I been voting for teammates doing the challenges/sprints.
Hardly anyone I vote for wins. In more ways than one!
 
 
What beautiful weather forecast for the next few days. mid 70f sunny days, low 50f nights. not so humid.
Going to get some stuff done, brakes on the caddy, weed the garden.
Get some other things done if I am not hurting too bad from doing the brakes and weeding the garden lol
Few small things to do on the Mustang, the drivers door weather strip, did the other side last year.
2 cases came, I have to get a couple boards in cases so they take up less room.
 

Harvey is going to hit Texas and the gulf coast states near TX.
To everyone from there, please stay safe and you guys are in my thoughts and prayers.
The forecast looks grim, the storm they say will stall and dump up to a couple feet of rain.
That with the storm surge looks like the coastal towns will get flooded really bad.
Stay safe and wishing the best of luck.

If you want to be impressed by a project with LONG work units, try GIMPS.
 
 Most machines will have multi-week if not multi-month "work units" there as the norm when doing LL tasks.
 
 Oddly enough, it's one of the few remaining places that Intel CPUs still CRUSH AMD - even Ryzen doesn't do very well on it for some reason - though when you factor in cost the older A10 and FX cpus are somewhat competative 'till you start comparing total system cost....
 
 

This Thread "Crunching Team general open ended discussions" is really getting Long Now

bill1024
Dang, Jozef is not going to send me a Christmas card again this year.
Bless his heart.

 
Yeah there's just no competing with this:
 
 
In just 7 days he more than doubled what I have done all month! lol.. 2nd place is mine! for the time time being.. 

Cool GTX

yodap
So, on the Entho Pro case there's that fan hub on the back and I can't get it to work. The sata power connector is fine but no fans turn unless I plug them in somewhere else. Am I missing something?

Signal wire installed in correct position to the hub, and has to be plugged into MB active fan header - check how fan header is set in BIOS

I use to have a Primo and now only have a Pro left but I plugged my hubs into the CPU header and it didn't have any issues.  They make great cases for the price.  Right now i've emptied out my Pro, not sure yet what I want to do with it, it has such a nice side panel display ^_^. 
 

devlin85

bill1024
Dang, Jozef is not going to send me a Christmas card again this year.
Bless his heart.

 
Yeah there's just no competing with this:
 
 
In just 7 days he more than doubled what I have done all month! lol.. 2nd place is mine! for the time time being.. 

 
ummm....ouch >.>.  That is a pretty big server he's got going on to be do that much work in a few days >.>.  

Threadripper crunching rig? Anyone going that direction? Maybe it's just the cores and price point that are making me  but it seriously looks intriguing to me. I know Bcav has the 1800 and it doesn't seem up to snuff on crunching vs Intel............. But paying less for more (AMD) vs more for less (Intel) has me seriously considering a TR build sooner or later. I'll let the smoke die down and wait for the results from the "beta" testers before I make my decision though..........................

howdy2u2
Threadripper crunching rig? Anyone going that direction? Maybe it's just the cores and price point that are making me  but it seriously looks intriguing to me. I know Bcav has the 1800 and it doesn't seem up to snuff on crunching vs Intel............. But paying less for more (AMD) vs more for less (Intel) has me seriously considering a TR build sooner or later. I'll let the smoke die down and wait for the results from the "beta" testers before I make my decision though..........................

Nope Not Me This Time Around, back to Intel and the X299
But Who Knows I am still 6 or 7 months away from Building or (Assemble as some Prefer) my next rig.
"up to snuff" this may be because of the MSI Motherboard.
It is also nice to see the Temp of Each Core that Intel Provides.

Ryzen seems to be pretty competetive with Intel on a "per real cores basis" in most crunching, but loses out to the higher-end (and MORE EXPEN$IVE) Intel CPUs due to the lower clock rates.
Only reason I do ANY CPU-based crunching though is that I have to have the CPUs to drive the folding GPUs, and end up with some unused cores that I hate to leave idle....
 
I suspect Threadripper isn't going to be real competetive with the OLDER Intel E5 based server CPUs for crunching on a cost basis, just because it IS new and CPU performance hasn't ramped up all that much in the last 5-10 years or so due to the increase in interference from quantum effects as the process sizes keep shrinking (this was a NOTICEABLE effect 20 years ago, more so if you count "tunnel diodes" that required quantum effects to work at all but were specially built to achieve those effects).
 
 Those quantum effects are WHY the current 14/16 nm node didn't manage to provide more of a performance increase in the current GPU generation vs the previous generation - traditionally halving the feature size would more-or-less quadruple the overall performance for the same power usage, or double it at half the power - but the current generation was more like half again the performance at two thirds the power draw.
 

Yay, have finished up my 2 x e5-2680v2 crunching rig:) (Speaking of Threadripper, all-in this cost less than just that cpu, and is nearly as fast in something like the blender benchmark).
Gotta be my favorite build I've done so far!