Folding@Home: THGC Needs You -Team 40051

Unolocogringo · Oct 22, 2013

beanoslim :

CONGRATS Beano
You are officially broke now. Pregnancy changes ALL priorities, for you and her. Just remember her hormone changes can create wild mood changes INSTANTLY and it has nothing to do with you.

Pretty soon you will be an old Grandpa just like me. I now have 5 grand children. Life is wonderful.

beanoslim · Oct 22, 2013

Unolocogringo :

beanoslim :

Thanks man, I'm excited :bounce:

5 Grand children, really!!

My good lady hasn't been too moody....yet! Just pretty tired 🙁

Anyone else picked up these crazy new wu's, I've got 2 on a couple of 7950's and each card is estimating 14k ppd compared to around 85k!!

I'm hoping its something to do with Stanford otherwise I'm shutting down!

beanoslim · Oct 22, 2013

They are PRCG 11293 and its worse than I thought.

6k per card!!!

Mousemonkey · Oct 22, 2013

beanoslim :

And I thought my 660's were taking a shafting on the points front!

EXT64 · Oct 22, 2013

That is an old Core 16 WU - I thought that those were dead. I'm pretty sure those are due to the server work and you should get normal (good) WUs after these finish or are dumped.

apower101 · Oct 22, 2013

would it be better to run a 4770k or a titan for folding, or is there a way to run both? Will probably get it working tomorrow.

Mousemonkey · Oct 22, 2013

apower101 :

Run both, and it's very easy to set up.

beanoslim · Oct 22, 2013

EXT64 :

Have you got your 7970 set to advanced or beta?

EXT64 · Oct 22, 2013

I have it running internal - so I either get internal WU or nothing.

Unolocogringo · Oct 22, 2013

apower101 :

Warmon6 put together a guide here for setting up V7 of the folding software.
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/34683-12-toms-hardware-folding-home-team-guide-testing#t499237

If you need any help at all ,don't hesitate to ask. We will all help if we can.
WELCOME to the TEAM!!!!!

Unolocogringo · Oct 22, 2013

beanoslim :

Unolocogringo :

YES I have 5 wonderful grandchildren. It really sank in one night when we went shopping . We were getting out oh the car and I hear GRANDPA!!!!! coming from three isles over in the lot. I recognized the voice as my daughters oldest .Haven Star was three at the time.
Hope this doesn't break any rules.
Haven singing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W5sBQTbD6M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3mbBttyIVo

beanoslim · Oct 26, 2013

^Thats nice

Well one of my rigs has not been very co-operative so I've only got the 3 cards running at present.

I think I brought this up before and no one could really help explain it but the same 7950 in the P67 rig will hit 90k+ppd but when its transered into an old DFI board with the same settings it struggles to hit 80K ppd on the same wu's?!?

OC'd the other 2 7950's in my P67 rig and they are producing around 100k each.

ThePretzelGuy · Oct 28, 2013

hmm

thought I might catch up with you while you were down or reconfiguring😀
but I made the mistake of checking the nvidia driver status and updating them to 331.58. Productivity tanked and I'm getting less than half what I ws doing last week. Nuthin else is running that I can tell and the earlier versions of the 8900s seemed OK. Can't figure out what happened other than the driver update.
Anybody else having problems? my 680 now running at 8min 53sec TPF and the 660ti 9min 38sec. easily twice as long as I was last week with the same project but different pieces. Have 6 cores of my 3770 working on a 7513 with 4 min 27 sec TPF which seems reasonable. no overclocking on anything. Temperatures at 60C or less GPU load on both cards at 99% with occasional 15sec of no activity (maybe when it's writing a temp file?)

what drvier version are you guys running?
seems like it is not so good to keep drivers current?
what do you think? :??:

Mousemonkey · Oct 28, 2013

ThePretzelGuy :

hmm

thought I might catch up with you while you were down or reconfiguring😀
but I made the mistake of checking the nvidia driver status and updating them to 331.58. Productivity tanked and I'm getting less than half what I ws doing last week. Nuthin else is running that I can tell and the earlier versions of the 8900s seemed OK. Can't figure out what happened other than the driver update.
Anybody else having problems? my 680 now running at 8min 53sec TPF and the 660ti 9min 38sec. easily twice as long as I was last week with the same project but different pieces. Have 6 cores of my 3770 working on a 7513 with 4 min 27 sec TPF which seems reasonable. no overclocking on anything. Temperatures at 60C or less GPU load on both cards at 99% with occasional 15sec of no activity (maybe when it's writing a temp file?)

what drvier version are you guys running?
seems like it is not so good to keep drivers current?
what do you think? :??:

https://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=80&t=25132

lilcinw · Oct 28, 2013

I had a GPU scare this weekend. I decided to fire up my second (actually my primary display) GPU Friday and then Saturday when I went to get on my PC the display would not turn on.

I eventually dusted everything out and swapped the positions of the two cards and everything is working fine. I was afraid the card was dead but when I booted back up it was detected and is folding and running in SLI like nothing happened.

I am seriously thinking of replacing the dual card setup. With core 17 it makes more sense to invest in a single high end card than two mid-range ones.

ThePretzelGuy · Oct 28, 2013

Thanks MM, reverting to 314.07

what's happened to your system - fried a board? or new drivers like me?

Mousemonkey · Oct 28, 2013

You're welcome mate. A mixture of new drivers and too hot in room! :lol: When it gets colder I'll be firing things up again. 😉

EXT64 · Oct 28, 2013

Ugh power failures. I walked in my house and it felt eerie. Took me a second to figure it out but it was because it was silent - no soothing hum of computers folding away :lol:

Unolocogringo · Oct 28, 2013

😉

EXT64 :

Most motherboards have a bios option to restart on power failure. Since our power is kind of flakey I have the 2p and main system to restart on power loss.
The only downside is when F@H restarts is that it runs in normal mode and optimizations are turned off until the work unit is finished or you do a proper shut down and restart.

PPD goes down but at least the computers come back on and start folding after a power loss. :??:

EXT64 · Oct 28, 2013

That optimizations warning is legacy - the new cores can't go into unoptimized mode. The loss of points should only be due to the lost work time during the outage.

And another power failure - yay. Beautiful weather out too - I can't wait for winter 😛

Unolocogringo · Oct 29, 2013

Nice to know about the legacy warning.
I have been shutting down and restarting when I come home and the power has been off.
So I can ignore the warning" Improper Shut Down, Working with Standard Loops this run" message?

EXT64 · Oct 29, 2013

Yep, I was told that message only meant something for the old uniprocessor cores. For the current SMP cores the client will say that but the core will ignore it and run with normal optimizations. You are seeing that message in the V6 client, right? Or is it in V7 too?

beanoslim · Oct 29, 2013

I am having an issue when it comes to upload and download of a new wu.

The upload completes ok but the wu stays on 2 secs to complete and doesn't download a new wu unless I quit and restart.

Quite annoying :fou: