Posts by Starbomba

Quote:Originally Posted by shilka I will take a lower ripple over lower efficiency any day of the week And calling the Platinum the best there is not really true anymore it might have been true when it came out but not...

Well, i'll keep on pushing Yoyo, but i'll try Asteroids just for a bit. Seems bad luck has caught on me after all this time, and it got me bad. My main rig can't stay on for more than 10 mins without shutting down by itself for some odd...

CPU: Intel Xeon W3530 GPU: AMD Radeon HD 7950+7970 Xfire RAM: 24 GB Samsung "WonderRAM" PSU: Seasonic Platinum-1000 COOLING: Custom complete watercooling loop (parts in signature) CASE: CoolerMaster 690 II Advanced SOUND: Onboard HDD:...

Quote:Originally Posted by Krusher33 Oh my god yoyo is going to drive me nuts! Freaking 8193.333% "Waiting to run". And stuck at 66.666% and 33.333% and all that. Ugh... I'm never running yoyo again after this competition. That's...

I'd like to add another Antec PSU to my list, a HCG-400 I really wish Antec could've outfitted it on a smaller case, the PCB is lie 2/3rds of the case size. Still, it is a nice and silent PSU.

Your PSU should be compatible. Most PSU's which have DC-to-DC circuits to convert +12v to +3.3v and +5v are compatible, since no matter how little you use your 12v rail, the other rails are gonna be used as well, so the 12v load won't go...

I'll leave my i3 running on SIMAP. I'll check which WU's take less time to complete on my Xeon, the longest project will be ran in my 2600k.

Quote:Originally Posted by Krusher33 Yeah... that app_file messed me up or something. I did try .12 and it did add another 2 more tasks but it only gave 50% GPU usage. So I shut down BOINC, deleted the file, and restarted BOINC. ...

Quote:Originally Posted by goodtobeking You are bottlenecking your gpu. that's why it dropped to 60%. you need to free up another thread to allow it to clear up Wow, i noticed that as well. Quote:Originally Posted by...

Quote:Originally Posted by Gungnir Also interestingly, VRAM usage does not seem to scale linearly: running 2 WUs, it takes a bit less than 1gb, 4 WUs take ~1500-1700mb, and 5 WUs take 2gb. I agree. 3 tasks on my GTX 470 and 79xx's...