My return to F@H, rig spec help please

dekez

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Hi all

A couple of months after moving and completely gutting and decorating our house there is some light at the end of the tunnel and we are nearly finished, only bathrooms, hallways and garage left, most importantly, there is somewhere to place a PC now :p. (News should be back next week, just waiting for one more weeks worth of data to complete the tables :))

So I’m looking to repopulate my rigs again and after a quick look on OcUK it’s clear a lot has changed in the year I’ve been away and I could do with some help please.

The long term plan is to have 2 rigs, a gaming / development rig, and a server. Both rigs will be split between folding@home and boinc.

Gaming rig:
Budget around £1000
Which socket / cpu? Is i7 still the best? Which one?
Which graphics cards? Is Nvidia still better? I would like at least 2, and PPD/W is important.
The rest I can sort myself.

Server:
This is going to be located under the stairs in a custom built server rack. This will be on 24/7 and be the hub for the house so PPD/W is very important.
I believe a 4P system is probably the best option here, is the PPD/W still as good as it was before I left? Are there any better options than 4P?

I’ll probably build the gaming rig first after Christmas (hopefully pic up some stuff in the sales), then the server later once my wallet has a chance to recover.

Any advice and help would be most appreciated

Thanks

dekez
 
That's good news on the 4P, that's to come a bit later so will contact you for more info then if that's ok. I think I would struggle to justify another PC to the Mrs, she's not best pleased that I have commandeered the understairs cupboard for use as a comms room :D

What about graphics cards? Any recommendations from anyone? Thanks.
 
760s appear to be at a good price / performance point, anything better for around the £200 mark?
 
ozaudio said:
NVidia should be better if your air cooling. I had an amd 7950 doing 80k ppd but the temps was just stupid high even with top notch case cooling , gtx760 should give nice ppd while staying cooler and using less power than amd cards, even 2 gtx 470s didn't get as hot as 1
7950 folding

its nice to see you back around :cool:
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Cheers oz, thanks for the info yes I'll be air cooling so 760s sound like a good choice then. Graphics sorted!

What about a socket - 1150 I guess?
 
ozaudio said:
I guess what ever cpu socket you want. cpu folding isn't anything to rave about these days unless its a 2/4p set up, you say you want it for gaming and development so a 4670 i5 or the 4770k i7 would be a good bet I should imagen
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4770k looks good, time to start shopping :)
 
Ok, slight change of plan, looks like the 4P rig may be happening first ;)

Anyone know of any good 4P G34 guides? Need to get my head around set up and in particular operating systems etc and how I can get the server to function as a home file server + host for virtual machines.

Thanks
 
hmmm. I may have to rethink, I thought as the power draw was (relatively) low compared to GPU rigs the heat output would be less.

I guess I could run it in the garage? Although part of the appeal was to help heating the house in winter.

But yes thinking about it, I think you're right, a light weight solution underthe stairs would be better.
 
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