VirtualLarry
No Lifer
Yes, it's that time of year again, when temps rise outside due to good old Mr. Sunshine.
Anyways, I run my A/C all the time, from like May until Aug., but I really don't want it to fight with my overclocked (or non-overclocked, in the case of my i3-3240) PCs.
So while I've been crunching on my i3-3240 w/7790 1GB card (on two cores, BOINC NCPUS=2), I feel I should probably power-down my Q9300 rigs, at least until cooler weather hits.
So I have three computer desks, with cubby-holes for full-tower desktops (but not oversized full-tower cases, the Rosewill Blackhawk barely fits, and the front feet have to hang out over the front edge).
I've recently decided to build two 24" All-in-One PCs, using two 24" HDTVs I bought at BestBuy, with a pair of Foxconn NanoPCs I already had. Basically, I bolted them to the back of the monitor using the included VESA mounting hardware with the NanoPC.
But those have C-70 APUs, which really aren't any good for crunching. (Except perhaps, Correlizer?) They lack the GCN shader cores of my Kabini AIO, that was at least able to crunch Einstein@Home.
I probably should have spent more on a "real" 24" computer monitor, with HDMI / DVI / VGA, that way, I could have used the DVI port for a secondary PC. Sadly, my only options are HDMI and VGA, and the HDMI is taken up by the NanoPC, so I will have to use VGA to connect a secondary full-sized desktop.
I plan to put my two Q9300 rigs, into the cubbies, so that I can run them at the same time doing DC, or gaming (although that would mean I would have to run an audio cable into the monitor along with the VGA). Or leave them shut down during the hot months.
Edit: Oh yes, the 24" Westinghouse HDTVs that I picked up, list 25W power usage on BestBuy's site, but 40W on the mfg's specs. The AT-5570 NanoPC uses an average of 15W, according to a Newegg review, supposedly using a Kill-A-Watt. CoreTemp reports the TDP of the CPU in the NanoPC to be 8.2W.
Anyways, I run my A/C all the time, from like May until Aug., but I really don't want it to fight with my overclocked (or non-overclocked, in the case of my i3-3240) PCs.
So while I've been crunching on my i3-3240 w/7790 1GB card (on two cores, BOINC NCPUS=2), I feel I should probably power-down my Q9300 rigs, at least until cooler weather hits.
So I have three computer desks, with cubby-holes for full-tower desktops (but not oversized full-tower cases, the Rosewill Blackhawk barely fits, and the front feet have to hang out over the front edge).
I've recently decided to build two 24" All-in-One PCs, using two 24" HDTVs I bought at BestBuy, with a pair of Foxconn NanoPCs I already had. Basically, I bolted them to the back of the monitor using the included VESA mounting hardware with the NanoPC.
But those have C-70 APUs, which really aren't any good for crunching. (Except perhaps, Correlizer?) They lack the GCN shader cores of my Kabini AIO, that was at least able to crunch Einstein@Home.
I probably should have spent more on a "real" 24" computer monitor, with HDMI / DVI / VGA, that way, I could have used the DVI port for a secondary PC. Sadly, my only options are HDMI and VGA, and the HDMI is taken up by the NanoPC, so I will have to use VGA to connect a secondary full-sized desktop.
I plan to put my two Q9300 rigs, into the cubbies, so that I can run them at the same time doing DC, or gaming (although that would mean I would have to run an audio cable into the monitor along with the VGA). Or leave them shut down during the hot months.
Edit: Oh yes, the 24" Westinghouse HDTVs that I picked up, list 25W power usage on BestBuy's site, but 40W on the mfg's specs. The AT-5570 NanoPC uses an average of 15W, according to a Newegg review, supposedly using a Kill-A-Watt. CoreTemp reports the TDP of the CPU in the NanoPC to be 8.2W.
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