I pay $120/mo for 960/35 Mbps. I would love faster upload speed.
Humor me...I talk to myself
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I'm paying around 120 a month for 200 down through Spectrum. I forget the up, I'm not really uploading enough to make that important. AT&T and another company (Alta Fiber) have laid fiber in the last few years but AT&T pricing is still not competitive for their speeds and Alta service still isn't available. 
I sold my Dell Nvidia RTX 3080 10GB on eBay today. The bidding surpassed my "buy it now" price by $30. It sold for $355 + shipping. I had previously sold my RTX Titan X Pascal, and this leaves me without a crunching GPU. I plan to put my computer in a case and get rid of the mining rack or sell the parts on eBay. I want a passively cooled computer again because I'm getting tired of noise and dust.
Noise is my main motivation for open loop water cooling though it can be a hassle. Dust filters on a lot of cases these days do a good job of keeping the dust out of the inside. I just vacuum the filters whenever I vacuum the room and deal with the trivial amount of dust on the inside when I change fluid once per year.
I have installed Ubuntu 23.10 and ran BOINC benchmarks. On the supposedly fast Nobara (Fedora-based): Measured floating-point speed: was 6.9 billion ops/sec and the measured integer speed: ~21 billion ops/sec. (Pop!_OS was faster with 7.3 billion ops/sec, floating point.)
Ubuntu 23.10:
Ubuntu 23.10:
| Measured floating point speed | 7.85 billion ops/sec |
| Measured integer speed | 151.15 billion ops/sec |
I had a mining rig and sold the components other than power supplies, hard drives, and the rack. When I built my current computer, the Aorus Z590 Pro AX with an Intel i9-10850K, I put it in the mining rig rack. It is convenient, but it is bulky and ugly. I decided to put it in a case since I'm not going to live forever and no one would want it in it's current configuration. I have ordered an Antec DF700 Flux mid-tower case.
World Community Grid has cured my crunching addiction, and that is a good thing.
World Community Grid has cured my crunching addiction, and that is a good thing.
Living in Florida is what cured me, between skyrocketing insurance and electric costs I just cant justify it anymore. It was becoming a question of whether I wanted to donate crunch time or do ANYTHING other than sit around the house....
It's certainly harder to justify with the price of everything going up especially without significant and specific accomplishments. I spent around 5k on GPUs on my last major upgrade, I'm probably not going to spend that much anymore. I'm considering rolling over to Android almost exclusively as time goes on.
A photo of my Antec case.
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The article is 2 years old but I doubt anything has changed. Clear Linux in particular was intended for heavy compute loads, I always wanted to try it but didn't because of the many Linux driver installation nightmares I had. I think WDDM pretty much ended any Windows performance advantage, except for a few niche uses.
I think WDDM pretty much ended any Windows performance advantage, except for a few niche uses.
I installed Clear Linux on a drive and saw negligible improvement over Pop!_OS. It may be good for compute loads, but little things like getting the printer to work are a pain. Available apps are limited compared to Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and Pop!_OS. I still keep going back to Windows 11 Insider Preview.
You're a bolder man than I. I've spent enough time lost in command line hell, PopOS is good for me, for BOINC needs. I'll have rethink if I ever switch over to AMD GPUs. I feel like ClearLinux and others are only for the geekiest of the geeks.
I will probably never be confident enough to go to Linux full time, until it's more plug & play like Windows is. I'm at a point in life where I just need things to work. I used to enjoy tinkering and fixing computer problems, but not anymore.
I've spent enough time lost in command line hell, PopOS is good for me, for BOINC needs. I'll have rethink if I ever switch over to AMD GPUs. I feel like ClearLinux and others are only for the geekiest of the geeks. I will probably never be confident enough to go to Linux full time, until it's more plug & play like Windows is. I'm at a point in life where I just need things to work. I used to enjoy tinkering and fixing computer problems, but not anymore.