done :D

[LandShark]

oh just noticed one thing!!

w/ our current ave. each team is doing close to 300WU (at least)/day!! unlike last few rounds, some high output members joined for the race this time to make those high daily output.

if we still "just" race to 7500wu, it'll take less than 4 week to finish!!!! compare to our normal 6-8weeks time!

if we race to 15,000wu(?), it'll take 50days if we ave. 'bout 300/day. roughly 7 weeks IF nobody up their output(?)!! that should give enough time for people to tweak/add cruncher and more interested race like last one.

just my 0.02 :rolleyes:

[Cuper]

Hey Guys,

Having trouble with the Seti Stats Program, but posted in the other thread. I also went to the Team Stats Page and noticed that Cuper is still listed instead of Turner my Seti name. Everything else looks great and I am infavor of 1st to 15K. 4 weeks is a bit short for me.:)

THANKS!!!!

Cuper :)

[TC]

I added your name. I plan on doing the updates Monday evenings around the same time I took the starting stats. Sunday's I do the weekly stats, and that's enough sitting at the computer for me.

[Cuper]

Cool!! THANKS!!! :)

[Greg M]

Hmmm? TC, did you pick these teams? I find it interesting that you're off to such a huge lead just in the first day.:eek:

[TC]

Originally posted by Greg M
Hmmm? TC, did you pick these teams? I find it interesting that you're off to such a huge lead just in the first day.:eek: SkyHook actually did the math. He just added up the total output listed in Sir Epix's list and divided by four. That worked out to around 290, so he simply shifted members around until he had 4 teams with roughly 290 daily output potential. The only variable right now being the four horsemen.

[TC]

Here's the actual spreadsheet that has the breakdown.

[Greg M]

I should have put a winky after my comment. I was razzing you.
...but, boy, somebody sure got defensive.;)

[TC]

Well, actually I was kind of puzzled. I haven't looked at the stats yet and I wasn't quite sure why my team would already be way ahead. Just wanted to clear up any doubts as to how the teams were organized.

[{PMS}fishy]

Originally posted by TC
Just manually subracted a few from your total :p

AHAHAHHA! Cheaters never win.

[Greg M]

...and winners never cheat.:p
;)

[JigPu]

.... or at least never let anyone know of their dealings ...

:D
Woohoo!!! This is pretty exciting so far! GO TEAM LANDSHARK!! :beer: :burn: :beer: :burn:

JigPu

[LandShark]

Originally posted by Greg M
Hmmm? TC, did you pick these teams? I find it interesting that you're off to such a huge lead just in the first day.:eek:
actually, as of now 10:30pm EST. it's pretty close race for all 3 Team but Team Horsemen (NEVER underestimate them tho!). all w/in 10wu or so of each other!

i'll try to post an update every night around midnight EST which was the race started.

p.s. Good Luck to all 3 other teams 'cos my fastest cruncher, PIV 2.26b @ 2.78G with memory @ 204MHz just quit on me......:mad: tried to boot it @ 172FSB w/ 1:1 memory ratio, no post. reset CMOS, now locks up in the middle of booting Windows or blue screen me if i try to boot in save mode even @ stock speed!! :eh?: will work on it tonight......

[SkyHook]

Whatever your problem Shark, sure hope it comes around quick for you, now's not the time for SNAFU's to be showing up.

SkyHook

[Yodums]

Originally posted by LandShark

actually, as of now 10:30pm EST. it's pretty close race for all 3 Team but Team Horsemen (NEVER underestimate them tho!). all w/in 10wu or so of each other!

i'll try to post an update every night around midnight EST which was the race started.

p.s. Good Luck to all 3 other teams 'cos my fastest cruncher, PIV 2.26b @ 2.78G with memory @ 204MHz just quit on me......:mad: tried to boot it @ 172FSB w/ 1:1 memory ratio, no post. reset CMOS, now locks up in the middle of booting Windows or blue screen me if i try to boot in save mode even @ stock speed!! :eh?: will work on it tonight......

Could be your Windows install messing over. Good luck with it.

The Horseman are suppose to be stirring up like a lab in their college so it's going to be crazy...

[jokrswild]

Originally posted by LandShark

p.s. Good Luck to all 3 other teams 'cos my fastest cruncher, PIV 2.26b @ 2.78G with memory @ 204MHz just quit on me......:mad: tried to boot it @ 172FSB w/ 1:1 memory ratio, no post. reset CMOS, now locks up in the middle of booting Windows or blue screen me if i try to boot in save mode even @ stock speed!! :eh?: will work on it tonight......

if you can't get it back up, try taking off the vid pin mod. eric's tually screwed up with the vid pin mod after a while, we took it off, and it worked fine.

so you might wanna try without it, and redo if necessary..

