Official 2010 Chimp Challenge Thread

[Hugis]

lol just hung, nps ill run it at what seems its max 1750.

 

[p_o_s_pc]

lol just hung, nps ill run it at what seems its max 1750.

I run my 8800GT(and when i had my farm of 8800GT's) i would run them at 1700 just to know it is stable..
Also i can't fold on my 8800GT as my power supply can't handle the overclocked i7 and overclocked GPU so i am going to have to try and borrow some money to grab the Seasonic PSU i have been wanting but i still have the i7 folding

 

[Makaveli]

Makaveli, could you check that you have your Username and Team Number set up correctly.In your first pic it is not set up right.You can scroll up in the console window to check.

The username is ChimPowerUp and Team Number is 50711

Also with your i7, if you have hyperthreading enabled, make sure to run -smp 8 as an argument in the shortcut.It will then utilise all 8 cores.

If you need help to change it , just PM me.
Also welcome to the Team

EDIT:You can also PM me for the Passkey (which it will ask for if you have to change your UserName and Team Number)

Ah yes the first time I ran it I just wanted to make sure it was running so I didn't set a team or username.

My target shortcut for cpu now reads as this

Folding@home-Win32-x86.exe" -smp 8 -advmethods -verbosity 9

However I do need to know how to change the team and user name now because when I run it program it just continues from where I left off. Do I have to run the install.bat again to change them?

Folding it pretty good for stability testing seen quite a few people crashing out , I've haven't had a single crash yet so this is good my current overclock is rock stable!

 

[oily_17]

Just add the " -configonly " switch to the target shortcut.

When you start it it will run through the settings again.When it finishes the settings it will close and you will have to remove the -configonly switch before running it again.

EDIT:If you need the passkey I can PM it to you.

 

[BUCK NASTY]

Just add the " -configonly " switch to the target shortcut.

When you start it it will run through the settings again.When it finishes the settings it will close and you will have to remove the -configonly switch before running it again.

EDIT:If you need the passkey I can PM it to you.

Just like Oily said, but i do it a little different. Create a shortcut in the F@H folder, name it -configonly and add -configonly to the shortcut target. When ever you want to change the configuration, just use that shortcut. Now you do not have to alter your original F@H shortcut on the desktop.

 

[oily_17]

Nice idea Buck, I am always forgetting to remove the flag when I go to run it again.

 

[Makaveli]

Thanks guys I got it on the correct team now, and it seems to be going alittle faster with -smp 8 added to the target line.



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[oily_17]

See this thread for monitoring your Folding progress -

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=120320

 

[Makaveli]

Thanks that was the next thing I was gonna look at

Also what this about you get more PPD if running in a VM.

Next question SMP2???

 

[BUCK NASTY]

Nice idea Buck, I am always forgetting to remove the flag when I go to run it again.

I gotta give credit to Bogmali. I saw a screenshot of one of his folders a while back and he was using config shortcuts. He's a smart cookie. I think I learn more from the team members than I actually bring to the table on my own

 

[oily_17]

You need to run the -bigadv work units in a VM to get the higher PPD

@Buck, yeah he is one smart cookie

 

[Makaveli]

how much ppd difference is there?

is it worth it?

 

[oily_17]

I get about 24,000PPD from my i7 @4GHz running on 7 cores.

There is a guide to it here -

http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=4464&mpage=1&tree=true

 

[Makaveli]

Wow that is a big difference, i've never setup a VM before so i'm assuming it might be abit of work. Also more memory in the machine is better from what i've been told. So maybe I should consider it if I go up to 12GB's of ram.

 

[oily_17]

You are running 6GB which will be fine, that is what I have in my rig.

Takes a wee bit of thinking to get it setup, but nothing too hard.The members here will help you out if you want.

EDIT:Take a read at the guide and if you want to go ahead I will try and help if you get stuck on anything.

 

[Makaveli]

I'm stuck in HFM.NET right now.

Adding the cilents in Fahmon was pretty straight forward.

Type in a name of your choice and then just make sure location is point to the folding executable.



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However with HFM.NET

I don't see a way to select the location or am I missing something.



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[oily_17]

Log Folder, and browse to the same location as you used in FahMon

 

[thebluebumblebee]

you can also import your FAHMON config

 

[Makaveli]

Is the big difference in PPD do to bonus points I saw mentioned previously?



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[oily_17]

Yeah HFM will automatically calculate them for you.FahMon does not.

EDIT: Just looked at the SS, your PPD seem low for the i7 running 8 cores.Does the PPD go up after you let it run for a while ? I get about ~9000 PPD on a Q9550 @3.8GHz (4 cores)

 

[Makaveli]

Actually my PPD has dropped on the CPU.

Also HFM.NET doesn't show any ppd for the gpu only the progress is that normal.

Fahmon shows gpu ppd



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[oily_17]

It has to do 3% before it shows PPD IIRC.

Did you check in Task Manager that all 8 cores are getting loaded when running the SMP client.

 

[msgclb]

Is the big difference in PPD do to bonus points I saw mentioned previously?

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Check the difference between the Credit in FahMon and HFM.NET. Also you can configure HFM.NET by clicking Preferences in the Edit tab. Here are the EOC setting for the Web Settings. Right-Click on the headings and you can select the headings you want to keep.

 

[oily_17]

I see you are running an ATI card.

ATI cards make a bigger impact on the CPU when they are running compared to the nVidia cards.

There are some changes you can make to the config to try and lessen the load on the CPU.I will try and dig them up for you.

EDIT: Here you go -

http://en.fah-addict.net/articles/articles-1-3+gpu-environment-variables.php

 

[Makaveli]

It has to do 3% before it shows PPD IIRC.

Did you check in Task Manager that all 8 cores are getting loaded when running the SMP client.

Ya if you look at real temp in the screenshot system is at 100% load.

For whatever reason I think it just dropped me on the cpu part cause the status bar when red and it wasn't showing anything in the other fields yet machine was still at 100% load.

I quit the cpu client and restarted it.

Now only doing 7681 PPD on CPU
GPU is showing 2692 PPD.

If I look at the processes in task manager its showing the GPU client using about 11% cpu.



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