New F@H Team Members Post Here First

[thebluebumblebee]

As you're setting up the client, just tell it not to add the SMP slot.

[Gero1369]

doesn't seem too busy here with the exception of the 'pie' thread. How's everyone doing?

Nice place for your team, 28th overall is nothing to sneeze at!

[thebluebumblebee]

We're not a chatty bunch. "Just the facts, maam."

[AnomalouS]

New to folding...
I just dl'd the cient this week and have found my PC is not FAH stable... Stable for gaming at 4800MHz but not for FAH.

Time to do some work.

[NastyHabits]

New to folding...
I just dl'd the cient this week and have found my PC is not FAH stable... Stable for gaming at 4800MHz but not for FAH.

Time to do some work.
First, welcome to the group. :toast: We can always use new members.

Alas, you'll find it's true. You can't overclock as high for folding as for gaming. I usually go down 0.2 from my maximum overclock.

[Phusius]

I tried this out, but I really want to know how well folding at home really helps the real world issues they are trying out? Also, how do you all afford your power bill each month if you are constantly running folding at home?

[AnomalouS]

thanks,

what kind of increase in your power bill will you see?

[NastyHabits]

I tried this out, but I really want to know how well folding at home really helps the real world issues they are trying out? Also, how do you all afford your power bill each month if you are constantly running folding at home?

Folding@home does help science answer many questions regarding proteins.

We all have different reasons and produce different amounts of results. I used to fold voraciously, but the power bill got too much for my meager income. I now have a PC at work that does some folding, and I use my home PC for CPU crunching. This has a negligible affect on my normal computer use, and barely adds anything to my electricity bill. To each his own, seek your own participation level, but all are welcome.

[thebluebumblebee]

I tried this out, but I really want to know how well folding at home really helps the real world issues they are trying out? Also, how do you all afford your power bill each month if you are constantly running folding at home?
Each of us has to decide how much we are willing to spend. I only Fold during the winter months. Once the average reaches 60F, I'm done until fall. Only you can decide for yourself if the science results are worth the time, electricity, and equipment.

thanks,

what kind of increase in your power bill will you see?
You can actually figure it out. Find out how many more watts per hour it takes to Fold, then do the math with the electricity rates in your area. A watt-meter makes it easy to figure out the watts.

[flmatter]

Howdy, just joined the TPU team on F@H. DL'ed and installed client and currently folding atm. My machine specs are under my name. :)

[horik]

Welcome mate!:toast:

[theoneandonlymrk]

Howdy, just joined the TPU team on F@H. DL'ed and installed client and currently folding atm. My machine specs are under my name.

hi , dude ,nice rig:)

[brandonwh64]

Hello! I have been a cruncher for a while, I just installed f@h client on my main and will let it fold sometimes during the day.

[hertz9753]

Hello! I have been a cruncher for a while, I just installed f@h client on my main and will let it fold sometimes during the day.

So your not Napoleon Dynamite? Thank you for joining us.:toast:

[lauri_hoefs]

I've actually been folding in the team for a while now, but just never noticed this thread for some reason.

So now that I'm back online with my rig just in time for ChimPowerUp, might as well introduce myself here :)

I'll probably be running a V6 console SMP client for the challenge, which seemed to average at 16 000 PPD for the last months. I'll have to run some tests to see if the V7 would bring any advantage.

Happy folding, everyone :toast:

[thebluebumblebee]

V7 runs the same clients. It's basically just a front end. I wouldn't bother changing, except that V7 is required to run that HD6950.

[lauri_hoefs]

V7 runs the same clients. It's basically just a front end. I wouldn't bother changing, except that V7 is required to run that HD6950.

OK, better to stick with the console client then, as running the GPU and taking a lot of CPU time does not seem to make a lot of sense with only four cores on the CPU.

Unless the newer cores dramatically change things with the HD6950? I'll have to research this a bit :)

[theoneandonlymrk]

OK, better to stick with the console client then, as running the GPU and taking a lot of CPU time does not seem to make a lot of sense with only four cores on the CPU.

Unless the newer cores dramatically change things with the HD6950? I'll have to research this a bit

imho you would max your ppd by using the v7 client as its the only one that gives point earning X16s to AMD cards, ive messed about a lot and one card would use aprox 60-100% of 1 cpu core leaving the rest to put to smp(x3) or a 2smp and a uni as i did(got 2 cards so 2smp now) ,all settable as SLOTS in V7 , your Ppd should be higher then 16000 with that config:) id have to guestimate into the 20k zone but i dont know how far

[Beertintedgoggles]

I've actually been folding in the team for a while now, but just never noticed this thread for some reason.

