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Contrary to (un)popular belief, [i doubt anybody suspected this] i am not dead. with the promise of cooler weather, i shall now resume doing the folding!

Contrary to (un)popular belief, [i doubt anybody suspected this] i am not dead. with the promise of cooler weather, i shall now resume doing the folding!

here we go again lul 

Oh man, no posts in over a month. Might as well show off my new build.
 
Last year I purchased a Intel S5520SC for about 70 dollars. I had hopes of daily-ing it for weeks before that project was put on the backburner for a number of reasons. Last month for my birthday I decided to finally finalize everything. The name of the game was price to performance, which this machine excels at.

Here's the specs:
2 x5675s
Kingston DDR3-1066 24G
Intel S5520SC
two Hyper 212 Black Evos
Deepcool MATREXX case (Which supports SSI-EEB and EATX) I picked it since it was the smallest and cheapest case that supported EATX.
EVGA SuperNOVA 1300W G2
GTX 980
USB 3.0 Card
my trusty PNY 256 Gig boot drive, a BarraCuda LP which I use to store video.
Samsung 970 Evo 1TB that I use a scratch drive + game drive.
 
Man was this thing a pain to build. I think the largest problems I had was space in this case using a large PSU which impacted cable management and configuring fan speeds. No matter what I changed in the BIOS fans would constantly run at 100%. I had read that updating the FSU/SDR on the board would open up more options. Since Intel pulled all BIOS and firmware for all their legacy products on their site I was almost out of luck until I found an archive of the entire Intel download center. https://archive.org/details/downloadcenter.intel.com .I was able to update all the firmware on the board but still nothing seems to work correctly without an ambient temperature sensor, which my unit lacks. At the moment I just have the system tricked to thinking there are no fans on anything but the CPU, which runs all connected fans at slow speeds. My temps are in a reasonable range, 30-40C.
 
As for OS I chose Gentoo Linux. Compile times for packages are speedy and compiling my kernel only takes a minute or two.

 
I think this is the fastest one of these systems can really get. Faster RAM, x5690s, or a NVMe root directory could in theory boost performance but it would be marginal overall. Let me know what you guys think.
 
 
 
 

Ho-lee-shit GTX 1080's are selling on r/hws for $500..... I paid $250 for both of my 1070ti's (each)...
 
After this event I might stop folding full time for a bit. 

Not done yet, need to get some memory for it and ideally a GPU but here it is as of now;

Not done yet, need to get some memory for it and ideally a GPU but here it is as of now;

Woah woah woah! Now you're telling me I have to pay attention?!?

My guess is you guys didn't watch the video ?
 
He did mention all PCs have bottlenecks, and that it even depends on your workload (something balanced for gaming might have bottleneck for other utilisations, etc..)
 
EDIT ; relevant part (that the OP and others seem to have missed) ;
https://youtu.be/_6zGlk8y1Ks?t=551
 

This is the actual thing I bought;

i have acquired for my own self an C602 server, so that'll be interesting

i have acquired for my own self an C602 server, so that'll be interesting

i have acquired for my own self an C602 server, so that'll be interesting

This is the actual thing I bought;

i have acquired for my own self an C602 server, so that'll be interesting

Update from Prof. Greg Bowman.
 

I hate this type of question. There are so many things that can cause issues like this that its insane how one cant think of even one them.
Background apps. Your overclock being unstable (particularly your vram, thats a big issue on gddr6 cards). Your overclock might be done wrong, although it is dead simple, I have seen some done wrong. Your drivers could be old. Windows 10 being an absolute piece of shit (happens more often than you can imagine). Those benchmarks you saw might be including older versions of the game, or have the hardware overclocked higher than yours. People overclock the shit out of their cards and always post the best results on internet. Most importantly, people on the internet will lie about everything.

Didn't technically buy this but since it's the replacement I'm gonna count it anyway

New power supply installed system is up running OK so looks like no other damage done. Back to folding full power.

Didn't technically buy this but since it's the replacement I'm gonna count it anyway

Didn't technically buy this but since it's the replacement I'm gonna count it anyway

Didn't technically buy this but since it's the replacement I'm gonna count it anyway

Didn't technically buy this but since it's the replacement I'm gonna count it anyway

Didn't technically buy this but since it's the replacement I'm gonna count it anyway

Didn't technically buy this but since it's the replacement I'm gonna count it anyway