Thanks everyone. The other side is the electric bill, lol...
EXACTLY!!! Those of us with 'ranches' pay a TON of that stuff don't we!!! My bill is roughly twice what my neighbors pay for the same size house and family size, currently I'm around about $600 per month with a few more pc's, gpu's and miners still to add to the mix. My house is all electric so it's not possible to split out just the pc's, but that does include a separate a/c unit just for the computer room. I currently have about 100 cpu cores crunching, 5 gpu's crunching and 1 asic miner crunching as well.
YES indeed I bet us mad scientists are the favorite customers of our particular power companies
I try not to think about the light bill until the bill is due.
For about 100 years we had the same power company here but a couple years ago goofy voters did the typical thing they do here out west........so now I am stuck with PUD
I used to get a bill every 2 months and now it is EVERY month
But if I moved them all downstairs I could use the GPU's to heat the house in the winter and save money there.
That ONLY works though if you have a house designed to take advantage of that, my old one, and my new one too for that matter, were not designed for that kind of air flow, way too many 90 degree turns involved. Even some fans wouldn't move the air enough in the old one. What did help was cutting a new return vent in the basement in the old house for it to extract the heat, but I had to make it so I could cover it back up when Summer came. My biggest problem was that it was a basement and they have few windows by design, airflow was poor no matter what I did.
15mo after I started this thread I'd doubled my E@H total from just 75M to 150,006,877 (yes I've been compulsively reloading all afternoon waiting for the tick over), and picked up maybe 2M more on other projects for an overall total of 251.7M.
During that time I've replaced one of my old desktops with a new one that's about 2x as fast (old one died), and am planning to bring a second similarly specced one online soon. which should hopefully let me finally claw my way into the top 100 accounts. A new GPU for gaming later this year should also bump my overall rates up (by tricking cards down to my other boxes).
OTOH my oldest box will probably go offline over the summer to keep my AC in check; so while I might be able to get another doubling in the next year and a half or so I won't be threatening Gary Roberts status as the top non-institutional cruncher anytime soon. :D
Ended up only taking 13mo to double my E@H total to 300M, and also about 8M more across other projects for not quite 410m BOINC wide. Most of the latter is from backup projects kicking in when BRP4/5 ran out; but I've been tossing a bit of CPU time at projects I only ran briefly years ago to get my ranks there out of the nosebleed section; I might ramp that up a bit with GW tasks running out (running Fermi on my CPUs when the GPU apps are out is kinda wasteful).
The Fermi GPU tasks are running fast enough that I'm only about 10 months from my next E@H doubling. Maybe sooner if I upgrade my oldest box; the GTX 770 in it was about half or two thirds as fast as my GTX980 at BRP4/5, but is barely 25% of it on Fermi. OTOH that box might get a 4 month nap over the summer to keep my AC bill down.
Over my Einstein GPU years I was always a GeForce cruncher but after seeing how Mikeys RX 480 is running and how much they cost that will be my next upgrade here.
This year I have only been running my 660Ti SC and it does ok until I see what a RX 480 can do.
I still can't imagine ever doubling my current total here though.
Of course if a GeForce GTX 1080 SC falls out of the sky and lands softly next to one of my desktops I think I could handle plugging that one in too.
Over my Einstein GPU years I was always a GeForce cruncher but after seeing how Mikeys RX 480 is running and how much they cost that will be my next upgrade here.
This year I have only been running my 660Ti SC and it does ok until I see what a RX 480 can do.
I still can't imagine ever doubling my current total here though.
Of course if a GeForce GTX 1080 SC falls out of the sky and lands softly next to one of my desktops I think I could handle plugging that one in too.
If you get a 480, you'll double in something like a year and a half if I'm remembering the cards RAC correctly.
MAGIC Quantum Mechanic
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That ONLY works though if you have a house designed to take advantage of that, my old one, and my new one too for that matter, were not designed for that kind of air flow, way too many 90 degree turns involved. Even some fans wouldn't move the air enough in the old one. What did help was cutting a new return vent in the basement in the old house for it to extract the heat, but I had to make it so I could cover it back up when Summer came. My biggest problem was that it was a basement and they have few windows by design, airflow was poor no matter what I did.
Looking forward, as I pass 15
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Looking forward, as I pass 15 million. Major kudos to all crunchers.
Bhagwanmike wrote:Looking
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CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
DanNeely wrote:15mo after I
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Ended up only taking 13mo to double my E@H total to 300M, and also about 8M more across other projects for not quite 410m BOINC wide. Most of the latter is from backup projects kicking in when BRP4/5 ran out; but I've been tossing a bit of CPU time at projects I only ran briefly years ago to get my ranks there out of the nosebleed section; I might ramp that up a bit with GW tasks running out (running Fermi on my CPUs when the GPU apps are out is kinda wasteful).
The Fermi GPU tasks are running fast enough that I'm only about 10 months from my next E@H doubling. Maybe sooner if I upgrade my oldest box; the GTX 770 in it was about half or two thirds as fast as my GTX980 at BRP4/5, but is barely 25% of it on Fermi. OTOH that box might get a 4 month nap over the summer to keep my AC bill down.
Over my Einstein GPU years I
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Over my Einstein GPU years I was always a GeForce cruncher but after seeing how Mikeys RX 480 is running and how much they cost that will be my next upgrade here.
This year I have only been running my 660Ti SC and it does ok until I see what a RX 480 can do.
I still can't imagine ever doubling my current total here though.
Of course if a GeForce GTX 1080 SC falls out of the sky and lands softly next to one of my desktops I think I could handle plugging that one in too.
MAGIC Quantum Mechanic
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If you get a 480, you'll double in something like a year and a half if I'm remembering the cards RAC correctly.
200M thanks for the nice time
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200M thanks for the nice time here!
looking for the next 200M
Gtx 1070 should crunch hard for the next few years
Suffkoppus wrote:200M thanks
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Congrats - and i just recognized the BMW gauge cluster!
Finally after all these
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Finally after all these years, 100 million, I'm looking forward to replacing a GT 730 with a GTX 1060, that should improve production a bit.
Betreger wrote:Finally after
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CONGRATULATIONS!!! And yes it should improve your daily production!!!