[LandShark]

what do u guys do w/ all those toys u've listed??? especially TC & Chawken. u guys have more PC than some small company!! and most, if not all, of them ain't slow too!!

are those all urs? or at work? personal usage? just very curious.

i personally also have 3 machine at home. 2 r mine, and the PIII i built for my nephew and using it to crunch SETI too i thought 3 at home already, at least, average if not slightly above. but couldn't compare w/ u guys' "farm".

only wish i could have that much toys to play w/.........

[TC]

I run Seti on them - what else would you do with a computer Yes they're all mine at home, but I really don't use all of them for Seti. Some are just sitting around collecting dust, but once in a while I turn them on - mostly in the winter when cooling costs are down. Right now I'm only running the GHz+ systems in my signature, and my power bill is approaching $400. I'm actually thinking of selling the large servers. They just aren't practical anymore, unless you're using them in a real server role. The quad xeon is already sold.

As for having fun playing with them - when they're all overclocked you spend your spare time checking on them to see if they're running okay. I wouldn't call it fun anymore.

[BiLLyXkiNG]

Dude, most schools don't have those kinds of servers! Do you have a job?? What do you do??? You should start running a computer shop, TC HARDWARE. Not a bad idea. 400 a month for electric. I run my computer, my parents p200, and now that I broke my foot I can't run my 486 more anymore (steps and crutches don't mix lol) and my family runs TV's all the time and we always leave lights on all the time, we have 2 refrigeraters, central air, and our electric is sub$175. I can just imagine.

[chawken]

Originally posted by TC
I run Seti on them - what else would you do with a computer Yes they're all mine at home, but I really don't use all of them for Seti. Some are just sitting around collecting dust, but once in a while I turn them on - mostly in the winter when cooling costs are down. Right now I'm only running the GHz+ systems in my signature, and my power bill is approaching $400. I'm actually thinking of selling the large servers. They just aren't practical anymore, unless you're using them in a real server role. The quad xeon is already sold.

As for having fun playing with them - when they're all overclocked you spend your spare time checking on them to see if they're running okay. I wouldn't call it fun anymore.

I am also only running my machines that are GHz+. I have a collection that I don't have listed in my sig. As far as my power bill, I have 4 at home, and I took the rest to work with me. Even with the 4, the power bill is 350.00 - 400.00 (I live in the desert so a major portion of the bill is the A/C.)

But Tim, you can't call it fun?, checking on the rigs, making sure that your o/c is stable and sqeezing a little more out of them. I love that part - sqeezing a little more until it breaks, then backing off just enough that they run stable.

All my machines listed, also run Seti 24/7. Some are primary working computers, some are data storage machines - as backup to my primaries - but everything runs Seti.

[zoopa_man]

Hehehe My house is Quake 3 Arena central. Every time me and all my college buddies get bored we head over to my house for some killing. We also play some other network games but Q3 is our fav. All the other times the systems are used by my family for surfing the net, emai, chat, what ever they want. Also gives me some systems to practice my networking skills on Oh, we have four systems in our house.

[toomnymods]

I'm slowly approaching "mini Seti Farm" size, hehe ordered my 2 1.2 "MP" Palamino chips today from new egg should be here fri.. Cant wait to slap those guys in my new boxes I'm building.. Still need couple more things to complete the box but one should be running this weekend if all goes well.. So that will bump me up to 4 24/7 seti crunchers and 1 30-40% seti cruncher (my G/f's computer the Asus a7v133 W/pc133) All my systems are gonna be the Epox 8K7A's or the 8K7A+'s i don't have to worry about electricity, ROFLMWAO!! Uncle Sam is paying for that.. Just one more way for me to get what I think I should really be getting paid for 6 1/2 years of faithful service, lol After these two are completed I might get me a 1.4 ghz laptop.. Never know when you might have to go on a deployment 6 months at sea would kill me without a computer to play Diablo 2 and quake 3 etc..


Crunch ON!!!!

[TC]

Originally posted by BiLLyXkiNG
Dude, most schools don't have those kinds of servers! Do you have a job?? What do you do??? You should start running a computer shop, TC HARDWARE. Not a bad idea. 400 a month for electric. I run my computer, my parents p200, and now that I broke my foot I can't run my 486 more anymore (steps and crutches don't mix lol) and my family runs TV's all the time and we always leave lights on all the time, we have 2 refrigeraters, central air, and our electric is sub$175. I can just imagine.

Actually right now I don't have a job other than what I do on my own. I do sort of have a computer shop. Electricity has always been high down here. Last summer I lived in a one bedroom apartment, only had three computers, and my power bill was close to $300 a month then. I really expected our bill to be higher than it is now that we're in a house. I guess power has always been more expensive where I live. Summers are usually pretty brutal with temps sometimes well over 100 and humidity never below 70%. Cooling costs have always been high. This past winter our bill was less than $200, so the juice must be going to the AC now.

