v1.0 (Active)AMD Zen 4 AM5 Desktop (X870)64GB DDR5 (4x 16GB)195W (F@H Shift) / 285W (Gaming)Docker Compose (F@H v8)foldimate is my partner's CachyOS gaming rig. By day and evening, it's how we run side-by-side co-op in Valheim or Elden Ring: Seamless Co-op (SCO), and where she crushes the Lonely Mountains: Downhill daily ride. Overnight (00:01–06:15 local time), it wakes from S3 sleep, caps its RTX 4070 Ti to an efficiency-tuned 195W envelope, blocks desktop idle auto-suspend while folding, and restores the full 285W gaming TGP as soon as the shift ends.
| Component | Hardware Specification | System Allocation & Details |
|---|---|---|
| CPU | AMD Ryzen 9 7950X (16 Cores / 32 Threads @ up to 5.88 GHz Boost, 64MB L3 Cache) | Socket AM5 Zen 4 Flagship Desktop Processor (integrated Radeon 610M iGPU excluded from F@H) |
| CPU Cooler | be quiet! Silent Loop 3 240mm AIO Liquid Cooler | 3-chamber pump block + dual Silent Wings 4 120mm PWM high-speed radiator fans; cooled in main house by 3-ton Carrier high-efficiency heat pump |
| Motherboard | Gigabyte X870 GAMING X WIFI7 (BIOS F8) | AMD X870 AM5 platform with PCIe 5.0/4.0 x16 graphics slot, triple M.2 NVMe, and integrated Wi-Fi 7 |
| RAM / Memory | 64GB DDR5 (4x 16GB G.SKILL Trident Z5 F5-7200J3445G16G @ 5000 MT/s) |
61.9 GiB usable system memory + 61.9 GiB zram swap for desktop gaming and containerized folding |
| Discrete GPU | ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 Ti (12GB GDDR6X, AD104, VBIOS 95.04.3C.C0.D4) |
Primary gaming and Folding@Home accelerator on PCIe Gen 4.0 x16 (195W F@H shift cap / 285W factory TGP) |
| Storage (NVMe 0) | Samsung SSD 960 PRO 512GB (M.2 NVMe SSD) | High-endurance MLC NVMe storage (/dev/nvme0n1) |
| Storage (NVMe 1) | T-FORCE TM8FFL004T 4TB (M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD) | Primary CachyOS btrfs root/home & game library volume (/dev/nvme1n1, 3.6 TiB) |
| Storage (Bulk SATA) | Seagate IronWolf Pro 8TB (ST8000NE001-2M7101, SATA 6Gb/s) |
Bulk local storage array drive (/dev/sda, 7.3 TiB) |
| OS & Runtime | CachyOS Linux (Kernel 7.2.9-1-cachyos, KDE Plasma, NVIDIA Driver 615.71.09) |
znver4-optimized Arch derivative running Docker + NVIDIA Container Toolkit for isolated F@H v8 execution |
Mapping physical motherboard PCIe slot to PCI Bus Address, NVIDIA software index, physical silicon GPU UUID, and dual-profile power management on host foldimate.
| Motherboard Slot | GPU Model | PCI Bus ID | NVIDIA Index | Physical GPU UUID | Operating Role & Power Profile |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PCIEX16 (Gen4 x16) | ASUS NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti (12GB GDDR6X, AD104) | 01:00.0 |
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Active Overnight (195W F@H Cap 00:01–06:15; 285W Gaming Default outside shift) |
Because foldimate is first and foremost a daily driver gaming PC with user-configured KDE Plasma power management, its folding automation (built on the standardized Fleet Docker Compose Architecture) is designed to be invisible outside the overnight window:
00:01:00 – 06:15:00 Local Time): fah-start.timer launches the foldingathome container at 00:01:00 daily (the start of off-peak hours under the EV2-A utility tariff, which has "near-peak" and peak hours from 15:00–00:00 after migrating from the former 16:00–21:00 TOU-C plan), and fah-stop.timer cleanly stops the container at 06:15:00. An additional afternoon safety stop fires just in case F@H was manually started during the day.S3 deep), a systemd sleep hook (/usr/lib/systemd/system-sleep/fah-rtcwake) programs the hardware RTC wake alarm (/sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm) for 00:00:30 local time, alongside WakeSystem=true on fah-start.timer. Waking 30 seconds early gives wlan0 time to re-associate before the container connects to F@H assignment servers at 00:01:00.fah-inhibit.service): To prevent the desktop's 60-minute idle sleep timer from putting the machine back to sleep at 01:00 mid-WU — without altering user desktop preferences — fah-start.service starts a dedicated systemd-inhibit --what=sleep:idle:handle-suspend-key --mode=block lock unit that is automatically released by fah-stop.service at 06:15.nvpowerctl.service runs only during the active F@H shift at 195W (~68% of stock 285W TGP, hitting the Ada Lovelace voltage/frequency sweet spot while keeping acoustics near-silent). When fah-stop.service runs, it stops nvpowerctl.service and resets nvidia-smi -i 0 -pl 285 so full gaming clocks are always restored for Valheim, Elden Ring SCO, and Lonely Mountains: Downhill.