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[Inkertus]

Just now, GOTSpectrum said:

They do have windows10 OTG that is a live disk.

 

But in this case I believe he means the installation media.

That makes a lot more sense. Got me a set of cheap USB drives for various tasks and ISOs.  Handy to have but some are a lot faster than others of the same model.

[Gorgon]

28 minutes ago, GOTSpectrum said:

Showing your age there bud!

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.

[Inkertus]

1 minute ago, Gorgon said:

I just download the latest Windows 10 media and select iso rather than USB and use Rufus to burn it to the SSD in the USB enclosure. So it's just for the install media not the OS. I can install & configure Win10 in about 20 minutes

Yeah the most up to date ISOs are pretty fast to get up and going from USB nowadays which surprised me, even to a HDD.  Used to keep an out of date one and the updates are murder on a schedule. They take so long to get.

[Inkertus]

4 minutes ago, Gorgon said:

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.

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.

[Gorgon]

42 minutes ago, Inkertus said:

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.

1996 and still made in Canada. My first computer I also built and it had an Intel 4004 processor and 2k of RAM

[Gorgon]

I must say that 3900x really kicks some ass. Running at 4050MHz all-core currently at 76C on a NH-D15.

Almost a 1060 in PPD

[Inkertus]

1 minute ago, Gorgon said:

I must say that 3900x really kicks some ass. Running at 4050MHz all-core currently at 76C on a NH-D15.

Almost a 1060 in PPD

That thing keeping all-core busy most of the time?  I can't imagine most loads they put out that would.

[Zberg]

El zoido jr is complete!  Now GPU is 15 C cooler, dead silent, and 150 mHz higher clocks.

 

He will grow into El zoido in a couple weeks, with a second 2080ti and another rad!  

 

Can I get a montage training for folding month?

 

 

 

 

 

[LFreeman]

11 minutes ago, Zberg said:

El zoido jr is complete!  Now GPU is 15 C cooler, dead silent, and 150 mHz higher clocks.

 

He will grow into El zoido in a couple weeks, with a second 2080ti and another rad!  

 

Can I get a montage training for folding month?

 

 

 

 

 

Wish I have the money to liquid cool. Maybe If I can sell my old server and old gaming pc I could afford to. Assuming I could even find a block for my card.

[Zberg]

Just now, LFreeman said:

Wish I have the money to liquid cool. Maybe If I can sell my old server and old gaming pc I could afford to. Assuming I could even find a block for my card.

I will say, and have said many times about liquid cooling.  I only did it for a fun project, and in terms of performance, its not super worth the money.  The main performance benefit I am getting is its quieter, but the PPD has only increased VERY slightly (about 200k).  This card used to sit dead even with my strix, and now sitting that much above it at any given time.

 

The actual end goal, is to be able to have 2x 2080ti in that box and not have one of them crazy overheated, which is what was happening before.  I just have my office, and I am not about to set up 4 boxes around the house (im not that dedicated  ) .  Now that this is in, just have to add the second rad and the second GPU block.

 

Was an extremely fun process, learned some things, but overall this rig is barely getting more PPD than my all air cooled rig, or my previous all air cooled rig.  Hilariously, when I stress test the 9900k, it is IDENTICAL to when I had my D15.  No temp benefit whatsoever (similar to when jay did his 8700k on liquid vs his loop).  The GPU is seeing all the benefit here.

 

 

[LFreeman]

I just want to do it cause it looks so clean and astatically pleasing.

[Inkertus]

6 minutes ago, LFreeman said:

I just want to do it cause it looks so clean and astatically pleasing.

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.

[Bitter]

Babysitter script runs fine on 2 windows boxes, linux box says there's a syntax error on line 64. I'm a hardware guy so I have zero clue about this.

[marknd59]

3 hours ago, Bitter said:

Babysitter script runs fine on 2 windows boxes, linux box says there's a syntax error on line 64. I'm a hardware guy so I have zero clue about this.

Koppa315 has a thread setup for babysitter questions now - 

 

 

[cbigfoot]

9 hours ago, Zberg said:

I will say, and have said many times about liquid cooling.  I only did it for a fun project, and in terms of performance, its not super worth the money.  The main performance benefit I am getting is its quieter, but the PPD has only increased VERY slightly (about 200k).  This card used to sit dead even with my strix, and now sitting that much above it at any given time.

