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

[Ne0Wolf7]

Yes, I've gotten a passkey. It must be because I pause it mid WU and shut it down when I sleep. I guess I can sleep on the couch once the competing begins... Curse my light up fans!

 

[ahnilated]

Yes, I've gotten a passkey. It must be because I pause it mid WU and shut it down when I sleep. I guess I can sleep on the couch once the competing begins... Curse my light up fans!

Are they that bright that even with your eyes closed you can still see them?

 

[Ne0Wolf7]

No, but my enire room becomes a lovely blue that can even be seen from outside (maybe I can get red and green fans and call it Christmas). Or I could move the PC into the other room, run a long HDMI cable to my monitor, another two long cables soldered to a button to act as the on/off button, and USB extensions for my keyboard/ mouse, but the fans are kind of noisy anyway.

 

[EXT64]

You'll get used to the glow and fan hum eventually. Then after a while sleeping in silence becomes unsettling

Pausing does reduce points a lot. If you look in FAHControl, notice that it has two values for points: "base credit" and "estimated credit". The difference between these values is the bonus credit which is based on how quickly you finish the WU (and it is a significant portion of the total credit). So pausing makes you finish less WUs and reduces the credit awarded for each of those WUs (because they take longer). If you do need to stop, if you can wait until the WU is complete before stopping it will help your PPD a bit.

 

[Ne0Wolf7]

Alright, thanks.

 

[beanoslim]

Just have a look at the card and see if there are any accessible mini 3 pin connectors you can unplug.

I had a glowing card once and managed to unplug the supply for the lights.

 

[Faux_Grey]

Still waiting for Nvidia drivers that work with battlefield 1 and F@H before I can use my 1080s.

 

[Sakkura]

If you do need to stop, if you can wait until the WU is complete before stopping it will help your PPD a bit.

Or if you know you're going to need to stop later, you can tell the client to just finish the current WU without starting another one.

Just depends how long of a WU you get, of course.

 

[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.

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.

The 1070 arrived yesterday

 

[Mousemonkey]

Still waiting for Nvidia drivers that work with battlefield 1 and F@H before I can use my 1080s.

Have you tried using the first available driver for F@H?

 

[MusenMouse]

Still waiting for Nvidia drivers that work with battlefield 1 and F@H before I can use my 1080s.

Have you tried using the first available driver for F@H?

Unfortunately the last working F@H driver, 373, is not updated high enough to work with Battlefield 1. If you try to start Battlefield up it will ask you to update your graphics driver.

 

[Mousemonkey]

Still waiting for Nvidia drivers that work with battlefield 1 and F@H before I can use my 1080s.

Have you tried using the first available driver for F@H?

Unfortunately the last working F@H driver, 373, is not updated high enough to work with Battlefield 1. If you try to start Battlefield up it will ask you to update your graphics driver.

But can you use that driver for F@H?

 

[MusenMouse]

Still waiting for Nvidia drivers that work with battlefield 1 and F@H before I can use my 1080s.

Have you tried using the first available driver for F@H?

Unfortunately the last working F@H driver, 373, is not updated high enough to work with Battlefield 1. If you try to start Battlefield up it will ask you to update your graphics driver.

But can you use that driver for F@H?

Yep still works for F@H . Hopefully Nvidia fixes the issue soon though so we don't have to force people to choose between recently released games and folding.

 

[beanoslim]

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.

The 1070 arrived yesterday

Nice, which model?

 

[beanoslim]

Yep still works for F@H . Hopefully Nvidia fixes the issue soon though so we don't have to force people to choose between recently released games and folding.

Just for one week choose F@H, it will cheer the Mouseman up and you never know when u might need him

 

[TechyInAZ]

Still waiting for Nvidia drivers that work with battlefield 1 and F@H before I can use my 1080s.

Have you tried using the first available driver for F@H?

Unfortunately the last working F@H driver, 373, is not updated high enough to work with Battlefield 1. If you try to start Battlefield up it will ask you to update your graphics driver.