So now that I'm back online with my rig just in time for ChimPowerUp, might as well introduce myself here :)

I'll probably be running a V6 console SMP client for the challenge, which seemed to average at 16 000 PPD for the last months. I'll have to run some tests to see if the V7 would bring any advantage.

Happy folding, everyone :toast:

I'm getting anywhere from 13 - 20k PPD depending on the wu with my 2500k @ 4.5GHz. That's running it 24/7 and with my passkey entered. I'm also running 3 Nvidia cards in the same setup set at "low" priority with the smp set to "idle". I don't know how much difference you'd see with the ATI card but I assume you should be getting more than 16,000 PPD if you're folding 24/7. If not then that's pretty good.

[lauri_hoefs]

I'm getting anywhere from 13 - 20k PPD depending on the wu with my 2500k @ 4.5GHz. That's running it 24/7 and with my passkey entered. I'm also running 3 Nvidia cards in the same setup set at "low" priority with the smp set to "idle". I don't know how much difference you'd see with the ATI card but I assume you should be getting more than 16,000 PPD if you're folding 24/7. If not then that's pretty good.

13 - 20k is pretty much what I've been getting too, with a passkey and running 24/7. 16k seems to be the average over a couple of months with some short off-line periods here and there included.

Previous trials showed, that I would only get ~4000 PPD with the GPU, and lose more 6000 PPD from the SMP client.

I'll give the newest client a try anyway, let's see what happens.

[thebluebumblebee]

13 - 20k is pretty much what I've been getting too, with a passkey and running 24/7. 16k seems to be the average over a couple of months with some short off-line periods here and there included.

Previous trials showed, that I would only get ~4000 PPD with the GPU, and lose more 6000 PPD from the SMP client.

I'll give the newest client a try anyway, let's see what happens.

~4000 PPD meant you were using GPU2 which was horrible for both GPU points and the effect that it had on the CPU. I tend to agree with you that running SMP by its self is your best bet, but, if you want to try both, check out what Buck said: (modified for this post)
I say go to SMP-3, then use ProcessLasso to lock the SMP client to cores 0-3 and the GPU to core 4. :toast:
It's all according to how much you want to mess with the clients and settings.

[lauri_hoefs]

~4000 PPD meant you were using GPU2 which was horrible for both GPU points and the effect that it had on the CPU. I tend to agree with you that running SMP by its self is your best bet, but, if you want to try both, check out what Buck said

Running the current WU with -SMP 4 gave me ~19k PPD. Now running it with -SMP 3 I get ~13k PPD and ~9k with the new GPU core. So if not a huge difference to SMP only, still a lot better compared to the results with older cores. It's as if there now was an eight day in a week of folding ;)

[Chevalr1c]

I just started to fold for TPU.
As little about my folding history (more or less the same text as in this post (http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2632064&postcount=15182)):

I used to fold on the HD 4850 for team 596 (Team Pimprig, created by appetitefortech.com). I used to fold on the HD 4850 I have but the card was BSOD'ing for a while when gaming. I solved that like half a year ago but errors in OCCT's GPU tool made me fear for soft errors when running F@H. The latter and the fact that the 4850 draws quite some power made me decide to move towards SMP. With the "old" SMP client that seemed to misbehave sometimes (it seemed to be Intelligent Energy Saver, most likely. With only Speedstep enabled for power saving, the latest version of the v7 client behaves well (the Linpack test in OCCT went well too, over a period of 24 hours)).
So after a break of a few months (did not feel like folding for a while, as you perhaps can imagine and other matters made me somewhat forget about it) I am back into it. I have moved from team 596 (Appetite for Tech's team) to the TPU team because I have not visited Appetitefortech.com for ages while I am much at this place (it is mostly an emotional thing I guess, because there is no rational reason to switch)

My stats and those of my "old" team are in the links below.
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=userpage&teamnum=596&username=Chevalr1c
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?teamnum=596&qtype=teampage

:rockout:

[thebluebumblebee]

I just started to fold for TPU.
As little about my folding history (more or less the same text as in this post (http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2632064&postcount=15182)):

