got a spare PC lying around

[DraconicFire98]

so, i got a spare PC lying around being useless, it isn't the most powerful thing, running and AMD a4-3400, 7GB ram and a 750 ti. i know ethereum mining is out of the question because it has under 4GB vram.

 

anything i can do with this system? i don't care enough to go out and buy new hardware, i'll stick with what i got, if anything i'll upgrade the cpu to the a8-3870k

[ProjectBox153]

With the 750 Ti, do some F@H on it. That's WAY better of a system than my three folding rigs, and it should do nicely. 

[DraconicFire98]

1 minute ago, Jamiec1130 said:

With the 750 Ti, do some F@H on it. That's WAY better of a system than my three folding rigs, and it should do nicely. 

considering i'm completely new to this, can you link a tutorial? thanks

 

EDIT: never mind, it's a pinned topic

[ProjectBox153]

Just now, DraconicFire98 said:

considering i'm completely new to this, can you link a tutorial? thanks

 

EDIT: never mind, it's a pinned topic

It's not hard. Just get it running Windows of some kind, install the F@H client (Google's your friend, or it may be linked on the LTT post) and set up GPU folding. 

[DraconicFire98]

Just now, Jamiec1130 said:

It's not hard. Just get it running Windows of some kind, install the F@H client (Google's your friend, or it may be linked on the LTT post) and set up GPU folding. 

i'm in the process of doing a fresh install of 10

[ProjectBox153]

Just now, DraconicFire98 said:

i'm in the process of doing a fresh install of 10

That'll work, as long as it doesn't restart itself with updates. All my systems use Server 2012 R2. 

[NoRomanBatmansAllowed]

1 minute ago, DraconicFire98 said:

i'm in the process of doing a fresh install of 10

Run linux!

 

It should be more stable than windows (especially 10)

[DraconicFire98]

Just now, bob51zhang said:

Run linux!

 

It should be more stable than windows (especially 10)

i never had a problem running 10. and i hate setting up and using linux. thanks for the suggestion though, i guess

[Ren3DM]

Do F@H like Jamiec1130 said.

 

Turn it into a NAS.

 

Turn it into an HTPC.

 

Just some options.

[TheGlenlivet]

23 minutes ago, DraconicFire98 said:

i never had a problem running 10. and i hate setting up and using linux. thanks for the suggestion though, i guess

Linux folds WAY faster than windows, at least it did a few months back when I was doing it.  If you care about points it's better on Linux, if you just want it doing something useful, then windows is fine, or at least better than nothing.

[DraconicFire98]

Just now, TheGlenlivet said:

Linux folds WAY faster than windows, at least it did a few months back when I was doing it.  If you care about points it's better on Linux, if you just want it doing something useful, then windows is fine, or at least better than nothing.

i just want it to be doing something more useful than gathering dust on my shelf

[NoRomanBatmansAllowed]

1 hour ago, TheGlenlivet said:

Linux folds WAY faster than windows, at least it did a few months back when I was doing it.  If you care about points it's better on Linux, if you just want it doing something useful, then windows is fine, or at least better than nothing.

This is mostly due to lower overhead. Windows (especially 10) has tons of crap running in the background. 

 

Linux however, is usually pretty good in that department. It's also more stable than DOS based systems in general.