Our beloved [B]Team_Italia[/B] passed the milestone of 200 distinct users :groupwave::groupwave:
ranking the team as the 5th most frequented team of GIMPS.

My first 60,000 GhzDay CPU.
 

i5-3570K OC'd to 4.2Ghz does about 8,500 to 11,000 per year depending on the work type.

Took this PC not quite 6 years to get to 60,000.

My second RMA replacement for a Corsair H100i cooler is waiting for me at work.
Love that 5 year warranty! :grin:
The first RMA is still working, but after several hour running the temps creep up. Rapping on the tubing, or the radiator (from the top of the case) can cause a 2-4 C drop. Worse, on the the rare occasions that I shut the machine down, the pump is sometimes reluctant to restart unless tapped on. This has caused spikes to 100 C right after startup. :max:

My son ran his first sub 3-Hour Marathon
 

He just turned 32 years old and a ran a 2:57:43 in Chicago on Sunday.

He's be running for 7 years.

[QUOTE=petrw1;497711]ran a 2:57:43 in Chicago on Sunday.
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:bow:

Got my GTX 1060 boxed and on a brown truck back to Gigabyte. :smile:

Why does that make you happy?

One of the fans is going bad. This is an RMA replacement. When I get a card back, I will be able to go back to higher electric bills. On the bright side, my corner of the room will be warmer with winter coming on.

[QUOTE=kladner;498789]One of the fans is going bad. This is an RMA replacement. When I get a card back, I will be able to go back to higher electric bills. On the bright side, my corner of the room will be warmer with winter coming on.[/QUOTE]

Is the mix source of your electricity all renewable? If not there’s no logic on your happiness on payment more for your bill and therefore not good for the environment.

If you want to warm your place use district heating, solar PV (feed all to grid, on this case you can buy more pc’s) or ASHP/GSHP. In case of either not available use gas since the energy rate is lower.

There are wind farms in Illinois, but I don't know if any of that power is fed to us, here in Chicago.[STRIKE]The majority of power in the state is nuclear, with coal or nat gas peaking plants.[/STRIKE]
Correction: Per the attached chart, Gas and nukes are essentially equal, at just over 1,000 trillion Btu's each. Coal is third at about 700 tr Btu's.
So not very environmentally friendly, especially when you figure in an immense production of ethanol, which has a huge carbon footprint in production. Since it comes from corn, it also contributes to the immense nitrate runoff in the Midwest, which feeds algae blooms and dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico. :loco::down:
[QUOTE][B]Quick Facts[/B]

[LIST][*]Illinois is a key transportation hub for crude oil and natural gas moving throughout North America, with 8 crude oil pipelines, 8 petroleum product pipelines, 18 interstate natural gas pipelines, two natural gas market centers, and two petroleum ports.[*]Illinois leads the Midwest in crude oil refining capacity and ranked fourth in the nation as of January 2017.[*]Illinois has one-fifth of the nation’s demonstrated coal reserve base, second only to Montana, and is the nation’s third-largest bituminous coal producer after Wyoming and Kentucky.[*]With a production capacity exceeding 1.7 billion gallons per year, Illinois is the third-largest producer of ethanol in the nation.[*]Illinois ranked first in the nation in 2017 in both generating capacity and net electricity generation from nuclear power. Illinois nuclear power plants accounted for 12% of the nation’s nuclear power generation.[/LIST] Last Updated: April 19, 2018

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EDIT: All the same, I get computation as well as warmth from the power used by the computer. As a life long renter, I cannot engage in domestic renewable energy production. It's not MY roof overhead.

After five years of patient waiting and promises not kept (sorry Ernst...), I finally ordered my new computer, this time for real :smile:
Ready by the end of November.

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INTEL CPU SKYLAKE, CORE i7-7820X, 8 Core, 3,60 GHz, Socket LGA2066, Cache 11 MB L3, BOX
MB MSI X299 Gaming Pro Carbon LGA 2066 8*DDR4 6*PCI-E M.2 8*SATA3 -MSIX299
Kingston HyperX Predator - 16 GB (8x2) -DDR4 SDRAM - 3600 MHz DDR4-3600/PC4-28800 - 1,35 V - Non-ECC - Unbuffered - CL17 - 288 pin - DIMM
PSU Corsair RM850x
Case CORSAIR OBSIDIAN SERIES 450D
Cooler Master MasterAir MA610P, Tower, 2x 120mm fans,PWM,6001800RPM,aluminum,top cover
SSD-Solid State Disk Samsung 970 Pro M.2 NVMe 512GB MZ-V7P512BW
WESTERN DIGITAL HDD 1 TB SATAIII 3,5" 7200RPM CAVIAR BLUE wdblue
DVD Blu-ray Asus sata
SVGA ASUS GT710-SL-1GD5 (display)
Nvidia GTX 980 (CUDA computing)
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I'm flying through the air...