This YouTube video by bimmerman18 inspired me to build a PC. I built my PC with all the parts listed minus a few changes. Instead of the GTX 590, I bought the GTX 580. For a hard drive I bought an SSD. The PC boots up instantly and runs smoothly without problems on Windows 7. I can play one of my favorite games, Team Fortress 2, with all the video settings maxed out while having no noticeable decrease in frame rate. At 100% the CPU and motherboard temperatures never exceed 150 degrees F, while the GTX 580 never exceeds 185 degrees F (about 85 degrees C). Overall it’s a nice PC. However, next time I am going to buy a normal sized motherboard with a large case so that I can have more PCI and hard drive slots.
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When I had a Windows 95 PC back in the late 1990’s I would run the SETI@HOME program. As most people know this is a way to help search for ET. I can not remember exactly but I believe it took at least a day of continuous processing on my IBM Pentium MMX 166 MHz processor to complete one work unit.
About a year ago I rediscovered my childhood urge to find ET and decided to run SETI once more. I discovered that SETI now runs through a program call BOINC. More information on BOINC here.
BOINC, as I understand it, has enormous potential; especially with CUDA. I bought the CUDA enabled GTX 580 to create a monster gaming rig (See post on my gaming computer). When I run SETI, the GTX 580 completes the task in about 7 minutes. Just incredible. My Core 2 Duo laptop took 7 hours.
On BOINC I am apart of the following applications: SETI, GPU Grid, PrimeGrid, MilkyWay@Home, Einstein@HOME, and others.
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