Advice on a "second-grade" folding rig
Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2014 6:55 am
Due to some electrical failures (1 ram stick, 1 videocard), I'm retiring my old folding rig (basically a 3GHz Phenom II with 2 GTX460s 1Gb), but I wouldn't want to build a brand new system for the task (even if current hardware would be far more efficient).
If you mind, I would like to receive your advice.
As I have a chance, I might substitute that AMD rig with an also just retired ex video editing workstation: the relevant hardware is not anything special for today standards (about 2010, Intel X3360, aka Q9550, 8Gb DDR2, GTX 560Ti-448), but it looks like a bit hot to run continuatively.
What do you think about it? And would it worth to overclock that hw? At which performance level? Which could be rough settings to run it reliably 24/7? And above all, according to your experience, can it run then enough "quiet", if oc'ed to some level?
Thanks you in advance for any kind advice.
If you mind, I would like to receive your advice.
As I have a chance, I might substitute that AMD rig with an also just retired ex video editing workstation: the relevant hardware is not anything special for today standards (about 2010, Intel X3360, aka Q9550, 8Gb DDR2, GTX 560Ti-448), but it looks like a bit hot to run continuatively.
What do you think about it? And would it worth to overclock that hw? At which performance level? Which could be rough settings to run it reliably 24/7? And above all, according to your experience, can it run then enough "quiet", if oc'ed to some level?
Thanks you in advance for any kind advice.