Just bought a new CPU for folding. Drum roll please! AMD FD8350FRHKBOX FX-8350 FX-Series 8-Core Black Edition Processor for $116. Sat-when chip arrives-I'll start an assembly line CPU swap.New cpu goes in the FX4300 (this rig) which will swap into th Phenom rig (committed F@H) that should help my Mint folding rig. Anybody need a AMD Phenom IIx4 965 Black Edition Quad for F@H?
Awesome! That is going to be a great chip! 8 cores is amazing. And... duh, duh, daaaa... you won't be affected by the Spectre and Meltdown threats
I haven't bench marked anything in years.What program would you prefer? I don't have any. I will be compareing F@H PPD naturally.
Chances are it won't run on newer OS's but you never know. What are you running Windows 10? Windows 7?
Win 7====Hate win 10! I just downloaded Sandra from there site. It should fly-I'll let you know in a few.
This took a while to run! Way to complicated It analysed every chip on board. No screen shots-I don't have any software for that either. Sandra ranked my rig #21849 Higher than 55%. I will figure out what that means when I plug in the new CPU.
I'm stuck using Windows 10 at work for now. They gave me a Macbook pro as well, but I have installed Mint 18.3 on a loaner laptop and I'm able to do almost everything but Office on it. As a work-around, I can remote into a server and use Office on it: Outlook, OneNote, Word Ironically, I don't "hate" Windows 10 because it works for what I need it to do. I'm stuck with all the typical Enterprise policies, endpoint protection and asset software, but other than that... it works fine. As long as I don't have to purchase Windows ever again, I'll tolerate it. In fact, I've started using Linux for my Gaming LAN Parties at home as well. I still have Windows parititions but rarely boot to them
I have to add on... After using Linux every day for almost 5 years now, I can't stand Windows anymore. Anything Windows can do = Linux can do it Anything Windows can't Do = Linux can do it
I am going back to Win 7----Did I mention how much I hate win 10? To top it off I install Mint (peer pressure!) on my folding rig. F@H ran great for a few hours and then both clients just craped out. Darn oh darn! I payed good money for an OS (did I mention Win 10?) I can't stand to have on any of my rigs!
Thought I would satisfy Boomans request the best that I could. Is this what you had in mind? One screenshot(using Snipit tool you recommended. Thanks I didn't even know it was there! Folding went from 7to8 thousand to 15 to 16 thousand PPD! Me thinks this thing is a beast. it's one of those I've Leary of-it requires 125w to run and it runs a bit warm. we shall see! It's been folding all afternoon without a stutter-all eight cores at a blistering 100%
