TPU's F@H Team

[hertz9753]

https://www.bing.com/search?q=Barna...10&sp=4&cvid=c18dd55a19924b6e85e53c7653e9a7b3

I noticed that team was running faster than the other teams when they joined. Close to 800,00 subscribers on the tube and the team is full of heavy hitters.

To attract more folders the folding threads need to be more active and you have to go out and recruit and be there to help them if they have questions.

From what I have seen on many different websites people are switching to BOINC, WCG or a team that pays them. Folding used to be about the fun and contributing but so many things have changed.

 

[111frodon]

This is more appropriate thread I suppose

I think I'm with @slozomby here and say a 1070 over 2 970s, if folding is the intention, or gaming for that matter.
However the benefit to the 970/980s is that they're dropped so much in price. @thebluebumblebee picked up like 2 980s for like $300 iirc.

Thanks for moving this!

The most important thing for me is ppd/$, as the electricity price here isn't very high. The tv still has to be purchased, so i could buy a 1080p instead of 4k if the gpus i can afford just cannot cope with the super high resolution. There's not that much 4k content, hell many tv channels are still on 720p...

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Hey, I'll be chipping in with 2 old gtx titan's, can't fold 24/7 but should be able to net us at least 200k ppd.

Hello to all my old friends

When you posted this, I went looking for what you meant by "Hello to all my old friends". I found one other similar user on another team, but nothing here at TPU. Lo and behold, I found a reference in TPU's F@H Team. Because that user shows your long standing with F@H, I thought you might be interested - maybe even switching back? http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=226851

 

[BUCK NASTY]

When you posted this, I went looking for what you meant by "Hello to all my old friends". I found one other similar user on another team, but nothing here at TPU. Lo and behold, I found a reference in TPU's F@H Team. Because that user shows your long standing with F@H, I thought you might be interested - maybe even switching back? http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=226851
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Wow, that pre-dates any of us current guys. Nice work @infrared !

 

[infrared]

Wow, I didn't realize it was quite that long ago! Nice find @thebluebumblebee, I didn't think to look up my old ID. I don't really want to swap back now I'm starting to get a decent amount of work done under my current ID. Maybe I'll just round this one off to an even 10M and go back, whatdyathink?

Thanks guys
Congrats on the Billion points too @BUCK NASTY, that's some insane devotion

#FU_Cancer!

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Wow, I didn't realize it was quite that long ago! Nice find @thebluebumblebee, I didn't think to look up my old ID. I don't really want to swap back now I'm starting to get a decent amount of work done under my current ID. Maybe I'll just round this one off to an even 10M and go back, whatdyathink?

That's what happens when you search through 64 pages of posts trying to verify when someone started Folding. As far as I know, that little factoid is only available at one place, on EOC's stats page. I don't see anything at Stanford. Therefore, it's no big deal, I just thought you'd might like to know.

 

[infrared]

That's what happens when you search through 64 pages of posts trying to verify when someone started Folding. As far as I know, that little factoid is only available at one place, on EOC's stats page. I don't see anything at Stanford. Therefore, it's no big deal, I just thought you'd might like to know.

Ah, I got ya. Wow, I don't think I would have had the patience to go through that many pages to find me haha, good effort!

I'm impressed EOC have records going back that far as well

 

[thebluebumblebee]

FYI:
TRENDnet 8-Port Gigabit Switch $13

 

[thebluebumblebee]

A couple of GPU's that caught my eye this morning:
$180(MIR) PNY GTX 1060 3GB These perform about 6% lower than their 6GB brothers, but this is ~$60 less. Should rub shoulders with the GTX 970/980's, around 300K PPD at stock clocks, and these OC easily.
$130 ZOTAC GTX 1050 Ti Mini Okay, cute card, serious PPD. I can't find any PPD figures today, but since these, at stock clocks, are about the same performance level as the GTX 960's, these should get ~180,000 PPD, with less than 75 watts.

 

[infrared]

Nice finds. We need a server board with 10+ pcie slots full of budget gpus like that.

Something like this:

Maybe we could rent it and get Linus to set it up folding for us!

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Nice finds. We need a server board with 10+ pcie slots full of budget gpus like that.

It's actually better to get fewer high end GPU's than more low end GPU's by every metric. Power, cost and PPD are all better. For instance, a GTX 1070 can be had for $380, and it will average ~700K PPD and use 175 watts. 2 of those 1060's above would cost $360, use 240 watts and produce ~600K PPD. Four of those 1050 Ti's would cost $520, use 300 watts to produce ~720K PPD. Why? QRB.

