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mikey Send message Joined: 5 Jan 06 Posts: 1895 Credit: 9,152,433 RAC: 4,296 |
Do some searching on the net, some people say that if you remove all the motherboard drivers and then move the drive over to the new motherboard Windows will auto load the new MB drivers never thinking anything has changed, I have NEVER tried this on my own so have no personal knowledge if this really works or not. For me the key is to do a REALLY REALLY good backup before you do ANYTHING so if things don't work you can always go back to where you are. Another thing I saw says in some cases you can port Windows over to a new system IF you have the right kind of Windows, ie no manufacturer installed versions work, one of my installations says it will do that but I'm not moving anything right now. That's very good, so did you remove the mb drivers first or just move it over and off it went? And YES if you get a 2nd ram chip it will be faster but you have to look in the manual to see if the mb is dual or quad channel ram. I have one that is quad channel and 1 that is dual channel. BUT if you search the net, I think I saw a story on Tech Spot, about quad channel not being that much faster to justify the expense with the bigger chips like yours. |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 28 Mar 20 Posts: 1677 Credit: 17,746,121 RAC: 22,890 |
I think I saw a story on Tech Spot, about quad channel not being that much faster to justify the expense with the bigger chips like yours.It all depends on the application. If an application needs lots of main memory bandwidth- then quad channel will make a big improvement in it's performance. If it doesn't, then it won't. Going from a single channel to dual channel generally does improve overall system responsiveness. Grant Darwin NT |
Mr P Hucker Send message Joined: 12 Aug 06 Posts: 1600 Credit: 11,738,758 RAC: 8,494 |
I don't get a lag on this forum. Ebay forums, they take about 20 seconds! Producing some weird "too many redirects" error, which I'm starting to get on a lot of forums, I don't know if it's Opera objecting to advertising or what. I'm sure I've tried it on other browsers without even any adblockers and it still happens.It happens alot for people with slower connections due to the lage even you see when posting being sooooo long. It also happens with fumble fingers.it should be possible since win10. maybe it tries to boot twice to recognise the new mb.You didn't have to post that twice to make your point ;-) |
Mr P Hucker Send message Joined: 12 Aug 06 Posts: 1600 Credit: 11,738,758 RAC: 8,494 |
That's very good, so did you remove the mb drivers first or just move it over and off it went? And YES if you get a 2nd ram chip it will be faster but you have to look in the manual to see if the mb is dual or quad channel ram. I have one that is quad channel and 1 that is dual channel. BUT if you search the net, I think I saw a story on Tech Spot, about quad channel not being that much faster to justify the expense with the bigger chips like yours.I just moved the disk to the new machine and it worked. It didn't even reboot, and I hardly noticed it installing drivers. I think there was a brief message somewhere. The motherboard is dual channel, but it's up to the CPU aswell since I think the memory controller is actually inside the CPU. It's also dual channel. So I can double the RAM access speed once. On second thoughts, I won't bother, looks like the RAM isn't often a bottleneck: https://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/1349-ram-how-dual-channel-works-vs-single-channel/Page-3 Thanks for making me look that up, I'm not going to waste £120 now. I'll only buy more RAM if I ever actually need higher capacity. 32GB for 24 cores is probably fine for a long time, unless I start running only projects with RAM-hungry tasks like LHC. I can run out of memory doing only LHC's CMS for example, which needs 2GB per core. But unless I specifically ask for them, they mostly hand out the smaller Theory tasks. I have seen on climate prediction that they talk about running out of cache RAM in the CPU if you run one on every core. Perhaps then double speed main RAM would help by x2. But it looks like most applications and games do not benefit much at all from dual channel. |
Mr P Hucker Send message Joined: 12 Aug 06 Posts: 1600 Credit: 11,738,758 RAC: 8,494 |
I'm finding reports of only 5-15% faster. There are probably a few memory intensive applications that it would benefit, like climate prediction.I think I saw a story on Tech Spot, about quad channel not being that much faster to justify the expense with the bigger chips like yours.It all depends on the application. |
Mr P Hucker Send message Joined: 12 Aug 06 Posts: 1600 Credit: 11,738,758 RAC: 8,494 |
BUT if you search the net, I think I saw a story on Tech Spot, about quad channel not being that much faster to justify the expense with the bigger chips like yours.It's not the chip that's big, but the cooler, which is 6 inches cubed! That's only one processor under there, with a twin heatsink with twin fans, and 12 heatpipes feeding them, occupying almost the whole width of the motherboard, quite annoying to connect things underneath! You can raise or lower the fans by one heatsink fin at a time to accommodate RAM underneath. |
Mr P Hucker Send message Joined: 12 Aug 06 Posts: 1600 Credit: 11,738,758 RAC: 8,494 |
On second thoughts, I won't bother, looks like the RAM isn't often a bottleneck:On third thoughts, my favourite game Fallout 4 "benefits immensely" from dual channel. I guess it, like Climate Prediction, is memory intensive. https://www.hardwaretimes.com/dual-channel-vs-single-channel-ram-which-one-is-better/ |
mikey Send message Joined: 5 Jan 06 Posts: 1895 Credit: 9,152,433 RAC: 4,296 |
