[gmx-users] gmx kill computer?

2018-10-23 Thread Michael Brunsteiner
Hi, this might be considered off-topic, but i believe there is some evidence to the contrary ... what i see is this: I have a couple of (fairly new) workstations (specs below) and on at least two of them, on at least three differentoccasions, i recently saw the following behaviour:computer is h

[gmx-users] gmx kill computer?

2018-10-24 Thread Michael Brunsteiner
Hi, Thanks for you replies, Harry and Mirco!I've got 700W Thermaltake PSUs here ... according to several web-sites thatcalculate the expected power consumption for a given set of components, and alsoin our experience this should be more than enough ...Can it be that, as Mirco suggested, the 10

Re: [gmx-users] gmx kill computer?

2018-10-23 Thread Harry Mark Greenblatt
BS”D I had a similar issue with a workstation, and it turned out to be the power supply, which is why it seemed that someone pulled the plug (at least it seems to be the PSU, since having replaced it we don’t see failures). The problem was very intermittent, and did not require any great load.

Re: [gmx-users] gmx kill computer?

2018-10-23 Thread Wahab Mirco
On 23.10.2018 15:12, Michael Brunsteiner wrote: > the computers are NOT overclocked, cooling works, cpu temperatures are well > below max. > as stated above something like this happened three times, each time with gmx > at full blastand with the same type of nvidia card ... can it be that my > h

Re: [gmx-users] gmx kill computer?

2018-10-24 Thread Wahab Mirco
On 24.10.2018 11:07, Michael Brunsteiner wrote: > Harry and Mirco!I've got 700W Thermaltake PSUs here ... according to several > web-sites thatcalculate the expected power consumption for a given set of > components, and alsoin our experience this should be more than enough ...Can > it be that,

Re: [gmx-users] gmx kill computer?

2018-10-24 Thread Harry Mark Greenblatt
BS”D Dear Michael, ThermalTake PSU’s are better than many out there, but they aren’t the best. Here is a link discussing how the theoretical wattage rating of a PSU may not actually translate into enough watts in reality, especially under sustained load. http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/2

Re: [gmx-users] gmx kill computer?

2018-10-29 Thread Szilárd Páll
On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 4:04 PM Wahab Mirco < mirco.wa...@chemie.tu-freiberg.de> wrote: > On 23.10.2018 15:12, Michael Brunsteiner wrote: > > the computers are NOT overclocked, cooling works, cpu temperatures are > well below max. > > as stated above something like this happened three times, each