reducing my dc contribution

[TAandy]

...these days.
sorry guys, but just can't afford the electricity any more! 🙁
will contribute to the occasional project.
but the one's i'm most interested in are not off the ground yet.
wait.
yes they are.

WAY OFF!!!!

oops!
😀

 

[PCTC2]

I hear ya TAandy. As long as you don't go quietly into the night, any contribution is welcome!

I stopped folding in October because I can't afford electricity either, and my new i7 isn't helping (710W @ load).

 

[Markfw]

Well, over half of my farm will get turned off when it warms up...We nee to recruit some Austrailians ! Their winter is our summer.

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: Markfw900
Well, over half of my farm will get turned off when it warms up...We nee to recruit some Austrailians ! Their winter is our summer.

Now we're thinking!

 

[PCTC2]

Originally posted by: TallBill

Originally posted by: Markfw900
Well, over half of my farm will get turned off when it warms up...We nee to recruit some Austrailians ! Their winter is our summer.

Now we're thinking!

No. We need a M-TAD3C! A Mobile TeAm Anandtech Distributed Computing Crunching Center.

We buy a large RV fleet. Fill them with our crunchers and modify the ventilation systems. Then we buy a surplus C-5 Galaxy from the air force and fly it back and forth every winter-summer shift. 😛

 

[Denithor]

Seasonal crunching FTW!!

 

[Assimilator1]

TAandy
Sorry to hear that mate 🙁, hope you can crunch again soon.
Wait..... maybe you are already??😕 lol, which projects are back?

Originally posted by: PCTC2

Originally posted by: TallBill

Originally posted by: Markfw900
Well, over half of my farm will get turned off when it warms up...We nee to recruit some Austrailians ! Their winter is our summer.

Now we're thinking!

No. We need a M-TAD3C! A Mobile TeAm Anandtech Distributed Computing Crunching Center.

We buy a large RV fleet. Fill them with our crunchers and modify the ventilation systems. Then we buy a surplus C-5 Galaxy from the air force and fly it back and forth every winter-summer shift. 😛

lol 😛

 

[TAandy]

Originally posted by: Assimilator1
TAandy
Sorry to hear that mate 🙁, hope you can crunch again soon.
Wait..... maybe you are already??😕 lol, which projects are back?

well, as you know, the 2 projects i want to run most are orbit and planetquest.
so, in the meantime, i'm just picking a project and running it for a while.
currently running rosetta again.

if my 2 'wants' don't come to anything, i'm really not sure what i'm going to do in the long term.
i'd love to have every pc in the house running a dc project, but when they increase electricity prices by 50% in a year i'm afraid it's just getting too damn expensive 🙁

 

[Assimilator1]

Just do what I do, run it on just 1 PC. I don't keep my 2nd one on (mostly) because of electricity costs.

 

[TAandy]

Originally posted by: Assimilator1
Just do what I do, run it on just 1 PC. I don't keep my 2nd one on (mostly) because of electricity costs.

think that's just what i'm gonna do mark,
for now, anyway 🙂
:beer:

 

[Duvie]

No problem....remember this amounts to charitable work.....you do it when you have excess money or resources to give....bottomline you take care of yourself first....


I am running 3 gpu cards, but I remember when I was running 2 dual cores and 1 quad core back in 2007 with 2 x1900's and was only getting 8k on a great day and it cost be about 40 more dollars in electricity a month.

Now I run just gpu clients (smp units and the client sucks....pain to use, shut down, start, etc...) but 3 8800/9800gts.....

If that is around 30-40 I will be happy to give that....

That nut MarkFW900 with his 11 boxes and like 19 video cards probably will have a 300+ dollar electricity bill.


I think out of most all of the DC projects I have seen I think Folding should be eligible as a taxbale charitable donation. SETI???? What a bunch of dreamers and a waste in my opinion....

 

[Assimilator1]

Originally posted by: Duvie
I think out of most all of the DC projects I have seen I think Folding should be eligible as a taxbale charitable donation. SETI???? What a bunch of dreamers and a waste in my opinion....

No not a waste, if you don't search you'll never find.
Dreamers? maybe , but if the world never had dreamers we'd never have innovation or invention 😛.

Oh btw, maybe you're new to the DC forum?, but we generally don't bash other projects.
Criticism is one thing, but derating is another.
I totally understand that people don't want to run SETI because of it's open ended time goals or not being certain that we are searching the correct place/time/method, however that doesn't make it a waste.
Oh & calling a team mate a nut might not go down so well either 😉. He's just very enthusiastic about it 😀.

 

[Duvie]

Originally posted by: Assimilator1

Originally posted by: Duvie
I think out of most all of the DC projects I have seen I think Folding should be eligible as a taxbale charitable donation. SETI???? What a bunch of dreamers and a waste in my opinion....

No not a waste, if you don't search you'll never find.
Dreamers? maybe , but if the world never had dreamers we'd never have innovation or invention 😛.

Oh btw, maybe you're new to the DC forum?, but we generally don't bash other projects.
Criticism is one thing, but derating is another.
I totally understand that people don't want to run SETI because of it's open ended time goals or not being certain that we are searching the correct place/time/method, however that doesn't make it a waste.
Oh & calling a team mate a nut might not go down so well either 😉. He's just very enthusiastic about it 😀.

That is OK...I am good friends with him....he knows he is nuts...when he gets his electricity bill in a few days he may confirm it to himself!!!

 

[Assimilator1]

:laugh:
lol, ok I see now it was meant in friendly /joking manner 🙂

 

[VirtualLarry]

Yeah, we're all slightly nuts, but it's all for a good cause.

So, btw, what project(s) should I put my Q6600 @ 3.6 on? Will have CF HD48850s installed too. Running Windows 7 at the moment.

My problem is not electricity so much as space. My apt is small, and I have so many PCs! I have two card tables that hold one PC+monitor each. But I have like 7 computers that I would love to hook up and run DC with.

 

[Assimilator1]

Bolt those spare PC to the wall & ceiling 😉

Re projects, I thought you were folding currently?, well anyway depends what you're into.
SETI uses Nvidia GPUs too nowadays although it's still very much in Beta.
DPAD is an easy to use & stable client for your CPU, to learn more about that 1 go here.