I used to fold on the HD 4850 for team 596 (Team Pimprig, created by appetitefortech.com). I used to fold on the HD 4850 I have but the card was BSOD'ing for a while when gaming. I solved that like half a year ago but errors in OCCT's GPU tool made me fear for soft errors when running F@H. The latter and the fact that the 4850 draws quite some power made me decide to move towards SMP. With the "old" SMP client that seemed to misbehave sometimes (it seemed to be Intelligent Energy Saver, most likely. With only Speedstep enabled for power saving, the latest version of the v7 client behaves well (the Linpack test in OCCT went well too, over a period of 24 hours)).
So after a break of a few months (did not feel like folding for a while, as you perhaps can imagine and other matters made me somewhat forget about it) I am back into it. I have moved from team 596 (Appetite for Tech's team) to the TPU team because I have not visited Appetitefortech.com for ages while I am much at this place (it is mostly an emotional thing I guess, because there is no rational reason to switch)

My stats and those of my "old" team are in the links below.
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=userpage&teamnum=596&username=Chevalr1c
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?teamnum=596&qtype=teampage

:rockout:

Welcome. Most of the team is off on a little adventure. http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=165282

[Chevalr1c]

Oh that's right. It is time for the annual Chimp Challenge. :)

[thebluebumblebee]

Welcome n1c3tr1 !

[BUCK NASTY]

Welcome to the team Matthew-GTX570:rockout:. That card can do some wonderful points.

:toast:

[NastyHabits]

welcome n1c3tr1 !

+2

[Maban]

I just realized I hadn't posted here yet. Right now I have one 2600K (stock until I RMA my mobo), one GTX 680 at 1200MHz, and two GTX 470s at 725MHz. 350k is going to be dedicated to EVGA each month but after that I'm all yours TPU.

[GSG-9]

Hi,

I used to fold here a long time ago, I just got back into it.

I am running a i7 3930k @ 4.2Ghz, with a Nvidia 690.
For folding. It looks I like I spit out between 84,000-93,000 ppd.
Hopefully this time I stick to folding.

[BUCK NASTY]

Hi,

I used to fold here a long time ago, I just got back into it.

I am running a i7 3930k @ 4.2Ghz, with a Nvidia 690.
For folding. It looks I like I spit out between 84,000-93,000 ppd.
Hopefully this time I stick to folding.
Welcome back GSG-9! F@H should have the Early Return Bonus running again soon. You should see a 2-3x increase in your production. Let me know if you have any issues.

:toast:

[GSG-9]

Let me know how to get that bonus, besides that things seem to be running well on the x15 Core, my score range has widened to 77k-111k for a days work. All folds are not equal I guess.

[[Ion]]

Welcome back GSG-9! F@H should have the Early Return Bonus running again soon. You should see a 2-3x increase in your production. Let me know if you have any issues.

:toast:

Let us know when it comes back, and I should be able to get a GTX460 going :toast:

[Tillyserver]

Hi, I have just joined the folding team, I am using my homeserver, a dual xeon L5420 rig to fold, using the latest client

[[Ion]]

Hi, I have just joined the folding team, I am using my homeserver, a dual xeon L5420 rig to fold, using the latest client

It's a pleasure to have you on board :toast:

Let us know if we can help in any way :)

[Tillyserver]

;2805446']It's a pleasure to have you on board :toast:

Let us know if we can help in any way :)

What are the best settings to use in the V7 client for best performance, folding will run 24/7 on the server

[GSG-9]

Hi, I have just joined the folding team, I am using my homeserver, a dual xeon L5420 rig to fold, using the latest client

Welcome!

[thebluebumblebee]

What are the best settings to use in the V7 client for best performance, folding will run 24/7 on the server

Welcome!

From the stats, it looks like you are only using the uniprocessor client. You want to use the SMP client. Check out the guide (http://folding.stanford.edu/English/WinGuide) on how to setup a SMP slot and make sure you get a Passkey and put it in the client.

[BUCK NASTY]

Welcome to the F@H team 111rodon!

:toast:

[Nokiacrazi]

Just started folding today. Not too sure how to do it, just downloaded a client and ran it, seems to be using CPU 100%. I'd prefer if it was only using less but not sure how?

Will only be using it when I am not using the PC while its on, as its not on 24/7.

Rig used is the one in specs, and my brother has also started folding on his laptop.

[BUCK NASTY]

Just started folding today. Not too sure how to do it, just downloaded a client and ran it, seems to be using CPU 100%. I'd prefer if it was only using less but not sure how?

Will only be using it when I am not using the PC while its on, as its not on 24/7.

Rig used is the one in specs, and my brother has also started folding on his laptop.

Welcome aboard Nokiacrazi! Let us know if we can help you configure the clients. FYI, your 7950 would do considerable work crunching in WGC-Boinc.

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=68

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[Nokiacrazi]

Welcome aboard Nokiacrazi! Let us know if we can help you configure the clients. FYI, your 7950 would do considerable work crunching in WGC-Boinc.

