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

[beanoslim]

This is tomorrow right??

We are gonna get hammered looking at the stats, they have 10mil ppd higher on us atm.

EXT transfer some rigs across, I know you have reserves .....lol

 

[Titillating]

Yessir, tomorrow. Hopefully my mistake doesn't affect the race too much, but you guys had better scramble if you want to make it competitive!

 

[beanoslim]

Its time.....

 

[Sakkura]

Well guys, this competition has done it. I'm defecting. 135mil points for my old team which deleted our forums some time ago, and I was still holding out. My piddly 650 Ti (year round folder) and two R9 290s (supplemental winter heat - good competition timing, that...in the northern hemisphere, anyway) should drop their first points (averaging 406,602 PPD on EOC right now) for team 40051 sometime tomorrow.

Pleasure to meet you all!

Welcome aboard. Glad to see I'm not the only one operating on R9 290 room heating. 😀

On that topic, looks like a cold weekend coming up here in Scandinavia.

 

[warmon6]

ramping up to full power! At least for the competition.

Then will be back to night-time folding/heating.

 

[warmon6]

Spoiler

i'll be sure to give everyone a nice hair trim as i start passing them by.

 

[BurgerandChips66]

I'm playing Rocket League this evening using just the integrated graphics - want to use all the GPU power for folding.

Surprisingly it runs ok!

 

[JigoroKano]

Welcome aboard, in regards to the CPU I have found that if you are using Nvidia cards then folding on the CPU actually holds back the GPU and the points lost is more than the CPU actually makes.

What really? I don't have time before the competition to benchmark everything to figure it out which is faster but are you recommending I should shut down my CPU and just go with the GTX 970 for best output?

 

[EXT64]

beano, I might have 1 or 2 more, but not 10 million's worth I'm afraid 🙁

 

[MusenMouse]

Welcome aboard, in regards to the CPU I have found that if you are using Nvidia cards then folding on the CPU actually holds back the GPU and the points lost is more than the CPU actually makes.

What really? I don't have time before the competition to benchmark everything to figure it out which is faster but are you recommending I should shut down my CPU and just go with the GTX 970 for best output?

If you choose Medium in FAH control it should leave enough CPU power to work on the GPU folding. If I leave it on Medium it uses 2 cores of my 4690k for CPU folding, 1 to work on GPU folding, and 1 on standby for me.

 

[lilcinw]

What really? I don't have time before the competition to benchmark everything to figure it out which is faster but are you recommending I should shut down my CPU and just go with the GTX 970 for best output?

If you want to fold with the CPU change the slot settings to leave a core open for each GPU with which you are folding. GPU folding will monopolize an entire CPU core and if you are trying to fold on it also it will slow everything down.

 

[ir8munk33]

I've decided to defect from my current team to help with folding efforts over the competition!

Hell, maybe i'll become a regular TH folder 🙂

A quick note on the number of CPU threads question, its always better to keep an even number of CPU threads folding, and definitely NOT a prime number ( not 3,5,7 etc) of threads, as there are far less WU's available for these and you could find your CPU slot sitting idle.

I personally have a 6 thread CPU slot running alongside my GPU, leaving CPU headroom for the GPU to use, as well leaving the PC 'Usable'.

 

[warmon6]

I've decided to defect from my current team to help with folding efforts over the competition!

Hell, maybe i'll become a regular TH folder 🙂

A quick note on the number of CPU threads question, its always better to keep an even number of CPU threads folding, and definitely NOT a prime number ( not 3,5,7 etc) of threads, as there are far less WU's available for these and you could find your CPU slot sitting idle.

I personally have a 6 thread CPU slot running alongside my GPU, leaving CPU headroom for the GPU to use, as well leaving the PC 'Usable'.

welcome aboard!

 

[beanoslim]

beano, I might have 1 or 2 more, but not 10 million's worth I'm afraid 🙁

Their top 3 are pumping out 15 mil

 

[ir8munk33]

I may have another machine I can draft in, but it'll only probably be another 300k or so per day...

 

[Rookie_MIB]

beano, I might have 1 or 2 more, but not 10 million's worth I'm afraid 🙁

Their top 3 are pumping out 15 mil

WTF. Wow. Well, maybe we'll have to drown them with volume. I have more cores coming online and maybe I'll sacrifice usability on my main rig to utilize the other GTX 960 and get that fired up with the CPU cores coming in today. I should be able to almost double my output with that. Yeah - it's not 15m a day, but it'll take me up to maybe 200-300k per day.

 

[lilcinw]

Is there going to be somewhere that will track the competition points? I will probably be too lazy to math it myself when I want to know the score.

 

[Titillating]

You can get a rough estimate off the EOC pages for the teams. I'll be tracking it myself in a spreadsheet, and I'd be happy to drop a daily update in here with current totals.

 

[ahnilated]

Have you guys noticed that getting a CPU work unit seems to be like pulling teeth? Both of my systems have been trying for about 24 hrs now to get a CPU work unit. Both GPU's seem to be getting satisfied though.

 

[beanoslim]

We've gone up to 280 mil last 24hrs they hit 38 mil last 24hrs.

Somebody drop Bill a line 😀

 

[ir8munk33]

Have you guys noticed that getting a CPU work unit seems to be like pulling teeth? Both of my systems have been trying for about 24 hrs now to get a CPU work unit. Both GPU's seem to be getting satisfied though.

How many threads are you running your CPU units on?

You'll be more likely to get WU's for an even number of threads than an odd number.

I've got one machine running a 6 thread slot and getting WU's, and another machine running 2 x 4 thread slots also getting plenty of WU's.

If you're running a slot with 3,5 or 7 threads, you'll likely have trouble getting WU's.

 

[Titillating]

It has begun!

Best of luck to everybody, and remember to have fun with it!

 

[ahnilated]

Have you guys noticed that getting a CPU work unit seems to be like pulling teeth? Both of my systems have been trying for about 24 hrs now to get a CPU work unit. Both GPU's seem to be getting satisfied though.

How many threads are you running your CPU units on?

You'll be more likely to get WU's for an even number of threads than an odd number.

I've got one machine running a 6 thread slot and getting WU's, and another machine running 2 x 4 thread slots also getting plenty of WU's.

If you're running a slot with 3,5 or 7 threads, you'll likely have trouble getting WU's.

It is running on 7 and using the 8th for the 980Ti. I guess I can limit it more.

 

[logainofhades]

Wish I could have gotten a GTX 1070, in time for this. At least my 780ti is folding stable, even if my system likes to lock up, when gaming.

 

[AliusBU]

Welcome aboard, it's great to have you join us.

Welcome aboard. Glad to see I'm not the only one operating on R9 290 room heating. 😀

On that topic, looks like a cold weekend coming up here in Scandinavia.

Thanks both! Throwing caution to the wind and spooled up 3 other machines today, not sure how much they will add yet, but I figure every little bit helps. At least the basement is nice and toasty!!