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reading up online setting the Power Policy to Low can lower the RPM of the fans after booting.
Someone said their fans were screaming till they reconnected the Console port on the front of the server on the ribbon cable.
 
Unknown PCI Express cards will send the CIMC to not know the thermal profile of the cards and set the fans to 100%.
apparently even non cisco branded SD Cards can cause 100% fan speed.
 
If all the power supplies aren't plugged in that can send the fans to 100% as well.
 
Dells have rewiring guides online to put quieter fans in the cases, i can't find anything for cisco servers, but its fine to run quieter fans.
Yes the servers are designed to run high airflow through them.. but provided you monitor the temps and work out what speed everything should run at you are fine.
These Servers are designed to run in 40C environments with 22000RPM fan's so they are build to meet many conditions you have a room temp house you just need to keep it running safely and cooled for your conditions.
 

honestly other than going Noctua there is not much to be done.  as pointed out its as much a space the air has to flow through.  you can also check to make sure that there is an appropriate amount of vibration dampening for the fans but that's about it.

my experience is in a data center environment so we don't care about noise you just use earplugs or the like.  

There's some Noctua 80mm fans, they'll certainly have a ton less airflow as you said, but maybe it ends up working out when cranked... No clue honestly. 
You could try out how the temps are looking at low rpms to get an idea of how it'd work out beforehand...

The connectors aren't standard so you'd be modding the fans to attach them to the board. Your cheapest/easiest option without major surgery would probably be modding the existing fans with resistors. The server is likely to scream at you that a fan has failed if you unplug them to shove a Noctua in there. Best to leave the stock ones and just make them quieter.

Agree with above, if you really want to fold, get known good hardware.

They will give whatever points the actual card they are gives... Since they're usually many generations old it will be almost nothing, might not even be able to run WUs before the timeout especially since as they will report as a newer card they will get WUs that are way too big for them.

Yesterday, my sister took on a large math problem involving the LTT folding team stats. The attached graph is what was created to determine when our team, LinusTechTips_Team, will overtake the other folding teams above it.  At this pace we will catch CureCoin on Nov 19th, 2020. All credit for the math work goes to my sister on this one! The colored graph below shows each time and the intersecting points mark the days until the team is passed. "The lines represent the total points each of the top four teams will have, as time passes, given their present rates of change." As of yesterday, "in 38 days, LTT will pass EVGA and in 88 days, pass Default. It will take until November for LTT to pass CureCoin and be first, so keep folding!" - Quotes from my sister. LinusTechTips_Team is going strong. I myself am folding for the team and donating my computer power when I am not editing video. Let's get LTT up the charts!

I thought everyone would appreciate this little nugget. Over a three week period, the team DOUBLED our total point value!

You'd still be contributing, even if you don't have a team/passkey, it'll just be towards the larger pool (default team) instead of a specific team like LTT, afaik.

2060 supers are super bang for your buck

So up to $99? Should be able to find an older, lower end Pascal/Maxwell card within that range. They won't do amazing PPD but they're better than nothing. 
^^^ Can confirm this, mine quotes around 1.3-1.7m PPD depending on the WU. Ran it for around... 18 hours or so the other day, belted out 1.05m points. 

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Well then still instead of raid I'd grab your 2 biggest drives and let one copy itself onto the next without raid. As raid is adding more point of failure when it's not needed at all. Say use the 1tb drive as network storage and let it copy itself to the 3tb drive but with file history of lets say 10 changes a file. This way you can recover from accidental saves or edits easily as an older version of the file will be available. I use goodsync for that but there are plenty alternatives out there and the only reason I use that one is because I got it years ago for free and it does what it has to do well enough.

RAID does not support drives of different sizes. [well technically it does but you'll lose space on the larger drive/s]
You can use JBOD.

unraid is pretty good with this use case. Great for mixing and matching drives.

For games, no difference.
Except if you wanted to watch a video at the same time for example. The 2nd gpu would take the decode work off the main gpu.

Since m.2 is basically PCIe it's technically possible but since the mobo is not setup for such high throughput requirements. It'll likely just fail.
There's a chance it could work though just bare in mind it's a slim chance.
 
They will not run in SLI\Crossfire since both require an additional chip between all the slots that support it.
Since your mobo only has a single PCIe slot, it doesn't have any support for SLI\Crossfire.
 
Since FAH isn't a game that needs to keep frames in sync, it can take full advantage of any and all processors in your system.

I'd do with what theyre suggesting in their promotional material. You can also have the front panel custom milled to get better airflow
https://modmymods.com/custom-phanteks-evolv-shift-x-front-panel.html

i mean a Huawei Matebook X Pro is an option, 
 
a budget would nice to work with.  

skin will help avoid scratches but case will protect it from drops

Well I ordered a white carbon fiber one for my M8. Introduced to dbrand by Marques and thought it was really cool and gave it a shot. Ordered it, and two rather amusing emails from "robots" later, my skin was shipped out. I live in Calgary and it was sent over standard letter mail from Toronto and took three days. I'm a happy customer. Maybe USPS just sucks (not surprised tbh)

So need to basically wait for another 4-5 Hours for new SW? Dammit Linus, its Sunday 9:43 pm here. And tomorrow is work day
 
But hey at least I'm pretty excited for future high production values contents.