Do a good deed with your computer.

[McRat]

I guess I was mostly looking at the 470s and 480s. Not a bad price for the card.

Most of the computer industry is that way.

Let's say max performance = 100%

25% costs about $500
50% costs about $1000
75% costs about $2000
100% cost about $4000

But 2010 100% performance will cost $2000 in 3 years.

Simply put, buy cheap, (no higher than 50%) and let time give you the discount. None of our work computers are expensive. Some are sub-$200 "off-lease" machines that probably cost $1000 new 5 years ago.

I learned this by buying a $2000 machine in ~1990. It was the Newest Baddest Monster ever! "You'll never use the full potential of this machine!", quoting PC Mag, IIRC. Fully dressed they were $4000+, so I bought a "stripper" that could be expanded. It was the 80486DX-33, and it was twice as fast as anything else made. Within 3 years, it was sub-$1000 new. It was the last "state-of-the-art" computer I ever bought.

 

[DAVe3283]

We are now in the top 5% of teams, and have just shy of 400 work units completed! Pretty cool!

Man, I need to build myself another gaming rig. You guys are making me jealous!

 

[McRat]

We are now in the top 5% of teams, and have just shy of 400 work units completed! Pretty cool!

Man, I need to build myself another gaming rig. You guys are making me jealous!

I'm think of pouring some gasoline on the campfire ...

I'm not playing fair though, as I own a business that leaves a dozen computers on 24/7/365, this is not a realistic target for folk to aim at. It doesn't cost me that much since I already have the machines sitting around.

But I'd sure like to see our team on The Six-Thousand list by Monday... I'll turn 6 machines on tonight when the guys go home, then run them to Monday.

:lildevil:

 

[MMLMM]

...

But I'd sure like to see our team on The Six-Thousand list by Monday... I'll turn 6 machines on tonight when the guys go home, then run them to Monday.

:lildevil:

thats what I am thinking is possible. Then we can have stats from overclockers and sigs too OMG!!!!

 

[jmaz268]

yeah i dont mind running all of my cpus for this....seems to be a very worthwhile cause. and its a bit of a competition here.

 

[jmaz268]

This is how big of a computer nerd I am lol..
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[niteflite1287]

cool project ... i'll have to remember to set this up come december when i move outta the barracks and get a real internet connection. I really need to stop reading this thread its now making me want to upgrade my comp again and my truck and thats not a good combo for my bank account.

 

[jmaz268]

you really dont need a good connection to run this.

 

[McRat]

400 Protein Puzzles and still going!

 

[jmaz268]

Lol im trying.....pushing at least 1 per hour.

 

[McRat]

OK, I turned on 6 work machines, but I already had two running. Hopefully it will double the output for awhile.

 

[McRat]

historical marker:

Report generated on	 17:58:13 October 28, 2010
Date of last work unit	 2010-10-28 17:12:43
Active CPUs within 50 days	 45
Team Id	 195247
Grand Score	 211310 (certificate)
Work Unit Count	 404 (certificate)
Team Ranking (incl. aggregate)	 8695 of 189499
Home Page	 http://www.duramaxdiesels.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=136



Team members
Rank 
(within team)	 Donor	 Score	 WU
1	 McRatdv8	 71432	 43
2	 John_M	 39094	 73
3	 DAVe3283	 37821	 41
4	 McRatPS3a	 20585	 82
5	 Mike	 15039	 33
6	 tom	 8351	 28
7	 Poltergeist-Duramax	 6498	 21
8	 McRat	 4087	 10
9	 MadMaxx61	 1291	 15
10	 MMLMM	 1110	 9
11	 C.C.Reed	 1091	 12
12	 McRatAMD2	 1006	 11
13	 john_mps3	 1004	 4
14	 Trotorx2	 947	 8
15	 McRatAM2	 716	 2
16	 John_M_Work	 447	 4
17	 TurboPerformance	 402	 5
18	 MaxPowerLB7	 194	 1
19	 teabagger2006	 126	 1
20	 Anonymous	 69	 1

 

[Mike]

Most of the computer industry is that way.

Let's say max performance = 100%

25% costs about $500
50% costs about $1000
75% costs about $2000
100% cost about $4000

But 2010 100% performance will cost $2000 in 3 years.

Simply put, buy cheap, (no higher than 50%) and let time give you the discount. None of our work computers are expensive. Some are sub-$200 "off-lease" machines that probably cost $1000 new 5 years ago.

I learned this by buying a $2000 machine in ~1990. It was the Newest Baddest Monster ever! "You'll never use the full potential of this machine!", quoting PC Mag, IIRC. Fully dressed they were $4000+, so I bought a "stripper" that could be expanded. It was the 80486DX-33, and it was twice as fast as anything else made. Within 3 years, it was sub-$1000 new. It was the last "state-of-the-art" computer I ever bought.

Ya, I remember the 486 dx2 and thought oh ya. Upgraded from a 386 and thought I'll buy this and be set. Then, a few months later the Pentium came out.... Well within a few weeks I had one and bought it as 75mhz and over clocked to a 90, man was it a screamer till it started locking up.... So, I stopped the overclocking for a long time. I gotta start checking into some of these websites, could have saved enough on the card to by a motherboard... :baby:

 

[McRat]

OK, Team Double D's made 51k points in the last 24hrs.

We need about 375k, or 164k more points (over doubling yesterday's total) to make Club 6k.

It's certainly in striking range.

 

[Mike]

I'm think of pouring some gasoline on the campfire ...

I'm not playing fair though, as I own a business that leaves a dozen computers on 24/7/365, this is not a realistic target for folk to aim at. It doesn't cost me that much since I already have the machines sitting around.

But I'd sure like to see our team on The Six-Thousand list by Monday... I'll turn 6 machines on tonight when the guys go home, then run them to Monday.

:lildevil:

Who cares about fair, you are doing with what you have and might I add a " fine job ". There is no way I can compete against anyone, I just had very dated computers and really no longer have a real use for them. I only upgraded so I could finish jobs on time and get a little bonus points ta-boot. I do what I can and have fun keeping up with the progress. Nice way to keep busy too.

 

[niteflite1287]

you really dont need a good connection to run this.

my concern is bandwidth...i'm capped at 5gb a month.....using a verizon aircard for the time being.

 

[Mike]

OK, Team Double D's made 51k points in the last 24hrs.

We need about 375k, or 164k more points (over doubling yesterday's total) to make Club 6k.

It's certainly in striking range.

It's looks like I am only good for about 10,500 ppd. I just can't do much.

 

[McRat]

Ya, I remember the 486 dx2 and thought oh ya. Upgraded from a 386 and thought I'll buy this and be set. Then, a few months later the Pentium came out.... Well within a few weeks I had one and bought it as 75mhz and over clocked to a 90, man was it a screamer till it started locking up.... So, I stopped the overclocking for a long time. I gotta start checking into some of these websites, could have saved enough on the card to by a motherboard... :baby:

That first 486 I ever bought (the month the 486-33 was released), was finally retired last month. It ran every day for 20 years. Original chip, mobo, powersupply, floppy still. It had the HDD crash, but was still running. They don't build them like that anymore.

 

[McRat]

It's looks like I am only good for about 10,500 ppd. I just can't do much.

Thanks! That a LOT!!!:thumb:

 

[jmaz268]

Pat you need to put your work computers on a seperate name like community or something so you can compete on your personal cpus and gpus