TPU's F@H Team

[[Ion]]

Well, with cooler weather, it seems a shame to leave the HD7950 idle. I'm going to do some rebalancing across different circuits and I'll see if I can't get it folding over the weekend.

 

[mx500torid]

MS or jstn, how are those Maxwells doing? Im still up in the air. Found 780ti for 350, 290x Windforce for 240, 970 cheapest is 329.00. Leaning toward another 290x. 290x is doing a 10469@ 300k. Thats the highest Ive seen from that card.

 

[mstenholm]

I had two core18 WUs back to back and that sucks. 72k PPD and 19 hour a piece. I would go for a 290x if noise and power consumption were of less importance.

 

[Jstn7477]

I'm getting 88K on those on a GTX 980 @ 1468MHz/1.187V. I certainly love the extra shaders, but too bad I had to spend $250 more than I really wanted to just to get the full chip. It still runs circles around my R9 290 power consumption wise, literally takes half the power at times but is much faster unless you get one of the Core 18 WUs.

 

[mx500torid]

Which core 18s are you guys getting? My 780 is on one a 10473 tpf 7 min 58 secs shows 130k that cant be right. HMMM its bouncing like a 13000 now 246k tpf 5 min 10 sec.

 

[Jstn7477]

10471, TPF 8:57, 88029 PPD.

 

[NastyHabits]

In my search for low power folding Nirvana, I've built a box based on an AMD AM1 platform with a 750 Ti card. (Full specs in my sig.)
Like many of you, I've had varying luck. On a 9201 - 55,000 PPD. On some other WU's not so good. It's been reported on the F@H forms that maxwell based cards do work best on Nvidia driver 340.52. I can verify this as true.

While my new system won't be setting any major records, it will allow me to fold 24/7/365 without going into powerbill hell.

Thanks to TheBlueBumbleBee and many others for advice.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

In my search for low power folding Nirvana, I've built a box based on an AMD AM1 platform with a 750 Ti card. (Full specs in my sig.)
Like many of you, I've had varying luck. On a 9201 - 55,000 PPD. On some other WU's not so good. It's been reported on the F@H forms that maxwell based cards do work best on Nvidia driver 340.52. I can verify this as true.

While my new system won't be setting any major records, it will allow me to fold 24/7/365 without going into powerbill hell.

Thanks to TheBlueBumbleBee and many others for advice.

I'm green with envy. If you average 50,000 PPD for 360 days/year, that's 18,000,000 PPY.

 

[mstenholm]

Which core 18s are you guys getting? My 780 is on one a 10473 tpf 7 min 58 secs shows 130k that cant be right. HMMM its bouncing like a 13000 now 246k tpf 5 min 10 sec.

3 out of the last 4 WU mine did was 1047x @ 68-72k PPD.

 

[NastyHabits]

I'm green with envy. If you average 50,000 PPD for 360 days/year, that's 18,000,000 PPY.

Wish that would be true. Some only give me 28,000 PPD.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

BTW, for those thinking about the GTX 750 Ti, (and live in the USA) Newegg has the EVGA FTW for $110 after a $20 MIR. I think it's one of the highest clocked Ti's that you can find and huge overkill with the cooler, which should make it perfect for this crowd.

(This price reduction on a very popular GPU makes me wonder if something's up - like the GTX 960. Could the 960 be priced low enough to put pressure on the Ti?)

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Is there anyone left who remembers "Folding for Stephanie?" (she beat the cancer) Her father, Scott, who is one of the main guys at Bjorn3D, now has bladder cancer.

 

[BUCK NASTY]

Is there anyone left who remembers "Folding for Stephanie?" (she beat the cancer) Her father, Scott, who is one of the main guys at Bjorn3D, now has bladder cancer.

I saw this as well. I remember that mmack almost got banned in the hoopla when Scott was posting/recruiting on TPU for his folding team back in 2008/9? I know it's shitty to say this, but......irony?