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=68

:toast:

Thank you, I will definitely have a look at crunching soon enough.

Any ideas how to limit the amount of cores used in folding?

[thebluebumblebee]

Any ideas how to limit the amount of cores used in folding?

(you might have to select Advanced or Expert mode) Click configure/slots/smp/edit/smp/ and under CPU's, choose the number of cores that you wish to use.

[BUCK NASTY]

Welcome to the team Lego (http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=630685). Stop by and introduce yourself when you get a chance!

:toast::toast:

[mx500torid]

(you might have to select Advanced or Expert mode) Click configure/slots/smp/edit/smp/ and under CPU's, choose the number of cores that you wish to use.

Thanks Bee. I needed to know that. :respect:

[Nibble]

Hi all, name's Nibble, just joined the forum. Long time reader, and I think first time joining, I may have joined year ago and forgot. Just joined the F@H team too, or about to actually.
Anything I should do pertaining specifically to my rig?

[[Ion]]

Hi all, name's Nibble, just joined the forum. Long time reader, and I think first time joining, I may have joined year ago and forgot. Just joined the F@H team too, or about to actually.
Anything I should do pertaining specifically to my rig?

Your system will best benefit from running the standard SMP client. Just set up the V7 client with team 50711, your preferred username, and a passkey :toast:

[BUCK NASTY]

Welcome aboard Asmodian (http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=631632)! Please stop by and introduce yourself when you get a chance.

:toast:

[thebluebumblebee]

Hey!
agent00skid and N5418887, stop by and introduce yourselves! Oh, and, welcome!

[agent00skid]

I'm just over from the WCG place. Read about Chimp, and wanted to see what my machine could do. Currently running the CPU full time.

Also, when I game on the machine with F@H running in the background, it doesn't actually seem to do anything. FAHControl shows progress, but there is nothing in log, and after a while, it reverts back to pregame progress. (The lack of progress might just be the games taking all the CPU, but I find that hard to believe, since the CPU to GPU power is heavily on the CPU side.)

[NastyHabits]

Welcome new members! :toast:

[mx500torid]

Keith Stouffer stop in and say Hi and thanks for joining us.:toast:

[Baum]

Hello guys, i have been a member for long time on tpu but never thought that my hardware was good enought to play with the big boys :D running on a budget..

I will join our team with my:
Username: MoeBaum
Team: 50711 (without the #)
Passkey: ":roll:"
Core i5 3570K
8GB RAM
GTX 650

I have installed the client already, just my GTX650 says waiting for idle, is it to weak? :cry:

[d1nky]

wow theres plenty of F@H threads. few know already but gettin two rigs to help for the chimp challenge, also gave me the incentive to buy a new cpu :D

may oc like hell while still in warranty haaa

[NastyHabits]

I have installed the client already, just my GTX650 says waiting for idle, is it to weak? :cry:

You need to right click on the folding@home tray icon and make sure there is a check mark next to "Full".

Welcome to the TPU folding@home crew. There's some members with monster PC's, others with mega gpu's, and some - like me - with just a couple of old GPU's churning away. Everyone is welcome. :cool:

[johnerz]

Hi guys

I'm new to your team, but not new to folding.

I will be folding a couple of GPU's for you in the CC from now till the end of the contest, then I'll be back 100% for EVGA. I hope you are all happy with my limited contribution

johnerz

[d1nky]

WOOP WOOP!! lets get folding for TPU

[stinkball]

hey guys! been folding for a while, but i joined the team a few days ago for the chimp challenge! (keith_stouffer). Running on an i5-3570k and a gtx680 :)

[Xenturion]

I've committed my 480's, at least for the duration of the Chimp Challenge. The heat generation is truly absurd, though. Might have to take the side-panel off for this one.

[d1nky]

http://img.techpowerup.org/130416/Photo0024.jpg

has to be done lol

[BUCK NASTY]

http://img.techpowerup.org/130416/Photo0024.jpg

has to be done lol

Great to see the rigs that have been thrown together to help TPU!

:toast:

[d1nky]

thrown together?? LOL! one on right is my main rig, although I did buy a cpu for TPU folding

[Norton]

Great to see the rigs that have been thrown together to help TPU!

:toast:

+1 :toast:

But thrown together??? :slap:

I've been planning mine for awhile now:D

Hoping I can get these 580's and the Xeon up to full potential today or tomorrow (estimating @ 80k ppd atm) ;)

[Mathragh]

Damn, i seem to have some problems running this while doing any other graphically intensive thing. The screen keeps freezing which is being followed by a message that the driver has stopped responding and has been recovered.

What drivers are you guys running for your amd GPU's?