[TC]

Hope you weren't running more than 1.75 volts through it. I killed a 2.2 running 1.85 actual, and also a 1.6A running 1.75 with the oem heatsink. Both of them lasted about 2 months before starting to bsod at any speed, and finally not even finish post.

[rogerdugans]

OUCH! My fingers are crossed, man. Dead chips suck- as most (if not all ) of us have experienced..

Just about at 2 Ghz with my 1600.....about the only things I haven't volt modded so far are the drives.........:D
I do like to live dangerously

[Greg M]

Crazy is right. We've got to get up a good lead before the Horsemen put some tax dollars to work.;)

[LandShark]

yeah, i'm thinking of messed up windows from the bad reboot..... WinXP happened quite a few time to me. gonna reinstall WinXP.....

well, i've killed a 1.6a already. as TC said, been running fine for couple month @ 1.8v, then started bsod or seti client crash all the time even @ stock speed. that's why i'm selling my P4S533....

also, as of now, we do started building some "cushion" from Team Horsemen, 'bout double their output..............for just a few days....

[katelin]

You guys keep saying stuff about the race like you're tracking it by the hour, but everytime I go here:

http://www.ocsetiteam.com/weekly/team_races.htm

Nothing's updated, seems only updating weekly. Where can I go to see how the team race progress? I downloaded Landshark's teamrace.zip but that prog shows all the individual stat's, not specifically just the team race. Am I just lost or what?

[LandShark]

Originally posted by katelin
You guys keep saying stuff about the race like you're tracking it by the hour, but everytime I go here:

http://www.ocsetiteam.com/weekly/team_races.htm

Nothing's updated, seems only updating weekly. Where can I go to see how the team race progress? I downloaded Landshark's teamrace.zip but that prog shows all the individual stat's, not specifically just the team race. Am I just lost or what?
after u've updated the stats, hit "F4" and choose team race 8-20.cmp file

~~ NOTE ~~

everyone, team race file (http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=115603) updated.

[beau_safken]

Does it still show team TC in the lead....If not than the file must obviously be wrong....:D

[katelin]

Originally posted by LandShark

after u've updated the stats, hit "F4" and choose team race 8-20.cmp file

~~ NOTE ~~

everyone, team race file (http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=115603) updated.

Cool...Thanks Landshark! Wow, close race for 3 teams. What's wrong with The Horsemen? They must be caching up or something, those dirty rotten scoundrals.

[TC]

Originally posted by katelin


Cool...Thanks Landshark! Wow, close race for 3 teams. What's wrong with The Horsemen? They must be caching up or something, those dirty rotten scoundrals. The Horsemen won't start upping production until school starts. That will even things up.

[LandShark]

Originally posted by katelin


Cool...Thanks Landshark! Wow, close race for 3 teams. What's wrong with The Horsemen? They must be caching up or something, those dirty rotten scoundrals.
yeah, the Team Horsemen would like to give all 3 of our Team a little head start in order to make thing a bit harder for them....:D

for those who's wondering/doubt 'bout Team TC. we all know that TC's setiq set to do a daily dump at midnight every night for a few hrs. he've set that monthsss ago. now, our race started @ 12:00am last night, so, that means he was dumping the day/half day before's work unit he had in his setiq. and that's make a very small lead for them. however, he certainly DID NOT has any means of "sandbagging" at all b/c his setiq had been that way for monthssss.

but anyway, WE, Team LandShark WILL drive thru them sooooooooooonnnn..................;) :D :eek: :burn:

[TC]

Yep no sand bagging - I just let my Q work at night so it doesn't take up bandwidth during the day when I use my cable line the most. Of course I do have a Q on another line ;)

[Greg M]

According to the race file, it looks like Team Norsemen took a small lead overnight. Go Team Norsemen!!!

[Sir-Epix]

Don't worry once those labs get up, you guys are going to have red behinds, from the spanking we will inflict upon you!

[Greg M]

...like we haven't heard that before.:rolleyes:
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ZING!!!
:D

[Greg M]

hallen, way to go with the increase in output! Good work, buddy. You and Gary have both kicked it up a notch!

