IM BACK!

[Rickdstik]

So after not crunching for a long time due to overall displeasure with the lack of work from SETI and lack of ATI apps, I fired up my new rig the other day to find that not only would my machine get loads of work but *gasp* here's an ATI app that works. Needless to say, my assault on the top 10 shall be resuming full force.

[eaglescouter]

Assault?

Nah, more like a quest to join those at the top.

Welcome to the party. :)

[Rickdstik]

Yeah, this little machine isn't going to make a 40k assault happen just yet. Need to upgrade cooling for it to run all 8 threads @ 4 GHz stably. It can be done but I don't like 80+ degree core temps. Poor little H50 is just out of gas with that much heat. Think it may be time for me to take the dive and build a real loop to cool things down. However, I'm not even real sure how much CPU time I really need to dedicate, with the ATI WUs going so fast. Right now, its happily running two CPU threads/two ATI threads. Adding in another Q9400 Dell box that'll get 16 hours a day work or so. My 2012 build is starting, definitely looking at the fancy new 7970s and one of the six-core sandy bridge machines. Definitely going to keep an eye out for production on the 7970, my 5850s are doing WUs in 6-13 minutes for the most part.

[HankB]

Welcome back. :thup:

I'm running SETI/CUDA and can see that some WUs get assigned to other PCs that crunch them on the CPU. The time difference is astounding. The ratio is about 20:1. I'd expect similar results with the ATI GPU. I'd focus on getting that rolling first.

[Team kizb]

Welcome back!

I hope to be back again soon, after a short leave.

[Rickdstik]

@HankB: Getting the ATI gpus going was my first priority. Maybe not quite 20:1 vs my CPU, probably closer 6:1 or so. CPU tasks finishing in an hour vs GPU tasks finishing in 10-12 minutes. Still smokin fast, and with a pair of 7970s coming around the corner, its only going to get better.

[Rickdstik]

Got my first ATI AP WU this morning. Should be interesting to see how it gobbles that up.

[Rickdstik]

28% done on the AP unit in 12 minutes. This has me wanting a lot more AP WUs.

[Rickdstik]

Just under 45 minutes to do the entire AP unit. Wow. That's crazy fast.

[Team kizb]

Just picked up a 3rd EK GTX 470 waterblock :) So I'll be running 3 water cooled GTX 470s down the road, should help bring my RAC up a little.

[Rickdstik]

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Who says this isn't an assault :)

[eaglescouter]

Looking better, is today your new normal production (about 11th place for our team), or are you still ramping up?

[Rickdstik]

Today should be pretty close to normal until I can locate some 7970s for Red. My plan is to replace the 5850s in Red with those and put the 5850s in a couple lower power machines (most like i3-2100 based).

[4GHZ_or_bust]

With my new rig finally getting cached WU, I can start getting better result even when Seti goes down or runs out of WU for the moment. I was already in top 10 in daily RAC before this.