UD: getting there

[kloostec]

(by me) Yeah... I joined on September 19th. Less than 3 months ago...

I'm estimating 57 days from now for top 25. That'll be February 12th, 2004, for those keeping track.

Looks like I'll be in the top 25 in 2 days (26Jan)... quite a bit ahead of my expected schedule. That'll be one day before I pass 2.2M points.

And this is running seti on a couple of my home boxes, too

 

[CyGoR]

:Q My god your going fast!!!
Any prediction on the top20 yet?

I just noticed, one of my systems (which acts as a file server here at home) had a crashing virusscan..
The virusscanner was running at 100% cpu, the UD client is now at 80% after 150+hrs
I'tll be done tomorrow, let's see if I can 'fly' into the top 100 of the TeAm with that.. Who knows!

Good luck with bumping everyone down a spot

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By the way (or did I ask this before) your last name, it sounds very Dutch... Any idea where it came from?
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[kloostec]

Congrats on the 1000 post milestone!

I'll predict on the top 20 when I'm at 25 (tomorrow).

Good to hear you've got a machine back crunching again!

My grandparents on my father's side emigrated from Holland after the war. I can find out more information (where they're from, etc) if you're interested.

 

[mechBgon]

Excellent! How much CPU power do you estimate you have on UD?

 

[kloostec]

OK, I'm at 25th place now.

Now for the prediction of when I'll be in 20th. My current 7 day average is 5440 points/day. I need 78606 points to reach 20th place. This span will increase by the time I get there. If I was the only one gaining points, then I would need 15 days to get there. I'm going to say 18 days until I'm in 20th place.

Somebody stop me

Anyway, boxes on ud... I can't remember them all because I sold quite a few a long time ago... These are the machines that are currently contributing:

P166
3x D1100
3x AXP2100+
3x AXP1600+
A1333
A1200
AXP2700+ (1/2 time with seti)
D1400 (1/2 time with seti)
AXP2400+
PII266
PM1500
K350

D - Duron, AXP - Athlon XP, A - Athlon, P - Pentium, PII - P2, K - some form of AMD K6, PM - Pentium M

So there's really not all that much cpu power there... Just quite a bit for a 'home' fleet The AXP2700+, the D1400, the PM1500, one AXP1600+, P166, and PII266 are in this room, and two of those belong to my roommates. The rest are computers that I've sold.

 

[CyGoR]

Congrats on the top 25 spot Kloostec!!
I'm right on your tail

Hopefully I'm in the top 100 as of now! Just flushed 3000+ points which should get me there, if... LogicX hasn't flushed
today So it might take me another day crunching.. Unfortunatly I'll have to wait to tomorrows stats.
My client is also going beserk.. He gives me 102 points for my 2Ghz cpu, while doing absolutely nothing..

Kloostec, you don't have to do much research just for me to know where your grandparents lived in the Netherlands
It could never be more than ~200 miles from where I live

 

[mechBgon]

I put out a feeler at the non-profit agency that I work for, regarding running UD on some of our better systems where they would have enough RAM that it wasn't likely to force the systems to start paging to disk where they otherwise would not. I'm hoping to at least get permission to run it on my XP2500+ (it's my computer, but it's their network, so naturally I will want permission first). Our CPU time per day appears to be only slightly lower than Team Microsoft... :evil: Hmmm!

 

[Kenazo]

uh oh. my daily totals are slipping. Time to go do some more aggressive recruitment.

 

[CyGoR]

Anyone knows what kind of points an Amd 64 3000+ will get? Are the points given by Mhz or Cpu power?
If it's Mhz, it's only 2.08Ghz but outperformes an PIV 3.0...

My new rig is almost ordered! (mobo + huge Zalman)
I will also add 512Mb Corsair DDR400 Pro (leds ) and after one month the second one..

Hopefully it will cruch like hell!!

 

[Kenazo]

I had an A64 3200+ running in my farm for a while (until the customer picked it up), and it had a lower score than my AXP 2500 @ 3200+ speeds, since the Axp ran at a higher clock speed. UD needs to update their rating scheme, methinks.

Oh, and that heatsink will not work w/ Athlon 64 (unless it perhaps comes w/ the necessary adapters).

 

[CyGoR]

Cooler will not work??
This is what they say on the Zalman site here:

1) Does not generate noise or vibration in Silent Mode.
2) Pure Copper base materials ensure excellent heat dissipation.
3) INTEL Pentium 4 (Socket478) and AMD Athlon 64 (Socket754) compatible design for broad compatibility.
4) 92mm fan inside the FHS maximizes airflow.
5) Adjustable fan speed controller (FAN MATE 1) enables control of noise and fan performance.

After reading that it seems that it should work just fine on any mobo for socket 754...
Package includes all kinds of systems to fasten the cooler. Hopefully it's able to connect to the backplate of the CPU..

Can you tell me what kind of scores your getting for the cpu of that baby?

 

[Kenazo]

interesting. It didn't look like it would work w/ the socket 754, but hey if they say it does...

As for scores on the A64 3200, i think it was around the 190 mark (just for the CPU), in comparison my AXP 3200 gets 204. but really that score means nothing, How quickly it can actually munch through a wu is far more important. in that area, the A64 was a bit better, but not by a large margin. Remember, that the "3200" rating is a relative rating, just as the "3200" for the Axp is a relative rating,

my XP 3200 has been crunching away for about 1400 hours, and has generated 33,100 points thus far, for an average of about 23 points/hr. The 64 3200 ran for 106 hours and generated 3630 points, or 34 points/hour. So, yes the A64 would seem to be faster, but consider that I've also used my XP for gaming, school work, etc, so I'm sure it's potential is quite a bit higher. Also, seeing as the 64 3200 cost about 2.5 times more money.....


