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That CPU should be fine. It has AES-NI, which will accelerate encryption for WireGuard/IPsec/OpenVPN if you are going to set up a VPN. If you expand your current network, and start to do any any routing at 10Gbps, then you might see some bottlenecks. For your current setup it should be more than enough CPU.

Thanks for the offer, but the whole update fiasco with EdgeOS has soured my opinion on Ubiquiti, which was already going downhill thanks to a bunch of older unresolved issues along with the long standing issue of dying internal USB storage "bricking" the hardware. I grabbed a cheap EdgeRouter X to stand up my network for the time being, but I am currently running VyOS in a VM and I am thinking about running it on hardware as my permanent router/firewall/VPN solution.

I'm just going to quote myself. As long as your 10G devices are on the same switch, subnet, and vLAN, you probably don't need to worry about your router being 10G capable, unless of course you do have faster than gigabit internet. Additionally if you do for some reason need a 10G router to route between separate vLANs then you are going to want a fast CPU with a decent sized cache.

You should be able to grab a used intel X540-t2 card on Ebay for pretty cheap, if you need a 10Gbase-T NIC.

I have a zombie 7970 that pretty much refuses to die. It has been resurrected from the dead three times. The first time it kind of just came back to life all on it's own. The second time I baked it. The third time it didn't actually die, but it will no longer output anything to the monitor. It will happily run compute work, and it is a great overclocker that can run heavy fp64 work loads at 1315core|1550mem.

No idea on the RPD hangs. Just a slightly OT post of another option to control and monitor remote clients.

A bit ironic since Musk runs the biggest walled garden in the car industry. No independent dealerships (that's why you can't buy a Tesla in a number of states), very few independant repair shops, and a more or less never ending ongoing list of GPL violations. Tesla uses the same excuses Apple uses to justify their closed ecosystem.

Since WSL and SSH are now a thing on Windows, you could just use that to monitor and control the folding client, if you don't want to mess around with RDP sessions. Quick example of how I do that on Linux. Would just need to use the right paths for Windows. Monitor the log refreshing every 30 seconds: $ watch -n30 "tail -n25 /opt/fah/log.txt" Pause/resume/finish all the slots (make sure that FAHClient is in your path): $ FAHClient --send-pause $ FAHClient --send-unpause $ FAHClient --send-finish To do the same for individual slots, just append the slot number (00, 01, 02, etc) to the end of the command $ FAHClient --send-pause/unpause/finish 01 I alias the above commands to easy to remeber things like pfold, rfold, fstat, etc.

Does Windows RDP still switch the GPU driver and kill whatever is running? Some other RDP solutions like TeamViewer and Chrome Remote Desktop should work fine on a Windows box.

Interesting. I didn't know that was really a thing. I wonder how that goes once development hits a stable release. It sounds a bit more like Debian Sid, than an actual install it once update it forever rolling release like Arch or openSUSE Tumbleweed. Has Gnome held up OK or does it frequently break? I've been on Arch for the last decade, but without a DE. Gnome, or at least the extensions/plugins seem to be the pain point with new releases.

Too many fast connections, gotta bring this back for those of us that live in the sticks with only one option for an ISP.

That is an epic backplate. I cheaped out and just painted the backplates on the Radeon VIIs in my workstation. Although, they don't really need much cooling on the backplate (gotta love HBM).

Might be joining the opnsense side of the club. I had been using Ubiquiti gear for the last 8 years, but my last EdgeRouter ERLite-3 just died and it could not be resuscitated with a new USB drive. Thinking about repurposing some soon to be retired hardware, and doing a fun 1U 3200G build, running opnsense, to put in my network rack.

Sorry for my late start team. Internet went out in my area Friday night, and then my router decided to begin a slow death sometime during the outage. This turned into a nightmare to troubleshoot, because I was just assuming that the internet was still down. I restarted my router a few times, once it looked like the internet was back up, and that is when I started to suspect that, in a rather unbelievable coincidence, my router had also decided to die. My modem just serves as a dumb bridge to my EdgeRouter, so I went through a bunch of config/re-config on the router and modem, before I noticed that the only port that was lit up on my router was the console port. Hooked my laptop up to the modem, took it out of bridge mode, and lo and behold I had internet access. Currently using my ISP modem as my router, so things are back up for now, but I will probably have some additional down-time once I get my new router. I should be able to time it with the start of a WU, so hopefully it won't affect my folding output.

Double post because I'm the captain, and that's what captains do. Adding the TFA logo to the OP.

@Avacado @axipher Are we all ready to start our reign of dominance? I'll be folding a 980 KPE for at least the first month. I ran through some testing on a few different GPUs, but the 980 was the best compromise I could make between actual folding output and ETF points. I have a few GPUs that might be better for the comp, but the actual PPD was just too low for me to justify running 24/7, when I have other gear sitting on a shelf with respectable output.

This is a great topic. Having mostly ran AMD GPUs for the past decade, I'm pretty used to the notion of undervolting+overclocking (especially in the last few generations) to achieve equal performance at lower power draw. Efficiency is king, especially for systems that are going to run 24/7.

Unless you want it, and then you're free to roll your own keys and encryption. The AMA from the source is more or less worthless unless you were looking for an advertisement for Windows "cloud" services. It will be interesting to see how this evolves. Looks like jailbreaking Windows will be a thing in the future. It will also be interesting to see how in place upgrades work. I guess mbr2gpt will now be a part of the Windows installer. Outside of this being the first step for more intrusive and restrictive DRM, I don't really see the point of secure boot and TPM being a requirement. If anyone has it, I'd love to see a link to the non-marketing, actual engineering reasons behind these requirements. "It makes your device more secure" has zero substance. The minimum CPU requirements are even more absurd. If there is so much focus on helping me secure my device, then why is Microsoft even letting me run an 8700k? What kind of "testing" are they doing that would make such an arbitrary minimum CPU requirement?

I am probably not going to be much help on Windows. Do the GPUs show up in device manager at all? Only suggestion I would have is to just add GPUs one by one to see if it is an issue with that many GPUs. Also, you could disable HD Audio and some USB ports in the BIOS, to check if it is an allocation issue.

I know that I had some shenanigans when I tried to run headless with that board. Are you able to boot into the OS? If not you might try putting a GPU with display out in the primary GPU slot. Also, make sure your boot drive is GPT formatted and not MBR, since you have to disable CSM in order to enable Above 4G decoding.

I know that option is in there somewhere, but I don't remember for sure where it is. I think it's in the "Boot" section of the UEFI. The last time I ran it I had multiple GPUs running plus at least one GPU on a m.2->PCIe card.

The trend in HPC, especially with high density muti-GPU nodes, is water-cooling all the things. 6U systems like this dual Epyc w/ 8x NVIDIA GPUs are becoming much more common. https://bizon-tech.com/bizon-zx9000.html

Most of my gear that runs 24/7 is water-cooled. As long as you follow some best practices like EPDM tubing, distilled+Mayhems biocide and inhibitor, dual pumps in serial, there is not really anything to worry about or any additional maintenance. I haven't touched my workstation in 16 months other than to top off the fluid one time, and it runs 24/7 @ about 1900-2000W.

That is looking great, and so is your F@H production. Awesome to see all that hardware running a volunteer compute project.

No Caselabs, just a cheap clone. Thermaltake Core x5.