First job on BOINC underway.....

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......4.66% and progressing! :D

Could not wait till the weekend and decided to go ahead and try it out;)

Everything so far seems to be going smoothly and I am keeping an eye on things. I guess I will be on the Boinc stats page of PC Review after my first WU is submitted which it indicates will complete in about............5:01:49.
 
Haha, you sound as impatient as me ;)

Good luck :D (and well done!)
 
Nice one Quad! Have you tweaked it yet?
 
What should I tweak first? I have been trying to catch up on reading and its a bit over-whelming. Anyway, I am open to suggestions :D
 
Will have to get your name on the Boinc stats ready for tomorrow ... :thumb:

That will help us move up the charts. :D
 
muckshifter said:
Will have to get your name on the Boinc stats ready for tomorrow ... :thumb:

That will help us move up the charts. :D
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Well if you had told me earlier to join I would have :p
 
going boinc

muckshifter said:
Will have to get your name on the Boinc stats ready for tomorrow ... :thumb:

That will help us move up the charts. :D
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Would my daily returns be better served going Boinc than doing the current way i am, is it easy to do, painless & an enjoyable experience:D Only 1200 away from a star, would i loose that if i changed? Having a star of my own is like hitting the big time:rolleyes: :lol:
 
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First job completed in 6:19 minutes and I found out that the score claimed but not yet granted is 68 for the WU, Not sure how good or bad that is:D I guess the next update will clear up the score actually granted to my account.

Looks like everything is just going smoothly and the temperatures are very similar to when I was not using Boinc.

I wonder if there is anything else that I need to tweak to make it crunch faster :D
 
Quadophile said:
First job completed in 6:19 minutes and I found out that the score claimed but not yet granted is 68 for the WU, Not sure how good or bad that is:D I guess the next update will clear up the score actually granted to my account.

Looks like everything is just going smoothly and the temperatures are very similar to when I was not using Boinc.

I wonder if there is anything else that I need to tweak to make it crunch faster :D
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Crowbar another CPU in there, and that's about all you can do. :thumb:

Time between score claimed & granted can take 2 weeks or more ... usually within a few hours ... 'tis one reason why our scores are up one day and down the next.

UD awards points as soon as you return the WU. ;)
 
feckit said:
Would my daily returns be better served going Boinc than doing the current way i am
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They could, they should ... ;)

... is it easy to do, painless & an enjoyable experience:D
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Depends on how bad you are at installing software ... Boinc ain't Windows friendly automaticly, you have to read a little.

Only 1200 away from a star, would i loose that if i changed?
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Nope, points will still be awarded to you ... so you will still get a star. :D

Having a star of my own is like hitting the big time:rolleyes: :lol:
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Yup, it sure is ... :cool:
 
Quad, Have you used the Guntec.de tweak for BOINC yet?

Its self explanatory, but if you need help then shout! :)

Instructions:

  1. Stop the running Boinc Manager
  2. Extract the files in the archive into your boinc folder.
  3. If you get a message containing something like "overwrite exiting files" select YES.
  4. Restart the Boinc Manager
  5. Run the benchmark test
If you do use it can you make a note of yourCPU benckmark score before and after the tweak? :)
 
muckshifter said:
They could, they should ... ;)

Depends on how bad you are at installing software ... Boinc ain't Windows friendly automaticly, you have to read a little.

Nope, points will still be awarded to you ... so you will still get a star. :D

Yup, it sure is ... :cool:
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May leave until i sort out IE problem, oh and finish building a server for a friend still getting my mind round server2003, oh i love MS products so much, not:lol:
 
V_R said:
Quad, Have you used the Guntec.de tweak for BOINC yet?

Its self explanatory, but if you need help then shout! :)

Instructions:


  1. Stop the running Boinc Manager
  2. Extract the files in the archive into your boinc folder.
  3. If you get a message containing something like "overwrite exiting files" select YES.
  4. Restart the Boinc Manager
  5. Run the benchmark test
If you do use it can you make a note of yourCPU benckmark score before and after the tweak? :)
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Before the Guntec.de tweak

28/03/2006 22:01:53|| 1722 double precision MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU

28/03/2006 22:01:53|| 3513 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU

After the Guntec.de tweak

28/03/2006 22:17:12|| 2384 double precision MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU

28/03/2006 22:17:12|| 7880 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU




Wow!!!! That seems to have made a big difference! Is that what you were expecting? Pleased? Dissapointed?:confused:

I also noticed that the current WU before was supposed to finish in little less than 6 hours now it says it woud finish in under 3 hours :p


I know you are on to something, but, I am getting very curious as to what this all means, would you PLEAAAAAAASE explain to me? :)
 
yes ... bigger is better ...

Haven't a clue ... but when you start returning 1500-2000 points a day we'll know better.

;)





* shyte, better get another PC running to stave off Quads onslaught *
 
:D

Thats all good Quad, all good! :thumb:

I'll be honest, i didn't expect it to be quite that much. I forgot to bench mine before i tweaked it unfortunately. So i wasn't sure how big a difference it would make. But thats really good. :cool:

You should also see a nice increase in crunching speed....

Ady will be interested to see the benchmark scores me thinks....

I think Ady would be the best person to explain the 'ins and outs' of it. But basically it is tweaked to get the best out of your particular CPU.


:)
 
Well lets see what ady has to say about this.

This WU that I am crunching presently is really picking up speed :D
 
damn it V_R what did you have to go and tell him for, im definitely going to get overtaken now

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Me__2001 said:
damn it V_R what did you have to go and tell him for, im definitely going to get overtaken now

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Well I was going to overtake you in 10 days before I installed Boinc anyway, now I am not going to just overtake you, but, when I pass by you will be barbecued anyway. So, flap your wings and smile, I am on my way
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