Dedicated Folding Rig questions

[ZipSpeed]

I'm in the process of building a new computer for my sisters and will grab their old rig to use as a dedicated 24/7 folding box and web/file server. A64 X2 3800+ (2 GHz) and 2 GB RAM.

Questions:
- Is it generally safe to fold on a computer that store files?
- Probably will throw in GTX 460 768MB. Will the A64 X2 and 2 GB RAM be enough to feed whatever the GTX 460 needs?

Thanks.

 

[brownstone]

My 2 (small cents) says yes. I had almost that exact same setup and it worked great. I had a gtx460 running on an Athlon x2 (2.2ghz) with 2gb memory that also was used for file storage. The only issue I ran into was a potential problem with running the gpu and classic folding client at the same time (the core priority was setup correctly). I ended up just running the gpu on it and didn't end up losing any ppd as the gpu is able to consistently get around 8-9k and with the cpu going sometimes my gpu would dip down into the 5-6k range.

 

[Markfw]

Did they make a motherboard for the X2 3800 that had PCI-Express ? Thats socket 939, and mine is AGP

 

[ZipSpeed]

Yes, it has a PCI-E slot. Also a socket 939 board. DFI Lanparty UT NF4 SLI-DR Expert. The rig used to have 7800GT SLI. My first and last multi-GPU setup.

 

[Assimilator1]

Did they make a motherboard for the X2 3800 that had PCI-Express ? Thats socket 939, and mine is AGP

Yea loads, the Nfrc3 chipset was AGP, the Nfrc 4 was PCI-E, I would guess that at least 1/2 S939s were PCI-E, maybe more??? (not based on any actual sale figures though 😉)