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Modular

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Assimilator1 said:
I know Linux confers some advantage, as does running 2 WUs at once, but it seems your setup is twice as fast as mine! Unless you're looking at different credit WUs, or something's up with my setup (drivers or client?). What credit WUs were those singly run WUs? Times without credit amounts isn't much use I'm afraid.
I've just looked at 2 low credit WUs, ~47, 1 took 315s the other 479s, a wide variance! The high 80s WUs seem more consistent, mostly! lol (just saw one at 327s! But that seems to be an outlier).
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Hey, I did a little more digging. Remember that I'm running two WU's at once, so basically I'm completing two of these in the time frames listed.

Hope this helps:

WU: 16au19ac.1404.1197809.6.33.13
Time to complete: 694.72
Credit: 81.95

WU: blc36_2bit_guppi_58642_03113_PSR_B1133+16_0015.5615.409.22.45.93.vlar
Time to complete: 799.32
Credit: 73.78

WU: 16au19ac.6016.67.14.41.23.vlar
Time to complete: 1390.85
Credit: 136.50

WU: blc36_2bit_guppi_58642_03113_PSR_B1133+16_0015.14153.818.22.45.7.vlar
Time to complete: 673.95
Credit: 70.45

WU: 28jn13ab.12760.4566.10.37.148
Time to complete: 800.09
Credit: 95.21



It's depressing to see how fast my wingman completed these same tasks on an nVidia GPU. Makes me want to buy another 1070gtx and get it on Linux, but this card is great for Milkyway and some other projects that I like.
 
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1-Phoenicis...……………………...4,920,069

Oh you're the real reason we had a power cut last week! ;)

StefanR5R said:
Perhaps not...
-- When I switch the PSU on, motherboard lights go on, and pressing either the front panel power button or the onboard power button make a relay click in the PSU, but nothing else.​
-- When I unplug the PSU from the mainboard and shorten the green wire with a black one, then the relay clicks, the PSU fan begins to spin, and the DVD-ROM makes its usual power-up noise.​
It was a top-shelf PSU, and it is only about half as old as the mainboard. Still, I might go looking for a spare PSU later this week and test that.

Could the CMOS battery (if depleted) stop the mainboard from powering up? Although when I was going through some BIOS menu items yesterday, it still held the settings it had several months ago when last used.
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Oh, that doesn't sound good, but really you need to have a DMM coupled up to the PSU when you try to boot the PC, maybe it buckles under a proper load? (vs a few fans & a DVD player).
A dead CMOS battery wouldn't do it, not unless losing any bios settings you changed would cause that?

Modular
Thanks for the extra info, I see sadly you had no high 80s credit WUs, sods law! ;). I'll see if I have any others that match yours.
I've got 1 73.58 credit WU done in 671s
98 credit in 892s
76c in 882s
96c, 442s! (I wondered if it was a VLAR WU, but at 0.44 I'm pretty sure it isn't, weird).
93c, 909s
94c, 432s
94.8c, 452s
74c, 876s
94c, 888s

Well, maybe the only thing we can learn from these times is that you can't learn anything from them as they're all over the place! Unless someone knows what the variables are that we are missing? (within a rig, not between rigs, between WUs of similar credit).

crashtech said:
One thing I can think of that caused me trouble on an X79 board was one of the pins on the ATX 12v 8-pin connector had developed resistance and partially melted the connector. It's unlikely, but just unplugging the 8-pin and inspecting both halves will quickly and easily eliminate it as a source of trouble.
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Yikes!, that reminds me I need to check my X79's connections for that issue following last weeks rebooting issue!
 
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Modular

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@Assimilator1

Here's a few higher 80 credit Wu's.

87.5 credits
715 seconds

88.5 credits
683 seconds

86.5 credits
919 seconds

88.5 credits
890 seconds

90.4 credits
635 seconds

88.35 credits
637 seconds

edit: Some other specs in case it helps:

-RX580
-Linux Mint Tessa (19.1)
-Downloaded BOINC from the Mint Application Manager
-Installed the 16.xx AMD GPU Pro drivers, not the latest 19.xx version (not sure if this is the difference) and installed openCL through the command line and that driver package.
-Intel Celeron G3930 Processor (2 threads)
-One thread (the other runs a Virtual Machine through IOMMU grouping that has my 1070gtx running on it). Both threads are constantly maxed out when crunching, but I don't think that has any impact at all, other than maybe detrimental. I'm asking a lot of this little CPU.
 
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@burninatortech4
Go to your where your client stores data. In the folder projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu there should a file called mb_cmdline*.txt and readme*.txt
You should read then copy one of those predone command line options into the mb_cmdline*.txt file and see if that changes anything.
Note: You'll need to wait for the next task to complete or pause and resume

* Is a wildcard, in case you didn't know.
 
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biodoc said:
@Kiska and @burninatortech4 , there's more AMD card settings discussion/info in this thread.
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Very true. I assumed they read them, and decided to still ask.

Modular said:
It's depressing to see how fast my wingman completed these same tasks on an nVidia GPU. Makes me want to buy another 1070gtx and get it on Linux, but this card is great for Milkyway and some other projects that I like.
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I guess I'll do some recent ones: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yPziMVa26pUJfrDTS52VBPvBCOLLTJIv-VjArCjHDBU/edit?usp=sharing
 
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Props to Phoenicis for the huge bunker drops on Wednesday. Impressive. He's definitely the bunkering King.

The two new 2080's I added to my fleet today won't help at all against ~7 million points in bunker drops within just a few hours. :p
 
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RFGuy_KCCO said:
Props to Phoenicis for the huge bunker drops on Wednesday. Impressive. He's definitely the bunkering King.

The two new 2080's I added to my fleet today won't help at all against ~7 million points in bunker drops within just a few hours. :p
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Cheers mate :) Great to see [H] doing so well this year. Hope everything is well at my old stomping ground.
 
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Let's not let up. it looks like Seti Germany has added a few new guy's to there team
over the last few day's.
 
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@burninatortech4 I have a very similar machine
8788981

I get similar results. I have had faster WU some down to 6 minutes but as I use the machine daily I rarely have a task that has had 100% time.

I know task (opencl_ati5_SoG_nocal)

run faster than task (opencl_ati5_nocal)

I'll run a few WU tonight and compare, if I could force SoG only it would be great. I tried the Lunatics installer but it did not fetch any GPU work. I'm pretty new to this and by no means an expert though.

If you stumble across some faster setting please let me know

Cheers

Grumble_D
 
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