since I've been here.
If you've been watching the stat page, most of you know I've never stopped crunching for the Team, but things did slow down for me quite a lot for some time. Back in the day, when you guys mostly saw me last, I was preparing to do some very serious crunching with 4 boxes stuffed with some awesome hardware that was supposed to yield me roughly 2~3m credits/day. Everything was going splendidly until almost the very day I turned them all on. Of course back then 2~3m credits/day was considered quite high as well, but alas, not so much now.
What a disappointment that turned out to be. Aqua went off line forever, Collatz reduced their credits, M/W followed suit and Prime Grid cut theirs in half. Moo went rouge for a while and DitR, well I dunno with those guys. Once those two went nuts I decided to take them out of the loop and just dropped them. $%*@%$ Man-o-man I was pizzed off with that. Of course it didn't all happen at exactly the same time but it was close enough together to be very discouraging.
Nevertheless, I kept on crunching for the Team with what I could. In short time, my hardware proved to not be able to handle the workload as well as expected. Aside from the loss of overall credits, too much heat generated in the boxes forced me to remove some of the hardware. Another problem was that my home electric bill was going way! overboard and the price to do this work was becoming a real financial issue. Regardless of all that, I've always had at least one box running for the team, pretty much non-stop.
Well, now, I'm here to tell you the good news. I've finally found a graphics card that'll double my output, runs cool enough that I can run at least two of them in one box, hopefully without overheating problems, are not overly expensive and so I can afford a small several of them to use at work and at home and start getting my credit output, theoretically, at least back in the ball park for what I was shooting for. Although not as high as I would like, but I'm thinking at least half of what I was originally shooting for, which would be about 1.5~2m credits/day and all at an electrical bill that's less than ever! It's not all ready yet, but it IS in the works of things. I already have one box online, another will be next week. Within the next 2 months, I expect another roughly 2x credit output.
Keep the faith boys, Yo is here to help the team!
Oh and by the way, setiusa.org now faithfully steers every one here!
Steve-
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BTW, which graphics card did you settle on?
Originally Posted by Al McAdams
