EventHorizon

Boycie · 8 Jun 2013 at 22:00

How much do you big riggers spend in electricity per day?

Biffa · 8 Jun 2013 at 23:17

About a tenner a day at the moment, but im being a bit silly right now. Still I don't smoke or go out to the pub on a regular basis so this is my hobby. And given the amount of family and friends ie lost to the illnesses the project is trying to help research cues for I don't think is to bad. But we are always chasing the power performance envelope. Or trying other madcap schemes.. im mining bitcoins at the moment to supplement my power costs. :eek:

gpuerrilla · 8 Jun 2013 at 23:53

Biffa said:
im mining bitcoins at the moment to supplement my power costs.

Very apt this.

I was considering moving over from folding to mining now I am in the possession of two cards. I have always been fond of donating the cycles since DC first came out, by the way do you guys still churn out the folding even in this hot weather?

I woke up on Tuesday at 3am and had to open the window, plug in deskfan due to my two cards folding - must have been 26 degrees in the bedroom (my rig has been in here for years in the corner) :cool:

Back OT. Is folding bitcoins/litecoins worthwhile in your opinion and can you like in folding@home select only 60% as I would not be comfortable operating full out folding on air over the summer?

Thanks

Biffa · 9 Jun 2013 at 00:42

Not too sure really never had a PC my bedroom, or run anything at less than turned up to 11

Biffa · 9 Jun 2013 at 09:26

Sometimes, the right combinations of work units and projects come together on the farm to produces close to 3 mill!

loudbob · 9 Jun 2013 at 10:12

Yes.......I did notice :eek:

And I can't quite match it.......not yet anyways

Biffa · 9 Jun 2013 at 10:21

I know

But just a couple of extra K out of them and I'd have cracked it!

loudbob · 9 Jun 2013 at 15:19

An 8104 on Event Horizon would have done it

BTW....

The 7970 you have....how did it perform on the 8900 wu's?

-Mike- · 9 Jun 2013 at 17:34

I want to contribute especially if its cancer research : Point me in the right direction

Biffa · 9 Jun 2013 at 22:27

loudbob said:
An 8104 on Event Horizon would have done it

BTW....

The 7970 you have....how did it perform on the 8900 wu's?

I've not run it on one.

Biffa · 10 Jun 2013 at 00:08

Thought I better put some pics up:

The box, its a biggie!

Open her up.. and another box! Sheesh its like pass the parcel around here

And what do you get in the accessories box for your mega-bucks?

LOL!

Next Layer.. the all important PINK FOAM!

But whats that peeking out from underneath? Yes PINK BUBBLE WRAP!

Ooooh.. ahhh...

Nekkid mobo smexiness! But wait, some rotter has snipped a corner off!

Slam in the CPU's

-Mike- · 10 Jun 2013 at 00:08

Where!! What on earth are you running to produce those figures? :eek:

Biffa · 10 Jun 2013 at 00:23

It tells you in the description for each one

Now on with the show!

Now.. thats a lotta DDR3 ECC Reg 1600Mhz :eek:

Slam in the RAM!

"Whats this?" I hear you ask.. all in all they look like just bricks in the wall...

Big gallumping coolers, thats what they is m'lud! And they got the wrong brackets on so we 'ave t' changem.. tbsure.. etc..

Off with the old!

On with the new! (narrow fit mounting)

Slam.. er.. I mean.. screw gently to the board.. *ooer*

Biffa · 10 Jun 2013 at 01:59

One potato

Two potato

Three potato

Four!

gpuerrilla · 10 Jun 2013 at 07:26

O lee sheet!

loudbob · 10 Jun 2013 at 08:59

Biffa said:
Heh if I turn everything on, including the 7970's which should add another 250K AND I get the right WUs (nothing so depressing than getting the lowest performing WU on the highest performing kit) then I might be knocking on 3mil that would put me at number 4 or 5 globally.

Probably get divorced before then.

How do you figure a 7970 is worth 250k?

Biffa · 10 Jun 2013 at 09:59

loudbob said:
An 8104 on Event Horizon would have done it

BTW....

The 7970 you have....how did it perform on the 8900 wu's?

Just ran one for you, now mines flashed with a Ghz bios, but when I switched it over I forgot I had it on LiteCoin settings (905/1580) so it was pushing just over 90K PPD. When I put it onto the right settings it jumped up to 102K

loudbob said:
How do you figure a 7970 is worth 250k?

I have two of them but yes maybe closer to 210K

loudbob · 10 Jun 2013 at 10:15

Not much better than the 680's then....

Loudbob cancels the two 7970 GHZ editions he had on order and contemplates 780's or Titans.....

Biffa · 10 Jun 2013 at 10:41

Not sure not had a 680 since the new WU's came out. Think the 7970's stabilise around 110K looking at what others have got.

780 should certainly get you close to Titan performance, think within 10% or so. Its only Double Precision they nerfed on the 780 which Folding doesn't use.

loudbob · 10 Jun 2013 at 11:09

My 680's range from 87k to 92k ppd - so no point me selling them to get the more power hungry 7970's for an extra 20k ppd each

Will have a look at the 7 series from Nvidia after work (and when the money has been refunded for the 7970's i ordered)