TPU's WCG/BOINC Team

Nordic · Nov 1, 2014

[Ion] said:
Indeed, an 8GB USB disk will run Ubuntu + BOINC without difficulty, although it doesn't leave you much free space. Even 4GB ought to work, but that would be pushing it further than I would go for.

I would use minimal ubuntu because it is sized in megabytes.

agent00skid · Nov 1, 2014

Personally I use Porteus when running Linux on a stick.

t_ski · Nov 1, 2014

thebluebumblebee said:
There aren't that may people out there that put much wear on a thumb drive.
If a flash drive does not have wear leveling, it will fail doing something like WCG that downloads files over and over. Anything that does have wear leveling is as expensive as a HDD or SSD.
I'm hoping for some SSD's under $40 on Black Friday.

I've seen some Corsair refurbs in the $40-50 range, but only 30 day warranty.

EDIT: AthlonX2 has a bunch of drives available;

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/storage-nas-and-networking.179797/

thebluebumblebee · Nov 1, 2014

t_ski said:
but only 30 day warranty.

That's why I listed the 500GB at $40. 3 year warranty!

agent00skid said:
I've run WCG in a ramdrive the times I've run it on linux on a USB drive.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, it to write up how to do that for us Linux noobs. Queue the music

xvi · Nov 1, 2014

james888 said:
That might actually be the one way around it if you have plenty of ram.

The RAM required to make that happen seems like it'd be a lot more expensive than a cheap drive. I'd ~~just go with~~ consider one of those "Poor Man's SSDs". Compact Flash card and a $2 CF to IDE/SATA adapter.

Nordic · Nov 1, 2014

Awhile ago I got some 128gb ssd's for like $55. It could happen again.

xvi said:
The RAM required to make that happen seems like it'd be a lot more expensive than a cheap drive. I'd just go with one of those "Poor Man's SSDs". Compact Flash card and a $2 CF to IDE/SATA adapter.

If you don't have ram for it than yes. As I said, if you have plenty of ram. I have 4-8gb in all my crunchers because I just have that much ram. I got most of it real cheap away back. I will be reluctant to jump to ddr4 just because I have some ddr3 stockpiled.

I have a few extra drives too atm but drives are always useful. Same goes for power supplies, you can never have enough. Basically these are all universal system parts.

agent00skid · Nov 2, 2014

If you run a light linux OS, I would think that even 2GB of memory could be enough.

[Ion] · Nov 2, 2014

agent00skid said:
If you run a light linux OS, I would think that even 2GB of memory could be enough.

I'm actually quite impressed--my X5670 running Server 2008 R2 and 12 threads of UGM is coming in at less than 2GB of RAM used.

m&m's · Nov 2, 2014

Hi!

Getting BOINC setup without drives

Have a nice day!

thebluebumblebee · Nov 3, 2014

Completely off topic. Need help finding something. There was a discussion on TPU about whether a person needs more than an i3 for gaming. I can't find it. I have a friend that wants to build a super cheap gaming system and I'd like him to read that thread. Anyone remember it?

stinger608 · Nov 3, 2014

Did you check in the "general hardware", "Build advice", and "games" forums?
At the moment I don't have time to look for it, but if you haven't found it by this evening I'll go searching for it as well.

xvi · Nov 3, 2014

[Edit: wrong review] I'd suggest starting at TechReport's review of the G3258 and read on from there as I found it went nicely in-depth, specifically in the section of frame times. The G3258 is just an i3 without HyperThreading, so I'd say it's a pretty accurate summary.

If it's just one game you're concerned about, check benchmarks and see if multi-core makes a difference.

[Ion] · Nov 3, 2014

Alright, the rest of the parts necessary for the 2P setup should be here by Thursday or Friday :toast:

thebluebumblebee · Nov 3, 2014

I can't find that thread. ~~I have a feeling the title has been changed.~~ I must have looked at 3-500 threads.
I can almost remember who posted the thread. IIRC (the whole problem here) it was someone who's been on TPU for a long time, maybe even longer than me.

twilyth · Nov 3, 2014

thebluebumblebee said:
Completely off topic. Need help finding something. There was a discussion on TPU about whether a person needs more than an i3 for gaming. I can't find it. I have a friend that wants to build a super cheap gaming system and I'd like him to read that thread. Anyone remember it?

Could this be it - http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/best-possible-graphics-card-for-a-core-i3.200154/

also try this google search - https://www.google.com/search?q=sit...s=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

thebluebumblebee · Nov 3, 2014

twilyth said:
Could this be it - http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/best-possible-graphics-card-for-a-core-i3.200154/

also try this google search - https://www.google.com/search?q=site:techpowerup.com need more than i3 for gaming&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-USfficial&client=firefox-a

It was on the second page of results. I had tried that, well, sort of. I need to learn that syntax.

Nordic · Nov 4, 2014

Good deals on hdd's and some cpu's. http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/black-november-fs-thread.179797/

thebluebumblebee · Nov 4, 2014

No one asked what the thread was. No inquiring minds? Hard to believe that the thread is from January! Seems like only a month or so....
I said, "it was someone who's been on TPU for a long time, maybe even longer than me." I've been on TPU since 2009, easy_rhino's been around since 2006. I also thought that james888 had responded in that thread. He was actually the first responder. If anyone is interested: Do "gaming" PCs require i5 procs?

t_ski · Nov 4, 2014

If anyone is interested in a 4930K, X79 and DDR3 combo, let me know. I know someone who's going to be selling one very soon

[Ion] · Nov 4, 2014

t_ski said:
If anyone is interested in a 4930K, X79 and DDR3 combo, let me know. I know someone who's going to be selling one very soon

Interested of course, but it just isn't in the budget

stinger608 · Nov 4, 2014

[Ion] said:
Interested of course, but it just isn't in the budget

+++111 on that entire quote.

twilyth · Nov 4, 2014

thebluebumblebee said:
It was on the second page of results. I had tried that, well, sort of. I need to learn that syntax.

It's pretty easy. site:HLQ.TLD (high level qualifier.top level domain) followed by the search string. So for example site:techpowerup.com [search terms]

twilyth · Nov 4, 2014

BTW, you can google 'google search tricks and tips' (no quotes) and get lots of good ideas for improving your searching - become a google-fu master young grasshopper -

(just kidding)

Here's one from google that includes the site: technique - http://www.google.com/insidesearch/tipstricks/all.html

I think you can also limit the search to just the forum by doing site:techpowerup.com/forums

ThE_MaD_ShOt · Nov 4, 2014

t_ski said:
If anyone is interested in a 4930K, X79 and DDR3 combo, let me know. I know someone who's going to be selling one very soon

Pm'd

Peter1986C · Nov 4, 2014

thebluebumblebee said:
Completely off topic. Need help finding something. There was a discussion on TPU about whether a person needs more than an i3 for gaming. I can't find it. I have a friend that wants to build a super cheap gaming system and I'd like him to read that thread. Anyone remember it?

If an Athlon X4 740 is enough (for me) than an i3 is that too.

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TPU's WCG/BOINC Team

Nordic

agent00skid

t_ski

Former Staff

thebluebumblebee

xvi

Nordic

agent00skid

[Ion]

WCG Team Assistant

m&m's

thebluebumblebee

stinger608

Dedicated TPU Cruncher & Folder

xvi

[Ion]

WCG Team Assistant

thebluebumblebee

twilyth

thebluebumblebee

Nordic

thebluebumblebee

t_ski

Former Staff

[Ion]

WCG Team Assistant

stinger608

Dedicated TPU Cruncher & Folder

twilyth

twilyth

ThE_MaD_ShOt

Peter1986C

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