Folding Forum

Think it's all change! Being looking at various options and I like the look of a 2P System as follows. Asus Z9PE-D8 WS Motherboard which I was going to fit with 1x Intel Xeon E5-2650W(in the short term) This will allow me to add another CPU as soon as I can afford and also has loads of slots that I ...

Just as a matter of interest what sort of PPD figures should I get from a i7-3930K and 6990 (if I don't use the 6850)?

My reasoning behind Linux as an OS is that if I use windows based systems this would increase my costs by having to purchase an OS for each system in the farm. On my current system if I run just my CPU (i7-3930K all 12 cores) i seem to get the same PPD as if I run both my 6990 and 6850 GPU's and jus...

Thanks for the advice and comments My thinking behind building several small systems to build up a folding farm is if I want to build either a 2P or 4P system the initial cost would be upto £2000, whereas what beer has put forward would only cost me 400ish. To get the 2000 would take upto a year, wh...

Hi I am currently folding on my main pc at home, which consists of a i7-3930K CPU and 6990 & 6850 graphics cards, giving me 3 GPU's I would like to build a dedicated Folding@Home farm and would take the following form. Single processor motherboards Linux Operating system Home built open racking ...