TPU's F@H Team

[manofthem]

Here's what I've been seeing a lot lately, about 840K.

Very nice there. Nearly 1M pee day, you're flying!

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Makes me sad to shut it down.

 

[Norton]

Challenge game giveaway is open- head over here for a chance at some awesome games!

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/wcg-challenge-game-giveaway.231881/

Active TPU folders are welcome to join us!

 

[thebluebumblebee]

I'm building a system for a friend, and got to play with a MSI GTX 1080 Ti Armor. (it's in a P100 case with all of the fans on high with an extra AF120 in front) I wanted to see what one of those would do, so naturally I loaded up F@H. Watching it produce about 1.02M PPD was impressive, but here's the rest of the story. Running a P10496, it quickly heated up to 83°C (room temperature was 73°F) with 90% fans but it continued to run at 1898 MHz, which seems to be it's natural max. It also put a 32% load on the CPU (i5-6600K)(brand new W10 install). When I started to write this, I decided to see what it would do on another WU. It grabbed a P9178 which it's running through with 36 second frames laugh giving it 1.2M PPD, but it seems like it can't get enough to do because it's only running at 90% GPU load (CPU @ 31%) , but that keeps it at 77°C with 79% fans in a 70°F room. (room temp now up 1°)
I'm thinking that if anyone is planning to run F@H on a 1080 Ti, make sure the cooler is up to the task, and that you have a well ventilated case. The heat just pours out the back of this case, although not much different than my Antec 300 case with the 2 GTX 980's. The ASUS Strix that w1zzard tested topped out at 70°C

Edit: I've seen 1948 MHz, so it is throttling a little.

 

[mstenholm]

They burn up to 250 W so I'm not surprised. That is at stock clocks?
I'm trying to see how much running PCI-E x16 3.0 will improve over running x8 3.0 (one GPU vs two). One thing I have noticed is that before the bus load was 40.0 % on both (of 8 GT/s). Now I get 30.0 %. Strange. I will let it run a few days to see the trend. I don't need the heat which also means that I will stop one other GTX 970 rig. 600 K PPD down. Hmm.

Edit:
You: P9178 which it's running through with 36 second frames. Me: 50 and 54 seconds on my 1070 @ 2012 MHz.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

That is at stock clocks?

Yes

They burn up to 250 W

I'm going to move a few things around and put it on my watt meter. Will update then.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Left it run for 24 hours.

 

[stinger608]

Left it run for 24 hours.

That is frigging amazing numbers!!!!!!

 

[mstenholm]

Left it run for 24 hours.

From I have been reading it performs on par with the P Titan X so it could do 1.2-1.4 M PPD with some OC and good cooling and cherry picking.
My little experiment with only have one GPU in my X77 board didn't yield much - 1-2 %. I then found out that that my other GTX 970 rigs running only one had a different driver. Voila 8 % right there. I will re-test with two GPUs in a few days.
How much does it draw your test subject?

 

[thebluebumblebee]

That is frigging amazing numbers!!!!!!

And that's with a heavy load of P91xx and P94xx, which it didn't seem to like.

How much does it draw your test subject?

I never got around to that. I'll try to get to it latter.

 

[Ithanul]

I'm building a system for a friend, and got to play with a MSI GTX 1080 Ti Armor. (it's in a P100 case with all of the fans on high with an extra AF120 in front)
I'm thinking that if anyone is planning to run F@H on a 1080 Ti, make sure the cooler is up to the task, and that you have a well ventilated case. The heat just pours out the back of this case, although not much different than my Antec 300 case with the 2 GTX 980's. The ASUS Strix that w1zzard tested topped out at 70°C

Just like the 980 Tis, big heat dumps.

I'm finally upgrading from my two 980 Tis. Right now waiting for the AIB 1080 Tis from EVGA to drop. Going to be a nice boost in PPD.

 

[manofthem]

WCG Challenge ended so the 980 is back to folding as of last night.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Hi @johnerz !

 

[mstenholm]

We got a new folder - Star_Hunter with what I think is a 1080 Ti. It eats a 10496 at around 1:15 TPF.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

We're having a very cool spring, so I've been able to turn the 980's back on. It is so tempting to turn the 1080 Ti (silly boy hasn't done anything with his build) back on and become king of the world.

 

[mstenholm]

We're having a very cool spring, so I've been able to turn the 980's back on. It is so tempting to turn the 1080 Ti (silly boy hasn't done anything with his build) back on and become king of the world.

Tempting

Edit: I fired up my second 970 (rather my forth). The PPD / GPU take a small hit but 198 % is better than 100 %. I will let it run a week and then turn the rig off.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

MSI GTX 980Ti 6G Gaming (x2 w/ matching SLI bridge) - $400 (FOR THE PAIR!)

 

[manofthem]

MSI GTX 980Ti 6G Gaming (x2 w/ matching SLI bridge) - $400 (FOR THE PAIR!)

That sounds like a very good deal! Would be nice, would be nice...

What's ppd on 980Ti, 450-500k?

 

[mx500torid]

Thats a killer deal!

 

[thebluebumblebee]

What's ppd on 980Ti, 450-500k?

I thought they're in the 700-800K range. There's some as high as 950K here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vcVoSVtamcoGj5sFfvKF_XlvuviWWveJIg_iZ8U2bf0/pub?gid=0

 

[manofthem]

I thought they're in the 700-800K range. There's some as high as 950K here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vcVoSVtamcoGj5sFfvKF_XlvuviWWveJIg_iZ8U2bf0/pub?gid=0

Wow, that's insane! No idea they were that high, and it makes that deal even better!

 

[Norton]

Thats a killer deal!

Got an even better deal coming for you guys soon

Hope to be posting details AND pictures in a few days!

 

[stinger608]

Got an even better deal coming for you guys soon

Hope to be posting details AND pictures in a few days!

Great!!! Now you have everyone's expectations up!!!!!

 

[Norton]

Great!!! Now you have everyone's expectations up!!!!!

That was the intention I promise to meet/exceed the expectations!

 

[thebluebumblebee]

GTX 1080 Ti power numbers

GPU: MSI Armor
CPU: i5-6600K OC 4.2 with motherboard OC
RAM: 16 GB HyperX DDR4-2133 (I think)
SSD: Hynix 120 GB SSD
OS: W10
PSU: SeaSonic SSR-450RM
Driver: 378.92
Case: P100 2 x 120 mm in front, 1 x 120 mm in back, with the front door open for the P10496
Room temperature: 70-72°F
Meter: P3 Kill A Watt Electricity Load Meter and Monitor P4400

Observations:
On the P9431, it seems as if the system can't keep the GPU busy, or maybe it's the way the project was made.
On the P10496, it's hard to keep the card cool enough to keep it from throttling. I should have put this in the chart, but that fans are running at 86% or 2100 rpm. Was surprised to see that opening the front door on the P100 made a difference. I don't understand the utilization cycling.

Conclusion: Don't buy one of these MSI GTX 1080 TI ARMOR 11G's for F@H.

I won't be able to investigate this further. The person I'm building this system for had the rest of the components delivered, so I'm thinking he's going to want his new toy ASAP.