finally back to the top 100

[Crawdaddy79]

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

Maybe his wife finally figured out why the electric bill is so high.


EDIT: maybe not. Just checked... He's back.

[Lupine]

We're consistently hitting triple digits here, and will be for at least another week. Dialing things down to accommodate. One of the new boxes is also having some graphical glitching, which I still need to figure out. I get the feeling that the vidcards aren't spinning up the fans properly.

[Crawdaddy79]

There seems to be a GPU work unit shortage, at least for my card. Haven't confirmed it on the folding forums, but I left this thing running for 44 of the last 48 hours and it's processed 4 hours' worth of folding. This morning it was on its 16th attempt, and trying #17 in 51 minutes. I'm just going to shut it off.

[luxor]

There seems to be a GPU work unit shortage, at least for my card. Haven't confirmed it on the folding forums, but I left this thing running for 44 of the last 48 hours and it's processed 4 hours' worth of folding. This morning it was on its 16th attempt, and trying #17 in 51 minutes. I'm just going to shut it off.

I also went through a GPU WU drought that lasted about 48 hours. It appears to be resolved now.

[Lupine]

My output is significantly reduced until after the heatwave hitting the west coast subsides. Supposed to reach around 110F again today.

[Crawdaddy79]

New CPU.



Run 3D Mark, CPU tops out at 75C.

Run Cinebench, CPU tops out at 86.7C.

Run Folding, CPU immediately hits 89C and stays there.

I think I'm going to disable the Auto OC.

[luxor]

New CPU.



Run 3D Mark, CPU tops out at 75C.

Run Cinebench, CPU tops out at 86.7C.

Run Folding, CPU immediately hits 89C and stays there.

I think I'm going to disable the Auto OC.

Great PPD from that 5900X, but it does run hot!

[Crawdaddy79]

Great PPD from that 5900X, but it does run hot!

Yep - I disabled the Auto OC (but PBO is on) and it's crunching at 450k - 490k PPD @ 87C, ~4.25 Ghz with GPU folding. I think it runs a few C cooler when the GPU idles but I didn't take notes so don't remember for sure. [EDIT: This is confirmed. I paused the GPU slot and it dropped to 81.5C in two minutes]

My Work Unit tally is going to look great for the day though. It's been going through them one after the other. Whatever drought was going on earlier seems to be over.

[Lupine]

My output is significantly reduced until after the heatwave hitting the west coast subsides. Supposed to reach around 110F again today.

Still consistent triple digit heat. Still offline.

[luxor]

Still consistent triple digit heat. Still offline.

I'll have to take a few days/weeks break over the summer as well, but I'll be back.

[Crawdaddy79]

New project causing single Work Unit record broken overnight (for me).

400,400 points. https://apps.foldingathome.org/wu?p=...one=208&gen=24

Would have been closer to 450k but I did pause it for an hour or two because still PC gamer.

[luxor]

New project causing single Work Unit record broken overnight (for me).

400,400 points. https://apps.foldingathome.org/wu?p=...one=208&gen=24

Would have been closer to 450k but I did pause it for an hour or two because still PC gamer.

Not sure you linked the right project, the credit was for 50K.

I think I had one of the WU you are talking about a few days ago. I got 385K points for it.

https://apps.foldingathome.org/wu?p=...one=475&gen=17

[Crawdaddy79]

Weird... I checked my link to make sure it worked, and it did! Today it's not. And yours links back to my 50k WU

Had to manually edit the URL.

https://apps.foldingathome.org/wu?p=18010&r=0&c=208&g=24#project=18010&run=0&clone=208&gen=24

[luxor]

Weird... I checked my link to make sure it worked, and it did! Today it's not. And yours links back to my 50k WU

Had to manually edit the URL.

https://apps.foldingathome.org/wu?p=...one=208&gen=24

Haha, I think it's the first part of the link that counts and only the values at the end get changed when searching for a new project.

Here, this should work now.

https://apps.foldingathome.org/wu?p=...one=475&gen=17

[luxor]

I'll have to take a few days/weeks break over the summer as well, but I'll be back.

