SETI@home News Vol. 105

[Marine Iguana]

Quick get some work peeps whilst its still up

 

[ToxicTBag]

Roger over

 

[ToxicTBag]

Question, i want to do a case and psu swap. The new board

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-172-GI

has a 4 pin 12v socket next to cpu. My old power supply had a 4 pin from psu for this but its no longer living, the new one does not have one have i bought the wrong board/psu or both?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-019-CS&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=



Ta muchly

 

[Marine Iguana]

you should be able to slpit the 8 pin into a 4 pin only fits one way mind

i have same psu ill have a look

Edit: Right it will split but you can still plug it in according to the manual just need to plug the correct side in

 

[ToxicTBag]

Yeehaw!!! ta Marine you saved an old fart a lot of rma's tommorrow
Manage to upload everything set it to no more work going to have a day orf...ok well half a day at a push

 

[ToxicTBag]

Worked a treat ta

 

[Marine Iguana]

Going to have a slack day then

Nearly broke 9k on my RAC and still have a large 61k pending :/

 

[ToxicTBag]

I am indeed switcfhed 1 machine off and the others in half hour going to bed without the sound of fans and pc's, they'll be back burning rubber later this eve.
Blimey you are doing well, only seems like 2 minutes ago you were 100

 

[Senture]

Going to have a slack day then

Nearly broke 9k on my RAC and still have a large 61k pending :/

Just checked the Berkley standings, I'm catching you up fast Mr Iguana

 

[Marine Iguana]

Just checked the Berkley standings, I'm catching you up fast Mr Iguana

Don't I know it nothing I can do about it you do have a array of silly powerful hardware

also: Recent average credit 9,028.50

 

[Senture]

Don't I know it nothing I can do about it you do have a array of silly powerful hardware

also: Recent average credit 9,028.50

This is coming from they guy showing as having a pair of Core i7 machines both with 2 GTX 260's in. Surely my Xeon power cannot match what those 4 GTX 260's do.

 

[Marine Iguana]

Nope I have had a recent reinstall of windows I wish I had two i7's and 4 GTX's what do you think my name is ToxicTbag or something

Only have what is in my sig

Edit: Just merged them together handy that is

 

[edgedemon]

Oh well, just assuming that version 6.10.56 would work with fermi was a mistake...
off to start editing the app_info and see ewhere this little journey will go - sigh...

 

[Marine Iguana]

Put the sissors down hurting it wont make it better

Good luck with that anyways

 

[Marine Iguana]

Knew I forgot something the bloody Re Scheduler app D'oh

 

[edgedemon]

Interesting one

Have installed 6.10.56, and the 197.75 drivers, start up Boinc and in the messages tab, it has a message stating that no usable gpu's found
Im not running in vga mode, win7 see's the card as a gtx470 and reports that it is running the nvidia drivers..
Weird

 

[Biffa]

Try the 275.xx beta drivers

 

[edgedemon]

They were the first ones I tried which is why I rolled back..

Have removed all drivers and boinc, re-installed everything, open boinc and I get

02/06/2010 05:39:29 Local time is UTC +1 hours
02/06/2010 05:39:29 No usable GPUs found
02/06/2010 05:39:29 SETI@home Found app_info.xml; using anonymous platform
02/06/2010 05:39:29 SETI@home URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID 5424775; resource share 100
02/06/2010 05:39:29 General prefs: from http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/beta/ (last modified 04-Jul-2009 22:25:05)
02/06/2010 05:39:29 Host location: none
02/06/2010 05:39:29 General prefs: using your defaults
02/06/2010 05:39:29 Reading preferences override file
02/06/2010 05:39:29 Preferences:
02/06/2010 05:39:29 max memory usage when active: 1637.89MB
02/06/2010 05:39:29 max memory usage when idle: 1842.63MB
02/06/2010 05:39:29 max disk usage: 57.47GB
02/06/2010 05:39:29 suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 25 %
02/06/2010 05:39:29 (to change preferences, visit the web site of an attached project, or select Preferences in the Manager)
02/06/2010 05:39:29 Not using a proxy
02/06/2010 05:39:29 GPUs have become unusable; disabling tasks

 

[ToxicTBag]

Oh well, just assuming that version 6.10.56 would work with fermi was a mistake...
off to start editing the app_info and see ewhere this little journey will go - sigh...

Morning Edge, its a pain in the rear trying to get it to work the regular way.
I did exactly as scimansteve and todd, install boinc and set it to no work then close it down before it does all the download png and whatnot.
Then just copy absolutely everything from todds data directory into your own and it works a treat. I know its far from ideal but untill something optimized comes out its our best shot....give it a go it does work.

Nope I have had a recent reinstall of windows I wish I had two i7's and 4 GTX's what do you think my name is ToxicTbag or something

Only have what is in my sig

Edit: Just merged them together handy that is

My hardware is going to dwindle over the next week, 2 of the 295's are sold and am trimming down but hopefully the 470's will come into their own with some optimised apps in the next month or so

 

[ToxicTBag]

Quick poll on a case change.
Pic 1
The hardwares currently in an Antec 300 case with a top 140mm and rear 120mm exhaust fan. There is a 120mm intake at the front of the case and on the side panel.
I need to change the powersupply and would like to throw a 480 or the like in there, given that the 480 exhausts quite a bit of heat into the case from the underside of the gpu it looks dangerously close to the powersupply for my liking.
Pic 2
Or should i go with an old banger of a case thats sat doing nothing and has a bit more space and the psu would be at the top of the case away from the gpu, but not as good airflow?





This will be the last bit of messing about i need to do, can't do anymore as i am officially broke