finally back to the top 100

[Loser-P]

People are talking about me

Yup sorry I only fold when it's cold, and mostly when I'm not at home using my computer.

Kinda ridiculous how much of a boost the new cuda support has given. I'm getting around 3.5 mil points on weekdays when I fold for about 18 hours a day.
I was getting around 1.5 mil before.

[Crawdaddy79]

One of my case fan bearings has gone bad. It's spinning at about 30 RPM right now. Loud AF. Don't have time to go to Micro Center before going out of town on Tuesday... Looks like I'm going to be shut down until I get back. Might fold from my laptop while I'm gone, but it won't be significant numbers.

Probably time to get an entirely new case. Take the opportunity to de-dust everything as I haven't opened this thing since August.

[Flyordie]

Seems like a lot are dying lately. lol. My 120AFs are now dying. Ordered 2 Noctua NF-12 3000 iPPC PWM fans to get my radiator fed with air. Will eventually get a 3x kit of ML120s maybe and run those on the front and use one NF12 for pull and one for intake at the top.

[Jimby]

Surprisingly I was able to procure a RTX 3060 Ti, though not the model I wanted, but beggars can't be choosers. I'm interested to see how well folding works on it compared to the 1070 I was using. Hope everyone is well.

[Crawdaddy79]

Really thought I'd be folding with Big Navi by now.

Just picked up a 1.5M PPD WU for the first time since early October (I think). I need it as my average has been tanking below 1M for no obvious reason.

[Jimby]

So far, the 3060 Ti is a beast in folding. I can only imagine what a 3080 or 3090 does. Says 2.3M PPD. Wow. Oh and merry Christmas chaps.

[Crawdaddy79]

So far, the 3060 Ti is a beast in folding. I can only imagine what a 3080 or 3090 does. Says 2.3M PPD. Wow. Oh and merry Christmas chaps.

What's helpful is they've made CUDA optimizations a couple of months ago, allowing nvidia cards +50% folding performance. My laptop GPU went from 400k to 600k PPD, but I don't run it that often due to the fact that it hits 95C and stays there.

[KJ]

What's helpful is they've made CUDA optimizations a couple of months ago, allowing nvidia cards +50% folding performance. My laptop GPU went from 400k to 600k PPD, but I don't run it that often due to the fact that it hits 95C and stays there.

For sure. I’ve seen my 1660 Super go from ~800k PPD to 1.4M on some WUs.

[Jimby]

Hit the 100 mil point milestone today. Woot! Might have to give the CPU and the GPU a bit of a break soon. That kind of hardware is not easy to replace these days.

[Jimby]

I think Rage3D just went up in Rank today. Nice for a change.

[Crawdaddy79]

Yep. In the next two months it looks like we'll be going up one more, but down another five.

To contribute to our fall down the ladder: in the meantime I'm taking an indefinite break. Save some of my GPU fan rotations as it looks like I'll need to be using it for about two years longer than anticipated.

[luxor]

Sorry to hear this Crawdaddy79 but I understand as I also had to stop 6 months ago but the impact on the team was much less since I only have crappy hardware.

[Crawdaddy79]

Sorry to hear this Crawdaddy79 but I understand as I also had to stop 6 months ago but the impact on the team was much less since I only have crappy hardware.

My impact is less than before as well. I don't know why but I almost completely stopped getting the 1.5M PPD WUs, but it was still normal to get 1.2M PPD WUs - nevermind the 1.8M unicorns that sometimes came my way.

When I quit it was after getting three days' worth of (mostly) sub-750k PPD WUs. Because of the CUDA optimizations, nVidia folders are much more efficient, and at that point I felt like I was burning through my PC's lifecycle for not a good enough reason. Here's to hoping for a GPU oversupply and a massive price drop on hardware. :cheers:

[Loser-P]

I also stopped last month since I moved and no longer need too heat my bedroom with my computer. Also electricity was included in my rent at the last place much to my landlords dismay and I don't really want to pay the electric bill for folding.

Side note: In the last 2 months that I was folding I got 149,790,656 points which is about 1/3rd my point total from the last 15 years.

[Jimby]

I myself will have to cut back starting next week as the hydro rates go back up.

[JZL]

My dinky lil folding comp is still going . . .

I'll catch you guys in about 7 yrs.

[BigJimJack75]

Every little bit helps.

[luxor]

Looks like I'm in my mid-life crisis. I got tired of using APUs and convinced my wife to let me get a cheap Ryzen 5 3600 coupled with a GTX 1660 Super even if I don't really need it. I'll use it as a home server and to fold.
It appears to be good for 1M PPD, 10x to 12x what my Ryzen 2400g was producing.