[d1nky]

latest amd ones, however when I oc without power boost full, it crashes after a while.

driver stops responding. so now im stock everything as its all kind of new

damn had second rig up and going but cut out at 68*c on cpu hahaha

[Mathragh]

latest amd ones, however when I oc without power boost full, it crashes after a while.

driver stops responding. so now im stock everything as its all kind of new

damn had second rig up and going but cut out at 68*c on cpu hahaha

yeah mine keeps crashing, even if i've got everything on stock, but only when i'm also playing a game or something like it. Sounds like the openCL driver isnt water-tight :p

What clocks is your second rig running at? =D

[d1nky]

stock fx4100/gts450 after this run ill ramp them up high! I got a lot of credit for the lil gts it clocks well, and so does the 4100

lmao im not playing games as well, no wonder it crashes!!!!!

I can smell burning plastic haha this psu is 100 years old and 500w.

17k on it tho

[mx500torid]

I've committed my 480's, at least for the duration of the Chimp Challenge. The heat generation is truly absurd, though. Might have to take the side-panel off for this one.

Love those 480s heatpipes look like they came off a Duesenberg :roll: pipes are crazy hot but mine running 72c sure seems hotter.

[Jstn7477]

I just crammed my 465 into my i7/660Ti rig, and the other 450 is in with the 470 in the P4 HT rig. I literally have zero free PCIe slots, and having another motherboard pop would put a nice dent in my production. I wish I could have arranged these last week, but better late than never. So, all my Fermis in my sig and a 660 Ti are folding atm.

[Mathragh]

Haha really awesome to see everyone giving it their best =D

Managed to convince a fellow student of mine to start folding aswell! Hes folding anonymously for our team with a phenom II x4 955 and a 6870!

Also managed to fix the driver issue I've had with the help of amd's own driver sweeper tool which I found on their site (http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/Pages/catalyst-uninstall-utility.aspx)!

[BUCK NASTY]

Love those 480s heatpipes look like they came off a Duesenberg :roll:
LOL, one of the few times in computing that you can reference a Duesenberg!

:toast:

[mx500torid]

I am amazed at the people that have dropped in to support the Chimp. 50 people folding today at last update. That is amazing. Thanks all and FOLD ON!!!

[ste2425]

hi all not new to the forum but new to this :)

Just downloaded the client and linked it to tpu and letting it go of on its merry way.

Got a few question about how to set it up most efficiently with my system but ive noticed there a thread for help so ill have a gander there first :toast:

[d1nky]

hey good to see you ;)

my second rig went down, psu exploded literally!

FOLD ON!!

[ste2425]

my second rig went down, psu exploded literally!


Ha don't say that you'l put people off.

Plus im folding on my only computer i can't afford this to fail how will i play Bioshock?

Oh and finish my dissertation.

[Mathragh]

hey good to see you ;)

my second rig went down, psu exploded literally!

FOLD ON!!

Haha dude you crack me up!

[d1nky]

Tried ocing the ten year old 500watt grey psu and it spat a flame out the back and went bang!

the mobo and that looks ok tho, no raised caps, burn marks etc! fingers crossed I can get it back up for folding.

[johnerz]

You must be mad, I'm suprised the 12v rail had enough amps for a recent motherboard/GPU combo :eek:

[d1nky]

the 12v rail was showing 9volts in hwinfo64, I was stupid to put it under pressure.

it was working non stop for two days at full load. but its all good its together with a diff psu :D

[bpgt64]

Hi Guys, I have done some F@home before, and I have also done alittle bit of WCG. I am looking to get my systems setup for the chimp challenge coming up. I was following the GPU guide for Nvidia, and it seems not be using the GPU, or atleast using it very little. Specifications are on the side panel for hardware.

[thebluebumblebee]

Hi Guys, I have done some F@home before, and I have also done alittle bit of WCG. I am looking to get my systems setup for the chimp challenge coming up. I was following the GPU guide for Nvidia, and it seems not be using the GPU, or atleast using it very little. Specifications are on the side panel for hardware.

If you used the beta setting, it won't use the GPU. A screen shot would be helpful.

[HBalazs.hu]

Hi, I saw BUCK NASTY's post at TPU! WCG forum, so here I am to f@h.
Right now with a Dell XPS 1730 with 2 GPU (9800M GTX).

[BUCK NASTY]

Hi, I saw BUCK NASTY's post at TPU! WCG forum, so here I am to f@h.
Right now with a Dell XPS 1730 with 2 GPU (9800M GTX).
Welcome aboard HBalazs.hu! Please let un know if we can help you at all.

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