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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!

*pops champagne cork in remote high-desert bunker*

I started folding way back in 2004, I wish I had some pictures of the stuff I strung together back in the day.  A member of another forum helped me get a diskless farm going, basically it was a PXE linux boot server that allowed other PC's to boot off the network and fold full time.  These were the days when hitting 100k total points was a big deal.  With all the recent focus on F@H it's brought me great nostalgia for the "good old days" and has had me reading many forum posts from a decade and a half ago.  I'm up to 3 GPU's folding as many WU's as I'm assigned and it feels good to be back in the fold 😄.  Unfortunately my ASRock B450 pro4 motherboard in my living room VR rig will not detect anything connected into the second 16x PCIe slot so I had to get creative.  It's janky but it works 😅.  I was running that GPU in my computer room on my secondary Unraid server but it was just too much heat being generated in one room. 
 
Anyone else have any jank setups they care to share?  Whether you are new to folding or been at it for many years, I thank you for your contribution!
 
Also a quick note to do a put some thought into your folding efforts, my power usage has gone up quite a bit watching my daily usage graph from my electrical company.  I'm strictly folding on GPU's to maximize contribution vs watts used / heat generated.  If you have any "borgs" (PC's that you do not own or pay for power consumption on) only do so with permission, no matter how "robin hood" this practice is.
 

had a chance to clean up a little during the lockdown..
 

Chump checking in here then... I'm more than happy to contribute (when I can get work units lol)

Really?  People want to help.  People want to do something.  It’s kind of part of being a person.  There does appear to be more people offering to do the folding than there is folding available to be done at the moment.  I suspect that will change though.  

Beat me to it. Was just about to post the same.
 
This was my first distributed computing project, even if it wasn't the first one available.

I was trying to find the video Linus alluded to as well, I don't even see it on Floatplane
 
Edit: The video in question is back up on Floatplane, Can't wait for it to hit YouTube so a friend of mine can see it

The most important thing is to make sure it will actually work before investing a lot of money / time into it.  I only have experience with X370 (AMD) and X58 (Intel) boards so far.  I didn't get GPU passthrough working at all on my X370 board until I found a solution, I had to downgrade my BIOS to an older AGESA version.  Many boards are affected by this, not just older boards like mine.  Even after that I was only able to get 2 x16 ports passed through.  I haven't been able to isolate the other 1x slots and the 3rd x16 slot to their own IOMMU groups.  I've tried a few methods to separate them but no luck so far.  This makes it difficult to have USB hot plug on 2 VM's at the same time.  Right now I have a Nvidia NVS 300 in the top 1x PCIe slot for Unraid, a GPU for my VM in the top 16x slot and a PCIe USB 3 controller in the other 16x slot.  My options basically end there since I am using the onboard USB 3 controller for Unraid (it is at least in it's own IOMMU group).
 
TLDR: The specs aren't as critical as finding the right motherboard / CPU / BIOS combination that will work in your use case.  Maybe find someone online that built a dual gaming setup and mimic it, and maybe even read about their experience / pitfalls encountered

Turns out switching the "AMI Native NVMe Driver Support" to "on" in BIOS did the trick!
It is located under Boot - Boot configuration.

Unraid also has docker support, sort of like a VM but only loads resources it needs instead of running an entire operating system. There is a docker for PLEX as well as a Minecraft server but i don't have any experience with those yet. 

Interesting, can't find it either anymore but I definitely watched it a few days ago. Guess they pulled it to change something. 

No one:
LTT:
OUR <X>EST BUILD EVER #57
 
jk I love these

In the outro, Linus talks about another vid where they upgraded his personal rig with a 3900X. Did I miss this video? Can't find it anywhere...

One the best pieces of advice I've ever received regarding relationships is "You have to be happy on your own before you can be happy in a relationship".  Co-dependency can be a lifelong burden if never properly dealt with, and even if it is it can easily come back in to play later on in a relationship.  I know you didn't ask for advice or what to tell her it's just what came to my mind reading the story.  
 
