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Joining team 33 soon..

LigTasm

LigTasm

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Hey everyone! I figured I could post up here and get some insight into a few things. First off, I have been folding for a few years anonymously using various clients but never joined a team. I fold primarily because I've lost a lot of family members to cancer and ALS and this is one of the ways I can help out for the cost of a little hardware and electricity so hopefully in the future others don't have to worry about it. I never joined a team or registered because between deployments there was a lot of time where I would be inactive so I figured it would be best to just wait.

Anyways, the stars aligned last week when I was given a program from work to learn that is very core and RAM intensive. It runs so-so on my i7 3820 machine but is very slow (the work machine for it is a 4P workstation where most of our normal machines are C2D). Fast forward to this week and my P9X79 Pro's onboard audio died and I have to tear up the machine to replace it, combined with some random ebay browsing and I came up with a plan. Since I rarely ever play games any more, I sold off most of my gaming hardware and some extras I had at the house and purchased a Z9PE-D8 WS board and a pair of Ebay Special E5-2650's. Hopefully the 32Gb of RAM I have will work on that board!

Given that 95% of the time it will sit idle while I browse the internet or am at work, I figured its high time to join a team and use the hardware to its best potential. Win 7 is a requirement right now, but I'd like to learn what the best way to set up the machine to get the most out of it is. I've done mainly CPU+GPU using GPU tracker V2 recently, although it seems like the Windows V7 client might be the way to go now? I'm reading through the 2P/4P setup sticky, but I figured an introduction would be in order.

I look forward to folding with you all as soon as I get the hardware set up! :cool:
 
W.Feather said:
1st, welcome aboard


2nd - Take a look at a combo of these:

Virtual Guide to BigBeta, if your machine is able to do it, follow this: http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?p=1037529274#post1037529274

If not, just make a linux virtual machine with:
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1601608

Those are, IMO, the best guides for setting up F@H, in linux it will be more efficient than windows (even when run within virtualization software)
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Gothca, I'll definitely look at those. I forgot to say I am not opposed to running a dual boot setup and native linux, although its been about 10 years since I used it so it would be a learning curve again.
 
LigTasm said:
Gothca, I'll definitely look at those. I forgot to say I am not opposed to running a dual boot setup and native linux, although its been about 10 years since I used it so it would be a learning curve again.
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Not really. The installers for linux have come lightyears in the last 10 tens. They will detect a windows partition on the same disk or on a completely different disk and setup on the boot loader correctly.

And welcome to the [H]orde :)
 
in that case, follow my 2nd link, will get you a fully functional, and folding, linux install. If all yoru doing is internet browsing, then from the folding perspective, linux as a native setup is your best bet.
 
You are going to have to run native Linux to get anywhere near what that machine is capable of. Just out of curiosity, why do you need Win7? Would a Win7 virtual machine do what you need (vpn to work, Outlook maybe?)

And of course, welcome!
 
W.Feather said:
in that case, follow my 2nd link, will get you a fully functional, and folding, linux install. If all yoru doing is internet browsing, then from the folding perspective, linux as a native setup is your best bet.
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musky said:
You are going to have to run native Linux to get anywhere near what that machine is capable of. Just out of curiosity, why do you need Win7? Would a Win7 virtual machine do what you need (vpn to work, Outlook maybe?)

And of course, welcome!
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Win7 VM would probably work just fine, or I can just dual-boot with a small SSD I have for when I need to use it. This is why I was asking for help on how best to set it up :D

Thanks for the suggestions I have a lot of reading to do.
 
Appreciate you choosing the [H]orde as your primary folding affiliation, so WELCOME and Fold [H]ard!!!
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Axdrenalin said:
Appreciate you choosing the [H]orde as your primary folding affiliation, so WELCOME and Fold [H]ard!!!
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Thanks, I can't wait to get to work. My CPU's should arrive sometime next week, the board will be here today. I need to order my water parts still.
 
One thing I would recommend doing soon is to download some of the more mainstream Linux Live CDs and see if you can find one with a UI you can live with. I would normally recommend Ubuntu, but I am not a fan of the Unity UI it uses now. Maybe look into Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Fedora, or OpenSUSE. Any will work fine - you just need one with a UI you can deal with. There are a couple of actual install things you will need to do once you pick one and install it, but we can walk you through that once you have everything up and running.

The reason I like running native Linux with a Windows VM over a dual boot setup is that you would not need to stop folding while you used Windows. It is really going to depend on your needs with Windows as to whether or not a VM is a viable option.
 
musky said:
One thing I would recommend doing soon is to download some of the more mainstream Linux Live CDs and see if you can find one with a UI you can live with. I would normally recommend Ubuntu, but I am not a fan of the Unity UI it uses now. Maybe look into Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Fedora, or OpenSUSE. Any will work fine - you just need one with a UI you can deal with. There are a couple of actual install things you will need to do once you pick one and install it, but we can walk you through that once you have everything up and running.

The reason I like running native Linux with a Windows VM over a dual boot setup is that you would not need to stop folding while you used Windows. It is really going to depend on your needs with Windows as to whether or not a VM is a viable option.
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I'm fairly certain I will need to dual-boot because the program I will be using can take up all the resources the machine has. But it will only be once in a while that I need to load it. I'm going to download a couple of different flavors this weekend and see what I like, thanks for the suggestion.
 
Started building today... I missed my CPU's by about 10 minutes so I have to go pick them up from the post office tomorrow.

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I have this same board, and similar processors. Sadly it is sitting idle at the moment, but Fold on D8 brethren.

Welcome to the team. :)
 
Okay, well I'm up and running! Got the VM installed and folding, but I still haven't been able to figure out how to use HFM.net to monitor it. Also, I don't think Vt-d works on these QS1/C0 chips, I don't know if that will negatively effect anything.
 
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