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"If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent" (essextee) 04/19/2020 at 18:28 • Filed to: folding@home, computerlopnik

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I told myself I wouldn’t touch my stimulus payment unless it was an emergency but I decided to put some of it to a good cause. After upgrading my desktop to a new case, PSU, and GPU in February I have most of a PC just sitting around. Today I ordered a mobo and RAM to complete it.

My mom just had her solar installation activated so I’m thinking I’ll bring it over and set it up folding in a corner headless. It won’t make as many points as my current rig but it can be run 24/7 for free, and I could sell the completed unit for a few hundred bucks once all this is over.

nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 04/19/2020 at 18:36

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Folding question: how much network resources do you suspect it uses? I have a work machine that sits on my desk 24/7 pulling sensor data every 6 hours. So it has pretty much 99% unused processing power. I found my home tower gets way too hot / way too loud to be folding all the time for me to tolerate. 

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul 04/19/2020 at 18:39

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It doesn’t have a constant network link, the program only seems to connect  periodically to upload your job progress and download new ones. Once I get home I'll double check.

jminer > nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul 04/19/2020 at 18:56

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Essextee is correct, doesn't use much network information outside of downloading and uploading jobs.

jminer > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 04/19/2020 at 18:57

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New computer parts are always fun!

Napoli > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 04/19/2020 at 19:06

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This is cor rect.  It uses very little network resources but maxes out your CPU.

PyroHoltz f@h Oppo 261120 > nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul 04/19/2020 at 19:06

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Bandwidth is fairly low to fold. Figure about 50-100MB per WU and depending on how quickly your system hammers out WUs , will tell you how much data per day. What are the system specs?

nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul > PyroHoltz f@h Oppo 261120 04/19/2020 at 19:24

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Win 7

Core i7 6600 2.6

8gB RAM

Radeon R7 m360 

PyroHoltz f@h Oppo 261120 > nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul 04/19/2020 at 19:56

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T he i7 will probably do about 4-8 WUs per day and the GPU will probably do about 8-10 , by my back of the napkin math. Sometimes WUs take longer and might be a bit larger data set, thereby reducing the number per day but you get more points for those.

Figure about 1.2 GB up and also down , per machine, per day.

nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul > PyroHoltz f@h Oppo 261120 04/19/2020 at 21:28

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Sounds good. I'll set it up tomorrow. Thanks for the input.