Massive bottlenecks on second system, any ideas?

[Opencircuit74]

Hello,

 

The folding month is coming in very soon, and I’ve fired up a second system (just my test bench with 2 7970s) to help out. The problem is, I’m running on dated hardware (Q8200+ASUS P5B Deluxe). It isn’t bad or anything, but I have some unique problems.

 

The first GPU is fine, performing normally. The second is... running at PCIe 2.0 speeds on a 2x connection. This is because the only way for me to get internet access on this thing (it’s in a remote spot because, heat) is to use a PCIe WiFi adapter, and the only way to do that is to use a riser on the 1x slot and use the GPU at 2x speeds. I was planning on overclocking the CPU and maybe the GPU, but that does not help the 2x problem. Would it be better to use a third system with the other 7970 and a weaker CPU or just keep the ASUS? Thanks.

 

[Brooksie359]

Get a power wall adapter. It sends Ethernet through the wiring in the house. Plug on adapter into a wall outlet plug your pc into it using an Ethernet cable then use the second adapter and plug it in to a wall outlet near your router and then connect the router to the second adapter using Ethernet. 

[Brooksie359]

Power line adpater*

[FloRolf]

Yes, F@H is really dependent on the bandwidth to the GPU. A 2x 2.0 connection will not do the trick. Why don't you get a USB WiFi dongle? 

[Opencircuit74]

22 minutes ago, FloRolf said:

Yes, F@H is really dependent on the bandwidth to the GPU. A 2x 2.0 connection will not do the trick. Why don't you get a USB WiFi dongle? 

Don’t have one available. It looks like I’m going to have to clone the drive and set up a third system with a PCI WiFi adapter. (Before you ask, it didn’t fit in the other system)

[FloRolf]

20 minutes ago, Opencircuit74 said:

Don’t have one available. It looks like I’m going to have to clone the drive and set up a third system with a PCI WiFi adapter. (Before you ask, it didn’t fit in the other system)

I don't know how setting up a whole new system is easier than just getting a $10 wifi dongle but okay. 

[Gorgon]

12 hours ago, Opencircuit74 said:

Hello,

 

The folding month is coming in very soon, and I’ve fired up a second system (just my test bench with 2 7970s) to help out. The problem is, I’m running on dated hardware (Q8200+ASUS P5B Deluxe). It isn’t bad or anything, but I have some unique problems.

 

The first GPU is fine, performing normally. The second is... running at PCIe 2.0 speeds on a 2x connection. This is because the only way for me to get internet access on this thing (it’s in a remote spot because, heat) is to use a PCIe WiFi adapter, and the only way to do that is to use a riser on the 1x slot and use the GPU at 2x speeds. I was planning on overclocking the CPU and maybe the GPU, but that does not help the 2x problem. Would it be better to use a third system with the other 7970 and a weaker CPU or just keep the ASUS? Thanks.

 

If you have another old system a 2 core or dual thread cpu running 2-3 GHz should do the trick.  You only need 1GB Ram for Folding on top of the OS but a PCIe3x4 or a PCIe2x8 should keep the GPU fed.

 

my second dedicated folder is a salvaged circa 2010 Acer iTX mobs with a 2.9GHz Athlon II CPU and 3 GB DDR2. Granted it’s running Linux so the OS overhead on the system resources is lower but it still manages to drive 400,000PPD out of a GTX 1060

 

The 7970 should be able to produce between 140,000 and 200,000PPD