I'm curious if the stats trend significantly upward during races from non-race periods.

[SkyHook]

One trend I'm sure takes a measurable downturn during race periods is bank balances! If these hardware manufacturers ever discovered the effect that a team race has on hardware sales they would start sponsoring national evernts.

SkyHook

[Yodums]

Hey LandShark did the format + reinstall work?

[LandShark]

Originally posted by SkyHook
One trend I'm sure takes a measurable downturn during race periods is bank balances! If these hardware manufacturers ever discovered the effect that a team race has on hardware sales they would start sponsoring national evernts.

SkyHook
hmmm.........should we start to emailing newegg for sponsorship???? :D

Yodum, nope. well, actually, tried to install Windows, copied all files into hard drive, then the first time boot up fromthe hard drive to continue the installation, in the windows booting screen, it gave me "Dumping memory kinda BSOD!!" does it mean anything??? memory?? so, now i'm still one (my fastest rig, was under 2:50/.417ar!!) down...........:( sorry Team!

[Yodums]

Go to memtest86.com download the program make sure you have a blank floppy handy and then copy then follow the instructions bootup with the floppy and see if you get errors. If you do try other memory sticks in your farm.

I wish you the best.

[SkyHook]

I ain't fooling with no Middlemen, I'm headed overseas directly to the manufacturers. Get them to just back the boat up to the frontdoor and start unloading. Actually just leave it all on the boat, more room there than in my micro-sized computer room.

I just keep looking and seeing three open ports on my router begging to have machines plugged into them and I hate to disappoint them poor little ports.

SkyHook

[TC]

Originally posted by SkyHook

I just keep looking and seeing three open ports on my router begging to have machines plugged into them and I hate to disappoint them poor little ports.

SkyHook Poor little homeless ports :cry:

[LandShark]

Originally posted by SkyHook

I just keep looking and seeing three open ports on my router begging to have machines plugged into them and I hate to disappoint them poor little ports.

SkyHook
"JUST" 3 open ports?? i have a 5 ports switch sitting in my desk drawer begging me to put him back to work.......:eh?:

[jokrswild]

Originally posted by LandShark

"JUST" 3 open ports?? i have a 5 ports switch sitting in my desk drawer begging me to put him back to work.......:eh?:

Come on we have over 60 ports sitting in our room just waiting to be used, it is that annoying College Bill that is holding us back!

[jokrswild]

Eric!! what did i tell you about posting under my name! jeez

lol

[beau_safken]

I used to have naked network ports too......when I had a cable modem that is.....................:cry: :cry: :cry:..DAMN YOU 56K!!!! :cry:

[Cy]

Open ports...holy cow! I've got 5 left on my 16 port switch! :O

Cy

[beau_safken]

LOL..my old house before I moved out had 3 cisco routers and had network lines run throughout the house to every room...That was like 150 ports in all...That was a job and a half to do that. Took my Step-dad and me about two weeks to do while the construction was just about to put drywall up in that house...Was very cool. Cable connection to any room in the house even the garage and bathrooms...LOL...If Only I had more computers then...

[[Oc]acaridans]

just had a look around and counted 18 open ports.
I also found enough parts to put together another XP2000 box with the execption of a case and mobo and half a 1.4 system

I HATE BEING BROKE!! :mad: No more $$ for me till the start of next month :cry: :cry:

[TC]

Originally posted by [Oc]acaridans

I HATE BEING BROKE!! :mad: No more $$ for me till the start of next month :cry: :cry: You're not the only one.

[rogerdugans]

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Originally posted by [Oc]acaridans

I HATE BEING BROKE!! No more $$ for me till the start of next month
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Originally posted by TC
You're not the only one.


A Band Of Broke Crunchers........sucks, don't it?

[Gravity Man]

When my step mom had her house remodeled, she had ethernet ports installed in every room. I made sure she knew to have more than enough in my room. Unfortunately, more than enough to her meant 2 ports, rather than 1. :(

I'm going to try to get one of these (http://www.dlink.com/products/switches/des3624i/) for free from her, though... and maybe one of these (http://www.dlink.com/products/switches/des3624i/des362t/) as well to go with my free pair of gigabit NICs. :D God, I love free stuff.

[SkyHook]

A Band Of Broke Crunchers........sucks, don't it?

I know I can't be broke yet! I still got checks in the book!!
:eek: :rolleyes: :eek:

SkyHook

[[Oc]acaridans]

Originally posted by SkyHook


I know I can't be broke yet! I still got checks in the book!!
:eek: :rolleyes: :eek:

SkyHook

Get a check card, you'll spend it quicker.