I'm back from vacations and restarted my folding rig a few hours!

[Crawdaddy79]

I had a dream that someone spoofed a WU server and my PC ended up getting ransomwared. Ever since, I haven't been as eager to fold.

[luxor]

Just passed 200 million points!
I see that Lupine also just crossed 100 million points!
And Team 64 just moved up one spot!

[Lupine]

Just passed 200 million points!
I see that Lupine also just crossed 100 million points!
And Team 64 just moved up one spot!

Just seeing this lol. Didn't realize I had a machine fired up. Thought everything was off for the summer. Guess not!

[Flyordie]

Just seeing this lol. Didn't realize I had a machine fired up. Thought everything was off for the summer. Guess not!

Its gotten colder. So you know what that means... Vega64 most of the time. When PC isn't being used, I'll throw the Threadripper on at 6 cores. (7 doesn't get many WU's, and don't want 8 as it'll slow the Vega64 down.. I've tested it..)



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[luxor]

Its gotten colder. So you know what that means... Vega64 most of the time. When PC isn't being used, I'll throw the Threadripper on at 6 cores. (7 doesn't get many WU's, and don't want 8 as it'll slow the Vega64 down.. I've tested it..)



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Welcome back!

[luxor]

I see that Crawdaddy79 is back as well!

And I just cracked the project top 10,000!

[Crawdaddy79]

I see that Crawdaddy79 is back as well!

And I just cracked the project top 10,000!

Hah - just temporarily. Always happy to be noticed though.

Going out of town for a bit, but when I get back it looks like it's back to folding. Warming up the basement for science and whatnot.

[Lupine]

Its gotten colder. So you know what that means... Vega64 most of the time. When PC isn't being used, I'll throw the Threadripper on at 6 cores. (7 doesn't get many WU's, and don't want 8 as it'll slow the Vega64 down.. I've tested it..)



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Yep.

I did have a bit of a hardware scare last week. System was folding away for however long (I rarely have time to get on the home PC anymore), then one morning last week the box was off. Hit the switch and ... nothing. Turns out the new Seasonic Focus GX-750 died quietly during the night.

Fortunately had purchased two at the time (another for a separate project, that is still waiting for a GPU ), so was able to resolve by simply swapping the other PSU in (didn't swap cables or anything). Have always had good luck with Seasonic, so assuming its a one off.

Back Folding 24/7.

[Flyordie]

Yep.

I did have a bit of a hardware scare last week. System was folding away for however long (I rarely have time to get on the home PC anymore), then one morning last week the box was off. Hit the switch and ... nothing. Turns out the new Seasonic Focus GX-750 died quietly during the night.

Fortunately had purchased two at the time (another for a separate project, that is still waiting for a GPU ), so was able to resolve by simply swapping the other PSU in (didn't swap cables or anything). Have always had good luck with Seasonic, so assuming its a one off.

Back Folding 24/7.

If it failed like 2 of my past 2 Seasonic's have after 5+ years of service- It was an inductor failure. No hardware taken with them.

Currently running a Seasonic X-Series 850W (KM3 revision, with the beefed up voltage regulation and 105C all Japanese caps and larger main cap)

[Lupine]

If it failed like 2 of my past 2 Seasonic's have after 5+ years of service- It was an inductor failure. No hardware taken with them.

Currently running a Seasonic X-Series 850W (KM3 revision, with the beefed up voltage regulation and 105C all Japanese caps and larger main cap)

Could be. Unit was only a few months old. I didn't bother to do any troubleshooting beyond unit swappage.

[luxor]

Congrats Honsy for reaching 1 billion points!

https://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=141784

[Crawdaddy79]

GJ Honsy. I'll join your club before the end of this decade (probably).


Check out this beefy WU. Took over a day to finish on my 5900X. Was a 205k base credit. Finished it at 509k points, nearly doubling my single WU record of 330k.

https://apps.foldingathome.org/wu?p=18408&r=104&c=1&g=9#project=18408&run=104&clone=1&gen=9

[luxor]

GJ Honsy. I'll join your club before the end of this decade (probably).


