[mmonnin]

All my CPUs include 1950x, 2700x, 2x 2670v1, 3770k and 3570k. the 2670s were not running Universe and the RAC isn't as high it could be if running all the time without upload issue.

AMD Zen CPU all the way for BOINC only rig. The CPU performance per $ is just better than Intel offerings.

 

[bfromcolo]

I agree with the Ryzen recommendation, I have 2 1700x and a 1600 I bought at Microcenter as motherboard bundles. They were cheap ($139 and $79 for the CPU) and work fine on inexpensive B450 motherboards since you don't need a lot of features for BOINC. And the included cooler with the 1600 is adequate at stock clocks for 12 threads of you don't mind some fan noise.

If I was building a cheap BOINC/[email protected] machine today I would probably be looking at the 1600AF, 12 threads with a serviceable cooler for $85.

And yes the RAC after this Sprint is meaningless, the ULX tasks were a mess (I had 386 fail and another 54 invalid) and then the download/upload issues.

 

[franz]

Yeah my ULX projects were just as bad 19 attempts 2 valid, 2 pending, 3 invalid, 12 error....I never ran this project before and my OCs have been 100% solid on all other BOINC projects and [email protected]

Thanks for the input on your setups. I have been not done any major upgrades on my PCs in quite some time and my BOINC/[email protected] rigs are usually just hand me down parts or stuff I can grab for a steal. Its pretty amazing the progress AMD has made since I built this Sandy Bridge rig. Now I have to decide if I am going to build a couple cheap rigs and keep my sigrig for a bit or go all in on a new sigrig. Thanks

 

[mmonnin]

Wow, we pulled back into 9th. scole and stoneageman dumped on the last day. They must have been our wingman.

 

[franz]

Sweet we are in the points!

Looking over the AMD chipsets today and determined I would probably go with the X470 for a dedicated rig unless I find a really good deal on the B450s. I feel the B450s would really bottleneck a second GPU at PCIE 2.0x4 and for efficiency I would like to run at least 2 GPUs per system.

 

[bfromcolo]

This weekends scheduled Sprint is cancelled.

 

[franz]

Well that sucks....not a lot of positive comments in this thread http://formula-boinc.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=156&start=40 and I cant find a reason for the cancellation.

 

[tictoc]

Yes, that is a bit of a bummer. Hopefully it gets sorted out and FB continues.

 

[franz]

The poll is up for the next sprint, hopefully this one stays on schedule.

 

[mmonnin]

Suggestions?

 

[tictoc]

I'm down for anything. A CPU project would be best for me, since most of my GPUs are tied up at the moment.:thumb:

 

[spdaimon]

Hey, just checking in. I know it has been a while...

 

[franz]

Well I have [email protected] ready to go. Lets see what happens this event. I would rather not take my GPUs off [email protected] but I will figure that out as I see how the points are.

 

[tictoc]

I was skeptical that it was going to happen, but the sprint project has been announced. :wheee:

The Sprint starts in t-minus 15 hours. https://www.timeanddate.com/countdo...=Formula+BOINC+Asteroids+Sprint&font=sanserif
Time to start stockpiling Asteroids WUs.

 

[mmonnin]

I didn't see it was [email protected] until this morning. I paused uploads until now. A bunch verified during the day.

 

[franz]

Is anyone getting nvidia GPU projects on a linux(ubuntu) rig? My windows rig is getting them and they both have the same GPU and latest drivers for both. Double checked that allow GPU compute was enabled.

 

[mmonnin]

Per watt, CPUs give better points at [email protected] I've only been running CPUs.

11xx/2xxx NV GPUs aren't supported in Linux yet. They are very slow at providing support for new GPUs.

 

[franz]

Well ironically my GTX1070, started crunching shortly after I started running [email protected] on it.....

I noticed the points were the same for either CPU or GPU. The 3 cores on my Sandy Bridge are basically producing as much as my other 1070.

Another question, for ubuntu users, why does the BOINC manager allow new tasks for projects I told it to stop crunching? I turned off Rosetta and WCG, but came home today and had projects running for them while asteroids was on standby. Did the same on my Win10 rig and it hasnt pulled any other projects.

 

[bfromcolo]

If you set it to "no new tasks", it will still process what you have already downloaded. It should switch back and forth between projects until all the queued work is complete. To handle work already downloaded you could suspend until after the Sprint, or cancel them altogether, but you have to do this on individual work units.



If it is in fact downloading work after you told it to stop, thats a bug I have not experienced.

 

[franz]

@bfromcolo I guess I never looked at the projects that closely before. I assumed that the projects that showed up as pending, in manager, were the only ones that were pre downloaded, but these had been pulled days ago and are due tomorrow, so that's probably why they showed up today. Thanks for the info.