Best all-things to all people Boinc system?

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Tom M Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 28 Nov 02 Posts: 5124 Credit: 276,046,078 RAC: 462	Message 2028304 - Posted: 18 Jan 2020, 12:12:17 UTC - in response to Message 2028256. Budget end? Buy an ex lease i5 workstation / desktop and fit whatever GPU your budget / case space / power supply will handle. If it's a daily driver, throw in a SSD, even a small one as the system disk really speeds things up, and is probably the single best thing you can do to a budget machine. A small SSD is now cheaper than a HDD, so unless you NEED a heap of storage, then a 256 gb SSD cheap and perfectly good enough. If it's a BOINC only machine, then hard disk doesn't really matter. It just needs something to boot from and some storage, the few extra seconds a SSD saves hardly matters. I've got a box full of assorted SATA disks that are suitable. But if it's a PC you want to actually use, go for the SSD and some extra RAM, even if it's a low spec machine, it's the biggest boost you can give any machine. Thank you for the SSD reminder. I have two different machines running with small SSD's. And the speed up is amazing. I don't have one on my Windows desktop. Guess I better start shopping :) Tom A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association). ID: 2028304 ·

Grant (SSSF) Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13822 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304	Message 2028389 - Posted: 18 Jan 2020, 20:56:22 UTC - in response to Message 2028256. If it's a BOINC only machine, then hard disk doesn't really matter. It just needs something to boot from and some storage, the few extra seconds a SSD saves hardly matters. An SSD makes the "Finish file present too long" issue less likely to occur. Grant Darwin NT ID: 2028389 ·

juan BFP Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 16 Mar 07 Posts: 9786 Credit: 572,710,851 RAC: 3,799	Message 2028406 - Posted: 18 Jan 2020, 21:47:45 UTC - in response to Message 2028389. Last modified: 18 Jan 2020, 21:47:59 UTC If it's a BOINC only machine, then hard disk doesn't really matter. It just needs something to boot from and some storage, the few extra seconds a SSD saves hardly matters. An SSD makes the "Finish file present too long" issue less likely to occur. AFAIK the latest builds of Boinc fixed that too. Not remember in what version the fix was added but the 7.16.3 sure has it fixed. ID: 2028406 ·

Grant (SSSF) Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13822 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304	Message 2028408 - Posted: 18 Jan 2020, 22:06:56 UTC - in response to Message 2028406. AFAIK the latest builds of Boinc fixed that too. Not remember in what version the fix was added but the 7.16.3 sure has it fixed. What about Windows? I've got 7.6.33 and i got in to the habit of exiting BOINC before shutting down or rebooting my system to stop the problem from occurring. Grant Darwin NT ID: 2028408 ·

Keith Myers Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 29 Apr 01 Posts: 13164 Credit: 1,160,866,277 RAC: 1,873	Message 2028409 - Posted: 18 Jan 2020, 22:12:26 UTC - in response to Message 2028408. The finish file fix made it into the 7.16 branch for both Windows and Linux. Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association) ID: 2028409 ·

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