 

The actual end goal, is to be able to have 2x 2080ti in that box and not have one of them crazy overheated, which is what was happening before.  I just have my office, and I am not about to set up 4 boxes around the house (im not that dedicated  ) .  Now that this is in, just have to add the second rad and the second GPU block.

 

Was an extremely fun process, learned some things, but overall this rig is barely getting more PPD than my all air cooled rig, or my previous all air cooled rig.  Hilariously, when I stress test the 9900k, it is IDENTICAL to when I had my D15.  No temp benefit whatsoever (similar to when jay did his 8700k on liquid vs his loop).  The GPU is seeing all the benefit here.

 

 

hey i resent that remark... I spread my systems across the house so my aircon system can keep up lol...and so i don't trip the breaker....my condo was not built with a NERD in mind....

 

in other News Flexo is going intel  i found a mobile processor the intel i7-3740QM on a desktop board the Jetway NF9G-QM77 a project from a LONG time ago...ok 5 yrs ago...so can run computer on intel graphics to give the Rx580 all the power it can muster.

 

[TVwazhere]

11 hours ago, Gorgon said:

Fold9:

Fold8:

Fold7:

Fold6:

Fold1:

We dont talk about folds 2-5  

 

Also, since I havent gotten consistenmt WU's in over a month, I thought I'd draw up roughly what my graph should look like

I can dream :,^),,,

[Inkertus]

35 minutes ago, TVwazhere said:

We dont talk about folds 2-5  

 

Also, since I havent gotten consistenmt WU's in over a month, I thought I'd draw up roughly what my graph should look like

I can dream :,^),,,

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.

[justpoet]

12 hours ago, Gorgon said:

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

I'm not sure where the box is at this moment, but someplace in my old computer stash I have one of the best cards to confuse new folks with.  3dfx voodoo.  Didn't have a clue how to do 2d, so you ran SVGA into it from your normal card and it drew 3d on top of that.

 

13 hours ago, GOTSpectrum said:

Any advice for the backup solution under Ubuntu?

 

As for linux…I find that for a "backup" if you're just doing something like folding, a simple shell script from your bash history is great to automate setup, and a whole ubuntu install to an NVME from a microSD USB adapter takes 2 minutes (literally).

 

For more generic file use, I use duplicati on all my machines (open source, free, works on all major platforms and to all major storage targets from local drives to another computer of yours to aws).  If you're doing database type backups, you'll need to be careful about backing up just the solid db and journals, rather than open/live files, but that's just typical DBA stuff.

 

For imaging, the OS doesn't matter, so use whatever your favorite one is.

[Zberg]

2 hours ago, cbigfoot said:

hey i resent that remark... I spread my systems across the house so my aircon system can keep up lol...and so i don't trip the breaker....my condo was not built with a NERD in mind....

 

in other News Flexo is going intel  i found a mobile processor the intel i7-3740QM on a desktop board the Jetway NF9G-QM77 a project from a LONG time ago...ok 5 yrs ago...so can run computer on intel graphics to give the Rx580 all the power it can muster.

 

Flexo seems like he WOULD go intel.  

[RollinLower]

Alright, windows is breaking my nuts on my F@H server, and i'm starting to think about going the way of the penguin.

 

i have a few questions about that tough.

how substantial would the change to Linux be?

what distro is best for 24/7 365 days operation?

how would i remote into a linux client from my windows PC? (using windows remote desktop now)

how would i set up the babysitter script on Linux?

[Inkertus]

7 minutes ago, RollinLower said:

Alright, windows is breaking my nuts on my F@H server, and i'm starting to think about going the way of the penguin.

 

i have a few questions about that tough.

how substantial would the change to Linux be?

what distro is best for 24/7 365 days operation?

how would i remote into a linux client from my windows PC? (using windows remote desktop now)

how would i set up the babysitter script on Linux?

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.

[jctappel67]

Finally!!!

[RollinLower]

4 hours ago, yaboistar said:

when you try to get a work unit and you end up making 12 attempts before you get one

 

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[Macaw2000]

Which one of you is 650labs? I'm impressed!

 

https://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=1115078

 

[Macaw2000]

22 minutes ago, yaboistar said:

that kinda PPD in today's WU climate? who the hell are they paying 

I might have to fire up the ol' supercluster to see if this challenger can keep up!