 

[infrared]

Was purely thinking of cost at the time, but you're right, good point.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Was purely thinking of cost at the time, but you're right, good point.

The F@H client allows up to 16 slots. I'd love to see something push that limit, just to see it done.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Holy crap! I noticed that I had not gotten any credits over the last 2 update cycles on EOC so I went to investigate. Maybe I've gotten these before, but I got a Project: 10493 (Run 1, Clone 4, Gen 238) that ended up taking just shy of 9 hours to run and gave Final credit estimate, 123,899.00 points! The other slot, at about the same time, got a Project: 11424 (Run 5, Clone 18, Gen 0) that took about 7 hours and gave Final credit estimate, 116,451.00 points. Next update will be nice.

 

[mstenholm]

It's actually better to get fewer high end GPU's than more low end GPU's by every metric. Power, cost and PPD are all better. For instance, a GTX 1070 can be had for $380, and it will average ~700K PPD and use 175 watts. 2 of those 1060's above would cost $360, use 240 watts and produce ~600K PPD. Four of those 1050 Ti's would cost $520, use 300 watts to produce ~720K PPD. Why? QRB.

I got my 1070 about a week ago and beside the fact that the older driver I use since the very recent will crash your folding does that I have to have Firefox running all the time or the GPU will clock down it folds like a dream. 700 kPPD is slightly higher than I see at 2000 MHz (more like 650 K) but if HWinfo is correct it draws the same as the 970 it replaced 150 W/300 kPPD. Factoring in the PSU efficiency that is close to the 175 W stated above.

 

[agent00skid]

I've reconfigured my folding setup after getting tired of the noise Foldy was making with a 7950 and a 280X. Currently running the 280X and a RX 460. Have another RX 460 which I plan to use to test folding under Linux. Also might be getting back my old Windows box, so that can run the 7950.

 

[BUCK NASTY]

The F@H client allows up to 16 slots. I'd love to see something push that limit, just to see it done.

I would love to see that as well. I could only get 5x GTX970's running under windows and Linux. Had to be a limitation of my GA-990FXA-UD7 or pci-e configuration issue.

 

[mx500torid]

I am going to be down for awhile. We are moving to our cabin. I will try to be back as fast as I can.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

I will try to be back as fast as I can.

You better be. Justin's on your tail in that race to join Buck. I'm just sitting back with the popcorn and watching.

 

[mx500torid]

Yep my folding for EVGA has set me back a bit. Gratz to jstn he is hauling the mail.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

There's a problem with really quiet GPU's and F@H. If the system they're in reboots for some reason, you can't hear it. Looks like I may have been down for ~15 hours????? And it got cold here; I need the heat.

 

[mstenholm]

There's a problem with really quiet GPU's and F@H. If the system they're in reboots for some reason, you can't hear it. Looks like I may have been down for ~15 hours????? And it got cold here; I need the heat.

Even my 480 mm WC/1000 rpm noise blockers makes more noise than my 1070 so yes the lack of heat is what gives it away with any other cooling system. Need heat...my old 7970s cold melt away any ice in five feet distance.

 

[mstenholm]

Just a head up for potential buyers of 1050 and the Ti version for folding use https://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=80&t=29276&start=120
In short the newer drivers (373.06 and higher) will cause folding problems and these two GPUs need newer drivers. So they will not fold for now.

 

[Ithanul]

I believe one folder on OCN found a way around it. Have to find the post, give me a minute.

By my understanding he got the card to work with 372 drivers by ini file modding.

Exact quote from NFSxperts on OCN.

I was using the 375 drivers since they are the only drivers 'officially supported' by 1050ti. I had only just figured out how to mod the ini file so I could install 372 drivers.

Yeah I'm using the nacl client on a few rigs, that's why the completed number is so high, the v7 client will automatically stop if it fails too many WUs. (looking at the stats you can tell the month I switched my smp clients over to nacl, the number doubled)

I just swapped the 1050ti from the 750ti into folding rig2. It gets around 180k to 240k depending on WU. (mostly 200k). I don't have it clocked up to 1911mhz because of the temps.

Also, latest Linux drivers are a no go too.

 

[mstenholm]

I believe one folder on OCN found a way around it. Have to find the post, give me a minute.

By my understanding he got the card to work with 372 drivers by ini file modding.

Exact quote from NFSxperts on OCN.



Also, latest Linux drivers are a no go too.

So not for every body if they have to guess what what to mod . Thx. for adding. It just underline that these GPU's might not be first choice right now.