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Follow-up: I picked up a used i5-8600K on fleabay. I'm not going to overclock the processor though it is one of the overclockable processors. It does not have hyperthreading, the i7 do that, but for my needs it'll be fine.

Thanks for the advice.

I have an 8th generation Intel motherboard which only accepts an 8th generation processor, for example i5-8400, the 4 digit starts with an 8. I have 8 Gigs of lower speed DDR4 ram in it and I don't plan to overclock the CPU, but it needs a CPU. I am going to try Linux on this board & use it sole...

If you want them combined why use a different name? They will combine with the same name and key. You can use the same name on multiple teams. Good question. I have 4 GPUs running doing WUs for Covid research. I'm enjoying helping out a team and have donated a lot of points there. I recently read o...

A follow-up. There does seem to be an issue when you change the name and the team, but not the passkey. My assumption was the passkey was the key to giving credit across multiple machines to one total score. Apparently the name has to be the same across as well. What I found was a WU that was rated ...

Thank you.

I belong to a team and am interested in also joining with another team which requires me to use a different name & of course, they have a different team number. In the web client there is an option to change identity. Clicking on that it shows name, team number, & passkey. I'm assuming if I ...

Heh, short of doing a Macrium backup to a new drive & recloning that backup & then running F@H freshly with the same WU & operating conditions (with internet access off) & then using F@H as a valid testing benchmark, F@H would be a tough one to use as a benchmark. :) For me, I'm sure...

That's all that's left of the info when the bad work unit appeared, I can't post any more from that one. F@H isn't delivering WU's & with that, I just closed down F@H, restarted & here's the log. *********************** Log Started 2020-05-24T00:32:06Z *********************** 00:32:06:Trying...

I've run into another bad work unit seen below at 16:33. The first bad work unit/crash was, I was told, picked up by another cruncher and was completed successfully. I have tried to stress test the GPU and all my attempts have been successful. The two tests I have tried are FAHBench using OpenCL, si...

PantherX, MeeLee & Halo, Thanks again for the thoughts & advice. I have the 2080Ti XC Ultra running alone in the computer upstairs. It's not terribly loud at the moment but the sides are off the case & it's as expected, a whole lot faster than the GTX 1080 FWC & the 2060 KO. I do hav...

Kiore, Heh, reminiscing is always fun. One of the problems with proper air flow with a muffin fan is the lousy directionality of the air flow. I have a tube stereo amplifier in an open front & back cabinet. I wanted to blow air across the tubes to keep them cool and had some muffin fans. When I ...

Kiore & MeeLee: Well heck, I understand now. The only cards I have that are good for Folding vent out the back. Only the earlier cards without fans heated the inside. The RTX 2080 coming is a 11G-P4-2383-KR and as I wasn't interested in it for video, didn't study the back & now see there's n...

Kiore, I remember hearing back in the day, that the length of the bus to the CPU was critical to speed, even to the dimensions within the processor itself. I left the tech back a long time ago & haven't kept up with what's current. I have been thinking the GPU was essentially separate from the C...

Jimbo, yes, that's the board downstairs. Thanks, I won't use the black one. MeeLee, I don't know if my processor/board is Core 21 or 22, not something I have known about, I've paid attention to reviews and bought the components that consistently did well review-wise at the time. I'm guessing both of...

So many helpful replies. The PC in my sig is the one I'm moving the fanless card to, or, I could switch computers. The computer I was planning on putting both cards into is an ASUS P8Z68-DELUXE-GEN3. An older computer with I think an i7-2600K. It is air cooled with a cooler Master 212 EVO. It is a b...