But can you use that driver for F@H?

Yep still works for F@H . Hopefully Nvidia fixes the issue soon though so we don't have to force people to choose between recently released games and folding.

Same issue here. I don't want to choose either F@H or gaming.

 

[Titillating]

There is no choice. Choose folding. Do it for your team, for your community, FOR TOM'S HARDWARE!

(Because you guys are looking a bit overmatched right now )

 

[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.

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.

The 1070 arrived yesterday

Nice, which model?

Asus DUAL-GTX1070-O8G

 

[Mousemonkey]

Still waiting for Nvidia drivers that work with battlefield 1 and F@H before I can use my 1080s.

Have you tried using the first available driver for F@H?

Unfortunately the last working F@H driver, 373, is not updated high enough to work with Battlefield 1. If you try to start Battlefield up it will ask you to update your graphics driver.

But can you use that driver for F@H?

Yep still works for F@H . Hopefully Nvidia fixes the issue soon though so we don't have to force people to choose between recently released games and folding.

Well for the next week choose the F@H option please as we need all the folders we can get.

Yep still works for F@H . Hopefully Nvidia fixes the issue soon though so we don't have to force people to choose between recently released games and folding.

Just for one week choose F@H, it will cheer the Mouseman up and you never know when u might need him

Still waiting for Nvidia drivers that work with battlefield 1 and F@H before I can use my 1080s.

Have you tried using the first available driver for F@H?

Unfortunately the last working F@H driver, 373, is not updated high enough to work with Battlefield 1. If you try to start Battlefield up it will ask you to update your graphics driver.

But can you use that driver for F@H?

Yep still works for F@H . Hopefully Nvidia fixes the issue soon though so we don't have to force people to choose between recently released games and folding.

Same issue here. I don't want to choose either F@H or gaming.

Choose F@H, it's only for a week, c'mon man what's the matter with you!!

 

[MusenMouse]

Yep still works for F@H . Hopefully Nvidia fixes the issue soon though so we don't have to force people to choose between recently released games and folding.

Just for one week choose F@H, it will cheer the Mouseman up and you never know when u might need him

True. Never hurts to remind the mods that you helped save their cheeks from a paddlin

 

[beanoslim]

We are all gonna feel like fish soon.....when we get battered :lol::lol:

 

[MusenMouse]

There is no choice. Choose folding. Do it for your team, for your community, FOR TOM'S HARDWARE!

(Because you guys are looking a bit overmatched right now )

Speaking of which, if we do by some unholy power lose the folding contest will we get to know what implement is used to paddle the mods? Won't change me folding for Tom's, but you know, would like to know.

 

[beanoslim]

I'm sure the Mouse will change his sig to a video of him getting spanked so we can all see exactly what happened

 

[Titillating]

There is no choice. Choose folding. Do it for your team, for your community, FOR TOM'S HARDWARE!

(Because you guys are looking a bit overmatched right now )

Speaking of which, if we do by some unholy power lose the folding contest will we get to know what implement is used to paddle the mods? Won't change me folding for Tom's, but you know, would like to know.

Are you familiar with our Tom's Hardware hammershttp://www.tomshardware.com/news/tom-s-hardware-hammer-giveaway,29442.html? Imagine a jumbo sized version of that, with a bit of flimsy padding so nobody gets seriously injured

 

[MusenMouse]

There is no choice. Choose folding. Do it for your team, for your community, FOR TOM'S HARDWARE!

(Because you guys are looking a bit overmatched right now )

Speaking of which, if we do by some unholy power lose the folding contest will we get to know what implement is used to paddle the mods? Won't change me folding for Tom's, but you know, would like to know.

Are you familiar with our Tom's Hardware hammershttp://www.tomshardware.com/news/tom-s-hardware-hammer-giveaway,29442.html? Imagine a jumbo sized version of that, with a bit of flimsy padding so nobody gets seriously injured

So it's a win for win every... Oh, I mean our poor mods! Guess we better get those XL ice packs ready for them