Folding@Home: THGC Needs You -Team 40051

[Norton72]

The other thing the beta flag gives you is beta versions of the cores, even if you received a non-beta WU. I think currently there is no difference between the cores, however there was recently and likely will be again in the near future (for Core 21 or future cores).

I've set mine up to just advanced now. Thanks.

 

[beanoslim]

Is it possible to have both a beta and an advanced flag on one GPU? If so, do I need to create another GPU slot? When I try to edit my one GPU slot it only allows me to have just one or the other. Are there any other flags I should try? I'm still not real clear about how all of this works. I feel like I'm just stumbling along. I have my GPU OC'd to +20 right now and it's still running cool -- about 57C. However, even though I have it set to +20, I'm not sure I'm reading my monitors right. They seem to indicate a much lower speed. I'm at work right now, so I can't post any screenshots of it.

Its a case of one or the other, advanced is the safer option as EXT said when there are BETA wu options,

Currently it doesn't seem to make a lot of difference and I don't think there are any BETA projects anyway.

I would suggest just leaving it at advanced.

Overclocking the card without voltage increase shouldn't produce more heat, Afterburner should show you the default and current speed of your GPU, not sure why you would have an issue seeing these on your monitor?!?

What's the default boost speed of your card??

57C while folding is a great temp, my cards don't thermal throttle until 63C-66C.

So yeah, I'm a complete noob at this and have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to OCing. I have the GTX 970 FTW, core clock is 1216MHz boost clock is 1367MHz. I have Core Clock on afterburner at +20 -- but the monitor says core clock is 409. I don't understand that at all. Tell me what you need to see and i will post a screen shot in the morning. I have hfm.net if that will help any.

Don't forget the boost speed will only register under load, i.e. while folding, sounds like the 409mhz you are seeing is when the card is idle and is running power saving mode.

So 1367 + 20 your load/boost speed should now register 1387mhz, mines at 1399mhz, below.

 

[beanoslim]

Another year draws to a close.

Congrats to all envolved with Team 40051, keep up the fold.

Beano has upgrades en route, Mouseman I'm going for that No:1 spot.

Happy New Year all 😀

 

[Mousemonkey]

Another year draws to a close.

Congrats to all envolved with Team 40051, keep up the fold.

Beano has upgrades en route, Mouseman I'm going for that No:1 spot.

Happy New Year all 😀

As I have no upgrades planned until Pascal at the earliest I know it's only a matter of time, it's been nice up here though and the view is lovely! :lol:

 

[Norton72]

This is the problem i'm having. My GPU clock has been at 405 MHz consistently for days now, and my PPD has dropped. I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong...

...and Happy New Year.

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[beanoslim]

Quit F@H client

Set MSI back to defaults.

Re boot, try again.

What's the GPU power and load registering under Afterburner??

Have you recently updated drivers??

 

[warmon6]

Quit F@H client

Set MSI back to defaults.

Re boot, try again.

What's the GPU power and load registering under Afterburner??

Have you recently updated drivers??

+1

just encountered this myself last night when trying out my overclock with F@H bench/ Valley with the gpu getting stuck at that 4xx MHz after a driver crash.

Restart the computer and you'll be all good to go.

 

[Norton72]

My load at 405 MHz was 95%. I'm back to my default speed now, Gpu power is 86% and load is 95% Do I need to reboot everytime I change the boost clock? And I thought that when I did change the boost clock that I was changing it by percent -- 10%, 20%, etc., but on the dial it looked like it only moved units. Even then, the digital readout doesn't change.

 

[beanoslim]

Well that screenshot is showing your gpu running @1404mhz without any core increase?!?

When you move the core clock slider it goes up in MHz, so +5mhz +10 MHz etc etc, it should instantly change the boost speed of the gpu as soon as you apply it, press the tick button.

I thought you said your boost was 1367mhz?

 

[EXT64]

I've heard some people having issues going much above 1400 (at least with 980s), ymmv but be cautious up there.

 

[beanoslim]

My 980ti has a default boost of 1354 but while folding certain wu's as long as the heat stays below 64C it will run at 1366mhz.

I now have it clocked @1399mhz with the fan profile adjusted to stop it from thermal throttling.

The 980 seems happy enough @1395, just gonna let them roll while there r no issues and wait for the new addition to the family..
😉

 

[EXT64]

Great. I'm working on raising the #1 producer bar a little higher for you beano 😀

 

[Unolocogringo]

This is the problem i'm having. My GPU clock has been at 405 MHz consistently for days now, and my PPD has dropped. I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong...

...and Happy New Year.

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If you have a driver crash, fault, or several memory errors the driver will downclock the card.
the only way to reset the driver and card is to reboot windows/Linux.

Running the Advanced/Beta flags increases the chance of this happening.

 

[warmon6]

I've heard some people having issues going much above 1400 (at least with 980s), ymmv but be cautious up there.

