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Ok, thanks for all the input. I'll ask them for their log file and put it here once I get it. I think we tried all the power levels, so I don't think that's it. I'll also check about the security software.

Hello, I'm helping a friend of mine start folding, but they're running into a couple issues. First, the installer wizard thing would crash and not finish installing the FAH client. They say that other similar installers work fine on their PC, so I think it's limited to just the FAH client installer....

You're right, efficiency is important, but at the moment I'm mostly just wanting to get started with something very inexpensive. I may upgrade to something more efficient down the line though. Thanks for bringing up the point about BIOS recognition, I wonder what factors cause that issue. Fortunatel...

Great, good to know your experience with it. Sounds perfect for my setup.

I have some basic prior experience with Linux (Ubuntu) so I'd give it a try with the folding.

Ok awesome, that's very helpful. I had a feeling it would split up the bandwidth like that. However, in your quote (if I'm understanding correctly), a 2.0 x8 connection is good enough for a GTX 1060 in Windows, and the 1600 series in Linux. Therefore, since the P106-90 is about a 1050 equivalent, it...

toTOW wrote:By very fast, he means RTX generation ... I think that P106-90 are sufficiently slow to be happy on PCIe 2.0 4x ...

Are the P106-90s good on PCIe 2.0 4x on Windows as well as Linux, or just Linux?

... or you have to accept the fact that your system may be achieving less than optimum performance on big assignments. Certainly a bottlenecked device will be producing a reasonable (or unreasonable, in foldy's opinion :wink: ) set of FAH results which is still a lot greater than zero. One P106-90 ...

Don't expect too much from a P106-90 ... it's similar to a GTX 1050 ... :( You'll get better results with a P106-100 which is similar to a 1060. Anyway, I think the minimum requirement in Windows is PCIe 4x ... Linux doesn't have this limitation. When you say the minimum requirement in Windows is P...

Ok thanks for the information. I looked a prices for used P106-100s, and the ones I found were pretty expensive, around $120 at the cheapest at time of writing. By comparison, P106-90s are around $60. I think I'd want to just try it out at first with the cheapest option considering this is a bit of ...

Hello, I thought it might be a fun project to make a dedicated folding PC. I'm trying to spend as little money as possible. I was planning on using an old FM1 socket Lenovo motherboard with an AMD A6-3620 and a P106-90 mining card. I think it might be a decent platform for GPU folding, as it has int...

Great, thank you all for your helpful information! I apologize for the late reply, I've been sidetracked on other things this last month and now am able to refocus on folding. I'll contact people at my school soon and see what I can make happen!

Hello, A couple of friends and I want to start a folding club/team at our school, and get a couple cheap craigslist PCs to throw in a classroom and run F@h. Any ideas on ways to run the PCs when we can't attend to them most of the time? Another factor is that the power to the school may shut off eve...