EDIT: just read the page on that zalman...
Parts included:
1) FHS Assembly (CNPS7000-CU)
2) Two (2) Clip Supports - For Pentium 4 (Socket 478)
3) Two (2) Bolts - For fastening the clip
4) Two (2) Nipples - For Athlon 64
5) Thermal Grease
6) Adjustable Fan Speed Controller (FAN MATE 1)
7) User's Manual

nipples and thermal grease... what more coud you want?

 

[CyGoR]

Yeah, nipples and thermal grease
Looks complete, doesn't it

After some calculation, my PIV 2.0Ghz has about 18points/hr... So I will defenitly improve on my scores
Your Amd 64 does 800+ points/day.. that's a nice score for just one system!

 

[Kenazo]

Originally posted by: CyGoR
Yeah, nipples and thermal grease
Looks complete, doesn't it

After some calculation, my PIV 2.0Ghz has about 18points/hr... So I will defenitly improve on my scores
Your Amd 64 does 800+ points/day.. that's a nice score for just one system!

Yeah, it definately hurt to pull it out of my farm when I sold it. Oh well. money is more important. Good luck w/ your new A64. Remember, DO NOT PUT 3+ STICKS OF RAM IN IT! it will run the ram at half speed (pc1600) if there are more than 2 sticks, so if you can, go w/ 1 stick of 1gigabyte rather than 2x512. I know it's a little costly, but it's the only way you'll be able to go above 1 gig of ram w/o slowing the entire system way down.

 

[CyGoR]

I'm really not going to use more then 1Gb of memory, but 2x 512Mb isnt anything to worry about does it?
And, because I'm going to buy just one piece or Ram first, does it work just as good with just one stick 512Mb?

It will be a month (and a little more) before I got all the parts here..

Thanks about the advice Kenazo!

 

[Kenazo]

2x512 will work just fine. The only problem comes when you add a third stick. if you are sure you'll only use 1 gig total, then giver. Though I guess you could always take 1 512 out and sub in a 1 gig stick later if you want more.

It has something to do w/ the memory controller built into the A64 chips. They can only run 2 sticks @ PC3200 speeds, anymore than that, and it's chopped to PC1600.

 

[kloostec]

I could always find a box to put a 'spare' 512 M stick into

 

[Kenazo]

I'm sure I can find a Slot for one too.

 

[thorin]

Yeah I got an upgrade @ work so now I have a P4-M 2GHz crunching (replacing my P3 700). Though my 2200s still kick the P4-Ms butt.

Thorin

 

[xbassman]

Congrats on hitting top25 kloostec!

I am glad to see we have new boxes coming into the fold! (A64! I am jealous!)

I have another testing right now..... This is because I made a catastrophic error and tried to fit an ATX board into a MATX case!
This is for my HTPC project. I was going to convert one of my boxes for HTPC, but I guess I got brain-freeze while researching and overlooked board size.

Anyway here's what the new one is.....

AOpen H400A case w/ Super Flower TTGI TT-350SS (350W) (cooling-2x Panaflo-ES 60mm L's)
Biostar M7NCG 400 mobo w/ AXP2500+ and TT SilentBoost
1x Buffalo Technology 512M DDR PC3200 CAS 2.5
Seagate 7200rpm 120GB HD
Chaintech AV-710 sound card w/optical SPDIF
ATI Radeon 7500 (passed from another PC)

I am not really sure yet if this system will overclock much since I put silence as priority, but so far with case open I am getting temps around 35C idle, 46C load(UD) 23C ambient @1.63V.
Maybe I'll get lucky and it will hit 3200+ on stock voltage.

 

[CyGoR]

From what I heard is that most Xp2500+ cpu's will hit 3200, don't know about voltage..
It's a much better overclock then any A64

 

[Kenazo]

Originally posted by: CyGoR
From what I heard is that most Xp2500+ cpu's will hit 3200, don't know about voltage..
It's a much better overclock then any A64

I have a 2500 @ 3200, stock voltage, (1.65v) in a Soltek SL-NV400-L64 motherboard. Great board for oc'ing. nice and stable. Just be sure to get pc3200 ddr or better, or your ocing results won't be good.

 

[xbassman]

Originally posted by: CyGoR
From what I heard is that most Xp2500+ cpu's will hit 3200, don't know about voltage..
It's a much better overclock then any A64

I have another one also on an Abit NF7-M.
@3200+ it isn't prime95 stable until 1.8V. That in turn makes the onboard GPU unstable. If I lower the voltage a bit though the GPU is stable.
I wound up having to settle @ 394 mhz bus @1.75V until I get a new graphics card. I have heard things are much better if not using onboard graphics. I'll test that out on my HTPC.

 

[kloostec]

Wow, those are some amazing overclocks. Maybe I should "upgrade" my end-of-line 2700+ to a 2500+ barton and overclock it to 3200+

 

[BornStar]

Man, I wanted to at least make top 20 but kloostec is going to pass me in just over a week. I'm going to be hanging at 21 until then. I need more computers. I'll probably install it on my 3.2C at work this weekend just to get a few more points going. Where are you guys getting all of these computers from?