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Originally Posted by slackerDude
(Post 6276375)
I ran F@H (Folding at Home) on my gtx 970 + rtx 2060s for nearly a year during covid - the spike in electrical bills (probably also due to covid / being at home) was so high that I can't imagine trying anything like that again. Plus, no spare room - houses are relatively small in CA.
Edit: plus, my ryzen 1700 daily driver (8 core / 16 thread) box + GTX 960 would probably contribute as much to BOINC as all of these put together (16 newer cores/threads vs 24 older cores) and for a LOT less power draw.
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That's really strange. I'd say you've got something not setup correctly.
My old system (I build all my own so that I know *exactly* what is in them from the stand-off screws to the rest of the hardware and such) was going on ten years, I believe. Things on the MOBO were starting to go wonky - USB ports not working anymore, and other things making it not safe to remain my 'main use' system anymore.
I made it exclusively one of my BOINC Rosetta@Home crunchers. When I used this box as my main use system, Slackware 14.2 x86_64, my average electric bill now, during the summer with the window unit A/C inside this *OLD*, leaky trailer, is $90-$100/mo. In early spring and fall, when I can open the windows for a month or two and not use A/C or heating, the bill drops to around $50/mo.
The past two months, with my new system being my 'main-use' system (Ryzen 7 3700X, 16GB RAM, MEG X570 UNIFY MOBO, Sound Blaster Audigy Rx, GeForce GTX 960), *and* the old system, both running BOINC Rosetta@Home (the old system using 6 of the 8 cores, the new system using 8 of the 16, both constantly 24/7), my latest bill is $92. I live on a disability check, so it takes a little bit of juggling of things to be able to afford this bill, but it's worth the little bit of trouble (like most of the time living like a mushroom, etc, lol).
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