Hope your rant cleared your mind a bit, I feel your pain as the "nice guy" all the girls would complain to about their poor choices regarding relationships ?

One the best pieces of advice I've ever received regarding relationships is "You have to be happy on your own before you can be happy in a relationship".  Co-dependency can be a lifelong burden if never properly dealt with, and even if it is it can easily come back in to play later on in a relationship.  I know you didn't ask for advice or what to tell her it's just what came to my mind reading the story.  
 
Hope your rant cleared your mind a bit, I feel your pain as the "nice guy" all the girls would complain to about their poor choices regarding relationships ?

Yeah they're basically useless now, and you can't even point them out in video because they go different places depending on what platform you're on.

One the best pieces of advice I've ever received regarding relationships is "You have to be happy on your own before you can be happy in a relationship".  Co-dependency can be a lifelong burden if never properly dealt with, and even if it is it can easily come back in to play later on in a relationship.  I know you didn't ask for advice or what to tell her it's just what came to my mind reading the story.  
 
Hope your rant cleared your mind a bit, I feel your pain as the "nice guy" all the girls would complain to about their poor choices regarding relationships ?

One the best pieces of advice I've ever received regarding relationships is "You have to be happy on your own before you can be happy in a relationship".  Co-dependency can be a lifelong burden if never properly dealt with, and even if it is it can easily come back in to play later on in a relationship.  I know you didn't ask for advice or what to tell her it's just what came to my mind reading the story.  
 
Hope your rant cleared your mind a bit, I feel your pain as the "nice guy" all the girls would complain to about their poor choices regarding relationships ?

Worst value PC. This needs to happen.

One the best pieces of advice I've ever received regarding relationships is "You have to be happy on your own before you can be happy in a relationship".  Co-dependency can be a lifelong burden if never properly dealt with, and even if it is it can easily come back in to play later on in a relationship.  I know you didn't ask for advice or what to tell her it's just what came to my mind reading the story.  
 
Hope your rant cleared your mind a bit, I feel your pain as the "nice guy" all the girls would complain to about their poor choices regarding relationships ?

One the best pieces of advice I've ever received regarding relationships is "You have to be happy on your own before you can be happy in a relationship".  Co-dependency can be a lifelong burden if never properly dealt with, and even if it is it can easily come back in to play later on in a relationship.  I know you didn't ask for advice or what to tell her it's just what came to my mind reading the story.  
 
Hope your rant cleared your mind a bit, I feel your pain as the "nice guy" all the girls would complain to about their poor choices regarding relationships ?

One the best pieces of advice I've ever received regarding relationships is "You have to be happy on your own before you can be happy in a relationship".  Co-dependency can be a lifelong burden if never properly dealt with, and even if it is it can easily come back in to play later on in a relationship.  I know you didn't ask for advice or what to tell her it's just what came to my mind reading the story.  
 
Hope your rant cleared your mind a bit, I feel your pain as the "nice guy" all the girls would complain to about their poor choices regarding relationships ?

One the best pieces of advice I've ever received regarding relationships is "You have to be happy on your own before you can be happy in a relationship".  Co-dependency can be a lifelong burden if never properly dealt with, and even if it is it can easily come back in to play later on in a relationship.  I know you didn't ask for advice or what to tell her it's just what came to my mind reading the story.  
 
Hope your rant cleared your mind a bit, I feel your pain as the "nice guy" all the girls would complain to about their poor choices regarding relationships ?

One the best pieces of advice I've ever received regarding relationships is "You have to be happy on your own before you can be happy in a relationship".  Co-dependency can be a lifelong burden if never properly dealt with, and even if it is it can easily come back in to play later on in a relationship.  I know you didn't ask for advice or what to tell her it's just what came to my mind reading the story.  
 
Hope your rant cleared your mind a bit, I feel your pain as the "nice guy" all the girls would complain to about their poor choices regarding relationships ?