I finally got round to putting my GTX560Ti into my crunching box as it doubles as my reptile room heater, and it was rather cold last night :)

Did the usual driver updates and things, and put it on PPS sieve to test it out. 1st unit completed in 1700 seconds, which is better than the 2800 seconds of the old '450Ti in there. The second unit was odd though, it was overdue. I walked up to the box, and it was still crunching away without obvious problem. Still something wasn't right...

I fired up some monitoring software, and there is was: GPU temp 103C!!! There's two fans on the card, and one wasn't spinning. That'll be it then. Powered off, tried turning by hand. The good one was loose, the bad one was very stiff. So that'll be a repair needed...

I slightly burnt myself a few times handling it as it hasn't cooled down yet. Will now leave it before I commence the next phase. Put the 450 back in to let it continue for now.

When the 560 is back up I hope to try some genefer on it... :)

I finally got round to putting my GTX560Ti into my crunching box as it doubles as my reptile room heater, and it was rather cold last night :)

And I'm back in the room. I fixed it. You can hardly notice the difference. Running PPS sieve at around 54C now. Might give it a genefer to play with overnight.

If only you could have worked some duct tape in there. Maybe to seal the edge between the aux fan and the card for an ersatz plenum?

You even find blue tinted fun :)
Yes, there is no difference :)
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The GTX560Ti lives in my crunching box. I can take a photo later, but basically there's nothing under the GPU so the improvised fan doesn't get in the way of anything.

The GPU I'm looking at buying will be going in my main box, which currently has a HD6850. I haven't decided what to do with it but if I ever get time, I intend to bring online other crunching boxes in various states of degradation to help against the recent cold. Maybe this weekend.

In case you can't tell I have crunched in some form or other for a very long time, since the original start of seti@home. I think I largely gave up serious crunching about a couple years ago with the rising cost of electricity and other interests coming into play. So I haven't really got any new hardware since then, and what I have isn't very competitive for primegrid challenges. I think I managed a personal top100 position in most challenges a few years ago, but can't keep up at all now.

The two boxes I want to try and get online are:
1: Q6600 which can hold at least one GPU. Some weird power problem with the system, not the PSU as I've replaced that. Basically wont cold boot, which is a problem to start it up after non-use. Randomly comes back to life if left plugged in for some time.
2: Old school AMD 6 core which I had overclocked to 3.5GHz. Then the crashes started happening. It isn't cooling related. Un-overclocked, didn't help. Replaced everything except mobo and CPU now. I do have a sempron somewhere in case I wore out the CPU, think it can hold at least two GPUs so that might be a way to get some value back. Think I have at least two unused GPUs lying around needing a home which are old but not too old to crunch.

Also got two Core 2 era dual core boxes I could bring online for a little extra CPU for the Tour de Primes.

I really need a tidy up some time!

Here it is fitted and in action. Yes, a bit of a mess but it works...

Just put powerline networking into the room so I wont have to suffer the minuscule bandwidth of the wifi connection I used before. Now I can work on getting other PCs working as soon as I find more power blocks...

It is the cable for the fan in the heatsink, so no danger of tangling with itself.

Got one of the old systems booted... I forgot how old it was. Windows XP! Well, it could run newer Windows but I didn't want to buy it again.