Inkertus

Still generally hiding from it and was told "We aren't rich and can't afford to help right now" which is true, unfortunately. I'd need to start paying that particular bill to cease the complaints and even I'm strained too until a few things settle down (car I needed to get in late November didn't help, THAT was more stress than I'd like to both find and figure out how to be able to pay for).

Cough for attention, crickets for awkward silences.

Your browser saying "name not resolved" or...? What's it say when you try to go there?

I'm back baby! Got Son of Foldy Puff Jr. running in the cool basement now, still need to make a cable end for the ethernet so it's still using the wifi dongle at the moment but it's folding! I also need to re-learn how to set a static IP in Ubuntu. I re-learned how to make a ethernet cable tonight so that's enough re-learning. I was trying to take a photo of the janky-ness but my phone battery decided that I was done using it for the day for some reason.


 
2 screws per fan right into the fins, works well enough, temps are good, it's quieter, it was cheap ($12), and most importantly it gives me clearance for the 2nd slot to be used if I so desire and I think I may desire it since I have an AMD R7 250 that might be able to fold that I can toss in there. I need to power down the system to check out the outlet it's on, the power strip isn't showing that it's grounded so I need to fix that if it's the case.

My B450 board came! I need a CPU and some RAM for it, turns out the older AM4 CPU I have isn't listed as compatible with this board and the RAM I wanted to buy I forgot to set a snipe on, whoops!
https://www.asrock.com/MB/AMD/B450M Steel Legend/#Specification That's the board I scored for under $50 shipped. I just assumed my AM4 A6-9500E would work since it was compatible with my X470 before the latest BIOS but it's not. So I need a cheap CPU to flash the BIOS forward when I get a 3300X or 3100 for it since people keep jacking up the price of the 1600AF, might just spring for a 3600 fuck it, it's only $20 more than the 1600AF is going for at $150 now which is ludicrous!
So I'm going to transplant my current P106 system with a stronger PSU into the case that'll be the home of the B450 and figure out the fans later on. I think I have some aluminum stock or maybe wood that's the right thickness to be a spacer to bolt the fans to, should be able to screw the spacer to the fins and the fans to the spacer I think.
 
But there's going to be a few days of zero work this week while I get it all sorted out, I think I may have found another hardware fault with the P106 system as I had it built, I don't think the card was fully slotted into the board! The back edge certainly was because the lock tab was caught but the other end...was not. The case is super old and the card's bracket wasn't going into the case correctly, I had assumed it was an issue with the stand off height being weird in the case but I think that was only partially the problem. The other old case I have is much newer and has larger fan grills so it'll fit a 120 exhaust and a couple fans on the side panel too, I can get some air moving into and out of the case with the side panel installed. I've got a corner in the basement all set except for the Cat5e cable drop for it, keep being lazy about that one.

Late in the game but i've just set folding up on my PC to add my little bit. 

My wallet had issue with an upfront cost of several hundred USD for something that could take my internet connection vs crap I had lying around I wasn't using that would arguably be 10x more capable than needed. Simply a matter of what was to hand. If I had spare dosh I would have bought something instead. Still might, if spare money shows up at some point. Got a wishlist a mile long.  Depends on if I can copy the config onto the new box easily.
I have 2 APC Back-UPS units at the moment and I haven't even needed to replace the battery in the main one so far, somehow. It keeps passing self-tests. One is a discontinued NS 1080, but there are newer versions of it since I got it from Office Depot/Max. Still chugs along like a champ after well over a dozen medium and large thumps.

NVidia GPUs reserve 1 thread per GPU. That thread shows 100% utilization but it's just doing a spin-wait waiting on the GPU to require more data. My 6-GPU system has a R7 2700 in it and is running 9 threads of BOINC and shows a 5-minute CPU load of 12.38 but my 2 NVidia GPU rigs that both have 13 threads of BOINC running and one shows a 5-minute load average of 15.95 and the other 14.01.
 
AMD cards are interrupt-based so you can get by with a whole lot less threads feeding multiple GPUs from what I've read. I only have the two AMD RX5700XTs so I haven't yet had a chance to investigate that further but looking at that system now with 21 threads of BOINC running it is showing a 5-minute load average of 22.19 on a 24-core processor so I likely could add another BOINC thread and still have a bit of available CPU for system overhead.
 
So you will likely still be bottle-necked with a 6c6t CPU but as you said hopefully a lot less bottle-necked.

