Leaving the Project
Anonymous
15 Feb 2018 18:04:09 UTC
Topic 213430
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It is with great sadness that I must report that I am leaving the project 
. I sincerely hope it is a temporary leave, as I believe this kind of research is truly necessary for the advancement of astrophysics.
The reason is my computer 
. The CPU, GPU, and RAM had no problem running the tasks at full bore. It has been the motherboard and the hard drive that have been overheating to near damaging levels (over 140 degrees consistently 
) for quite a few months, making all the fans run all the time. The PC isn't particularly new, so the fans aren't particularly quiet, and this disturbs other people in the room.
During the past few days, I have been cleaning up and cleaning out my PC, including a total fresh reinstall of the OS (Windows 10 Pro), which meant shutting down everything. Without BOINC running, the MOBO and HDD temperatures are now significantly lower (about 110) and the fans sometimes aren't running at all.
I will not forget this project. When I get a replacement for this PC, the new one will have more than enough of the right stuff to participate.
Until then,
Keep Looking Up!
George
George_56 wrote:It is with
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Wait a moment, 110 C° - 140 C° ... How is that even possible, did you overlocked, or raised up the voltage of your motherboard / video card?.
What kind of configuration do you have for this results?, because for me is strange.
I believe that might be
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I believe that might be Fahrenheit and not Celsius, so about 43 - 60°C, but that doesn't look that unhealthy. But it would get the fans going and thus make some noise.
It might be possible to tweak the computing preferences to limit the number of tasks running and/or how often they may run to reduce heat and thus noise. Look at the preferences for "Use at most XX % of the processors" and "Use at most XX% of the CPU time".
And given the fact that at the time of this message 2 out of 3 Gravity wave tasks have fail maybe also limit the machine to running "Gamma-ray pulsar search" tasks.
Yes, I posted in Fahrenheit.
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Yes, I posted in Fahrenheit. I should have switched it, or at least given the conversion. It was pushing near 65C. This is one of those all-in-one things, about as thick as the notebooks were made then, and it seems that once it gets warm in there it stay warms. I keep all the vents clean and clear of clutter. Can't wait to just replace it altogether.
I didn't think about adjusting the computing preferences. I'm going away to visit family for a week, so my PC will be shut off. When I get back I'll set up BOINC for less draw on my system's resources and report what happens. Thank you for mentioning that. Maybe I can stay in the game.
Keep Looking Up!
George
Maybe I can stay in the
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I hope you can :) Enjoy the family visit!
Please wait here. Further instructions could pile up at any time. Thank you.
George_56 wrote:Yes, I posted
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The easy way to do the adjusting is thru the Boinc Manager on your pc, click Option, computing preferences, then on the computing tab, the top line is where you adjust the numbers of cpu's your pf uses to crunch with. For instance the default is 100% which means all of them if you have a quad core pc and change the number to 99% it will only use 3 of the 4 cores, to only use 2 cores put anything lower than 74% down to 50%. I have some AMD desktop 6 cores pc's and rather than figure all those fractions out I just put them at 99% and they only use 5 cores. I have some 16 off lease business pc's too and also use the 99% setting to get them to only use 15 cores. They are old and slow but do the job because of the sheer number of workunits completed at a time.
One other things you could try is a solid state drive for your Windows drive, I'm running both Win7 and Win10 on 120gb SSD drives with about 40 to 60gb free, you could then plug in an external drive for your files etc, and even set your swap file to be there if you wish, that may cut down on some of the noise too at very low cost, as they are selling for $40US right now. A bigger SSD drive could avoid the need for an external drive altogether though. SSD's are quiet and very fast.