i not seen a thread about his. and was wondering if anyone else recently retired old hard ware

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I have bookshelves full of old retired hardware that I never got rid of. Really should have tried to sell stuff off when it was only one generation old.

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I've retired/removed heaps of old hardware from my list (at least 26 rigs over all these years, but it could have been a few more than that though).

Cheers.

I replaced my last two systems because they died, but even if they hadn't died I would have replaced one of them later this year (Core 2 Duo) and the other one (i7 2600k) in another couple of years (if it had lived that long).
Each was a great system in it's day, but current systems are so much more powerful computationally, and yet still use less power.

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I just had to resurrect my highest producing cruncher which just had its cpu die. Nothing but a paperweight now. At least I purchased the Intel insurance on it. But of course the Intel website is down for upgrades currently so I can't file the claim.

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Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours

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I have just replace the MB in my 7 year old ASUS CM 1740 as the CPUs' were a bit old, now it's a Gigabyte!!

Previous to that I did the same to a 10 year old HP desktop, got both boards sitting here.

Since Boinc started I estimate I have "retired" about 10 machines.

Most have been "recycled" at the local council site, I have a box full of old hard drives removed before recycling.

And another box with old GPU's, anyone want a GT 8800 ;-)

Same here. Anyone want 460's, 560Ti's or 670's. Or Phenom, Bulldozer or X370 motherboards.

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Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours

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The "All Computers" table here has to have been truncated as it only goes back to my PentiumM in a desktop m/board, which I know was introduced when we were testing the Astropulse app over at Seti Beta, where it suddenly reduced crunch time to a quarter of that on a dual PIII @ 925 MHz.

So I looked there at Beta and my listing there goes back to AMD XP2000+, a Slot 1 PII @ 350MHz and even a test on a Intel(R) Celeron(TM) CPU 1100MHz.
Oldest GPU is a NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 (1023MB) driver: 257.21.

The PentM still works and is still used in the w/shop when I need an extra Oscilloscope or data recorder.

Greetings,

Last year I upgraded my system from a 4th gen Intel system to an 8th gen Intel. Here are my current specs:

                      MAIN PC                                                         LINUX BOX
MOBO....: Asus Prime Z370-A                                          Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 Mark 2
CPU.....: Intel i7-8086K 4.0 GHz  LGA-1151                           Intel i7-4771 3.5 GHz  LGA 1150
RAM.....: G_Skill Ripjaws 16GB 2400MHz DDR4-2400 (Dual Channel)      Crucial 16GB 1600MHz DDR3-1600 (Dual Channel)
STORAGE.: Samsung M.2 NVMe 250GB PCI-E x4 SSD (system drive)         Samsung 860 EVO V-NAND 500GB SSD (system drive)
STORAGE.: Samsung 860 EVO  V-NAND 1TB SSD (program install drive)    ---
STORAGE.: Western Digital 500GB 6G SATA HDD (data drive)             ---
GPUs....: EVGA GeForce GTX 1660Ti XC Ultra PCI-E 3.0 6GB GDDR6 RAM   EVGA GeForce GTX 1050Ti PCI-E 3.0 4GB GDDR5 RAM
COOLING.: EVGA 400-HY-CL28-V1 AiO CPU cooling system                 Corsair H60 AiO CPU cooling system
CASE....: Cougar Panzer MAX full tower                               ULTRA Rogue M925 full tower
PSU.....: Thermaltake SP-850M 850W Smart M Series 80+ Bronze         Thermaltake SP-650M 650W Smart M Series 80+ Bronze
OS......: Micro$oft Win10 Pro 64bit v1809                            Linux Mint v19.1 Tessa
BOINC...: v7.14.2 (x64)                                              v7.14.2 (64 bit)

Sometime, earlier this year, I decided to get me a late birthday present and ordered an i7 8086K CPU (technically a binned 8700K). I have it slightly overclocked to 4.5 GHz using the Intel Extreme Tuning Utility.

A few months ago I decided to re-use the old 4th gen stuff and build a Linux box. Those specs are above as well.

