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Hope I'm not too early on this event, but I'm as eager as can be. This is Prime Grid's Winter Soltice Challenge, and the last one in the Challenge series for 2014. This goes from 18-21 Dec and mind the odd start time again: Dec 18 23:03 to Dec 21 23:03 (UTC) What we have here, is PPS (Sieve) and one very special thing with this one, you can crunch with GPU. I say you can... but both CPU and GPU are supported. I took both of them for a spin, to see what we was up against. There is a huge time difference on those two WU's. Here's a word from yodap from last Challenge yodap Don't forget, the last challenge of the year should be right up our GPU alley. PPS-Sieve. Nice short WU's that bring a hefty point package. I want to to hear some coil whine from everybody!
And hefty point packages those GPU Sieves give. That is, if you do the GPU Sieves. Just look at this: Notice the Run times. One Cuda PPS takes 8mins, while a CPU PPS takes 26hrs. (GTX980SC/ i7 5960x @3,5Ghz) And they deal the same credit. Some might take this into consideration before choose what road to take. If you want to run GPU only, your PG preferences should look like this: Important to deselect CPU in your pref, or you will be flooded with 30hr wu's. The CPU wu's runs pretty cool and nice: My max temp barely reached 80c While the GPU temp look like this: And yes... I broke down and got a EVGA 980SC I was hoping someone would do a HT on/ off run for comparison, and tell us about it. With our last GPU challenge in mind, I've got high hopes for us and EVGA as a brand name on this one. Ok guy's, good luck, and let's give'm all a bad slam attack.
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Re: Prime Grid's Winter Soltice Challenge
2014/12/10 07:35:56
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Best you use the 980 under the TZC
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Re: Prime Grid's Winter Soltice Challenge
2014/12/10 08:55:48
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Can't wait
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Re: Prime Grid's Winter Soltice Challenge
2014/12/11 04:51:36
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bcavnaugh Best you use the 980 under the TZC
Aww.. That hurt Tell you what.. Next TZC I'll bring both
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Re: Prime Grid's Winter Soltice Challenge
2014/12/11 10:32:46
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Re: Prime Grid's Winter Soltice Challenge
2014/12/17 23:26:12
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T minus 15hrs, and all GPU's is set to dry out. I'll be late for this party though. Got a message from my electrical company the other day. At exact same time this challenge will start, they will take out the power. They need to replace a whole transformator box, and they will not turn on until 7hrs later. This was a big bummer for me, but I'll try to catch up when I'm powered up. Those PG challenges collect some prominent team's. With last GPU challenge in mind, we may be noticed, and even perhaps then some Hope to see many of you
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Re: Prime Grid's Winter Soltice Challenge
2014/12/18 06:29:39
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I'll have to dust off my amd card and see if I can get it crunching. I always seem to run into problems with boinc and GPU's.
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Re: Prime Grid's Winter Soltice Challenge
2014/12/18 12:18:11
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I will bring my 780 Ti and its older sibling the 680 to the party. Clearing out the Collatz WU's on my 780 and GPU Grid from the 680 atm. I will be ready to roll at 6:03 PM Eastern start time.
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Re: Prime Grid's Winter Soltice Challenge
2014/12/18 13:34:29
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90 minutes to the start! Downloading early does the team no good.
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Re: Prime Grid's Winter Soltice Challenge
2014/12/18 14:18:51
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Make sure to check the challenge page before downloading for sure! It will say when it's live. T-minus ~44 minutes!
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Re: Prime Grid's Winter Soltice Challenge
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Re: Prime Grid's Winter Soltice Challenge
2014/12/18 15:18:42
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Annnnddd they're off! Its looking like the 680 is running these in approximately 8.5 minutes and the 780 Ti is 7 minutes.