[chawken]

Originally posted by TC


Actually right now I don't have a job other than what I do on my own. I do sort of have a computer shop. Electricity has always been high down here. Last summer I lived in a one bedroom apartment, only had three computers, and my power bill was close to $300 a month then. I really expected our bill to be higher than it is now that we're in a house. I guess power has always been more expensive where I live. Summers are usually pretty brutal with temps sometimes well over 100 and humidity never below 70%. Cooling costs have always been high. This past winter our bill was less than $200, so the juice must be going to the AC now.

Your A/C is probably the cause. Our winter bills averaged about 60.00 per month - but the last couple of summer bills have been over 300.00. I complained a lot about So. Cal. Edison electric rates - but it seems as if yours are worse than ours. I live in the desert, so don't have much choice about running the A/C. What a killer.

[TC]

I figured people in California would be paying more with the energy shortage, but evidently not. Our house is just an average sized two-story brick. The air systems are split, one for up one for down. I used to have all of my computers upstairs and the AC up there was literally running all day long. I finally moved most of them to the basement where it stays cool during the summer. I think that alone cut $50 off our bill.

[BiLLyXkiNG]

My dad is the most frugal man in the world...and if we ever had an electric bill that high, we'd light candles for the rest of the year.

[TC]

I'm sure our bill would still be close to $300 if I wasn't running any computers. I can't do without AC. It's so nasty here that the second you walk outside your glasses fog up and you feel like you've been sitting in the bathroom with the hot water running for an hour. Some days I change clothes around lunch time just to get something dry on.

[BiLLyXkiNG]

Here in PA we get off and on temperatures...sometimes in the summer we get cold fronts from Canada when you have to turn the A/C off and rap yourself in an aphgan. The next night it'll be 95 degrees w/ 98% humidity. Here we actually need half decent meteorologists.

[[Oc]acaridans]

Ive noticed something in this thread...
in my apt I have 4 computers running 24/7, 2 workstations, game server, FTP server. With several deticated seti box's on the way..hehe
(I gave my 5th to my mom when I moved out, but its still running seti 24/7)

Now I live just outside Boston MA on the 3rd floor and have run the A/C quite often this year...and my electric bill is still under $70 before the extra computers it was around $50...SO what is up with the electric prices?? I realize the west coast is more expensive but is it really that much or does everyone live in houses??

[TC]

Originally posted by [Oc]acaridans
SO what is up with the electric prices?? I realize the west coast is more expensive but is it really that much or does everyone live in houses??

Well I guess the cost per kw is just higher in some places. I don't have a bill handy or I would look and we could do a survey In my apartment I was on the top floor and my windows faced west. The insulation in the attic was minimal. The patio was concrete and tended to hold the heat picked up during the day. I never did put a curtain on the picture window, or whatever you call that half round thing - and that let the afternoon sun hit the black tile in the kitchen. Combine all of that with an undersized AC unit and it just ran all the time to keep the rooms at 75. Now we're in a house which is fairly well insulated, but it just costs a lot to cool 3000 sq feet when it's 95+ outside.

[[Oc]acaridans]

Well just dug out my bill

last month I used 372 KWH that cost me 61.14
that is 4 24/7 crunchers and the A/C, fridge and what ever lights the girl forgets to turn off. This is what the rates look like

[SleepyKat]

hmmm... I shut down just one of my computers last month and my electricity bill dropped about $50..... I would hate to see what it would be if I actually fired up all the boxes I have laying around.

[TC]

I used a few more kwh's than you, not that I'm bragging - wish I had your bill

[Jon]

1 dually P2 350 on Maxtium BXAD
1 VP6 w/twin P3 1GHz@1.13 (actually have the other 1GHz on the way)
1 DV6AA w/twin P3 700s
1 EPoX 8K7A+ w/1.4 @ 1.67 (gonna do more with some PC2700)
1 Soyo 7VCA P3 1GHz @ 1.13
1 Tyan Tsunami w/Celly 2 600
Compaq w/P2 350
NEC V133 w/P133

I like playin musical parts with these things the most but normally they just run SETI and I'll play DoD occasionally on my main rig or try some of the cool networking crap M$ throws out since I get all the development beta releases.

If something or anything can be done with them I'll get to it eventually...never get bored having them all humming along though.

[toomnymods]

Damn!! Tc... That's a crap load of KW hours.. The SeTI God's must be very hungry lol
Thank god "Uncle Sam" is paying for mine,lol About the only benefit of living in the barracks..

Crunch On!!!!

[TC]

Originally posted by toomnymods
Damn!! Tc... That's a crap load of KW hours.. The SeTI God's must be very hungry lol
Thank god "Uncle Sam" is paying for mine,lol About the only benefit of living in the barracks..

Crunch On!!!!

Time for my own power plant you think?