If parts still work, I don't get rid of them. I still have some really, really old graphics cards that will not work for SETI. I have mobos, CPUs, RAM, etc. I even have a few really, really old computers in the basement. I don't think any are newer than a Pentium II.

Have a great day! :)

Siran

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Winders 11 OS? "What a piece of junk!" - L. Skywalker
"Logic is the cement of our civilization with which we ascend from chaos using reason as our guide." - T'Plana-hath

i not seen a thread about his. and was wondering if anyone else recently retired old hard ware

Not recently no. But I have cycled up through Pentium's upto Intel server MB's and an A10-6700 that I sold because it doesn't/didn't suite numerical number crunching (and I couldn't get the APU to crunch at speed without it crashing).
I also experimented with Netbooks (honest) at one time before selling the ones I hadn't bricked.

At one time, Seti listed nearly 30 computers I have gone through.

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A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association).

When the project first started I ran it on a sun sparc . HAHA ! It is retired!

I am hoping to retire my current mac mini this year, and grab my husband's much newer and faster mac. He also left a project machine in the living room and if he doesn't do something soon with it, it might become my project linux box for seti :-).

I posted on nextdoor.com "free for computer science students" and rid of core 2 systems with 7850s, gtx670, 650TI as well as old ant miners. I had no problem selling single slot gtx460's as there are a lot of gateway users that have only single slot real estate. I also sold some triple slot gtx570. I was amazed anyone wanted them. I donated a lot of really old stuff to goodwill, opterons & opteron server boards. I was asked if it was old computer stuff and I said they were all working when I removed them. While true, it was not the answer to their question but they took the stiff.


I started crunching seti on an Apollo workstation and later a spark. Berkeley dropped support for Apollo and when I complained they offered to send me the sources but I had to agree to maintain them and distribute to other users. I did not take them up on that and made a note to myself to never complain again and later I junked the unused MicroVAX's that could have been used.

i might to keith.

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I have retired my Q6600 from SETI after about 12 years and no more crunching for me

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I've probably been through about two dozen BOINC crunchers over the years.

I built a dedicated BOINC processor farm which consists of a lot of truly vintage computing hardware, put back into productive use. I styled it to look and function like a mainframe system from the 1980s era, complete with lots of blinkinlights. The console OS I wrote for it is based on IBM's MVS commands and console output visuals. Since I am an ex-IBM mainframe guy, it was a fun, nostalgic project.

Here is a short video of the system after initial launch - it has been expanded since: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndop7QiNzTU

Here, I have added a voice to the console in two languages: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7NCGQI05RI

As you can see, I like to re-use old hardware any way that makes sense.

Damn cool, MossyRock!

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Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours

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+1

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SETI@home classic workunits 103,576
SETI@home classic CPU time 655,753 hours

+1

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Retired lots over the years. The old celerons and P4s have all been stripped and the steel / aluminium sold. I take the time to strip them because it costs ~$10 to take a PC to the transfer station. If I strip it I get $1 for the scrap metal, so I'm $11 ahead for my trouble.

So all my current machines are multi-core, C2Ds, i3s, old Xeons etc.
But I've just had ~10 retired boxes "follow me home" from an upgrade job. See the $10 recycling fee I mentioned? Or throw them in back of my wagon and you don't have to pay that! ;-)

So some of the old C2Ds will get retired, and replaced by a motley assortment of older i3 /i5 boxes as I get time to go through them and rebuild them.

Coming up to Winter here in NZ, so time to ramp up the crunching to keep the house warm. 500w though some old PCs makes the same heat as a 500w heater, with the bonus that some science gets done too.

But I don't actually BUY hardware to run Seti, they follow me home like lost puppies, and I give them a nice warm place to live out their final years. OK, I bought an entry level GPU for one of the orphan i5s, so the daughter could play some games. But I can justify a $150 "game machine" for the kids.

I regularly replace my kit. The last lot I sold were eight 6th gen i7’s which were replaced with six 8th gen ones. That upgrade gave me an increase in core count while reducing the physical number of machines and wattage due to the new ones having more cores.

The next lot on the chopping block are 1st gen Ryzen’s in favour of 3rd gen ones (when they become available in July).

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