Folding@Home: THGC Needs You -Team 40051

[Haserath]

Nice, my Asus is factory set at core-700 / shader-1400 / mem-3680 mhz.
Apparently it overclocks well but I havn't done so yet.
I'll wait and see what the price drop is like and then contact seller if noticable drop.

Yep, sounds like mine, the performance has also gone from 1200 ns/day to 700 ns/day.
Have you allowed for the download of larger assignments, 10mb?

All the reviews I read said the card ran unbelievably cool due to the large heatpipe heatsink design.
I've left the fan on auto cooling, its very quiet and running all day the max temp recorded was 53 deg.

The only way is up, I see you've made the top 100, I'm about to break the top 300 😀
Hopefully the team will start to move in the right direction, cheap GTX460 anyone? :lol:

I'm wondering if the new HD 6xxx would be awesome folders. With the redesign of the stream processors, they could be much better than before at folding(though the client is holding them back as well).

Why doesn't the F@H team make a new AMD client? Is it harder to code, or do they believe the benefit wouldn't be enough?

 

[beanoslim]

I'm wondering if the new HD 6xxx would be awesome folders. With the redesign of the stream processors, they could be much better than before at folding(though the client is holding them back as well).

Why doesn't the F@H team make a new AMD client? Is it harder to code, or do they believe the benefit wouldn't be enough?

I did sort of ask that question myself, I've got a HD4850 here that produces about a third of the points as my 8600GT.

Obviously the HD4850 is a far more powerful card, surely its capabilities could be utilized for folding??

I have seen info about new support on the way for the 5-6 series, what about the others?? [:fixitbil:1]

 

[beanoslim]

yep, i just bought mine too. :/ I/we might be able to get a price guarantee since it's only been a week or two.
I've got my 460 with my amd 955 running 3 cores smp. CPU usage in the 80s and the PPD for the 460 doesn't take a hit.

When you have quad set to -smp 3 do 3 of the cores load at 100% or is it spread over the 4?

I just set mine to -smp 3 and it has dropped from 4x 100% load but it still uses all 4 cores even when the GPU is off.

I imagined it would load the 3 cores as normal 100%, leaving one free core for the GPU?

 

[seeker073180]

When you have quad set to -smp 3 do 3 of the cores load at 100% or is it spread over the 4?

I just set mine to -smp 3 and it has dropped from 4x 100% load but it still uses all 4 cores even when the GPU is off.

I imagined it would load the 3 cores as normal 100%, leaving one free core for the GPU?

i downloaded MSI afterburner and reprofiled the fan. it's now running full load 65 C @ 50% fan. might be loud for some, but my cpu fans are ridiculously loud. lol. I can hear the GPU fan at about 80% spd, but not much.

with smp 3:
GPU off: 70-75% loading, mostly cores 3 & 4, part of 2, barely 1
GPU on: 80% loading; core 3 maxed, core 4 95-100%, core 2 90%, core 1 about 30%

yeah...it's not really distributed, but core 3&4 get the majority for me. There is room for the GPU to work, the Fermi's require less CPU than the ATIs.

 

[Haserath]

When you have quad set to -smp 3 do 3 of the cores load at 100% or is it spread over the 4?

I just set mine to -smp 3 and it has dropped from 4x 100% load but it still uses all 4 cores even when the GPU is off.

I imagined it would load the 3 cores as normal 100%, leaving one free core for the GPU?

It seems like it used to fully load 7 threads on my i7 awhile ago, now with -smp 7 flag it shows that every thread is loaded at about 89%.

It doesn't really make a difference as the GPU client doesn't use that much processing power, just have 1 less thread than the amount of cores on your proc and your good.

i downloaded MSI afterburner and reprofiled the fan. it's now running full load 65 C @ 50% fan. might be loud for some, but my cpu fans are ridiculously loud. lol. I can hear the GPU fan at about 80% spd, but not much.

Wish my GTX 280 was that cool with 50% fan speed, it's at 80C with 50% right now. It is the loudest fan in my case(very noticeable), so I wouldn't want to hear what you have going on there 😉 . Can't turn the fan speed down since that'll get my GPU up into the 90's.

 

[beanoslim]

It seems like it used to fully load 7 threads on my i7 awhile ago, now with -smp 7 flag it shows that every thread is loaded at about 89%.It doesn't really make a difference as the GPU client doesn't use that much processing power, just have 1 less thread than the amount of cores on your proc and your good.

Its funny, I've moved the GTX460 into the quad machine. Left the setting on -smp and it loads all 4 cores 100% and runs the GPU client with no problems at all. Put the 8600GTS in the dual core machine and it started shutting down so I guess it isn't down to the graphics card?? Starting to think its a memory issue??

Wish my GTX 280 was that cool with 50% fan speed, it's at 80C with 50% right now. It is the loudest fan in my case(very noticeable), so I wouldn't want to hear what you have going on there 😉 . Can't turn the fan speed down since that'll get my GPU up into the 90's.

My Asus is left on auto cooling, idle the temp is around 23C and the fan around 30%, under full load the temp hits a whopping 53C and the fan revs up to 41%, its c l man. I have a low speed 120mm fan cooling the cpu, the loudest thing in my case is the PSU fan and thats an OCZ 700w ModXstream and thats a pretty quiet 140mm fan, nice..

