Hello everyone

[Slahr Dzhe]

Some of you may or may not remember me in these parts, but at one point I was an avid member of TA. I took a break for about a decade or so (has it really been that long?) and was wondering if there was anything to run on my "old" box these days?

Thanks for your help,

SD

 

[Philippart]

what do you mean by old box, your decade old box ???

 

[GLeeM]

Welcome back!

"Porch light is always on"

I just passed five years, so I don't remember you directly.

But the name looks familiar
Maybe I saw it in an old thread Assimilator1 dredged up from somewhere?

 

[Spacehead]

Welcome back!

I remember your name from the SETI classic days but not entirely sure i remember you posting in the forums.

How ya been & how old is that comp???

 

[RaySun2Be]

I remember you for sure.

Welcome back.

I think there are still a couple of projects that run on ancient equipment. On up to projects that kick butt when running on video card GPUs. We'd always talked about asslaminating video cards n such, and now it's happened. :Q

 

[Assimilator1]

Yea the name rings a bell , good to see you back .

Tell us your rig specs.

 

[Alyx]

Welcome back! I'm relatively new so I don't remember that far back...

 

[ericlp]

sorry I don't remember you... just load up bonic and have a go to what ever project you want to run. Most importantly have fun. But, sorry I don't remember you.

 

[TAandy]

hmmm...
i do.
for some strange reason

 

[bryanW1995]

I don't even remember who I am half the time...

 

[Assimilator1]

:laugh:

......... hey wait a minute, aren't you me??

 

[dennilfloss]

I no longer crunch but I remember you, Slahr Dzhe.

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: bryanW1995
I don't even remember who I am half the time...

You too?

Glad I'm not alone!

 

[Insidious]

You pre-date me too, but I'm glad you've come by.

No 'pooter too small! (or old )

-Sid

 

[Assimilator1]

Originally posted by: dennilfloss
I no longer crunch but I remember you, Slahr Dzhe.

Hi Den, how come you no longer crunch?

 

[rabrittain]

I'm a noob; so ... don't remember you. You seem interesting. Thanks for comming by.

... hope you're reading this thread.

 

[Wiz]

 

[dennilfloss]

Originally posted by: Assimilator1

Originally posted by: dennilfloss
I no longer crunch but I remember you, Slahr Dzhe.

Hi Den, how come you no longer crunch?

I kinda lost the spark. That's ok. I did my share here and at BBR. Maybe I'll resume in the future. Who knows?

 

[HeavyIron]

Hey!
There are some familiar old names in this thread

 

[networkman]

Nice to see you dropping by.

 

[Assimilator1]

Originally posted by: dennilfloss

Originally posted by: Assimilator1

Originally posted by: dennilfloss
I no longer crunch but I remember you, Slahr Dzhe.

Hi Den, how come you no longer crunch?

I kinda lost the spark. That's ok. I did my share here and at BBR. Maybe I'll resume in the future. Who knows?

Ah ok, suprised you don't just run something on your main PC when it's on though, easy enough to install , unless it's F@H SMP of course lol , I guess you're scared of the competition heheh .

 

[Slahr Dzhe]

Umm. Let me see. I have only 1 working machine again (this seems to happen a lot lately and the reason I don't reply for weeks at a time), but it's the "old" Core2 Duo E8400 @ 3.0 GHz. I don't have a recent GPU to run things on, or a friendly environment to push too hard, but wanted to see what sort of things are available for an old clunky box like this. Current stable OS is XP Pro with 3.25GB of DDR2 memory. I won't OC this as it is in a space that is often above 90F and it can't take the added stress. Let me know what you guys think.

Thanks,

SD

 

[Ken g6]

Hi, Slahr Dzhe. I remember you; I just missed you the first time around as I've cooled off on DC too. But I just got a new Q9400 to replace my old Athlon XP (that's old!), and now that I can actually get results with PrimeGrid, I'm more into it at the moment.

If you're not overclocking that E8400, you should look into undervolting it. My Q9400 was able to go down nearly 0.1V, and went down a good 5-6 degrees in temperature. If you can run a Prime95 torture test stably for at least an hour or so, PPS LLR (not to be confused with PSP LLR) has small, fast work units that can get you a top 5000 prime. If not, sieving won't heat your CPU as much, and might get a little more BOINC credit.

I'm sure there are lots of other good projects for you, but like I said, I haven't been paying much attention lately.

 

[Assimilator1]

Lol that's not an old box!

Pretty much any project will run on that decent & recent rig you have , although I guess the projects with really long WUs (like CPDN?? & 1 other I can't recall) might take too long for your liking.

Btw undervolting in high heat might give the same stabilty problems as overclocking, either way you could test with a 24hr OCCT run followed by at least a couple of F@H SMP WUs, for a really good test.

 

[Slahr Dzhe]

Well, I downloaded BOINC and attempted to connect to SETI, but it just keeps giving me an error. There is no error in the message section, it just says, "Fetching configuration file from http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/get_project_config.php". What does that mean?