[Yodums]

Man.. I'm 14 I live off of allowance haha.

[racecar12]

HEHEHE>>>4 new cpu's>2x XP1700+ and 2x MP1600+.:D :beer: Bet ya can't tell what I'm doing:D

But the heat here is robing me 10+ wu's a day. It is 98f in the computer rack with boo cooo of fans :(

[TC]

Originally posted by racecar12
HEHEHE>>>4 new cpu's>2x XP1700+ and 2x MP1600+.:D :beer: Bet ya can't tell what I'm doing:D

But the heat here is robing me 10+ wu's a day. It is 98f in the computer rack with boo cooo of fans :( If you have a basement put your stuff down there. That's what I did. I had to drop about 150 feet of cat 5, but it was worth it. Takes the load off the AC.

[jazztrumpet216]

Originally posted by Yodums
Man.. I'm 14 I live off of allowance haha.

Holy Jebus Yodels, what kind of allowance do you get where you can afford a rig like that? Man, I wish I had your parents....

[Yodums]

Originally posted by jazztrumpet216


Holy Jebus Yodels, what kind of allowance do you get where you can afford a rig like that? Man, I wish I had your parents....

My dad spoils me I'll admit that. He always buys me PC Parts if I want unless they are like 300 bucks. You have 3 rigs man! I think we can call it even.

[racecar12]

Originally posted by TC
If you have a basement put your stuff down there. That's what I did. I had to drop about 150 feet of cat 5, but it was worth it. Takes the load off the AC. No basement....Can't even put in a window unit to help aid my central air. My puters take up most all of the breaker in my fuse box. House upgrade is in complete demand.

[TC]

Originally posted by racecar12
No basement....Can't even put in a window unit to help aid my central air. My puters take up most all of the breaker in my fuse box. House upgrade is in complete demand. ROFL - tell that to a real estate agent. "Yeah uh my Seti hobby out grew my home. I'm looking for something with a large computer lab built in - and I'd prefer a dedicated 6 ton refrigeration unit. Oh and I need broadband access in the neighborhood as well." :D

[SkyHook]

House upgrade is in complete demand.

Man, I'm more than willing to take one for the team and all, but I gotta draw the line at "upgrading" the house! "Nope, can't do it", "Not a chance", "Well now wait a minute, I wonder how much is left on this card"? "Nope Christmas is coming and the wife needs a soap-on-a-rope"!

SkyHook

[racecar12]

Originally posted by TC
ROFL - tell that to a real estate agent. "Yeah uh my Seti hobby out grew my home. I'm looking for something with a large computer lab built in - and I'd prefer a dedicated 6 ton refrigeration unit. Oh and I need broadband access in the neighborhood as well." :D ROFL!!! That'll do:D

[Yodums]

Originally posted by TC
ROFL - tell that to a real estate agent. "Yeah uh my Seti hobby out grew my home. I'm looking for something with a large computer lab built in - and I'd prefer a dedicated 6 ton refrigeration unit. Oh and I need broadband access in the neighborhood as well." :D

6 ton refridgeration unit ROFL. I would like to see that get delivered by you by some monster truck!

[LandShark]

Originally posted by [Oc]acaridans

I HATE BEING BROKE!! :mad: No more $$ for me till the start of next month :cry: :cry:
u SURE not the only one!!

i have a 1.6a die on me. left me everything BUT cpu! and i couldn't reinstall windows on my 2.26b neither! not sure what exactly wrong. anyway, if it's the chip, i'll have to wait till next month before i'll get 2 new chips 'cos intel price cut is on sep.1 so, there goes 2 high power rig down at the moment........

or u think Team Norsemen will be in the lead right now? after 2 days, they r "only" 30wu ahead of us means roughly 15wu more/day with his 250+wu output today! but there's another 2 weeks before sep.1.......................

[LandShark]

Originally posted by TC
ROFL - tell that to a real estate agent. "Yeah uh my Seti hobby out grew my home. I'm looking for something with a large computer lab built in - and I'd prefer a dedicated 6 ton refrigeration unit. Oh and I need broadband access in the neighborhood as well." :D
could we call that....................................our DREAM HOUSE?? :D

well, being in the restaurant business, those walk-in refrigerator actually deliver unassembled. panels & panels, once arrived, u'll need to assemble it. like building a house.

