Gridcoin Snapshot Generator Release 3 and Gridcoin Snapshot Restore Release 1 tools

Gridcoin Snapshot Generator Release 3 and Gridcoin Snapshot Restore Release 1 tools

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Hi everyone, Today morning, I made a post announcing the release 1 of my Gridcoin Snapshot Generator Tool. Now, after still working with the tool, I made significant additions and changes. This is how Release 3 of this tool looks: Let’s talk about the improvements and new features: Choose between ZIP and 7zip formats to create the snapshot Now, you can create MD5, SHA256 and/or SHA512 hashes to check the snapshot integrity Upload the snapshot and the checksums to Google Drive!…

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Gridcoin Snapshot Generator – Release 1

Gridcoin Snapshot Generator – Release 1

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Hi everyone, Today, I wrote a new tool that aims to create Gridcoin Snapshots automatically. The tool is very easy to use. Just specify the filename for the snapshot and press the “Create Snapshot” button. You can also specify the amount of hours to automate this process for you. The software works as follows: It will first close the wallet properly to prevent corruption. It will launch 7zip and compress the txleveldb and the blk0001.dat file Once the compression is…

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Unboxing and Testing the Arctic F8 PC Fan

Unboxing and Testing the Arctic F8 PC Fan

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Hi everyone, In this post, I’ll be sharing my unboxing photos and video of the Arctic F8, which is an 80mm fan. In the unboxing video, I also test the fan to check it works. Here, we can see the front of the box of the fan: Here is the back of the box: The sides: When I open the box, we will find the fan: And also, it comes with the installation screws: So, that’s what comes with this…

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Some updates to my Google Drive Upload Tool code – 3/29/2017

Some updates to my Google Drive Upload Tool code – 3/29/2017

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Hi everyone, Yesterday night, I pushed some code changes to the Google Drive Upload Tool repo on Github. The code is still in experimental stages as I have not made a release yet with the commits performed yesterday. Some changes I’ve done with the software is that it will now check if the Folder ID is valid. If it is valid, your files will be uploaded to that folder. If not, the software will ask you if you want to change…

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What was making my AMD Ryzen CPU temperature high?

What was making my AMD Ryzen CPU temperature high?

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The real issue was not the cooling, but the vcore applied to the CPU, In the past, the BIOS was set to Auto vcore, and it was applying 1.36V of vcore, which was making the CPU temperature skyrocket to the 80C almost 90C: Now, In the BIOS, I set the vcore voltaje via offset, meaning that the BIOS applies the CPU stock voltage of 1.18V plus or minus a value I add to it. In my case, I applied a…

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Hardware Upgrades! 120mm x 38mm noisy fan and ATI Radeon HD 2400 GPU

Hardware Upgrades! 120mm x 38mm noisy fan and ATI Radeon HD 2400 GPU

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Hi everyone, Today, I performed some hardware upgrades to my computers. First, on my Ryzen PC, which was getting temperatures of 84C all the way to 89C, I replaced the front 120mm fan, which was an Arctic F12, with a 120mm x 38mm high airflow but very noisy fan I took out from a Dell PC. This fan was placed on the CPU heatsink, so I tough on using it on my new Ryzen CPU as it could definitely lower…

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AMD Ryzen 7 and Nero Video 2017. A Look at Performace

AMD Ryzen 7 and Nero Video 2017. A Look at Performace

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Hi everyone, Today, I’m sharing my experience with Nero Video 2017 on my AMD Ryzen 7 PC. So far, I’m not pleased with the performance Nero Video is having on this PC. The issue seems to be that the software is coded to use just a few cores or threads instead of using every core and thread of the CPU. I can get to this conclusion as on my Intel i7 PC, it manages to use like 80% of the…

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AMD Ryzen 7 1700 overclocked to 3.6Ghz

AMD Ryzen 7 1700 overclocked to 3.6Ghz

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Hi everyone, Yesterday night, I was playing with the motherboard BIOS and overclocked my CPU to 3.6Ghz, using a multiplier of x36. Voltage is set to Auto and it is currently using 1.36v, although CPU-Z reports weird readings of 1.94 and 2.000V, which are incorrect readings. Here is a benchmark from Cinebench and CPU-Z. Below you can see my current system specs: Cinebench: CPU-Z Bench: CPU-Z System Information: HWiNFO: About the temperatures, I’m using the Stock Cooler and running BOINC…

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