Check out this beefy WU. Took over a day to finish on my 5900X. Was a 205k base credit. Finished it at 509k points, nearly doubling my single WU record of 330k.

https://apps.foldingathome.org/wu?p=...&clone=1&gen=9

I have a few of those over the last 10 days.
They take about 55 hours to complete on my 3600 and I get around 460K points, good for 200ppd.

[luxor]

There's something I haven't seen in a while...



Good showing there BigJimJack!

[Crawdaddy79]

Check out this PPD. 19M. Not bad.



I paused one of these massive WUs just before it finished 95%. When I resumed it finished to 96% 26 seconds later, making the recalc ridiculous @ 26 seconds TPF when it should be about 20 minutes.

To add to this, I've been getting random restarts. Reliability history only says "Windows was not properly shut down.". Only happens when folding. I might have to stop until PC parts become freely available again.

[luxor]

If only that ppd was true.
Too bad you're having stability issues. Have you tried folding only your gpu or cpu to see which one is causing the problem?

As for myself, my average ppd took a dive last week when they started issuing the projects 18201.
Turns out it was because I hadn't updated my Nvidia drivers recently and the version I was using were too old for these new cores.

[Crawdaddy79]

If only that ppd was true.
Too bad you're having stability issues. Have you tried folding only your gpu or cpu to see which one is causing the problem?

As for myself, my average ppd took a dive last week when they started issuing the projects 18201.
Turns out it was because I hadn't updated my Nvidia drivers recently and the version I was using were too old for these new cores.

I'm pretty sure it's the CPU or motherboard-related. If it's the CPU that would suck because I am not going to be able to separate this thing from the cooler without destroying it. It's stuck bad.

I did update chipset drivers for the first time since upgrading to this CPU (six months ago, roughly). I'll rev it back up tonight and see how it goes.

Also, I was wondering where your points were going. Those low scoring WUs suck. How can we keep R3D on the front page if they keep giving us trash.

[luxor]

I was able to get my hands on a RTX 3060. I should be able to sell my 1660 super for what I paid for the 3060. Hopefully a no cost upgrade that should double my ppd.

[luxor]

Congrats to JesusFreak71 for reaching 100 millions points!

[luxor]

Nice production increase AMD_US:

https://folding.extremeoverclocking....hp?s=&u=652441

[Crawdaddy79]

I suppose I'll go ahead and move out of the passing lane so Luxor can safely go by...

[luxor]

I suppose I'll go ahead and move out of the passing lane so Luxor can safely go by...

About a year ago, it was you who passed me like I wasn't moving (well I really wasn't moving fast at the time).

[Crawdaddy79]

Turned Precision Boost Overdrive off to improve reliability for these 200K+ base credit work units that cause random reboots. Was given false hope when it ran overnight with no issues.

For stats (left, PBO on, right PBO off):



Less current, less heat, and minimal performance loss to boot!

Nope. Rebooted an hour and a half ago on its own. Like my Vega 64 issues there is no pattern, which points to a bad hardware (again). Luckily it only does this when folding, and so far has only done it on the large WU. Maybe the project will come to an end in a month and I can not get these anymore.

[Jimby]

Shame that is happening to you. Does AMD not optimize their drivers for Folding@Home?

[Crawdaddy79]

Shame that is happening to you. Does AMD not optimize their drivers for Folding@Home?

I'm 99.9% confident the crashing isn't driver related. No one else is complaining on the folding forum. I've a defective CPU or my motherboard has gone bad. I'm just not going to CPU fold until these projects are done. This thing folded at 100% for three months straight after I got it, but there's something about the large projects that causes it to trip over itself.

With GPU folding drivers are optimized to use OpenCL. Right now the onus is on F@H to optimize the core to OpenCL. About a year ago they made some optimizations for CUDA and nvidia users saw a 50% increase in points across the board.