"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
05/21/2020 at 23:52 • Filed to: None
3
18|
"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
05/21/2020 at 23:52 • Filed to: None | 3
| 18 |
We’ve been at team ranking 397 for more than 12 hours, but we’ve picked up a CPU.
ttyymmnn
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
05/22/2020 at 00:09 |
|
Team Ttyymmnn broke 9M today.
farscythe - makin da cawfee!
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
05/22/2020 at 00:13 |
|
i ran out of wu’s
wierdly quiet here without the fans going
jminer
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
05/22/2020 at 00:14 |
|
The competition gets thick from here, current #350 team 971,558,455 points and #301 has 1,204,115,575.
facw
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
05/22/2020 at 00:28 |
|
My plan to re-overtake Gran Fury for 8th place has hit a snag. I am slowly catching up, but in the meantime Verdog has rushed past me, and deemer might do the same.
|
facw
> farscythe - makin da cawfee!
05/22/2020 at 00:28 |
|
If you need some warmth, killing the client and restarting it usually seems to find more work.
|
farscythe - makin da cawfee!
> facw
05/22/2020 at 00:30 |
|
eh im ok for now...im sure itll find work when i wake later
|
jminer
> ttyymmnn
05/22/2020 at 01:08 |
|
Awesome!
Eury - AFRICA TWIN!!!!!!!
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
05/22/2020 at 06:47 |
|
I shut everything down at about 3 yesterday and didn’t get them back on until 10. It was hot, and my PC hadn’t been off in over a month. Once I brought it down I figured what the hell.
Sorry for slacking. Putting up points again now. BTW, sent you an email a couple days ago, Rusty and haven’t heard back.
|
Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> Eury - AFRICA TWIN!!!!!!!
05/22/2020 at 07:32 |
|
Thanks Eury. I saw the email. It’s been a weird week. I’ll shoot you a proper reply. Folding wise, I’d like to get a second machine going, a mostly headless something-or-other in the garage that hosts a 1060-ish GPU. Maybe a GTX580. The machine would see use playing Spotify and loading a website occasionally, but that’s it. Any recommendations?
|
Eury - AFRICA TWIN!!!!!!!
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
05/22/2020 at 10:25 |
|
I’d just find a bunch of cheap used junk you can throw together. That’s basically what I did with my headless machine. It’s an i5 from 2011 and the RX580 that I bought my kid a year or so ago that wasn’t being used. I”m sure those cards can be found cheaply. That machine puts out between 500k -700kPPD. It’s running Win 10 that I downloaded from Microsoft and never activated and a 5400rpm 2.5" drive I pulled from a dead circa 2011 iMac.
It puts out decent points, and a TON of heat. I moved it to my cold basement this morning so I’m not fighting it with the A/C.
|
Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> Eury - AFRICA TWIN!!!!!!!
05/22/2020 at 10:36 |
|
I’m thinking that if I had this machine for $50, I’d have what you just specified.
|
Eury - AFRICA TWIN!!!!!!!
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
05/22/2020 at 10:48 |
|
Pretty similar aside from the GPU. If it were me I’d be looking on eBay. There’s a ton of old junk that works fine for folding on there.
|
Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> Eury - AFRICA TWIN!!!!!!!
05/22/2020 at 10:50 |
|
I’d like to spend $150 or less, total, plus shipping . I have a SSD for it. CPU slot would be removed from folding, so bottleneck doesn’t pop readily to mind as an issue. Would you have a minute to point me at something in Ebay?
|
Eury - AFRICA TWIN!!!!!!!
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
05/22/2020 at 11:16 |
|
This is very similar to the box I have downstairs, the specs say that is a PCIe X16 slot, so it can take a better GPU. PSU is 300W, which is what mine downstairs is as well.
https://www.ebay.com/c/1550242638?iid=324173425043
This also has a PCIe X16 slot, PSU is only 240W, but it’d probably be fine.
This may be interesting, GPU sucks, but the rest of it would probably be good. Look up the specs on the motherboard though.
Then you have to find a GPU. I’d go to eBay and filter for used .
|
Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> Eury - AFRICA TWIN!!!!!!!
05/22/2020 at 11:33 |
|
Thank you. I’d probably go after the HP, the first one you list. You think the HP would be better than the XPS at the same price?
|
Eury - AFRICA TWIN!!!!!!!
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
05/22/2020 at 12:49 |
|
XPS has a much better PSU, I’m a PSU snob, that counts for a lot with me. When I was a tech I solved many problems by upgrading a PSU and finally giving a system the power it actually needed.
It probably won ’t matter here, though. The HP is quite a bit newer from what I can see, and has much more potential if you wanted to find a used (old CPU).
Dunno which one I’d go with. Probably what I’d do is verify the specs that the HP has a full size PCIe X16 (I think it does from what I read) and go with that at the same price. Th at PSU is marginal with a good GPU, but the 300W in mine has been running that RX580 reliably since spring of 2019 when I put it in there for my son to game with.
|
Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> Eury - AFRICA TWIN!!!!!!!
05/22/2020 at 14:11 |
|
Cogitating... Thank you.
|
Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> Eury - AFRICA TWIN!!!!!!!
05/23/2020 at 17:53 |
|
My Precision actually has two PCIe slots, but if I had a second GPU in there, it would block the fans on the first GPU, since the 1060 is double-wide.