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

[petrusbroder]

OK, folks, the stating stats are up: https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/11th-annual-folding-home-holiday-season-3-way-race.2489602/page-17#post-38606604
If you see any errors or problems, please let me know in the Anandtech-forum (the thread above) and I'll correct it ASAP. http://

 

[MusenMouse]

Best of folding to all. Hopefully the GTX 1070 I bought over Black Friday comes today .

 

[Mousemonkey]

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?

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.

In my experience folding on the CPU as well as the GPU(s) has always been counter productive.

Now the race is on. Please remember that you can recruit more racers, add, borgh, assimilate and upgrade computers to add to the race.
The more the merrier!

@RedJaron, get those "other" rigs up and running!

 

[10esseetony]

Will the FAHClient make use of an iGPU?

I have enabled the Intel HD 530, but it isn't showing up within the client unfortunately. It is running though, according to HWMonitor.

I have decided to go 'all out' and also have the CPU working now

Have you tried to add a slot for the iGPU? From Advanced Control panel: Configure/Slots/Add

 

[10esseetony]

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?

Yes, sort of. You should leave TWO threads/cores available to the GPU. Also consider the operating system processes/virus protection/web browsing, etc, thus two, not just one.

 

[weberdarren97]

I feel really stupid right now. I've been folding for LinusTechTips, I didn't know we had our own team. I'm switching over now.

 

[10esseetony]

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

Yeah, we (AnandTech) always have a December Race, and thus an Arms Race too, lol. Usually the Arms race (more GPU's) happens mid December when we THINK we can beat so and so. But this time a couple of us started ramping up hardware a few months early. 😀

Actually, our top three (24 hour actual, not 7 day average) goes 8M or more, ~6.3M, and ~3.3M. 😉

Good to see you have many new last minute joiners! Might be an interesting week after all! 😛

 

[weberdarren97]

Although I'm sure it won't be too much help compared to the other high end workstations, I'm even going to break out my Celeron 1037u machine and my i3 540 machine for this competition. I guess I've also found a use for those old GTX 760 ti's. I'll be setting up the clients in a few moments.

Good luck to all miners on the Tom's Hardware team! This is my favorite site on the internet, let it be victorious!

 

[lilcinw]

You jokers have kicked me out of the top 20 producers.

Something must be done...

 

[Rookie_MIB]

I just powered up a quadcore xeon box with a GTX 960. Set threads to 6, set the GPU to process, cranked it up to full powah. Also got my webserver stealing 6 cores - it's cranking now too. That puts me up to:

Main Rig: Xeon X3470 (6 cores) + GTX 960.
Webserver: Xeon X3450 (6 cores)
Support server: Xeon X3450 (6 cores) + GT 630 <- yeah it's a wimp, but it's all she's got..
Random box: Xeon E3-1230 (6 cores) + GTX 960.

That's 24 cores, 2 moderate GPUs, one pathetic GPU. Everything else are weak dual cores (media servers), so they won't help much. Generating some heat. Lol.

 

[ahnilated]

I could throw a couple GTX 480's at it also but those things use massive amount of power and throw off tons of heat.

 

[uguv]

I brought my old PC out of mothballs to start folding on that too. I don't suppose folding event supports the old 8800 GTX I retired years ago?

 

[weberdarren97]

My folding machines:
1) i7 6700K, GTX 1070
2) i5 6500, GTX 1050 ti
3) i3 6300, RX 480
4) i3 540, GTX 760 ti
5) FX 8350 (5.2GHz), R9 280X
6) Celeron 1037u, HD 5450
7) Core 2 Duo T7600, no discrete graphics (laptop)

This month's power bill is going to be atrociously high xD

 

[Sakkura]

I feel really stupid right now. I've been folding for LinusTechTips, I didn't know we had our own team. I'm switching over now.

Our old folding thread was pretty low-profile. This competition is really spreading the word.

You jokers have kicked me out of the top 20 producers.

Something must be done...

Yeah I know the feeling. Maybe time for an upgrade, but this VR stuff's been hogging my tech budget and now it's Christmas.

I did see a GTX 1080 for £277 on Amazon that I would have bought anyway... if it hadn't been a pretty obvious scam attempt.

 

[beanoslim]

Give me more 9206WU's, 750k ppd on a 980ti..

 

[Ne0Wolf7]

I guess ahving my CPu at boiling for a month is a bad idea... I'll just do GPU untill Christmas when I (most likely) get a CPU cooler.

 

[logainofhades]

Thought about putting my gt 730, into my system, to fold alongside my 780ti. My G2 750, should handle that. Just wonder how well it would actually work?


Well I put it in, and my PPD took quite the jump. I think the client has lost its mind.

 

[EXT64]

Yeah, I'm guessing it swapped the two (and the "780ti" hasn't updated yet).

 

[MusenMouse]

We need all the help we can so I won't complain if your gt730 can do that .

 

[lilcinw]

Yeah, I'm guessing it swapped the two (and the "780ti" hasn't updated yet).

Can confirm, adding a dissimilar GPU confuses the client.

 

[logainofhades]

Well, I had a system shutdown, so it might not handle both after all. That 780ti classified is such a power hog. Gonna see what a small down clock will do. I would really like to keep them both going.

 

[warmon6]

You jokers have kicked me out of the top 20 producers.

Something must be done...

im sorry that i assisted in that. 😀

You know.... I just had to go full power! :lol:

 

[EXT64]

Alright, now kick me out of the top 20 and I will be impressed 😀

 

[JigoroKano]

Oh no, my GPU slot is red and says "failed". What does that mean?
How do I get it folding again?

 

[warmon6]

Alright, now kick me out of the top 20 and I will be impressed 😀

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