On second thoughts, I won't bother, looks like the RAM isn't often a bottleneck: One thing my local computer store did was to order something and then return it when they were done testing my parts, of course if my parts had worked I would have kept what they ordered but since it didn't they sent it back.....do the same thing...order 2 sticks of 16gb ram, take out your 32gb stick and put them in the machine and see if things speed up, if so then you know you will need to upgrade to another 32gb stick at some point. Then put your 32gb stick back in again and send the 2 sticks back and get your money back. Essentially you get free test parts with only a few weeks of a lower bank balance. |
Sid Celery Send message Joined: 11 Feb 08 Posts: 2121 Credit: 41,179,074 RAC: 11,480 |
BUT if you search the net, I think I saw a story on Tech Spot, about quad channel not being that much faster to justify the expense with the bigger chips like yours.It's not the chip that's big, but the cooler, which is 6 inches cubed! That's only one processor under there, with a twin heatsink with twin fans, and 12 heatpipes feeding them, occupying almost the whole width of the motherboard, quite annoying to connect things underneath! You can raise or lower the fans by one heatsink fin at a time to accommodate RAM underneath. Elephant balancing on a beachball... Just say no |
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[AF>France>Est>Alsace]PFLIEGER Guy Send message Joined: 16 Nov 20 Posts: 3 Credit: 602,226 RAC: 0 |
I found that R@H can overload the computer The solution to solve the technical problem is to go in the boinc manager and tu réduce the number of used processors to around 70% or 65% to work easy Guy |
Falconet Send message Joined: 9 Mar 09 Posts: 353 Credit: 1,227,479 RAC: 2,238 |
I found that R@H can overload the computer I'm guessing you got the Python work units. Those use a lot of RAM. |
Bryn Mawr Send message Joined: 26 Dec 18 Posts: 390 Credit: 12,073,013 RAC: 4,827 |
I found that R@H can overload the computer Or is his machine overheating due to inadequate / faulty cooling? |
Greg_BE Send message Joined: 30 May 06 Posts: 5691 Credit: 5,859,226 RAC: 0 |
I found that R@H can overload the computer Or the OC rate is to high. All of these things lead to heat generation. And a air cooler? I gave up on those a long time ago. Research what is the best liquid cooling. Arctic brand is one of them, but that takes some tech skills as its a custom system that you have to assemble. Don't bother with the lower end AIO's they burn out after a year of heavy use. |
mikey Send message Joined: 5 Jan 06 Posts: 1895 Credit: 9,152,433 RAC: 4,296 |
I found that R@H can overload the computer DING DING DING we have a winner...he is running Python units and their system is: CPU type GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9700F CPU @ 3.00GHz [Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 13] Number of processors 8 Coprocessors NVIDIA NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 (4095MB) driver: 471.96 OpenCL: 3.0 Operating System Microsoft Windows 10 Core x64 Edition, (10.00.19043.00) BOINC version 7.16.11 Memory 16257.86 MB They need to use a simple app_config.xml file to limit the number of tasks that can run at one time AND reduce the cache size so they don't get too many units. <app_config> <project_max_concurrent>1</project_max_concurrent> </app_config> |
Greg_BE Send message Joined: 30 May 06 Posts: 5691 Credit: 5,859,226 RAC: 0 |
Mikey, still nothing on my system: CPU type AuthenticAMD AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor [Family 23 Model 113 Stepping 0] Number of processors 16 Coprocessors [2] NVIDIA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (4095MB) driver: 472.12 OpenCL: 3.0 Operating System Microsoft Windows 10 Professional x64 Edition, (10.00.19043.00) BOINC version 7.16.20 Memory 24501.59 MB Cache 512 KB |
mikey Send message Joined: 5 Jan 06 Posts: 1895 Credit: 9,152,433 RAC: 4,296 |
Mikey, still nothing on my system: They have 40 TIMES as many regular tasks as Python tasks in progress, keep aborting the regular ones and the Python ones will eventually come thru. I have Rosetta set at a resource share of 1 out of 100 and got sooo many Python units I couldn't finish them all before the deadline by keeping aborting the regular tasks. Be aware each units takes the same 8gb minimum free ram to even get, so what I did was set my running projects to no new tasks or suspended if they were more than about 30 minutes, that way the only Project fighting for tasks was Rosetta and after a couple retires they started flowing. I then resumed the other Projects but set them to run 1 less task than the amount I allow for Boinc and set Rosetta to only run 1 task at a time on my 16gb machine. I have now upgraded that machine to 64gb so will try again in a couple days once I reach a goal at WCG. |
Donald Romani Send message Joined: 31 Oct 10 Posts: 1 Credit: 45,729,013 RAC: 0 |
I'm not sure if there's an outage or what, but I've not noticed any new work in my task on my "Tasks" for quite some time now. Is there an issue? |
Bryn Mawr Send message Joined: 26 Dec 18 Posts: 390 Credit: 12,073,013 RAC: 4,827 |
I'm not sure if there's an outage or what, but I've not noticed any new work in my task on my "Tasks" for quite some time now. Is there an issue? Please see the threads in the number crunching forum. The standard Rosetta tasks are now few and far between, they have been replaced with Python based tasks that, as well as being very resource hungry, require VBox64 to be installed, enabled and configured. On top of that, if during your set up you get it slightly wrong it will disable sending of tasks to your machine and you need to go into the device page for that machine to re-enable them. |
Charles Tomaras Send message Joined: 18 Aug 09 Posts: 11 Credit: 25,308,239 RAC: 26,884 |
I'm not getting any tasks either. I've change NO settings. Been a few days now. No choice but to switch to a different project. A few months back I tried the python projects and my computer would crash all the time. Reinstalled everything disabled python and all was well until a few days ago. Pretty sure it's not me. |
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