Imakuni

Right, so if it's significantly cheaper, get a 3.0 drive... ..but if it's about the same, get the 4.0 and have a better drive you can take advantage of in the future (say, you upgrade 5y from now your machine and the new one supports 4.0).

It's not that "gen 4 heats up a lot", it's more so "When you use a high performance drive and the rest of the system isn't limiting it, it can draw quite a bit of power, which turns into excessive heat if not sufficiently cooled; but fear not, for if it gets to that point, the drive just throttles". In other words, if the price is about the same, might as well get the better drive.

Put them in your machine, then look up your software's documentation to see if you have to do anything special or whether "it just works" by default. It's as simple as that.

Because that's not how it works, BOINC is just a middle man that takes care of running everything, but not actually keeping track of your account. You don't make a "boinc account", you make an account on the project you want to affiliate with. It's kinda like saying "I made a microsoft account to log into windows, why can't I log into into LTT forums, yahoo mail and youtube using the same name and password". It's because those are different things; if you want to use the same credentials, you register on those sites individually, giving them the same email and password each time. I'm not quite sure what you mean here. Generally speaking, you choose one project you want to dedicate your computer to. Maybe a second and third as backup projects, in case your main one run out of work.. but not really much more than that. You're not expected to make 30 accounts, you're expected to make 3. Still, if you want to have that many, use an Account Manager. Personally, I've never used one, but you could try BAM! to streamline managing multiple projects.

Wait... did you create your account on each and every one of them? You have to register for every single project you want to join, you don't just make an acc on one and get to use those credentials for everything else.

Primegrid never runs out of work, and it comes in all sizes too. GPUGrid sometimes have gpu work too.

I'm not into those projects you mentioned, but I know for a fact Primegrid is always up. Other projects with more dodgy work (but 100% still alive) include WCG, Gpugrid, CPDN and Amicable. So you can try those too; sometimes projects do run out of work for a bit. This might be the case, but would be no reason to remove them from the project list. That's half the point of the platform, you can attach to whatever you want, with as many projects as you want. You can set main and backup ones, and while it isn't all that intuitive, it's pretty customizable to suit your needs.

WCG doesn't work in general nowadays, the project is on life support at this point. I'm not too sure about cpn as I've never used it, but if you've managed to create an acc on Einstein, then I guess we're good...? I dunno, never used an acc manager.

Ayyy, welcome. I hope you stick around for as long as your power bill can handle it, we're always in need for more crunching power.

It's kinda hard to compare the two of them... sometimes the 5800x3D trounces even the best intel has to offer, sometimes it's the other way around. Either way, I'd say a 13600k on DDR5 would have similar performance on average.

Anyway, that was a fun event. I've dipped out in the end, partially due to reinstalling the OS and partially to dedicate the GPU to some AI memes. Cyall next year folks!

Me, having just installed a new OS onto the SSD I got from black fraud

Very accurate indeed

Ayyy we on WAN. Here, to celebrate

It's just a different currency, that's all. As for usage, I don't do video editting, but I figure I could use something a bit better to double up as a torrent drive. I also get some highly parallell small file writing at times (as in, around 5MB per cpu core every other second), so there's that.