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I have an Intel Celeron J3455 Quad core, RAM: 8GB. I have another one that is a dual core Celeron and has 4GB of ram. I can leave them running in the garage by the modem 24/7 but only if it is going to actually contribute.

Is it worth folding on these machines or should I just donate them to charity?

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14 minutes ago, foldingNoob said:

I have an Intel Celeron J3455 Quad core, RAM: 8GB. I have another one that is a dual core Celeron and has 4GB of ram. I can leave them running in the garage by the modem 24/7 but only if it is going to actually contribute.

Is it worth folding on these machines or should I just donate them to charity?

Every bit helps, if they have discrete gpus that would be even better. 

 

As far as I know they should be able to contribute, and with a passkey will net you a decent amount of points.

 

Charity doesn't hurt either.

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4 minutes ago, jctappel67 said:

Charity doesn't hurt either.

I suppose I could run them and then next time there is a fundraiser ill throw them in

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There's also boinc, which I've heard will benefit from CPUs a bit more. Folding is great if you have spare GPUs. And what's great is you can run both on the same PC, so you can fold on the GPU and run boinc on the CPU.

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Just now, Fasauceome said:

There's also boinc, which I've heard will benefit from CPUs a bit more. Folding is great if you have spare GPUs. And what's great is you can run both on the same PC, so you can fold on the GPU and run boinc on the CPU.

sadly the low end intel nuc doesnt have pcie slots

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I have 2 NUC's and they regularly get cpu jobs to run.  Mine are NUC5i7 and NUC8i7.  And I've noticed that on my other systems with GPU's , they seem to get more CPU jobs than GPU, but both are running most of the time.  Its easy to setup so you may as well launch it and see what it does.

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