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[QBKooky]

[arnezami]

[Flynn]

Thanks for clarifying it for me folks - I think I've had foggy brain syndrome lately

[Guin]

We now only need 10 cards to complete the set

Pretty neat prize pool - especially when you then take the fact we have a poster - a tshirt - a book - a sock puppet and 2 packs of unopened cards not to mention the MC contribution (*poke*) which has still to arrive

ive posted a list 2 days ago and any contributions will be most greatful.

Any spare tretretretretre's would also be most welcome and could be added to the pool - although postage may be somewhat of a nightmare.

[Rand0m]

The best thing about not having to worry about false positives is that there's now no danger of discarding the correct solution if it has a second level of encryption, even a simple one like an anagram or ROT13.

I'd had horrible visions of the clients producing a couple of hundred strings of seemingly-random letters, one of which was actually the gold being panned for, but which got chucked away unrecognised.

I agree that this would be exceptionally vicious on the party of Mind Candy, but you never know!

[jazzychad]

Holy Cow!! I just built a new system with an AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ CPU, and I'm getting a WU done every 1min 43sec!! And each core is only working at 50%. This is insane! The config.txt setting is at "0" which is "as fast as possible" iirc... anyone know of anyway to crank more juice out of the cores? I've got it overclocked to 2.4 GHz right now... what fun!

In other news: 2 Million WU done... WHOOO!!

[Flynn]

[jazzychad]

[xnera]

[jazzychad]

Well, anytime you run stuff on your CPU that is very computation heavey (e.g. this client) it will heat up a lot just because all of the circuits are being used. If the client is using 100% of your CPU this will definitely happen.

If your computer is overheating just sitting there, then there's another issue at hand... maybe your heatsink/fan are installed incorrectly? It should run pretty cool when it's doing nothing. Also, make sure there isn't a whole lot of dust covering everything inside the case... I cleared out all the dust from my old system and it ran about 15 degrees C cooler afterward!

If you want, you can pm me and we can talk about what might be going on... we'd love for you to join in the assault, but none of us would want you to fry your machine over it... i think

[pheebs]

yay! finally managed to get it working (new computer, new broadband connection) doing 1 unit every 2 mins roughly....

[Seej]

[Frenzy]

And dust is your enemy.

Use a compressed air duster to get rid of dust in hard-to-reach places. But make sure the can is upright: inverting or shaking it can release the propellant (white mist), which can damage electronics.

[xnera]

Thanks for the advice, everyone! I did peek in my system a few days ago, and it didn't appear too dusty, but I'll find/purchase a can of compressed air and give it a good cleaning.

This morning I played around with the throttle settings. Right now it's at 150. The client's running fairly slow, but it's running, and my temperature settings look to be okay at this speed. Hopefully I can get my system tuned up so I can let the client run faster, but I'll take this for now!

[duckiemonster]

I was going to say earlier, the throttle setting is your friend.

If you change the number in the second line to 500, it'll only use 50% of your CPU powerythingle. This allows me to run the client on my decidedly un-l33t and ancient flappytop... as long as I don't want to do anything as technical as checking my email at the same time.

One day, there shall be a new computer. Oh yes.