 

[seeker073180]

The scythe ultra kaze 3000 is the loudest thing in my case.
3000 ±10% RPM
Air Flow: 133.60 CFM
Noise Level: 45.90 dBA

😱
It's pushing on my mugen cpu cooler and there's a couple of yate loons in the case as well. it's not an annoying kind of white noise and I'm also shielded directly by my desk. No complaints...my cpu's full loaded at 45C, but I've just been too lazy to push it past 3.8ghz.

 

[jonnyboyC]

Its funny, I've moved the GTX460 into the quad machine. Left the setting on -smp and it loads all 4 cores 100% and runs the GPU client with no problems at all. Put the 8600GTS in the dual core machine and it started shutting down so I guess it isn't down to the graphics card?? Starting to think its a memory issue??

yeah i'm not really getting issueing all my cores for smp and the gpu, numbers seem right on the gpu, i've got a 460 too pretty overclocked 834 core, and alittle over 2000mhz on the memory, not sure exactly, but it been getting pretty consistently around 10000 points a day if it's on all day, unfortunatly it usually have to turn it off for whatever reason since i'm back in a dorm again

 

[elel]

Giving this thread a bump, and saying that I'm on board and folding! Looking to average about 1k ppd based on how much I use my computer.

 

[aznshinobi]

WTF! Ok, so i was folding my marry little way up the folding ladder to rank 77 😀 then... My comp BSODed now every time I fold, I always BSOD. But when I tested my OC on Prime95 for 8 hrs, I was fully stable no errors. But it BSODs only in FAH. Help..

 

[warmon6]

WTF! Ok, so i was folding my marry little way up the folding ladder to rank 77 😀 then... My comp BSODed now every time I fold, I always BSOD. But when I tested my OC on Prime95 for 8 hrs, I was fully stable no errors. But it BSODs only in FAH. Help..

from what i understand about prime 95 and F@H, those 2 things use different sections of the cpu. Prime 95 only test the integer part of the cpu leaving the FPU (what F@H uses) alone. what i seen recommended is running the Intel Burn test program which runs the FPU as well. See if that changes anything and if not, this is a good starting point.

 

[aznshinobi]

Well.. It just recently happened. Like I was folding normally before. It just started happening a couple days ago. =P Btw what's the news on the ATI client?

 

[warmon6]

Well.. It just recently happened. Like I was folding normally before. It just started happening a couple days ago. =P Btw what's the news on the ATI client?

Well i would recommend doing it still. :/ There are some projects known to be "picky" on setting changed like; overclocking, tighter memory timing, under-volting, ect. Can be fine on wide range of projects, but some project simple refuse to run on anything but super stable computers for unknown reasons.

Although, it this the cpu or gpu client doing this? I should of asked that first. So used to the smp client that i forget the gpu client at times. :lol:

As for the Ati client.... Nata, zipple, zilch, Nothing . They are absolutely dead quiet on the subject.

 

[warmon6]

Btw what's the news on the ATI client?

Strike that, there is "Some news" but it not much. Found it scrolling the F@H forums with the Head of F@H talking about v7 client.

http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=16375#p162524

 

[aznshinobi]

naw its the smp client. I'm basically OVER VOLTING like crazy at this point so 😛

 

[warmon6]

naw its the smp client. I'm basically OVER VOLTING like crazy at this point so 😛

You may want to turn down the GHz. 😛 😀

 

[beanoslim]

WTF! Ok, so i was folding my marry little way up the folding ladder to rank 77 😀 then... My comp BSODed now every time I fold, I always BSOD. But when I tested my OC on Prime95 for 8 hrs, I was fully stable no errors. But it BSODs only in FAH. Help..

I had just about the same senario the other week with my Opteron rig. After much testing it turned out to be memory.

It ran Prime and Ortho's ok but the failure seemed in tune with OCCT, if it passed OCCT for an hour F@H seemed ok.

Bumped the mem voltage up to 2.25v, passed memtest, then OCCT and shes happily folding away again.

Like you the rig had been folding fine and then just blue screened or shut down

 

[aznshinobi]

-_- I'm stopping folding till I figure this out. Plus to boycott until the ati client XD

 

[warmon6]

-_- I'm stopping folding till I figure this out. Plus to boycott until the ati client XD

:lol:

You know that might be a long wait. 😛

I'll try to keep you updated on that as much as possible. Although i would recommend you checking once in a while in these 3 places incase im not on top of it. 😉


http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=14714
http://folding.typepad.com/
http://en.fah-addict.net/news/news.php

Hope your SMP issues gets fixed soon.

 

[beanoslim]

-_- I'm stopping folding till I figure this out. Plus to boycott until the ati client XD

Nice one, give me a chance to catch you up [:aford10:7]

 

[warmon6]

-_- I'm stopping folding till I figure this out. Plus to boycott until the ati client XD

for boycotting, you sure seam to still be folding.
:lol: /JK

 

[aznshinobi]

Haha I am still folding XD I was just keeding

 

[beanoslim]

Haha I am still folding XD I was just keeding

100K, not bad for a novice

 

[aznshinobi]

317k XD

 

[warmon6]

100K, not bad for a novice

It fairly good. Shows you like F@H and what it's tring to achive. 😉

Although it's far easier for you to get to 100k than I. It took me a long time (like 6/7 months) to get to 100k points due to my maximum ppd on my laptop T2390 cpu is 1k to 1.1K. (and it's not always running every day for weeks on end.)


To bad you're going to pass me up in about 10 hours. I doubt the WU im about to turn in will change extend that into the 12+ hour range. :lol:

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=532255

WTF! 😀 (if you dont know what this means in F@H terms, it means = Way To Fold 😀 )