[Quadophile]

Hey guys,

I am really surprised that Mucks did not approach me even once for me to get back to crunching, I wonder why? Hey Mucks, you do want me in your team, yes, no?

Anyway, my excuse for being away was because of the problems associated with ATI drivers and frequent BSOD's and not forgetting heating problems as well. Both problems have been sorted out for me, the new drivers from ATI and Notebook Hardware Control, a great software for keeping the laptop cool and yet powerful enough for everything that I need to do.

I have not been active on this section of the forum so I will need to do a lot of catching up to do before I start crunching with the new software which I plan to download and work on this coming weekend.

Most of you guys have had good experience now and if it is not too much of a problem, please share some tips for me to get crunching again

I want to offer a sincere apology to all crunchers at PC Review for not being part of the team for sometime.

[ChrisIMRIE]

Good to see you joining the team Quad

Everyone is welcome to the team... the more the merrier, and the more points we generate daily the better.

I'll leave Mucks to explain the in's and out's of BOINC and stuff for you to begin crunching.

[Ian]

No worries Quad I remember you were having with overheating, which of course would explain the crunching

Good to have you back on the Team

[itsme]

Hello again Quad Give the Man a coffee

[Adywebb]

Would be great to have you back crunching Quad - most of the info you need can be found in the various sticky's.


The main choice would be whether to run the standard WCG Grid Agent or the Boinc Agent. This really depends on your system specs - if you let me know what they are (CPU/RAM/HDD/OS) - I can give you some pointers..

[Quadophile]

Thanks everyone! I just hope I do not run into any new problems this time. My system is running very smoothly and have had no issues whatsoever.

Ady you wanted the specs so here they are:

IBM Thinkpad T43, P M 760(2.0GHz), 1 GB RAM, 80GB 5400rpm HDD, 14.1in 1024x768 LCD, 64MB ATI Radeon X300, CD-RW/DVD-R Multi-Burner, WinXP Pro fully updated.

[Adywebb]

You are around the CPU level where I think the standard WCG Grid Agent would be best, especially as I don't think there is a performance tweak for PentiumM Processors to use with the Boinc Agent.

As you probably want simplicity and stability, I would therefore recommend the WCG Agent

There are a couple of adjustments that will need to be made in your default profile once set-up, I will pass those on when you have done.

If you go to the "WCG - What is it etc" sticky, download the software, register with the PCReview Crew II, and away you go!

[CITech]

It will be good to have you back with us Quads.

Good decision mate

[Quadophile]

Thanks Ady, will do as you say

[muckshifter]

I am really surprised that Mucks did not approach me even once for me to get back to crunching ...

Nope, not my style ... I won't banter anybody into the 'team' not at the cost of loosing a good PC or Laptop. However, I do remember asking how many PC you could get access too ...

I get quite embarrassed that everybody keeps calling "it" my team ... please folks, the team is ...
"The PCReview Crew II" ... not me, I just live here, remember.

Now ... it's about bloody time ... took you long enough to sort that "thing" out ... suppose I'll have to get a "welcome" to the new cuncher thread going and you'll be wanting a new title as well too.


Work work, all work.