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Summer Shutdowns

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capreppy

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hmm. entire post wiped out. gonna have to retype:

I have been away for a long while. Been busy with work and life.

Summer has already hit North TX with some intensity and it is getting difficult to keep the temps in the house at a reasonable cost. For the first time since I joined, I will be doing a partial summer shut down. The Q6600 & 9800GX2 were shut down this morning. They are going to be donated to my nephew. He'll need to find a new GPU as the GX2 has seen better days. It has been folding way OC'd for 2 years. I've taken the second i7 920 down as well. It'll be back up at winter. My home office is actually tolerable for the first time in years :D

I will still have my sig rig and the SR-2 folding thru the summer.

The partial shutdown is an effort to keep costs down and fund other adventures (my new found addiction to guns and rifles, plus my wife and I start Invitro the first week of June). I will have the other 920 back up when it cools down in late fall.

Fold on my brothers and sisters.

 
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Capreppy, if you ever find yourself in WV or SE Ohio, give me a call and we will go shooting.

I normaly do a Spring/Summer refresh to up the ppd/watt before hitting the summer.

This year it is setting up a bunch or borgs outside the house, off my power bill.
 
Understandable. I am going to shut my gpu's down since it is getting unbearable here in south TX. With that said I'm going to be bringing on another rig for cpu folding. CPU's produce less heat than GPU's thank goodness.
 
Just as a thought, child creation is probably negative for long term ppd. That being said, is significantly more important. Best of luck.
 
capreppy said:
Summer has already hit North TX with some intensity and it is getting difficult to keep the temps in the house at a reasonable cost.
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No kidding dude, my AC is already running 24/7! :eek:
 
Sorry to hear about the poor hardware that is being put offline! Congratulations on making a new baby!
 
Jealous, it's cold and foggy / rainy as usual here in SF

Keep up the good work though :)
 
vsboxerboy said:
Jealous, it's cold and foggy / rainy as usual here in SF

Keep up the good work though :)
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Tell me about it... last weekend came home from Cochella and was delayed 3 hours due to low clouds. It was 101F in Palm Springs and like 50F in SF.
 
Summer has already hit North TX with some intensity and it is getting difficult to keep the temps in the house at a reasonable cost.
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I have to put on a jacket to go down to the basement where my mini farm is. I hope it stays like this during the summer. I may have to shut down one of my bigadv boxes that is upstairs though. It is like an oven walking into that room.
 
I had to shut down one boxen for a week as one of my kids are home from college. His bedroom is the home of that PC so it gets shutdown since he complains about it being too hot in there. Maybe I can get away with folding regular smp units at stock speeds when he comes back home for the summer.
 
GL on your in vitro! The folding addiction will find you again.
 
Good luck to you and the Mrs.

There are a few GPU that will be shut down here before long as well.
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i aint shutting down im going [H] and gonna put up this finally some time this week





2x 450 gts x6 1100 be just waiting for another 4 gig ddr3 stick :)
 
I'm sorry to hear about you guys who will be doing partial summer shutdowns. I would honestly do anything for some drier weather right now as it has rained and stormed almost everyday this month. We smashed a new rainfall total for April, and may even flirt with the all time monstly record for rain in a month here. I don't think i've seen the sun all month either, and it is starting to piss me off.
 
my boxen are slowly getting modulated, the GPU folders will be shutdown first, then the CPUs. This is as temperatures start staying above 75*F outside, at night, and the house is above 80*F. I cannot sleep when it is that hot, so heat sources are shutdown.
If I am running the AC then only CPU folding at night on the main box.

 
Same. I am near Houston, TX and it is now above the 80s regularly. I have shut down all of my folding clients :mad: . I can't wait till we get some cooler weather!!

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Had to shut down a couple rigs today. 84 today, 90 tomorrow, 80s the rest of the week. Turned the AC on this morning and I just can't afford to both power the rigs and keep the house cool (wife keeps turning the thermostat down :mad:). I had $300 electric bills a couple months last summer (IIRC I was running the farm at 100% during the race to 4 billion and it happened to be the hottest summer in about 40 years in st louis last year). And I only pay 6c per kwh. I was using a lot of power :eek:

Friday is only going to have a high of 74, and the weekend is supposed to be even cooler, so I will probably fire the farm back up to 100% on Friday.
 
Cheapest electricity ever and you have to shut some things down. I blame jeb.. oh wait.

Umm, send some hardware here, I'll fold on it. :D
 
I just upgraded my main box from a Q6600 to a 2600K. That should help offset a couple other boxen getting parked....

The Q6600 will be thrown into the other half of the basement and be back folding whenever I buy a graphics card for it (hopefully good for nearly 20k ppd with GPU+smp going).
 
Tobit said:
Cheapest electricity ever and you have to shut some things down. I blame jeb.. oh wait.

Umm, send some hardware here, I'll fold on it. :D
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I'll trade you some GPU power for some CPU power.

Actually, that gives me an idea. I should set up a GPU folding rig in the garage using some of my existing GPUs. I could move two 470s and a 460 out there. Hmm.
 
jebo_4jc said:
Had to shut down a couple rigs today. 84 today, 90 tomorrow, 80s the rest of the week. Turned the AC on this morning and I just can't afford to both power the rigs and keep the house cool (wife keeps turning the thermostat down :mad:). I had $300 electric bills a couple months last summer (IIRC I was running the farm at 100% during the race to 4 billion and it happened to be the hottest summer in about 40 years in st louis last year). And I only pay 6c per kwh. I was using a lot of power :eek:

Friday is only going to have a high of 74, and the weekend is supposed to be even cooler, so I will probably fire the farm back up to 100% on Friday.
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LOL, I pay 14cents but thankfully I only run a bloomfield and gufltown based bigadv rigs.

