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Shazzalive

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  • Gender
    Female
  • Location
    United Kingdom
  • Interests
    Everything that's interesting.
  • Biography
    I sing, I create & produce music, I blog and do internet marketing, I build computers...'Not a lot to me really.
  • Occupation
    self-employed

System

  • CPU
    AMD Ryzen 5 2600 6-core AM4
  • Motherboard
    ASUS Prime X470 PRO
  • RAM
    2 x ADATA XPG GAMMIX DDR4 8GB Gaming RAM
  • GPU
    MSI AMD Radeon RX 580 ARMOR 8GB OC
  • Case
    BitFenix Nova - White with side-panel
  • Storage
    ADATA XPG SX8000 M.2-2280 256GB SSD, WD Blue 500GB HDD
  • PSU
    Thermaltake Smart SE 730W Semi Mod 80+ Bronze
  • Display(s)
    Acer V226HQLbid 21.5" Full HD LED Monitor
  • Cooling
    Stock AMD Wraith Stealth Cooler
  • Keyboard
    Generic
  • Mouse
    Generic
  • Sound
    Trust 5.1 speaker system via USB2 sound card
  • Operating System
    Windows 10 Professional

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  1. 'This what you're looking for? https://www.google.co.uk/search?client=opera&q=DSR850-A+Power+supplies&sourceid=opera&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 Google is your friend.
  2. In which case a SATA 2.5" SSD would give virtually identical performance... Though having said that; since you've already bought the M.2, try re-fitting it. It's an easy mistake to make to fit it below the socket while thinking you pushed it into the socket. Make sure that it's fitted properly. Your CPU cooler will work fine in that fan configuration; although it's not the optimum configuration suggested by the engineers.
  3. I built a similar rig to this back in October, on an Asus X470 board, using a Radeon RX580, and an ADATA 240GB NVMe M.2 PCIe x 4 drive. The operating system and all the progs, etc, easily fit onto the 240GB drive with over 100GBs to spare. I have a 500GB drive and a 6TB HDD attached for if I need any more space.
  4. I suggest you take a look at this channel for good advice on computer-building: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmWNCO9wSjzOz1UV8jCvIHA As for the cooler; I suggest trying something made by a company called Scythe. https://www.google.co.uk/search?client=opera&q=scythe+coolers&sourceid=opera&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
  5. Everything he said. + That's probably your best bet IMO: Those Dell cases are a proprietary build and will give you all kinds of issues with fitting non-proprietary components. As the proud owner of a Radeon RX580 I echo not to get a 1060. (If you run Superposition benchmark with a 580 installed you'll be wide-eyed and open-mouthed when you get the results.) As for installing Windows: See below.
  6. I'm folding with my Radeon 580 more than ever lately: Don't worry; the LTT folding team are still on the case.
  7. Yes. - You choose when to end your involvement with folding@home. - Otherwise i believe there is no scheduled conclusion to the project
  8. Strangely I have a peculiar situation going on here: I started folding on 1st November and wasn't in a team. I was only folding on my backup computer (The computer that handles my backup jobs 24/7.) to begin with. It's a light workstation that I built a while back; with a 2-core Intel Celeron Sky Lake chip, 8 gigs RAM, an old graphics card... yada yada. When I Installed the F@H client on it, the folding power was set to medium by default, and it used about 55% of the CPU resources. I switched it to light and it hardly did much at all, I tried switching it to full; and it used pretty much all of the CPU resources... So I switched it back to medium and that client has been folding 24/7 ever since. I subscribe to LTT, so eventually I joined the LTT team. Since I also built a decent computer with a 6-core AMD Ryzen 2600 CPU and an AMD Radeon RX580 8GB graphics card on an ASUS Prime X470-PRO motherboard with 16GB RAM I thought it might be good to use that computer for folding, at least part-time, also. I uploaded the client and got a passkey. The client again started off set to medium... But my CPU was running at 65% and my GPU went up to 95% and was using 116 Watts. The machine heated the small studio that I run it in, which saved me from having to use the proper heater. I dropped the folding power to light; with the result that the graphics card was hardly used, and the CPU usage went down to around 43%. I don't know why it took me so long to try the following out; but today I thought 'I wonder what happens if I switch it to full?' (Computer; prepare to be tortured!) I switched it to full: The CPU was running at 65% and my GPU went up to 95% and was using 116 Watts.- Exactly the same as it had on medium. I switched to medium: No difference. I switched to light; and the CPU usage dropped to around 43% while the graphics card dropped to using about 7 watts. I can't understand why the same client behaves differently on different machines: Light, medium, and full, on a weak Intel CPU-powered machine, yet light, full, and full, on a pretty meaty AMD-powered machine? I'm baffled.
  9. 'Something strange: - I just installed F@H on my main system: 'Same IP address, 'same browser ( Opera ), 'same browser version, 'same room even. The main system has far higher specs than the backup system that I normally fold on... But it didn't experience the redirect issue. I went back to the backup system and browsed to the web control, which redirected and flickered as usual, while at the same time it was perfectly stable on main. It appears to be prejudicial and displays snobbery by only working properly on higher-end systems. - What strange behaviour.
  10. Yeah I get that too at times. You can go to advanced control and bring up your profile in your browser by clicking your handle under Identity. You can also control the folding power from there. If you want to go to the team stats in your browser just click on the team number under Identity. What's happening is a continual page reload. I have no idea what's causing it.
  11. If it helps I've been folding since 1st November 2018 on a really low-spec workstation I knocked up using a dual-core Celeron and some other new & secondhand parts. I've racked up 18,173 points to date after completing a few WUs and been on the team since the 10th. 515129 8838 Shazzalive 9909 3 For some reason I thought I was folding as Sharron-Idol, so I changed my name on this group and then eventually tracked myself down as Shazzalive - which is what I joined as. Oh well at least I have the same identity here as on Facebook. - There is some sense to this cockup.
  12. I've started folding this month, and now I've joined the team. Earlier this year I built a simple workstation from an Intel Celeron Dual-Core G3900 2.8GHz Socket 1151 CPU, a 250GB SSD, a 1TB HDD, 2 x Crucial 4GB DDR4-2400 UDIMM, and an old 1GB graphics card. I assembled this lot together, on a Gigabyte GA-H110M-S2H Socket LGA 1151 mATX Motherboard, and powered it with a Masterwatt Lite V2 400w. I started using this limited box to run my automated backup system; but I soon found that the majority of the CPU cycles were going to waste. Eventually I dedicated those spare cycles to science by running F@H. The machine needs to run 24/7 to do my ongoing backup jobs when they need doing; so I'm also folding almost 24/7 too. I just joined up so I thought I'd stop by and say "hi".
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