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Re: Prime Grid's Winter Soltice Challenge
2014/12/18 15:40:09
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What's everbody OC'd at? Here's my stable numbers: 780 SC: 1188Mhz - 8 Minutes 760 SC: 1267Mhz - 10.25 minutes 650 Ti: 1306Mhz - 16.5 Minutes For the power/core comparison the 760's just stomp all over this project
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Re: Prime Grid's Winter Soltice Challenge
2014/12/18 15:40:56
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wow, 30mins into the Challenge, we are second Fantastic job everyone Just downed some for my only operative rig now. In prox 6hrs, I'll unleash all I got. Gonna be fun
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Re: Prime Grid's Winter Soltice Challenge
2014/12/18 15:47:49
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Good! We'll get a head start against your juggernauts! We dropped back to 4th, but just busted 1 Millions points in 2 hours! Keep up the good work everybody!
post edited by devlin85 - 2014/12/18 17:03:54
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Re: Prime Grid's Winter Soltice Challenge
2014/12/18 20:03:40
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Bwahahaha honestly i'm just extatic that my 4p hasn't melted, with all the redoing of the case i am stoked so far. i know it isn't a gpu but by goodness i am happy that it is chuggin away without problems. them gpus are pricey ugh. actually i'm not ssure they will finish before the challenge ends hahah
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Re: Prime Grid's Winter Soltice Challenge
2014/12/18 20:32:12
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good stuff
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Re: Prime Grid's Winter Soltice Challenge
2014/12/19 00:33:35
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Finally, after 7 1/2 hrs, I'm fully up and running. I'm very happy to see all the EVGA names on the list. With 108 teams, and 440 participants, I find 4th place more than acceptable. Some of the teams in front of us, has a couple of dudes, whom I suspect dispose a tad more GPU power than the average gamer We have a couple of exiting days ahead. Crunch hard teammates and may the force be with you
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Re: Prime Grid's Winter Soltice Challenge
2014/12/19 06:06:30
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Mind if I play? Dual 980's into the mix.
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Re: Prime Grid's Winter Soltice Challenge
2014/12/19 06:43:23
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I finally got my HD 7870 running after some annoying obstacles. For some reason my Asus 2P workstation board wouldn't recognize it, so I installed it on my bench system for this challenge. It started out around 21-22 minutes per WU, but after messing with the clocks this morning it is down to around 20 minutes each. Not great compared to all your fancy newfangled GPUs, but better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.
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Re: Prime Grid's Winter Soltice Challenge
2014/12/19 06:55:23
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Viper97 Mind if I play? Dual 980's into the mix.
Aahh Yeah, let them do what they do best Punchy I finally got my HD 7870 running after some annoying obstacles. For some reason my Asus 2P workstation board wouldn't recognize it, so I installed it on my bench system for this challenge. It started out around 21-22 minutes per WU, but after messing with the clocks this morning it is down to around 20 minutes each. Not great compared to all your fancy newfangled GPUs, but better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.
They will do more than great . Main thing is we do this together. Let's hunt Down SETI.Germany
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Re: Prime Grid's Winter Soltice Challenge
2014/12/19 09:21:28
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After watching things for a bit I have to think I will hit the mark for the PPS Sieve Turquoise badge before this is all over. Any one else close to their next PPS Sieve badge?
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Re: Prime Grid's Winter Soltice Challenge
2014/12/19 09:47:17
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Already Turquoise...
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Re: Prime Grid's Winter Soltice Challenge
2014/12/19 11:42:19
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2 Mill for Turquoise not sure if ill make that by the end of challenge.
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Re: Prime Grid's Winter Soltice Challenge
2014/12/19 18:45:37
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Totally forgot, gonna fire the GPU up right now!
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Re: Prime Grid's Winter Soltice Challenge
2014/12/19 21:28:34
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I count 16 playas so far. Believe it's record! Tomorrow I'll start listing you all
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Re: Prime Grid's Winter Soltice Challenge
2014/12/19 21:35:07
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Re: Prime Grid's Winter Soltice Challenge
2014/12/19 21:56:59
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Rank 3 Crunching@EVGA 29570412.00
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Re: Prime Grid's Winter Soltice Challenge
2014/12/19 22:41:06
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Great going guys! Hope you don´t mind if I throw in a 970
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