At least be glad that you don't like in Hawaii where they pay almost 30 cents.
 
jebo_4jc said:
Had to shut down a couple rigs today. 84 today, 90 tomorrow, 80s the rest of the week. Turned the AC on this morning and I just can't afford to both power the rigs and keep the house cool (wife keeps turning the thermostat down :mad:). I had $300 electric bills a couple months last summer (IIRC I was running the farm at 100% during the race to 4 billion and it happened to be the hottest summer in about 40 years in st louis last year). And I only pay 6c per kwh. I was using a lot of power :eek:

Friday is only going to have a high of 74, and the weekend is supposed to be even cooler, so I will probably fire the farm back up to 100% on Friday.
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highs in the 80's all week, folding by night may get shut down pretty quick as the AC will be coming on tonight, fans can't keep my GPU's from overheating.(they bluescreened last night.)

Tobit said:
Cheapest electricity ever and you have to shut some things down. I blame jeb.. oh wait.

Umm, send some hardware here, I'll fold on it. :D
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Hardware to be placed in the For Sale thread soon
(couple of GTX-460's and some other {H}ardware )
 
Wolfie said:
highs in the 80's all week, folding by night may get shut down pretty quick as the AC will be coming on tonight, fans can't keep my GPU's from overheating.(they bluescreened last night.)


Hardware to be placed in the For Sale thread soon
(couple of GTX-460's and some other {H}ardware )
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90's here mate ;) still goin strong
 
R-Type said:
+3

To homeowners folding, I think the answer you're looking for is watercooling loops with the radiators mounted outside. :D
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You know, If I have time this summer I will get outside and dig myself a decent size hole, and experiment with some geothermal cooling. Run some hose in the bottom of a hole about 5 feet deep, and fill the hole back in. Run some coolant through it with a heat exchanger in the house, and you will have some extremely cheap and effective cooling. I just need to find out a decent depth, area of the hole, and how much surface area of hose is needed to cool a room with some computers (or even just the computers themselves with a heat exchange between the WC loop of the computers, and the geothermal loop). The ground stays like 55*F year round below a certain depth.
 
Untitledone said:
You know, If I have time this summer I will get outside and dig myself a decent size hole, and experiment with some geothermal cooling. Run some hose in the bottom of a hole about 5 feet deep, and fill the hole back in. Run some coolant through it with a heat exchanger in the house, and you will have some extremely cheap and effective cooling. I just need to find out a decent depth, area of the hole, and how much surface area of hose is needed to cool a room with some computers (or even just the computers themselves with a heat exchange between the WC loop of the computers, and the geothermal loop). The ground stays like 55*F year round below a certain depth.
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That sounds like an interesting project. Due to the rising cost of energy, I have been thinking about whether I want to install a geothermal heating/cooling system in the next house I move to. Nothing is getting done to the current house as I want out of this crappy neighborhood. I've been looking around, and a good installation appears to run around $25k.
 
A properly installed, and sized geothermal system can easily cool your house. I am doing it the oakie way because: 1.) Im a poor college student 2.) I want to be an electrical/mechanical engineer and most importantly 3.) I live in the mountains where I can get away with stuff like that, and we have had our house for 11 years, and plan to have it for much longer.

It would be awesome for my computers to sip some 13*C water from mother earth with only a small amount of power for a pump to circulate the water around.

This is all part of my long term plan to get my house enviornmentally friendly (near net 0 carbon), save a shit load on energy, and cooling costs, and have some fun engineering my own systems.

I plan to do geothermal cooling, solar air heating, solar hot water heating, and solar thermal electricity generation, and maybe some wind power as well. There are many projects I want to do, but have limited time, and funds.
 
My small office with my gaming rig folding was getting a bit warm with no AC but the air outside isn't scorching yet. Some silent ventilation to solve the problem. I attached them all to a large 12V wall-wart.
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Zink said:
My small office with my gaming rig folding was getting a bit warm with no AC but the air outside isn't scorching yet. Some silent ventilation to solve the problem. I attached them all to a large 12V wall-wart.
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Well here's my project for the day then!
 
Untitledone said:
You know, If I have time this summer I will get outside and dig myself a decent size hole, and experiment with some geothermal cooling. Run some hose in the bottom of a hole about 5 feet deep, and fill the hole back in. Run some coolant through it with a heat exchanger in the house, and you will have some extremely cheap and effective cooling. I just need to find out a decent depth, area of the hole, and how much surface area of hose is needed to cool a room with some computers (or even just the computers themselves with a heat exchange between the WC loop of the computers, and the geothermal loop). The ground stays like 55*F year round below a certain depth.
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Geothermal loops are calculated at 65W/m so for a 1000w computer you would need 15m of cooling hose, (the calculation starts at the depth of the ground water level, so if your ground water is 4' below the surface in the winter, then you need about 50' of hose buried)
typical house cooling of 10kw is about 200m (600') of buried hose.
that will constantly supply you with 55*F water.
 
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