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Hello all,

 

I have 0 F@H experience so I have a couple questions. I have an old rig sitting around that has a dual core phenom 3.0 ghz or something with 2 GTS 250s in it. I was wondering if this would be worth it to setup as a folding rig? Primarily for the power vs results. Secondly,if I was to set this up as a folding rig, could I also use this PC as a NAS? Or is that a bad idea?

Honestly, I don't think it'll even work. The CPU part will do for sure, but I think the GTS 250 is too old and not compatible, though I might be wrong on that. And even then, it's either going to miss the deadlines or just BARELY make it. I wouldn't use that system for folding.

 

But you can use for Boinc instead. For the CPU, I suggest World Community Grid (check the link in my signature). For the GPUs, I suggest PrimeGrid's PPS Sieve Subproject. You might also be able to run the GFN-17-Low subproject, though OpenCl might be shaddy on the GTS 250, so I wouldn't get my hopes up.

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Hello all,

 

I have 0 F@H experience so I have a couple questions. I have an old rig sitting around that has a dual core phenom 3.0 ghz or something with 2 GTS 250s in it. I was wondering if this would be worth it to setup as a folding rig? Primarily for the power vs results. Secondly,if I was to set this up as a folding rig, could I also use this PC as a NAS? Or is that a bad idea?

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2 minutes ago, Mikius10001 said:

Hello all,

 

I have 0 F@H experience so I have a couple questions. I have an old rig sitting around that has a dual core phenom 3.0 ghz or something with 2 GTS 250s in it. I was wondering if this would be worth it to setup as a folding rig? Primarily for the power vs results. Secondly,if I was to set this up as a folding rig, could I also use this PC as a NAS? Or is that a bad idea?

 

Would be fine as a little NAS sure, and you could leave it folding since a NAS will be on 24/7 :)

Or donate the money to charity :D

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It depends. Folding@Home is not a light task. While the computer will run it (I've used an old ThinkPad with a Core 2 Duo L-series), it'll run hot. If you use Windows, you can run Folding@Home in the background, then use the built-in sharing tools within Windows to create file shares.

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2 minutes ago, ShadowCaptain said:

 

Would be fine as a little NAS sure, and you could leave it folding since a NAS will be on 24/7 :)

Or donate the money to charity :D

@ShadowCaptain While the charity bit is a nice idea, I actually build PC's from donated parts and give them to local Social work groups so I would do that instead :)

 

I stupidly didn't even think about the NAS being on all the time consuming power anyways, haha, totally missed that beat that's for sure. So the power question would be irrelevant. As for the cooling, obviously I'm not going to water cool 2x250's, but I have 5 case fans in that little bugger, do you think it could keep up? @kimsejin5

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@ShadowCaptain While the charity bit is a nice idea, I actually build PC's from donated parts and give them to local Social work groups so I would do that instead :)

 

I stupidly didn't even think about the NAS being on all the time consuming power anyways, haha, totally missed that beat that's for sure. So the power question would be irrelevant. As for the cooling, obviously I'm not going to water cool 2x250's, but I have 5 case fans in that little bugger, do you think it could keep up? @kimsejin5

Depends...what case fans are they? Pressure optimized or airflow optimized? Get some good quality fans (cough cough **noctua** cough cough) or something with an SSO bearing, single ball bearing or double ball bearing. That kind of system would not take well to a sudden loss of ventilation.

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Pressure vs air flow, I'm not to sure. There are 2 in the front, 1 on the side panel, and the 2 exhausts back and top. I feel like airflow is the winner here but again, not entirely sure. The 2 exhaust are the stock case fans, the other 3 are cheap cooler master 120mm fans, nothing amazing that's for sure. I think they were like $4 each on sale, haha.

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20 minutes ago, Mikius10001 said:

I stupidly didn't even think about the NAS being on all the time consuming power anyways, haha, totally missed that beat that's for sure. So the power question would be irrelevant.

not quite irrelevant since folding will consume more power than the computer just being idle

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3 hours ago, Mikius10001 said:

Hello all,

 

I have 0 F@H experience so I have a couple questions. I have an old rig sitting around that has a dual core phenom 3.0 ghz or something with 2 GTS 250s in it. I was wondering if this would be worth it to setup as a folding rig? Primarily for the power vs results. Secondly,if I was to set this up as a folding rig, could I also use this PC as a NAS? Or is that a bad idea?

Honestly, I don't think it'll even work. The CPU part will do for sure, but I think the GTS 250 is too old and not compatible, though I might be wrong on that. And even then, it's either going to miss the deadlines or just BARELY make it. I wouldn't use that system for folding.

 

But you can use for Boinc instead. For the CPU, I suggest World Community Grid (check the link in my signature). For the GPUs, I suggest PrimeGrid's PPS Sieve Subproject. You might also be able to run the GFN-17-Low subproject, though OpenCl might be shaddy on the GTS 250, so I wouldn't get my hopes up.

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