The Tom's Hardware F@H Team Thread (Team 40051)

[EXT64]

Yep why_wolf, the guide is pretty old, I know I haven't looked at my section in years (not that multi socket servers are that common anymore).

 

[uguv]

This contest got me to finally start folding, which I have been putting off for ages. GPU upgrade is coming black Friday, but running on CPU for now.

 

[warmon6]

I see warmon finally upgraded from the wimpy laptop+pentium 4. Please tell me you retired them. 😉

The pent 4? yes. the laptop, from folding? yes but from use no. lol

But does a 980ti sound like a good upgrade? lol 😀

 

[Sakkura]

This contest got me to finally start folding, which I have been putting off for ages. GPU upgrade is coming black Friday, but running on CPU for now.

Even if the CPU doesn't rack up huge points, at least the work units will count for the 10 required to get the quick return bonus.

 

[10esseetony]

I see warmon finally upgraded from the wimpy laptop+pentium 4. Please tell me you retired them. 😉

The pent 4? yes. the laptop, from folding? yes but from use no. lol

But does a 980ti sound like a good upgrade? lol 😀

You should see 550,000ppd plus or minus, depending on clock speed and the tasks you get assigned from the server.

Make sure you feed it with a healthy CPU core. One core/thread is required per GPU, and gets used 100%. On the faster cards such as the 980Ti and above, a powerful core and at least 8x@2.0 can make a very substantial difference, 60,000 points per day or more.

I'll be giggling at you guys from the other side of the race, while you quickly fall behind, but I have long had loyalties with both sites, so good luck!

And definitely make sure to often repeat the part about getting a passkey, starting a few days early, and get those first ten tasks in ASAP so the server better knows how to grade your system and give the quick return bonuses. And again, one full core per GPU is vital, but the client SHOULD automatically configure that for you.

 

[Haserath]

I see warmon finally upgraded from the wimpy laptop+pentium 4. Please tell me you retired them. 😉

The pent 4? yes. the laptop, from folding? yes but from use no. lol

But does a 980ti sound like a good upgrade? lol 😀

From candle to fire breathing dragon, I like. Burn Anandtech to a crisp.

 

[EXT64]

Alright, I'll see if I can get a few of my older, remote systems up an running. With any luck I'll have most running (plus a couple that decided to reboot) by the competition.

 

[Ne0Wolf7]

Well then...I'm out of ideas. CPU folding is working perfectly. But I'm still getting that same connection issue with GPU folding. Sigh...

Have you tried deleting the GPU slot and then waiting until the CPU has finished it's WU, then deleting the CPU slot, then deleting the config file from the F@H folder, reverting back to a clean install of the first available driver for the 1060, then restarting the F@H client and only reinstalling the GPU slot?

Nope. I did a complete reinstallation of FAH twice now without allowing the CPU to get a WU.

Should I try that?

EDIT: I think I'm going to wait on this. I just don't have the time to do it right now.

Not sure if you've fixed this now, but folding doesn't work on the newest GPU drives, it only receives bad WUs, and in your log, yo'll see something like this:
15:20:52:WU00:FS01:0x21:ERROR:exception: Error downloading array interactionCount: clEnqueueReadBuffer (-5)
If you get the older, version 373.06 driver like I did, it will start working again (version 373.06 Nvidia drivers, if you're using AMD I'm unsure which version it is.

 

[warmon6]

I see warmon finally upgraded from the wimpy laptop+pentium 4. Please tell me you retired them. 😉

The pent 4? yes. the laptop, from folding? yes but from use no. lol

But does a 980ti sound like a good upgrade? lol 😀

From candle to fire breathing dragon, I like. Burn Anandtech to a crisp.

:lol: And i made sure to give it an extra boost in the flame department by overclocking it to 1470 mhz (although once temps reach about 70c, the clocks slightly drop to 1457mhz). Been running it for the last week with no stability issues.

if i fold 24x7 (which will happen next week) i could see 600k+ ppd (current WU im on says i would be doing 700k ppd).