 

[BUCK NASTY]

Alright guy's, help me make this decision. I know -bigadv will be gone in 3 months and my Opty servers will be sold/traded or converted to WCG fulltime. I'm looking at picking up 2x GTX 970's to fold with, possibly 4x. If the power consumption is 140w/card, then the energy savings alone would pay for this conversion within a year. I would obviously upgrade to gold PSU's as well. The lower heat output would also allow me to fold year round again. What do you see the "cons" as being?

 

[[Ion]]

Well, there's of course the initial HW cost, but that seems relatively minimal.
And do you have a host system ready that could run four cards?

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Alright guy's, help me make this decision. I know -bigadv will be gone in 3 months and my Opty servers will be sold/traded or converted to WCG fulltime. I'm looking at picking up 2x GTX 970's to fold with, possibly 4x. If the power consumption is 140w/card, then the energy savings alone would pay for this conversion within a year. I would obviously upgrade to gold PSU's as well. The lower heat output would also allow me to fold year round again. What do you see the "cons" as being?

Core_15's

 

[BUCK NASTY]

Well, there's of course the initial HW cost, but that seems relatively minimal.
And do you have a host system ready that could run four cards?

Based upon PCI-e spacing, I would run 2 cards per Mobo to keep temps down and phase the 2nd system in over the next month(x-mas present for myself).

Core_15's

I know. This is the one pitfall of my master plan.

 

[mstenholm]

Core_15's

Yes. But I'm now on my 8th consecutive core_17 so I can see a light in the end of the tunnel.

 

[Jstn7477]

My 980 has been getting 92xx units again and it blazes through them at 380K EPPD, surely the crappy WUs and Core 15 may become obsolete soon. Also remember that a big Maxwell with 3072 shaders (Titan II) is rumored too.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

(US) Can anyone see any problem with using this motherboard for GPU Folding? MSI Z97 U3 Plus $70 after $20 MIR (through 11/20) for a Z97 motherboard!

Additionally, some of us have had conversations about how much CPU is needed. Would a G3220/G3258 be enough to run 2 GTX 9x0's?

BTW, I'm pausing F@H until after the WCG Challenge.

 

[Jstn7477]

(US) Can anyone see any problem with using this motherboard for GPU Folding? MSI Z97 U3 Plus $70 after $20 MIR (through 11/20) for a Z97 motherboard!

Additionally, some of us have had conversations about how much CPU is needed. Would a G3220/G3258 be enough to run 2 GTX 9x0's?

BTW, I'm pausing F@H until after the WCG Challenge.

Get a G3258 and get it around 4.2GHz, and don't crunch on it. Each NVIDIA card should consume one thread.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Get a G3258 and get it around 4.2GHz, and don't crunch on it. Each NVIDIA card should consume one thread.

Now it's on sale for $60 with promo code EMCWWWE24
And keeping with the low system wattage theme, Transcend 2.5" 128GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive for $60
$190 for those three items.
Hint hint @BUCK NASTY

 

[Ahhzz]

Woohoo somewhere back there, I cleared my first 1000 WUs

 

[Jstn7477]

Now it's on sale for $60 with promo code EMCWWWE24
And keeping with the low system wattage theme, Transcend 2.5" 128GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive for $60
$190 for those three items.
Hint hint @BUCK NASTY

Awesome, I have had a G3258 combo with MSI B85-G43 Gaming for several months and it makes and excellent backbone, though only using it for two Tahiti XTs. I got the board for $85 and the chip for $5 as part of a nice deal, just over $100 to get to my door.

And yes, my B85 board can overclock it and has been able to since a few weeks after I got it. I think manufacturers were able to bend the rules for just this chip.

 

[manofthem]

As a part of the WCG Challenge, the game giveaway is up and active. All our F@H brothers are cordially invited to share in the offerings, so please stop in and enter for some games

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/t...lenge-celebrating-10-years-on-the-wcg.207279/