Best products from r/BOINC

We found 3 comments on r/BOINC discussing the most recommended products. We ran sentiment analysis on each of these comments to determine how redditors feel about different products. We found 3 products and ranked them based on the amount of positive reactions they received. Here are the top 20.

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u/domstang68 · 9 pointsr/BOINC

External GPUs are very nit picky. You usually need an enclosure and a very new laptop that has the port required to drive such a device. It is also very costly typically, and you need to have a box, GPU on top of, and a PSU if it is not included. What laptop do you have?

https://www.amazon.com/Laptop-External-PCI-Graphics-Card/dp/B00Q4VMLF6

I just saw someone do a video on this guy. It is cheaper, but you need to rip out your wifi card (if it is not removable and you do not have a port for it, you cannot use this and are out of luck), as well as get a GPU and a PSU to run it. It has recommended GPUs on there as well.

Also, depending on how the project schedules GPU, it might take a decent amount of CPU power to feed the GPU. For instance, my 8350 needs to dedicate an entire core just to feed an aging 560 Ti for Einstein@Home. If you have a weaker laptop, you may find up starving the GPU anyway unfortunately.

For the cost, you might be better off getting an old desktop, such as one of the off lease business ones from HP or Dell and throwing an older GPU in there, such as a 750 Ti. Better performance, and possibly cheaper than the mess required to get this solution working.

EDIT: Depending on laptop, some projects support Intel GPUs. Better than nothing if it's the last resort.

u/Vortac2 · 2 pointsr/BOINC

7950 is almost as good as 7970. Amazon UK has 2 in stock (as R9 280):

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00IZH6CLQ