Well you tell me this as im testing my overclock right now @ 1508 Mhz (technically set to 1520 but it drops down to 1508). lol

Spoiler

 

[beanoslim]

I've heard some people having issues going much above 1400 (at least with 980s), ymmv but be cautious up there.

Well you tell me this as im testing my overclock right now @ 1508 Mhz (technically set to 1520 but it drops down to 1508). lol

Spoiler

Seems the thermal throttle on the 980ti is around the 62-67C mark, mines @63-64C.

If you sit there and watch it warm up while folding you will see when it drops.

I did this and then reconfigured the fans using Afterburner to kick in just before this temp to keep the card running at the actual settings you apply.

 

[beanoslim]

Great. I'm working on raising the #1 producer bar a little higher for you beano 😀

Well let me get to No:1 first at least:lol:

 

[warmon6]

I've heard some people having issues going much above 1400 (at least with 980s), ymmv but be cautious up there.

Well you tell me this as im testing my overclock right now @ 1508 Mhz (technically set to 1520 but it drops down to 1508). lol

Spoiler

Seems the thermal throttle on the 980ti is around the 62-67C mark, mines @63-64C.

If you sit there and watch it warm up while folding you will see when it drops.

I did this and then reconfigured the fans using Afterburner to kick in just before this temp to keep the card running at the actual settings you apply.

Thanks for the info! didn't think it would drop the clocks slightly with temps limit being far from reach.

After watching my clocks and temps, Seams my card starts to drop around the 71-73C range

 

[Sakkura]

Seems the thermal throttle on the 980ti is around the 62-67C mark, mines @63-64C.

If you sit there and watch it warm up while folding you will see when it drops.

I did this and then reconfigured the fans using Afterburner to kick in just before this temp to keep the card running at the actual settings you apply.

What is this thermal throttling of which you speak? My R9 290 has certainly never heard of such a thing. 😀

Spoiler

I should probably overclock at some point...

 

[beanoslim]

What is this thermal throttling of which you speak? My R9 290 has certainly never heard of such a thing. 😀

On the AMD cards its called Thermal overload😀

 

[Norton72]

Well that screenshot is showing your gpu running @1404mhz without any core increase?!?

When you move the core clock slider it goes up in MHz, so +5mhz +10 MHz etc etc, it should instantly change the boost speed of the gpu as soon as you apply it, press the tick button.

I thought you said your boost was 1367mhz?

Yeah, the screenshot was after I had rebooted and my card went back to folding normally. The boost numbers I had posted came fro the specs for my card, which state "core clock 1216 MHz, boost clock 1367 MHz."

This is GTX 970 FTW, which I guess is OC'd from the factory. So maybe it won't tolerate any further OCing? It seems my card is running a bit higher by default than the stated factory settings. 1404MHz looks to be the norm -- HWMonitor says it has been as high as 1418.

 

[beanoslim]

Well that screenshot is showing your gpu running @1404mhz without any core increase?!?

When you move the core clock slider it goes up in MHz, so +5mhz +10 MHz etc etc, it should instantly change the boost speed of the gpu as soon as you apply it, press the tick button.

I thought you said your boost was 1367mhz?

Yeah, the screenshot was after I had rebooted and my card went back to folding normally. The boost numbers I had posted came fro the specs for my card, which state "core clock 1216 MHz, boost clock 1367 MHz."

This is GTX 970 FTW, which I guess is OC'd from the factory. So maybe it won't tolerate any further OCing? It seems my card is running a bit higher by default than the stated factory settings. 1404MHz looks to be the norm -- HWMonitor says it has been as high as 1418.

You should keep an eye on different work units and see which ones push the clock speed up.

I'm surprised it goes as high as 1404 when the factory is 1367.

It should oc some more but if its running at 1404 and you added 20mhz to it it was attemptin to run @1424mhz which is quite a high clock setting, you may need a little tweak of extra voltage.

Keep an eye on wu - speed ratios and let us know, I'd leave it at defaults for now if its boosting that high.

 

[beanoslim]

And Warmon storms into the Top 100 with a climb of 32 places this last week😍

 

[Sakkura]

Front page news. Climbing like

 

[beanoslim]

Just checked Warmons points on EOC, a few funny numbers, looks like a few failed units?!?

Overclock or bad wu's?

 

[warmon6]

Just checked Warmons points on EOC, a few funny numbers, looks like a few failed units?!?

Overclock or bad wu's?

overclocks that failed. At least i had hit the "Finish" option on each WU to make sure i didn't chew threw a ton of WU's.

So far 2 WU's was just fine on the 1510 MHz clock with a 10+ mV to assist in keeping things stable. the 56K WU and 120k WU

Although strangly, I could of sworn that 1 of the purposes of the F@Hbench program was to assist in overclocking as it simulated the same workload as a WU without using said WU's... (i know it's primarily for bench-marking but...)

It stop giving me errors at around 1545MHz.... Valley benchmark was more sensitive to around the 1535...

Oh well... At least things appear to be stable now.