Who is overclocking their machine?
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Andre Kerstens
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Please report your host id(s) in this thread if you are overclocking your machines. This will help us analyze if overclocking has an influence on the final result of a workunit.
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i have overclocked my pc by 25% (from 1,8GHz to 2,25GHz) it is running stable (temperature about 50 degrees) and i have never experienced any problems with validation in any other project... |
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Please report your host id(s) in this thread if you are overclocking your machines. This will help us analyze if overclocking has an influence on the final result of a workunit. Just attached this computer - http://docking.utep.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=1351 It's an AMD Athlon XP1800 running at 1833 Mhz. My other 2 machines currently run stock speeds. |
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My computer's not overclocked by much. It's a Intel P4 3.0GHz running @ 3010MHz. It was boosted a bit in the BIOs on my ASUS mobo. |
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Host ID 1087
: core clock raised from 2000 MHz to 2100 MHz (+ 5%)
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i have (2) two identical Pc's that are overclocked..
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Host
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I received a email today about some of my pc are overclocked, None are. all using stock speeds.
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I got the e-mail as well.
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No over-clocking here.
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Andre Kerstens
Forum moderator Project tester Volunteer tester
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For those of you who don't know the details of over-clocking your cpu, here's a nice page about it:
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Hello!
I have not overclocked my computers. My (2.8 GHz) Pentium D is running at the speed 2811 MHz. The CPU temperature is about 47 Celsius degrees / 116 Fahrenheit degrees under 100% CPU load. I do not know the CPU temperature of the Acer laptop, but it is not overclocked... Yours sincerely, Henri Heinonen. ____________ 
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David Ball
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I got the e-mail as well. I don't know what the criteria was for sending the emails since I've never received one of those. If you don't mind my asking, are these machines you built yourself or were they bought as complete name-brand systems? BTW, some news sites have reported that they are finding CPU chips in the supply chain that someone has re-branded as higher speed chips. OTOH, I've also read that some large name brand system manufacturers get specially screened/tested CPU chips from the CPU manufacturer that are approved for a higher clock speed than is supposed to be available. You seem to have independently gotten the idea for HR ( homogeneous redundancy ) that you see people mention in posts. HR basically means that they have segregated the computers into groups based on OS and CPU. They've even had to break it down into particular versions of chips, such as P-II and P-III being different from P-4 and Core/Core 2 CPU's. Also AMD K6 being different from K7 and K8 (Sempron, Athlon 64, Opteron). I've lost track of how many HR groups they have now and more are being added so the FAQ is out of date on this. They've finally had to resort to sending out a bunch of identical workunits and seeing which combinations of OS and CPU return results that match. It's beginning to look like they might have to break it down by OS version or system library versions on the x86 Macs (PPC is not currently supported). Unfortunately, there aren't very many x86 Macs attached to the project. I don't envy Andre and Memo having to figure this out. -- David ____________ The views expressed are my own. Facts are subject to memory error :-) Have you read a good science fiction novel lately? |
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My answer to the email: no overclocking (too complicated for me, this kind of thing)
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(As replied to the email)
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I just checked my spam folder and found the email there. ____________ Join Team Starfire BOINC Chat |
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No overclocking here, just a standard Pentium 4 3.0GHz.
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Hi,
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Computer id 1202
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my Barton is not overclocked. |
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no overclocking
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HostID 967: OCed from 2GHz (AMD X2 3800+) to 2.2GHz (= AMD X2 4200+)
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Host 116 is not overclocked, but running with Crunch3r's 5.5.0 client version.
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I used to not overclock machines but when upgraded to Core 2 Duo E6600s, it is so tempting to overclock that I could not prevent myself from running it at +30%.
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Host ID 799
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None of my machines are overclocked.
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Absolutely no overclock cause it's my work pc and I'm not authorized to do hw setup.
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>> As per e-mail reply
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The only machine I am overclocking is this one:
http://docking.utep.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=93
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My P4 3,2Ghz HT is not overclocked, the CPU is hot enough ;) http://docking.utep.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=71 |
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Hi, @indiana@seti Look at this message: http://docking.utep.edu/forum_thread.php?id=102&nowrap=true#1441 Are you only using one stick of 256Mb RAM? Good luck. |
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My Host ID:
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host 1316...amd sempron 64 2800...overclocked from 1600MHz to 2000Mhz...running stable |
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all my attached boxes are running on default speed
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I received a email today about some of my pc(Mac) are overclocked.
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sorry double post |
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all my hosts run at stock speed:
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I have two host, both at stock speeds. |
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Host ID 64
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Please report your host id(s) in this thread if you are overclocking your machines. This will help us analyze if overclocking has an influence on the final result of a workunit. Detached that box. I'm not sure if the overclock came into play, but 4 of 6 WU's had compute errors. It's stable with everything else that's thrown at it though. ____________ Join Team Starfire BOINC Chat |
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No overclocking used for my box either.
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Andre Kerstens
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Charmm is known to be very sensitive to bit-errors and those occur frequently on over-clocked systems. Most other apps don't care about a swapped bit, scientific applications care a lot, so that's why you probably see these problems. Would you mind running this machine at stock speed for a while and see if things work better?
Hi, ____________ D@H the greatest project in the world... a while from now! |
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Andre Kerstens
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I've lost track of how many HR groups they have now and more are being added so the FAQ is out of date on this. Good point and thanks for the reminder. I've updated the FAQ with the latest status. I don't envy Andre and Memo having to figure this out. :-) We'll get there at some point :-) Andre -- David [/quote] ____________ D@H the greatest project in the world... a while from now! |
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Andre Kerstens
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Thanks for the immense amount of feedback we have received!!! It seems that most of you do not overclock their systems, but we'll keep an eye on the ones that do to see if this will give us any more clues.
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One of my hosts ( Core 2 Duo E6600 @ X6800 ) is overclocked without problems. |
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Please report your host id(s) in this thread if you are overclocking your machines. This will help us analyze if overclocking has an influence on the final result of a workunit. HostID CPU Stock OC 1187 Athlon64 3700+ 2400 2610 1210 1182 Athlon64 3400+ 2400 2472 1181 AthlonXP 2400+ 2000 2107 1196 1184 Opteron 146 2000 2100 1183 Opteron 148 2200 2332 1185 D805 2666 2995 1227 1186 D945 3400 3570 1231 If two Host IDs, the first is W2K, second is Linux after conversion. |
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Of my systems:
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I got the e-mail, too.
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Neither of my hosts (I think I attached the second one at one point in time) are overclocked.
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I used to overclock my Celery 2Ghz to 2.3Ghz but its been back on standard clock for quite some time now after it started erroring out on LHC at home. the c2D i used here and will use here again is not overclocked and wont be as its on a Genuine Intel board. My Celery 700 isn't overclocked due to the fact its unstable enough as it is lol.
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I never overclocked my machine. I don't have any experience in that.
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Hi,
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None of the machines that I use are overclocked. A couple of the machines that I do use are running 2 tasks at a time -- Could that make a difference especially depending on what other project is running at the same time?
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I have overclocked my computer host ID 1046 from 2000 MHz to 2060 MHz. |
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None are. all using stock speeds. |
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ID = 95
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Neither of the two hosts I have attached are overclocked.
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>> As per e-mail reply > While my Intel has been stable for over a year it has been playing up recently, so I have dropped it from 2.75 GHz to 2.66 Ghz (5.14%), to see if it handles the Australian Summer heat a bit better as it has been doing a lot of reboots lately. I think that it is close to the time to retire my only Intel and start building a new Dual chip, Dual core AMD Opteron 285 machine. ____________ 
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All my attached boxes are running on default speed.
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MonsterTruck = No overclocking.
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My intel is set 5 % over
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