[rogerdugans]

Originally posted by LandShark

well, being in the restaurant business, those walk-in refrigerator actually deliver unassembled. panels & panels, once arrived, u'll need to assemble it. like building a house.


So where do you buy these, how much do they cost, and what kind of electric hookup do they need...................:D

[LandShark]

they will cost "at least" a few grands to 10+grands. and for vary size 'cos they comes in like 3x10 panels and u just attach all the side panel together. so they definitly could fit in a room. some of them very small too, like 8x10=80^2 foots.

the only & main problem is the electric bill WILL kill u! 'cos they don't use those regular plug. they need heavy gauge stuffs. and they suck power!! i don't think any residental apartment place could power it up! or do u think i won't find a small used cheap one to put in a room?? :D

[rogerdugans]

I was thinking about refrigerating my basement.............if I hit the lottery or something, maybe :)

[LandShark]

well, guess what? just check w/ my brother in law, he knows more 'bout it than me. he said the smallest one, so called step-in ('cos u can't walk in) 'bout 6x6x10 fridge (not frozen, but good for "at least 39F or lower!!) could be get for as little as 2-3000!!

now, a vaporchil 'cos u "at least 200+" each. so, if u have a farm of 10+machines (hint hint: TC, Havey, racecar), u can get one and like vaporchilling all the rigs for 'bout or less cost!!! and it has room for "at least" a couple dozen bare rigs (no case)!! sounds good deal?? ;) however, we r not talking 'bout the electric bill tho!

[Gravity Man]

Originally posted by LandShark
well, guess what? just check w/ my brother in law, he knows more 'bout it than me. he said the smallest one, so called step-in ('cos u can't walk in) 'bout 6x6x10 fridge (not frozen, but good for "at least 39F or lower!!) could be get for as little as 2-3000!!

now, a vaporchil 'cos u "at least 200+" each. so, if u have a farm of 10+machines (hint hint: TC, Havey, racecar), u can get one and like vaporchilling all the rigs for 'bout or less cost!!! and it has room for "at least" a couple dozen bare rigs (no case)!! sounds good deal?? ;) however, we r not talking 'bout the electric bill tho!
Think of all the 1U rackmount crunchers you could fit in there! Do they still hold up pretty good even with a few kilowatts of heat?

[TC]

Okay first of all I can't believe we are having this discussion. With that said there are some problems with the idea. Those freezers and refrigerated units come with the capacity to cool down food. Food doesn't generate heat like computers do. I seriously doubt a walk in freezer could handle a room full of computers. It would require upping the tonage considerably. If I recall correctly one ton is the amount of energy required to melt one ton of ice in 24 hours. When I was playing with my first P4 I put the entire computer inside a deep freezer we had just gotten. With nothing in it the coldest it would get was 25F. When I started running the seti benchmark on the P4 rig inside it gradually rose to about 55F. That's the best it could do with 1 computer inside. Of course that helped some, but it's not like a Vapochill. Getting back to the walk in fridge - sure you could do it if you won the lottery. The power bill would be absurd.

[katelin]

Ok, I don't mean to get side track or anything, but have we established when the race will end? Is it going to be 7500 WUs or 15000 or by a date?

[TC]

Originally posted by katelin
Ok, I don't mean to get side track or anything, but have we established when the race will end? Is it going to be 7500 WUs or 15000 or by a date? I say we make it a date this time. 7500 unit is going to go by pretty fast with our current output. Why not give it some time to make it more interesting?

[LandShark]

how 'bout 8 weeks??!! so, in the middle/late oct.?? :rolleyes:



edit: hahahaaa.....my 2.26b is baccccccccccccck!! all i did is swap my brand new 40G 120gxp from the old old WD 4.xG. "just" warming it up at 150FSB, will run it back to 2.75+G later :clap: :D

[jazztrumpet216]

Originally posted by Yodums


My dad spoils me I'll admit that. He always buys me PC Parts if I want unless they are like 300 bucks. You have 3 rigs man! I think we can call it even.

And you have no idea how many gigs I had to play to get them.... Of course, my best vid card is a GF2GTS in my PIII. My Dell is running a GF2MX (just fine) and my Cel-T a Voodoo3 2000 PCI. That's my next upgrade. The image quality is perty durn good even in modern games, but the Cel-T deserves better. Between light gigging and mowing lawns, I'm set. I DO get an allowance, but it is not very much. I'd take a job but the amount of extracirricular playing groups I'm in is absurd... 4 nights a week taken by playing groups alone from 5:30-10 Monday-Thurs. That lightened up a bit over summer, but even then I helped out with a local summer band (teaching/playing/tutoring) and participated in State Honors Band Camp (standing 1st chair in State Honors Band, :D ) I could have possibly taken a summer job (but didn't), but during the school year, I don't know many employers who'd work around that schedule, except those who hire trumpet players that is.