Now, the bigger question.... should i hijack my sister GTX 1070 into service...

 

[Unolocogringo]

I see warmon finally upgraded from the wimpy laptop+pentium 4. Please tell me you retired them. 😉

The pent 4? yes. the laptop, from folding? yes but from use no. lol

But does a 980ti sound like a good upgrade? lol 😀

From candle to fire breathing dragon, I like. Burn Anandtech to a crisp.

:lol: And i made sure to give it an extra boost in the flame department by overclocking it to 1470 mhz (although once temps reach about 70c, the clocks slightly drop to 1457mhz). Been running it for the last week with no stability issues.

if i fold 24x7 (which will happen next week) i could see 600k+ ppd (current WU im on says i would be doing 700k ppd).

Now, the bigger question.... should i hijack my sister GTX 1070 into service...

Well of course you should.
What kind of silly question is that????

 

[Ne0Wolf7]

Yeah! I comendeered my parents 9500 GT, and they never even noticed

 

[beanoslim]

All this activity and I haven't even fired up yet.

 

[Unolocogringo]

All this activity and I haven't even fired up yet.

What are you waiting on ,Christmas????

 

[warmon6]

All this activity and I haven't even fired up yet.

What are you waiting on ,Christmas????

i think he's waiting on winter for those cool temps 😀

 

[beanoslim]

Its cool enough allright.

Just waiting for a celebrity for the grand turn on :lol:

 

[Mousemonkey]

Going by our current stats we're going to get spanked.

 

[Titillating]

Going by our current stats we're going to get spanked.

That's a paddlin' for you if you lose, MM. Better step up the recruiting!

 

[Ne0Wolf7]

In every thread that gets solved, lets ask if they've set up their computer to fold

 

[Mousemonkey]

Going by our current stats we're going to get spanked.

That's a paddlin' for you if you lose, MM. Better step up the recruiting!

Last time I tried I had another Mod getting upset that I was taking the thread OT!

 

[beanoslim]

PM any recent folders in the list that aren't folding, DD, Masterw, Chattahoocee, Pretzel all spring to mind.

Beano firing up and reporting for duty 😀

 

[Ne0Wolf7]

I see some of the folding signatures showing 400,000 points a day, and I have two PC going one 24/7 one almost all day and I don't even have 400,000 points total yet... Does a GTX 950 and GT 9500 just not compare?

 

[Mousemonkey]

PM any recent folders in the list that aren't folding, DD, Masterw, Chattahoocee, Pretzel all spring to mind.

Beano firing up and reporting for duty 😀

Good idea and thank you for your service old chum. :jap:

 

[beanoslim]

I see some of the folding signatures showing 400,000 points a day, and I have two PC going one 24/7 one almost all day and I don't even have 400,000 points total yet... Does a GTX 950 and GT 9500 just not compare?

You should get an estimate of ppd from your client.

I can't imagine the 9500 will do a lot unfortunately.

The 950 should get you around 100k if running 24/7, guess?>?

Some of the Team are hitting 2-3 million ppd but with serious hardware.

GTX970's do around 250k, 980's 350k, 980ti 550k, 1080 700k, all estimates depending on wu.

 

[Ne0Wolf7]

I see some of the folding signatures showing 400,000 points a day, and I have two PC going one 24/7 one almost all day and I don't even have 400,000 points total yet... Does a GTX 950 and GT 9500 just not compare?

You should get an estimate of ppd from your client.

I can't imagine the 9500 will do a lot unfortunately.

Some of the Team are hitting 2-3 million ppd but with serious hardware.

GTX970's do around 250k, 980's 350k, 980ti 550k, 1080 700k, all estimates depending on wu.

In the control center, it says 124,894 PPD, which is half of my current 264,907 which I accumulated over the month.
I'll keep track of what I get tomorrow and have my own benchmark, the client is a bet too much of an optimistic guesser it seems.

 

[beanoslim]

Sounds about right, but the estimate assumes 24/7 operation.

Have you acquired your passkey??