Cool - The every computation cycle helps 
Have you not had any work units at all on your GPUs? I can sometimes go 20 hours without a work unit - the logs just show:
No WUs available for this configuration
ā¦and then suddenly some GPU-work units show up for me to crunch.
I think there might even be further requirements for the GPU-units as wellā¦
Both of those GPUs you have, were pretty decent ones, when they were new! 
We were heavy into that one.
Well I figured it out and this thread could use a much needed bump.
You were assuming I was smart enough to have at least configured my GPU in Configure>Slots>+Add>GPU>Save but I showed you lol
This old PC with a FX 6300 six core and a GTX 960 went from around 6k points a day to around 200k! I should be celebrating 1 million points today!
Awesome! Did you remember to request a passkey? That will give you bonus points (Quick Return Bonus) 
Oh, and we are currently ranked 3476 out of 252,937 for teams! It would be cool if there were any gamers here that would put their GPUs to work too
Yes I used the same passkey on both PCs.
Download and install the Folding@Home client here: https://foldingathome.org/iamoneinamillion/ - when it asks you for a team number, input this: 261398 - also to get extra points you can request a passkey here: https://apps.foldingathome.org/getpasskey - set the client to work āWhen idleā - you can experiment with āWhile I workā, but you might find it annoying.
Even if you donāt have a monster machine you can help.
Right now our team is in the top 2,800 (out of >253,000) - so weāre doing pretty good! Join the ELR team with ID: 261398
How much room does it need to run from my HDD? Iāll see if I can clear spots on all 4 of mine to run it in parallel. I only have an I5 6th gen processor. What kind of load does it put on a pc?
I guess Iām going to have to lock a HDD down or detach it while this app runs. I have confidential business documents on my pc.
Not sure how much disk space it takes - The work units themselves are from 5-50 MB and the results that are uploaded are from 10-100 MB - and it can have one result while downloading a new work unit - so Iād say anywhere from 20-300 MB for the data I would say - and the program itself is under 100 MB I think.
Itās rough on your system though, which is why most will want to run it āWhen idleā (the default) - I run a lot āWhile I workā these days, with a window open, because my room gets WARM when it runs 
Also the software loves gaming graphics cards - those can really crunch some numbers!
It passed through my eithernet. I have a UPS. The only saving grace is I use raid 6. itās not NAS but I donāt run a server. I just need loss prevention from a HDD failure.
If you have problems with power surges potentially damaging your system, perhaps it would be an idea to use an UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) 
I use a device like this for my NAS and cable modem:
You can even get smaller, cheaper ones - but be sure it is rated for the power that your PC can pull ā¦
Mineās a simple ES 550. nothing grand anymore. Itās the data on my HDDās thatās important.
you have a 650W power supply?!?!?! and pull that many watts out of it??? no wonder your room gets hot!!!
The UPS is somewhere else, where my NAS and cable modem and some switches are If a power cut/surge happens, then it can really cause problems for the NAS (with RAID etc) ā¦
I donāt use a UPS for my machine, since power surges/cuts arenāt that big of a problem hereā¦ And itās easier to deal with, since my main drives are SSDs (not in a RAID)ā¦
The PSU on my machine is around that, I think though - it gets toasty in the office - and I am not even running the folding-client on my CPU - only on my GPU 
I havenāt studied NAS that much. Itās the new thing but so far I havenāt heard anything that wakes me up about it. I may have missed the big deal about it though. I have thought about SSDās but theyāre pricey. At least to me they are.
NAS is just networked cheap storage - I use it for photos, movies, backup etc
Yep, SSDs are not cheap, especially not the NVMe-kind - but itās my work machine, so they get to pay for it
ahā¦ ok. SATAās kinda cheap lol. I didnāt know NAS was cheaper. Itās not like the old SCSI days. I wish they made sustained read\writes like the SCSIās did. So much stuff you canāt get anymore. Different architecture but SATA is pretty much EIDE performance.
Sorry, I was not clear. A NAS is just a mini-server that uses SATA-drives (or other types) - and they arenāt even that cheap, but the spinning storage is fairly cheap (the drives themselves)ā¦ A NAS is just practical, if you need to share some storage or make backups of more than one machine, or have a movie library
This is a example of a NAS (albeit a pricey one):
ok, so it should be rather similar to my raid 6 expansion card and 4 HDDS? the expansion card handles all the read\writes. It reads like mad but writes about the same as a normal HDD does.
