25th of June

Farm status
CPU only
Running Einstein BRP4G work overnight.

Nvidia GPUs
Off

Raspberry Pis
Running Asteroids@home and Einstein.


New CPU only build
I've ordered parts to make a couple of CPU only machines to replace the Ryzen 5900X's. The new ones are Ryzen 7900, 64GB of DDR5-5200 memory, 2TB WD Black M.2 and an ASUS Prime B650 motherboard. I'll reuse the existing case and power supply.

The main reason for the upgrade is they have a 65 watt TDP, which should reduce my power bills a little. I was originally looking at the Ryzen 7900X but they have a 170 watt TDP which is more than the current machines. I expect it will take a week or two for parts to arrive.

I was going to get my regular online shop to build it but when I added an after market CPU cooler their website decided to charge me another $50 for assembly. I complained but they were unwilling to reduce the build price. It already had a CPU cooler so its not really an extra part to assemble. In the end I decided to assemble it myself and save the cost of a new case and power supply as well. This will be my first AM5 build.


Milkyway no longer using GPU
The Milkyway project have finished their research using the Separation GPU app and decided to stop using it. They will publish their findings in due course. They still have a multi-threaded Nbody CPU app (it uses up to 16 cores). That means they only have a CPU based app so I added Milkyway to the CPU only crunchers and removed the project from the Nvidia GPU machines.