New dual barcy online !!

[mitchellds]

I have my new 8 core 2346he Tyan setup churning away. I water cooled it to start with, but haven't got any over clocking in play yet. It's cool to see 8 boinc processes running on this puppy.

[Beerknurd]

You guys make me sick...

I don't even have a quad-core yet...

[Steve Lux]

Sell off some of the neighbor's family members to raise the cash.

[PcManiac]

What project do you have it running on? or can you paste in the benchmarks??

[BlackAdder]

8......core......thats just wrong .....
wish I had a couple of those.........

[Bender10]

Awww...There goes the neighborhood...

Congats on the new cruncher!!

[sentient_life]

Do I sense an arms race with the top three crunchers (PoorBoy, Chris Icide, and Mitchell)?

[mitchellds]

"steve - Sell off some of the neighbor's family members to raise the cash."

Not yet, but I'm looking for the biggest resale value per kid in the hood closely.

" pcmaniac - What project do you have it running on? or can you paste in the benchmarks?? "

Cosmo for a bit, no benchies yet, but default performance looks fairly lame without some Oc'ing. these are the 1.8ghz variety cpu's, and I read others are getting up to around the 2.6 range with some tweaking. Not enough hours in the day is the problem right now.

"sentient_life - Do I sense an arms race with the top three crunchers (PoorBoy, Chris Icide, and Mitchell)?"

Nope, not from me, besides I'd have to get a second mortgage to compete with Chris and our Not_So_Poorboy

[PoorBoy]

That dual barcy sounds good mitch ...

Nope, not from me, besides I'd have to get a second mortgage to compete with Chris and our Not_So_Poorboy

Don't let Mitch BS you PcManiac I know I can't compete with Chris and Mitch has about a dozen more cores than I have so there's no Contest there either if he were to concentrate them all on 1 Project.

I'm tapped out as far as building any more for awhile, I'm finding it harder and harder to justify the expense any more when it doesn't really benefit me other than drain my wallet ... I still don't have the Quad Laptop I ordered & I have parts on the way to rebuild the X6800 CPU I have laying here so I'll get a little boost from them when they get online but other than that I'm holding off for the foreseeable future on any more PC's.

I want to sit back and see whats going to be coming out next year anyway, the 45n's should be out by mid year and maybe AMD will have pulled their Head out of their arse and actually release a Quad Core worth buying by then too ...

[Brucifer]

I'm tapped out as far as building any more for awhile, I'm finding it harder and harder to justify the expense any more when it doesn't really benefit me other than drain my wallet ... chop/snip/whack...

I want to sit back and see whats going to be coming out next year anyway, the 45n's should be out by mid year and maybe AMD will have pulled their Head out of their arse and actually release a Quad Core worth buying by then too ...

I know *exactly* where you are at PoorBoy. As a home farmer I've got 32 cores I keep running 24x7, with another 10 systems sitting on the sidelines now that I don't use due to power usage, and another dozen systems that I've given away very recently. Really had the bug bad for a while there, but I've decided to slow it way down now that my most recent project push for psp was completed a week ago. Electricity is a monthly bear, and the recurring hardware costs have sorta dampened the enthusiasm. I'd like to see a few more clients put out for the PS3, as that is currently the best bang for the buck and also the "green" system in it's more economical usage of electricity as measured with output.

Another thing that is really jerking my chain is the too slow adoption of 64-bit clients. Here we are with lots of 64 bit cores, and a paucity of client apps that take full advantage of the 64 bit math. Another reason why I was crunching so hard on the psp sieving as the 64 bit sr2sieve client really helped the output scoring.

So I think there will be some changes coming down the road as more projects that are compatible with the cell processor bring out clients for the PS3. Meanwhile I'm also backing off on the hardware spending and also on the number of cores I keep operating 24x7......... I think I need a computing "intervention"