Opinions on a kind of unnecessary GC purchase?

DevilishBooster · May 27, 2015

So, I currently have an older Compaq Evo D51S (that I got for free) running F@H 24/7.

It just has a Pentium 4 (2.4 GHz), so it's nothing really special, but I wanted to try adding a GC to add some folding power just for the hell of it. It has an AGP interface, but it's a single slot/low profile and I can't find any single slot/low profile AGP cards. It does have 2 full height PCI slots (and one is taken up with a NIC because I can't seem to get the on-board NIC to work), so I was thinking about tossing in a PCI GC.

I found THIS and I was thinking about making an offer for it, probably starting at $15USD. What do you guys think? Should I do it?

(I'm probably going to make an offer anyway, I just thought I would see if anyone has better suggestions.)

d0nsen · May 27, 2015

i think add in pci-e cards are really not any factor in computing power at all. on top of that, even if you got that rig gifted - the power draw is not really low on these older machines and you would probable be better off investing that money into something that can actually compute on a reasonable level

DevilishBooster · May 27, 2015

i think add in pci-e cards are really not any factor in computing power at all. on top of that, even if you got that rig gifted - the power draw is not really low on these older machines and you would probable be better off investing that money into something that can actually compute on a reasonable level

F@H uses graphics cards. I just started folding again and on my main rig it assigns a project to both the CPU and GPU.

Plus the GeForce 9400 GT is CUDA compatible, so since it's a GeForce 9 Series GPU it should definitely work with F@H.

NVIDIA

If you own a NVIDIA card, it must be compatible with CUDA, so the 8 series and above is compatible (a list is available to check if your card is compatible, including the GeForce, Tesla and Quadro lines). The GeForce series 7 and older is not compatible due to a lack of unified shaders.

incarnate · May 27, 2015

i'd do it. hell if i still had my old 9500gt i'd send it to you for just the cost of shipping.

DevilishBooster · May 27, 2015

i'd do it. hell if i still had my old 9500gt i'd send it to you for just the cost of shipping.

Man, that would be awesome. That is exactly the reason why I keep an ad up on Craigslist asking for any computer parts that people are just wanting to get rid of and will give away for free.