I think more people keep joining F@H which surprises me at this point. I figured most of the people who wanted to do this already were or gave up.

When you think you're finally getting WU's consistently.

2x 1070 and 2 R7 CPUs down to 1x 1070 and 1/3 of a R7 CPU after the grumbling about the electric bill happened and I see this.

Noise? What noise? I'll just turn my music up louder. Oh look the noise stopped on it's own after that big clunk.

Ah, ITX board. That would do it. My MSI B450I GAMING PLUS AC also has a whopping two total fan headers. One for CPU, one for case fan(s). Splitters on both are necessary. You said Noctua fans? Those usually come with a Y-splitter right?

Final surgery for the week:  The Box! is ready.
 
The 24/7 at work folder has been upgraded with a 850 gold PSU and fractal meshify.  Cool and happy 2080ti / 2700x!  
 
Fold you machine, fold!

1) Very if you're not familiar with it and don't know command-line, less so if you get a user friendly one and/or know it well.
2) Several well-known ones with a slow update cycle OR, as I have found based on their web pages, CentOS, Feren, FreeBSD, Mageia maybe Ubuntu or a Debian/Ubuntu based distro.  Ask more linux-familiar people for a distro, these are just what I've casually found.
3) SSH for command-line or VNC for video. There are a few others I know exist but am unfamiliar with. See #2
4) Unsure, haven't done it, but it's Python 3 based so it should be system agnostic, just get Python 3 installed and google how to run the script via command-line or GUI it wasn't hard on W10.
Best of luck! 
I may be able to help more if I tinker with it myself.

We're all folding so hard, especially the powerhouses here, that we can't keep 100% busy.  If I recall, they also mentioned on Twitter that they try to make workloads of certain size ranges to certain hardware so 1080TIs aren't blowing through tiny workloads and GTX 770s aren't getting 3-day tasks and expensive hardware probably has a smaller pool to crunch through than the average hardware.

1) Very if you're not familiar with it and don't know command-line, less so if you get a user friendly one and/or know it well.
2) Several well-known ones with a slow update cycle OR, as I have found based on their web pages, CentOS, Feren, FreeBSD, Mageia maybe Ubuntu or a Debian/Ubuntu based distro.  Ask more linux-familiar people for a distro, these are just what I've casually found.
3) SSH for command-line or VNC for video. There are a few others I know exist but am unfamiliar with. See #2
4) Unsure, haven't done it, but it's Python 3 based so it should be system agnostic, just get Python 3 installed and google how to run the script via command-line or GUI it wasn't hard on W10.
Best of luck! 
I may be able to help more if I tinker with it myself.

1) Very if you're not familiar with it and don't know command-line, less so if you get a user friendly one and/or know it well.
2) Several well-known ones with a slow update cycle OR, as I have found based on their web pages, CentOS, Feren, FreeBSD, Mageia maybe Ubuntu or a Debian/Ubuntu based distro.  Ask more linux-familiar people for a distro, these are just what I've casually found.
3) SSH for command-line or VNC for video. There are a few others I know exist but am unfamiliar with. See #2
4) Unsure, haven't done it, but it's Python 3 based so it should be system agnostic, just get Python 3 installed and google how to run the script via command-line or GUI it wasn't hard on W10.
Best of luck! 
I may be able to help more if I tinker with it myself.

We're all folding so hard, especially the powerhouses here, that we can't keep 100% busy.  If I recall, they also mentioned on Twitter that they try to make workloads of certain size ranges to certain hardware so 1080TIs aren't blowing through tiny workloads and GTX 770s aren't getting 3-day tasks and expensive hardware probably has a smaller pool to crunch through than the average hardware.

If I had the money I'd hate it by the end because I don't like the look of the tubing unless it's hard line, and I know how long it would take to do that right and how many burnt fingers would happen doing so. If it were done by someone else I'd like it and my wallet would weep.  Very disposable income thing.

If I knew nothing else about the age of graphics equipment except how much power they take, the lack of any cooling whatsoever would be the clue this thing is ancient.
Also, I'd reply with my oldest supported AMD card but I think I binned it for a GT 710. It barely had a heatsink and fan on it.

If I wanted to show my age I'd show this:

 
Th oldest graphic card I still have. Got rid of my VESA Local Bus and ISA cards as I got rid of the old motherboards so I don't need them anymore but once in a while I do need a PCI card.