Sorry, I hadn't noticed that I was waking a thread that had been sleeping for 8 months.

That "ugly" grill after running the computer ten hours, raises in temperature about 3C, compared to the rest of that side panel. Are you implying that the 3 degree drop in CPU temperature is after 10hrs of load? How long did you stress the system for? My guess would be that even just leaving the si...

What are abnormally high hardware ECC counts? My 1 year old 120GB Spinpoint has a raw value around 63 million. If you would get the same in one week or one month I guess that should worry you. The drive that failed had a count of some 400 million in just a few months. The ECC is part of the operati...

Well in that case you could try an ancient script I created a while ago called idlerun which just watches interrupts and decides if the machine is idle or not and starts/stops applications. http://idlerun.kolivas.org That sounds interesting. Me too, I had noticed the F@H CPU useage of ~10% even upo...

Can't resist mentioning my recent milestones: In the last 2 days I passed 100 WUs passed 40k points (yep, thats a 400 point/WU average, and no, I'm not deleting small WUs) made it into the top 100 folders at SPCR 8) Thanks to everyone who helped on the way!! And, BTW, what's happening to you Col_Jox...

I don't know. It's not necessarily related to points, but rather to memory useage. Projects 1475 and 1476 (364 points) are "big", and the client I have currently running a 1476 uses 93MB. I forgot to mention a third condition to get big WUs: lots of memory. Your client reports the amount of memory t...

Do you use the same options on all your clients? I think you'll need both the "-advmethods" flag and explicitely allow big WUs when configuring your client (run the client with -config or -configonly flag). The client.cfg (that's what it's called under Linux, but I assume Windows is the same) should...

Looks like all 600 point projects are gone (for now). First the projects 1134 and 1135 stopped, and now 1140 and 1141 disappeard from the Stanford project summary page . I finished two of them yesterday... probably the last 1000+-point-day for me in a while :cry: . Hope they'll be back soon. EDIT: s...

Same very slight buzz here, but only once the monitor (ViewSonic PF790, 3-4 years old) is warmed up. I think it's probably been there ever since I got the monitor (used) a year ago. I only notice it when trying to listen to the remaining noise of my silent rig in the dead of night. It sounds like so...

jinu117: where are you located? If you're in Europe and shipping costs will stay reasonable (<50% of the price of the foam), I would take one.

atomidude wrote:the hdd runs at 36C most of the time. the highest i've seen was 44C, during a very hot day, while defraging.

That's very reasonable. Thanks for the info and for sharing pictures of your cool rig!

ilh: Now, now, fans that are not connected don't count.

I don't really have an opinion on the CPU cores --- haven't tried any of the Athlon64's. One thing I am curious about is the HD temperature. It looks like the HD doesn't get any cooling at all (other than convection). And while the Spinpoints run rather cool in general, I was wondering just how cool...

I suppose it depends on the case. But if you have a steel case of a good thickness, that will already make for a decent noise barrier. My guess would be that If you glue a good foam (like Melamine) inside it will do what's missing in such a case: absorb the noise. But it's true that if you have sign...

Yes, by a big margin. You didn't mention the video card, but unless you're running the most extreme setup there is there shouldn't be a problem at all.

And with the smaller font 4 lines of text is too much. I'm posting on forums which have 2 lines sig restriction and it is working quite good. It is even better than font size description. If you want simply add simple sig like: cheers VERiON I don't think that you can compare the SPCR forums to som...

There are several things to consider. For one, you only hear back from people who have problems, those who are happy (like me) are unlikely to post about it. Second, people on these forums are much more likely to run Samsung Nidec motor harddrives than a more "representative" population. If we say f...

I tried it with and without the covers on the empty drive bays, but with the door closed. The difference was ~0.05V, so not significant. Good to know that! Will close my top drive cover promply. Opening the door shaves of 1V Is that 1V in addition to the gain from the duct with closed door, or 1V f...

I used to get 600point gromacs finished in 1½days on the AXP 2600+@2300mHz... Now you got me worried that something is wrong with my setup here. These have always taken upwards of 58hrs on my AXP3200+@2200mHz. EDIT: my log shows "Extra SEE boost OK." as dukla2000 pointed out. Without it performance...

I don't think that would help really because this would just restrict how much air the psu can get, better to have plenty of warm air than little cool. Usually a PSU duct like lenny mentioned is accompanied by opening one of the drive bays in front. Also, the side intakes in a Sonata (the holes spe...

I for one would be willing/keen/happy to loose the folding link in my sig... very much so if it's possible to make the 'Folding For SPCR' tag an 'active' link to the Folding@Home Beginners Guide thread. Depending how this is going to be implemented, the custom title could be an active link, technic...

I still haven't heard back from Jason. But generating the stats ourselves doesn't look very involved. It would be sufficient to fetch the official Stanfords stats for our team say once a day, keep a backlog of N days, and each day compare for each user the number of points (or WUs) to those N days a...

I just placed an order for a sheet of the Illbruck Melamine Sonex foam (1.5"). I'll be picking it up later this week, but won't have time to start silencing the box I bought it for until July/August :(. So don't wait for me to give feedback on how it works out. And I'm never happy applying foam prod...

They seem to be running out of these too :( The projects p1134 and p1135 (which were 600 pointers IIRC) have disappeared from the project summary page . Those made for 25% of the 600 pointers I received in the past. But for now I'm still getting a p1140/p1141 once in a while. crummy 89 pointers tha...

The SBM5 seems to be only a barrier. Nothing to absorb noise here, it's only blocked... and reflected. So Mr Flibble is right in preferring the SAPT200 with the noise absorbing foam on top. The heat/fire resistance seems very good (it's self-extinguishing, but I don't know what the norm it passes co...

I agree with cpemma on the power rating, the box of my Fanmate2 said 6W too. I am running a Nexus 120mm (0.3A) and a Nexus 92mm (0.25A) off one fanmate2, and have never had a problem. And I'm running the fans close to 6V, the setting for which the heat loss inside the fanmate is highest. Just touche...

WU's : p1319 ... are doing 1300+ PPW on my AMD that usually does 750-~1000PPW Do you mean that your box usually does 750~1000PPW on big WUs? There is a 100% bonus for working big WUs (which you need to explicitely allow on your client), because they use more memory than usual WUs. I actually find t...

Tibors wrote:The bad news: It runs only on procs with SSE2.

And I was impatiently waiting for one of those to show up here to boost my performance, which has been low lately. I guess I'll have to find a way to justify building an A64 rig...

has case temperatures of 47+ degC, CPU at 59C and the harddrive is running at 50 degC !! All temperatures seem to be at idle . should have specificied this more clearly, must have overlooked it; the system is running under load; 1 hour test runs were done for each configuration; Ah, that makes a di...

:D Are you trying to get on slashdot? Serious, though: this sounds like a great idea for an article to reach a large community outside of SPCR. The recent MADSHRIMPS silencing article reminded me how disappointing coverage of PC silencing is on mainstream sites. Someone has to show them the light, a...

:shock: Their quintessential silent system measures 31.7 dBA@60 cm in a room with a noise floor of 30 dBA (so, basically, we don't know much about the noise it really makes), has case temperatures of 47+ degC, CPU at 59C and the harddrive is running at 50 degC !! All temperatures seem to be at idle ...