Now you all know a bit about my life, lol.

[beau_safken]

Ahhh...Some people just have generous people around them. I don't care he uses them to crunch SETI for the races so who cares. All I can say is TEAM TC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WILL WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...least till school starts for horseman that is..........

[Greg M]

Originally posted by TC
I say we make it a date this time. 7500 unit is going to go by pretty fast with our current output. Why not give it some time to make it more interesting?

The Indy 500 stops at 500, they don't decide at lap 50 to just keep on going until whenever. The winners celebrate the victory and the competitors move on to the next race, which has different dynamics, where anybody has the possibility to take the victory.

It was 7500 when we started, let's keep it that way. Stretching it out longer will give the Horsemen an even greater advantage, and once a team has proven their edge, the gaps will just grow wider, possibly causing some not on the winning team to lose interest.

Once some better production numbers are gathered from this race, I'd suggest another race with teams more accurately selected using actuals instead of guesstimates. When that one's over, repeat. That way the entire Overclockers Team has fun and keeps production up. That's the ultimate goal, isn't it?:burn:

[TC]

That's fine, 7500 it will be. I think a few other people expressed a concern that member production is considerably higher than it was during the last race. Consequently the 7500 mark is going to come up much sooner and leave us with a relatively short race.

As for team selection, I'd hardly call it guessing. The daily output of each participant was taken from seti@work and our own daily stats update. With the exception of the Horsemen the spread is less than 30 wu's. I'd call that accurate myself. I don't think it would be an interesting race if it was less dynamic. It would be more like each of us taking a walk together than a race.

[{PMS}fishy]

Originally posted by Greg M


The Indy 500 stops at 500, they don't decide at lap 50 to just keep on going until whenever. The winners celebrate the victory and the competitors move on to the next race, which has different dynamics, where anybody has the possibility to take the victory.

It was 7500 when we started, let's keep it that way. Stretching it out longer will give the Horsemen an even greater advantage, and once a team has proven their edge, the gaps will just grow wider, possibly causing some not on the winning team to lose interest.

Once some better production numbers are gathered from this race, I'd suggest another race with teams more accurately selected using actuals instead of guesstimates. When that one's over, repeat. That way the entire Overclockers Team has fun and keeps production up. That's the ultimate goal, isn't it?:burn:

I could not have expressed it better myself. This time lets go to 7500. Next race maybe we can go for a month and see who wins at the end. There is nothing worse than not knowing what you are racing towards.

[Greg M]

TC, I didn't say you were guessing and the last thing I want to do is offend you. The technical term is a SWAG (Scientific Wild Ass Guess) a.k.a. guesstimation.;) There are numbers behind what you had to do, but at some point, you had to take a leap from science to faith. I must say, you did a pretty good job, particularly when you consider what you get paid to do it.:beer:

Our output was averaging between 176 and 196 (Edit: I went back and looked at last weeks average -- 187.90), except for Monday where we upload a couple of desktops not connected full-time. If we weren't currently putting out in the 245 range, it wouldn't have been so close. Dell wants their stuff back, so we will probably start dropping back quickly once we can't hold them off any longer. I'm guesstimating we'll be giving up in the neighborhood of 350 WU's per week to you guys.

When you're cranking out as many WU's as we have been, it definitely makes team selection difficult. The dynamics are much different when more of the participants shoulder the load. It's definitely a daunting task trying to figure that one out. Maybe race fewer teams to a higher number?:confused:

[Cy]

I'm fine with just running to 7500. More races sound good to me. Keep the mix up. Just as long as we race! :)

Cy

[katelin]

OK I'll assume it's a race to 7500 WU then. I'd like to know so that I can plan a strategy accordingly, not that it matters much anyways, I'm just a small fish. But if we decide something else could someone please post it. THanks.

[Mictlan]

As I had some problems with my main rig (I think one of my memory sticks decided to die on me) and I was on vacation, my rig was off since Saturday, but I expect that the situation will be return to normal in this weekend.

So head Horsemen, we shall endure and in the end win!!!!!