quad socket f in f@h these days

Hey guys

I've been gifted the following:
H8QME-2 with hexcore 2.0 socket F cpus opteron 8423
8x 2GB ddr2
socket 939 heatsinks modified for socket F


It has some adapters to adapt PCI-E to EPS.
What kind of PSU would be sufficient to push this?
The only thing I really have available at the moment would be an Enermax ENP350AST and an 2006-era PCP&C 510-SLI, so if neither would work then I'd have to hit Amazon.

IIRC a 2700K would be thumping out about the same PPD, is that still the case?

I had considered loading up 64GB of RAM ($150) into this thing and using it for ESXi labs, then using the 4P's idle time for F@H.

Running f@h 24/7 your opterons would get more than a 2700k as the 2700k is no longer able to do BA work units.

Having said that as you are planning ESXi usage you are far better off running standard SMP but I do not know what ppd you could expect.

Power wise the enermax isn't powerful enough and I would be wary about connecting a 8 year old PSU up to such kit. I'd hit amazon for a new 600w or try FS/FT

I was looking at the vCPU limits for ESXi free, and I probably won't fold in VMs.
It would be preatty easy to dual boot Ubuntu on a disk and have a USB stick for the ESXi. When I plan to do labs I can just wait for the WU to finish and reboot it.

I'll start looking for a 600W'er, thanks for the feedback on that.

could do it the other way round and have F@h on a usb stick - the [H] DC guru's have written an installer that basically does everything for setting up an optimised folding OS

Nathan_P said:

could do it the other way round and have F@h on a usb stick - the [H] DC guru's have written an installer that basically does everything for setting up an optimised folding OS

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True, heck I could even pxe boot and just skip the sticks altogether.

I kind of forgot about this. Should have a power supply here on Monday. Got a new Seasonic S12II 620. Hope it's enough oomph.

Fired it up last night on top of a cardboard box. I'll stuff it into my Stacker 810 tonight.

I've just picked up a quad socket F machine myself, got a HP DL585 G2 for cheap. Before that I was tempted by the same board and similar CPUs but was put off by the thought of case modding to make it fit, I do need to invest in a dremel. I'll be using mine for similar purposes, F@H or BOINC most of the time and VMs for testing sometimes, keeps my main machine free for other things.