[DarkFoss]

I ran across a nice FAH site today bookmarked it in case I get the itch to upgrade like luxor. In addition to the real time stats for quite a few cpus and gpus a very nice listing of the research projects. https://folding.lar.systems/

[luxor]

I ran across a nice FAH site today bookmarked it in case I get the itch to upgrade like luxor. In addition to the real time stats for quite a few cpus and gpus a very nice listing of the research projects. https://folding.lar.systems/

I did use this site to get an idea of what to expect before I did my upgrade. Turns out that it was pretty much bang on.

[luxor]

I just realized that it took me 14 days to get more points than what I had accumulated in did in the 10 years of active folding I have done since 2003. And if I had the latest and greatest hardware, it would have taken just 2 to days!

[jima13]

Yep

I just realized that it took me 14 days to get more points than what I had accumulated in did in the 10 years of active folding I have done since 2003. And if I had the latest and greatest hardware, it would have taken just 2 to days!

Kinda amazing what the changes to the code have done. Back when I started it was all about folding on the Athlon & Duron cpu's...we've come a long way

[Lupine]

Kinda amazing what the changes to the code have done. Back when I started it was all about folding on the Athlon & Duron cpu's...we've come a long way

Yep!

[luxor]

Just past the legendary 1920x1080i-How???. I remember when he was the #1 folder in the world. Never thought I'd see the day where I'd pass him. But I'm still a very long way to pass him on the number of WUs.

[Lupine]

Just past the legendary 1920x1080i-How???. I remember when he was the #1 folder in the world. Never thought I'd see the day where I'd pass him. But I'm still a very long way to pass him on the number of WUs.

Nicely done!

I just added a Ryzen 7 3700x + RX 480. Should bump my 24hr avg considerably.

For my own records:

current: 38k ppd avg
3700x projected: 220k ppd avg
RX 480 projected: 39k ppd avg

[luxor]

Nicely done!

I just added a Ryzen 7 3700x + RX 480. Should bump my 24hr avg considerably.

For my own records:

current: 38k ppd avg
3700x projected: 220k ppd avg
RX 480 projected: 39k ppd avg

Only 39K ppd for the RX 480? That seems low.

But no matter, that new PC is nice. You're making it harder to catch you

[Lupine]

Only 39K ppd for the RX 480? That seems low.

But no matter, that new PC is nice. You're making it harder to catch you

Just the initial projection given by the client on install.

And sorry!

edit. *only* 39k ppd lol ... how times have changed!

[Crawdaddy79]

For reference, my HD 7970 did 250k PPD.

[Lupine]

For reference, my HD 7970 did 250k PPD.

Are there some settings I need to adjust?

[Crawdaddy79]

If you're not using a passkey, that would do it. On a phone now otherwise would find the FAQ for it. Sign in with FAH generated passkey for mega bonus points.

[Lupine]

If you're not using a passkey, that would do it. On a phone now otherwise would find the FAQ for it. Sign in with FAH generated passkey for mega bonus points.

I'm using the same one I've had for years. No changes, right?

edit: went and checked the passkey generator and mine is still valid.

[Crawdaddy79]

I'm using the same one I've had for years. No changes, right?

edit: went the passkey generator and mine is still valid.

Looking at one of your WUs @ https://apps.foldingathome.org/wu?p=...clone=45&gen=0 my math says you're getting about 550k PPD.

[Lupine]

Looking at one of your WUs @ https://apps.foldingathome.org/wu?p=...clone=45&gen=0 my math says you're getting about 550k PPD.

Nice. System is generating some serious heat lol. May move it out of my office and just access it remotely lol. I still do most my work on my laptop.

[luxor]

Nice. System is generating some serious heat lol. May move it out of my office and just access it remotely lol. I still do most my work on my laptop.

What's happening Lupine? Looks like your production is down big time this week.

And on another note, we're back to the 75th place! Just passed Medic Coin!

[Lupine]

What's happening Lupine? Looks like your production is down big time this week.

And on another note, we're back to the 75th place! Just passed Medic Coin!

I had to re-task that system to one of my editing staff. Clean install and haven't had time to reinstall the client.

I have the parts to build a second one too, so should be back where I was x2 by end of week or so.

[luxor]

I had to re-task that system to one of my editing staff. Clean install and haven't had time to reinstall the client.

I have the parts to build a second one too, so should be back where I was x2 by end of week or so.

Cool! Great news!

[Lupine]

Looks like its kicking in.

[luxor]

Just crossed the 100 million points mark and also finally made the Team 64 top 100 on the number of completed WUs!

[Lupine]

There is a bit of pain in grinding how many years to get to 85m points, and seeing my two current gen boxes will probably be able to produce that and more in the next 3mo.

[luxor]

What’s happening to Jima13? Practically no points today and he normally produces over 40% of the team’s output.