Posted: Aug 06, 2017 5:05 pm
I'm just getting around to replacing my original rig that has been doing no folding since its motherboard failed and I replaced it with a spare mini atx board that did not have the space for a decent graphics card while I had a pcie raid card in place for my tv recordings.
It used to have a small nvidia 750ti running in it which I have now got going on the replacement board. I will replace that with something bigger eventually, as I will have the space on the new full size board.
After starting the build I learned that Ubuntu currently has some issues with FAH client but found a workaround on the FAH forums and it seems to be up and running stably now. It took a while to figure it out though. I was going to go with Chakra linux like on my other rig but they are a bit behind with the newer linux kernels that are better suited for ryzen based builds. I have stuck with kubuntu 17.04 with the 4.10.0-30 kernel which was on the old rig as well. I am still toying with the idea of trying a different distro to get a newer kernel and better FAH support but I may just install kubuntu 17.10 or the next Chakra release when they come along.
My other rig, which now has two Nvidia 970s is not very stable at the moment. I need to keep an eye on the FAH service on that one as it keeps stalling and not picking up new WUs. I should ask the FAH forum about that as I keep having to restart the service to get the folding going again.
For the new build I am going with a x370 board, ryzen 1700 8 core 65watt processor, DDR4-3200 RAM and a Samsung M.2 960 EVO 250GB NVME SSD as the OS /root and /home partitions. It takes only about 30 seconds to reboot as the NVME SSD is blisteringly fast. It should rattle through my video transcodes too once I get ffmpeg running on all 16 threads on this processor.
It used to have a small nvidia 750ti running in it which I have now got going on the replacement board. I will replace that with something bigger eventually, as I will have the space on the new full size board.
After starting the build I learned that Ubuntu currently has some issues with FAH client but found a workaround on the FAH forums and it seems to be up and running stably now. It took a while to figure it out though. I was going to go with Chakra linux like on my other rig but they are a bit behind with the newer linux kernels that are better suited for ryzen based builds. I have stuck with kubuntu 17.04 with the 4.10.0-30 kernel which was on the old rig as well. I am still toying with the idea of trying a different distro to get a newer kernel and better FAH support but I may just install kubuntu 17.10 or the next Chakra release when they come along.
My other rig, which now has two Nvidia 970s is not very stable at the moment. I need to keep an eye on the FAH service on that one as it keeps stalling and not picking up new WUs. I should ask the FAH forum about that as I keep having to restart the service to get the folding going again.
For the new build I am going with a x370 board, ryzen 1700 8 core 65watt processor, DDR4-3200 RAM and a Samsung M.2 960 EVO 250GB NVME SSD as the OS /root and /home partitions. It takes only about 30 seconds to reboot as the NVME SSD is blisteringly fast. It should rattle through my video transcodes too once I get ffmpeg running on all 16 threads on this processor.