I already have the Q9650 systems lying around, and I'm not really wanting to build new systems from scratch; I figured I'd throw in a GPU into each to make them as good as possible.If you can elaborate on what you're trying to do exactly I would imagine better advice could be given? Given that DC is cumulative(and by its nature distributed) you'd be better off with multiple high end GPU's vs 1 ultra high end GPU. I would imagine running something like Hashcat would be similar. Your platform costs for motherboard/cpu/ram are such a small portion of the total cost including a high end GPU that using something that will bottleneck it like a Core2Quad is a bad move.
I don't know what this means. If it's an accusation of trying to break into someone else's Bitcoin wallet: absolutely not.Trying to get in an old Bitcoin wallet?
Q9650@VirtualLarry is probably on the right track. Something like a 1660ti may not be super heavily bottlenecked by a Q9550 at Folding@home, but probably will be somewhat. Anything higher end than that will probably be bottlenecked quite a bit. I remember when I moved an RTX 2070 from a Core2Duo to a 4770k the PPD improved by quite a bit.
For other projects(BOINC) it can be less of an issue. I was running a pretty high end card in an Athlon X4 and it ran relatively okay on some projects.
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Not that it makes a difference at this point. I don't think I can get back anywhere on the leaderboard for our team. The rigs are too slow.
What card?If you're in the US and will consistently use it for crunching projects for the TeAm I have a low end video card I can send you for no cost that may work well in a Q9650.
I would work on making some cheap systems. a Ryzen 3600 is pretty good to support video cards of the current generation, and the CPU is only $250. You can get a motherboard for a little over $50, and 16 gig of 3200 for $70. So add some decent video cards, and you can have some nice upgraded machines.
What I was suggesting would do CPU and GPU work, and even a 3090 would not be handicapped (if they ever got affordable)For GPU only you'd really only need something like a sub $100 CPU such as the AMD A10-9700 CPU and cut the RAM down to 8GB and you'll have a much more modern system capable of handling a much better GPU or two.
What I was suggesting would do CPU and GPU work, and even a 3090 would not be handicapped (if they ever got affordable)
I'm assuming that's all USD.I would work on making some cheap systems. a Ryzen 3600 is pretty good to support video cards of the current generation, and the CPU is only $250. You can get a motherboard for a little over $50, and 16 gig of 3200 for $70. So add some decent video cards, and you can have some nice upgraded machines.
LOL, thanks for being honest.My budget is, say, 125 USD (give or take) per GPU. I know that's not much.
I literally don't know which of those three suggestions is the best card, short of doing research. As mentioned, I'm very much out of the loop these days.Not sure what GPU is avail at that price-point, besides a GT 1030. Maybe a GTX 750 ti or GTX 1050 2GB.
I'll try doing some research.Possibly used Hawaii cards could be had for about $125. I recall they can be good for compute due to large amount of compute cores and wide memory bus, though IDK how well they would do for your application.
I missed this part of the post until just now. It's pretty frequent that people have an old bitcoin wallet(of their own) that they do not remember the password to and go looking for ways to get into it to retrieve their own bitcoin contained in it. It wasn't an accusation of any wrongdoing, I was just thinking that was a likely reason when you first posted.I don't know what this means. If it's an accusation of trying to break into someone else's Bitcoin wallet: absolutely not.
That's lol.I have a Q9650 of my own - I basically retired it as DC box since a $35 raspberry pi generates about 50% the WCG points per day at roughly 150 watts less.