Discussion Thread for the Continuous GW Search known as O2MD1 (now O2MDF - GPUs only)

They're different, but not "so" different. The 3GB model is cut to 90% of the cores, just 1 SM smaller, so it's not a huge change, and performance in gaming (what the card was designed for) was about the same. 
 

GTX 1060 6GB (10 SMs - 1280 cores, 6GB 192-bit DDR5) 

GTX 1060 3GB (9 SMs - 1152 cores, 3GB 192-bit DDR5) 

they couldn't have called it a 1050 or 1050ti since those products already exist with different specs and historically there is no sku between a "ti" of one line and the next line up. No point lamenting about the naming now, it's a product about to be 3 generations old very soon and the name will never change. It is what it is. 

GTX 1050 (5 SMs - 640 cores, 2GB 128-bit DDR5)

GTX 1050ti (6 SMs - 768 cores, 4GB 128-bit DDR5)

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In Asteroids@home my card uses cuda102, in GPUGRID cuda101. Cannot remember what it uses in Milkyway@home, it is not running now. But GPU-Z gives Video RAM 700 MB in Asteroids, 400 MB in Milkyway.

Tullio

I guess if you have Nvidia cards, you might have to change to Cuda projects.

I have had heat pump for a long time and would get rig of them in a heartbeat if Ihad the chance!! They are noisy in the wintertime when they go into the defrost cycyle and although they do work in the summer  time they won't guarantee to cool more than 20F below the outside temp. So when it hits 100F+ outside the thing struggles to keep the house cool, you'd think you could just get a bigger one but NOOO because then it won't run long  enough on the normaly hot days to justify the cost. In the winter the air that comes out is NOT hot air it's WARM air, meaning if it blows on you it feels cool. If it get's below 40F outside the efficiency goes thru the floor and gets worse as the temps go down. One good thing people can do is replace the backup wires with a propane or natural gas heater box so the electicity costs go way down when it can't keep up because it's too cold or you asked for it to be more than 2 degrees warmer than it  currently is. Yes you have to get up and change it  so it doesn't get warmer than 2 degrees at a time or the wires come on. Also if you don't get the right kind of  thermostat to only ask for 2 degrees at a time then you can't use the temp setback feature at night. YES a heatpump is cheaper than two seperate systems. Fortunately for me I do have some propane fired gas logs I use in the Winter to warm up the house on the chilly mornings, they aren't great but they do warm up the house especially after I had a fan installed in them.

In my computer room I had mini-splits installed and that is also a heatpump but was much cheaper  than a standard a/c system because it required no duct work, I had one room to do so it was really easy. If I had had to do more rooms I would have gone with a regular a/c system with duct work. It will never run in the heatpump mode except for testing by the guy doing the servicing while I live here.