Posts by Michael Goetz
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Questions and Answers :
Issue Discussion :
MLDG (test) doesn't respect suspend signal
(Message 1265)
Posted 15 Jul 2021 by Michael Goetz Post: I also have seen this behavior. |
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Message boards :
Cafe :
Motherboard / heatsink advice for AMD Ryzen chips
(Message 626)
Posted 8 Oct 2020 by Michael Goetz Post: Note about those graphite cooling pads: They are electrically conductive, and somewhat slippery. What several people do, to keep them from sliding off the CPU while you're installing the heatsink, is to use a dab of thermal paste in the corners to anchor the pad in place.The link you included, basically offers a 30x30mm and 40x40mm version. I currently think about replacing my current thermal paste cooling solution in my laptop with a graphite pad instead. My CPU is a i5 4278U. It is not symmetrically shaped and fused to my laptop's mobo. Now my question, as graphite is electrically conductive, can I simply cut the 40x40 pad into fitting pieces to cover both components individually? Would I be risking to short my mobo if the pad were to overlap the CPU and touch the mobo under operation? Yes, you need to be careful about not shorting the components. You'll need to cut out individual pieces, and make sure each piece stays in place. Unless I had a good reason not to, I'd just use thermal paste. |
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News :
Badges!
(Message 621)
Posted 7 Oct 2020 by Michael Goetz Post: Are you going to export to the BOINC Signature site. https://signature.statseb.fr/ It doesn't work that way. It's up to the signature sites to import the stats from here. This question needs to be asked at the stats sites. (It already has been.) |
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Message boards :
Cafe :
Motherboard / heatsink advice for AMD Ryzen chips
(Message 590)
Posted 4 Oct 2020 by Michael Goetz Post: Note about those graphite cooling pads: They are electrically conductive, and somewhat slippery. What several people do, to keep them from sliding off the CPU while you're installing the heatsink, is to use a dab of thermal paste in the corners to anchor the pad in place. |
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Cafe :
Motherboard / heatsink advice for AMD Ryzen chips
(Message 586)
Posted 4 Oct 2020 by Michael Goetz Post: I've got a Ryzen 7 3700X. It replaced a Haswell i5-4600K which had a massive Noctua air cooler. The Ryzen''s Wraith Prism cooler is much, much smaller. For MLC -- and, really any project not named GIMPS, SRBase, or PrimeGrid -- the Wraith Prism is adequate for the 3700X. I can't speak about the 3800 and higher CPUs, not the Threadrippers. The 3800 is probably fine with the Wraith Prism, and the 3900 possibly. Beyond that, I won't speculate. If, however, you're running any of the three specific projects I mentioned, you're talking about a different level of power and heat due to the way the gwnum library -- which is central to those three projects -- works. I can just barely keep the 3700X at reasonable temperatures running certain PrimeGrid tasks. So far, I'm managing with the Wraith Prism, but I'm prepared to get a much better Noctua if i have to. Note that if you're used to Intel CPUs, the Ryzen's are a little strange. They boost clock frequencies very aggressively, so you have the odd scenario where running *fewer* cores sometimes results in *higher* temperatures. To get the temperatures down, sometimes it helps to run more, not less. Regardles of what cooler you use, and whether it's air or water, I suggest that instead of using any sort of thermal paste, you use this graphite cooling pad: https://www.amazon.com/Innovation-Cooling-Graphite-Thermal-Pad/dp/B07CKVW18G/ It comes in 30mm and 40mm sizes, cools better than paste, never dries out, and is reusable. Besides being better in general, it also makes swapping coolers for testing much easier! |
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Science :
Dataset progress chart, and more to come
(Message 93)
Posted 4 Jul 2020 by Michael Goetz Post: For those interested, the main mlcathome page has an auto-updating chart of the progress you're making building the MLDS dataset at https://www.mldsathome.org/ . Check the sidebar! Bad link? www.mldsathome.org’s server IP address could not be found. |
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Message boards :
News :
MLDS release v0.911
(Message 85)
Posted 4 Jul 2020 by Michael Goetz Post: So I noticed. its not worth fixing. The BOINC version number format is MMmm (major major / minor minor). Only two digits are allowed for the version number to the right of the decimal place. 90 == 0.90 91 == 0.91 9 == 0.09 100 == 1.00 911 == 9.11 It's impossible to have a BOINC version number of "0.911" The current documentation page for releasing apps is https://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/AppVersionNew, but it doesn't describe the version number format. I suppose you need to look at the documentation for the older release mechanism at https://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/UpdateVersions. The important part is: VERSION is a string of the form N.M, where N and M are integers with M<100. This is converted to the single integer N*100 + M, which is used to specify application versions elsewhere in BOINC. M may have a leading zero, which is ignored. |
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Cafe :
Badges
(Message 58)
Posted 3 Jul 2020 by Michael Goetz Post: Ok. Who's going to ask about badges first? C'mon, don't be shy! :) Get with the program. Badges were literally discussed on the day the project opened! :) The response was basically, "Anyone know how to draw?" I really like the guy who is running this project. He's sociable, responsive, and reacts well to suggestions and criticism. (I too am looking for more gaudy BOINC bling.) |
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