Current Status of F@H Teammates

[mstenholm]

My 9800 GTX + rig has had some "UNSTABILE MACHINE" on the 1888's in the past (and only on these WU). It can happen day or night, when the PC is in use or not. The GPU is around 65 C when it does 1888's but it is as you all know higher when it does 353/872. Stanford does not seem to care since they keep these 5913/14 comming even after receiving a partional 1888 return. Newer happend on my 260 rig. The power supply is runing warm (NorthQ 400) and is low on the 12 V. Am I on to something there. The CPU is not OC'ed and it is not crunching (sorry, but one 80 mm fan)

 

[mstenholm]

Moved the 9800 to a new open rig. Temp is down to 55-60 C but it is still on it's first WU. The free slot now have a new GPU - a 250 which is about the same in output.

The new rig is now being tested for stability doing crunching, but the long time plan is to do bigadv on it. Wait for the 1920´s and then the i920 is closed to spit out 27.000 PPD.

 

[Easy Rhino]

the following is shameful advertising...if you guys are looking for a great folding card check my FS thread. I have an awesome 8800gts G92 KO edition for sale for $80 shipped. it gave me 6000ppd and with the copper heatsink and fan it never reached above 65 degrees! i am doing this to continue future plans of revamping and reorganizing the way i fold.

 

[mstenholm]

the following is shameful advertising...if you guys are looking for a great folding card check my FS thread. I have an awesome 8800gts G92 KO edition for sale for $80 shipped. it gave me 6000ppd and with the copper heatsink and fan it never reached above 65 degrees! i am doing this to continue future plans of revamping and reorganizing the way i fold.

All is forgiven....if your plans are in the direction of multi core folding. You just need to run 5 hours on a decent OC'ed 920 and you have 3500 points. The first 10 WU are the down payment for which you only get 2000 PPD.

Is our 2 mill race off?

 

[Easy Rhino]

All is forgiven....if your plans are in the direction of multi core folding. You just need to run 5 hours on a decent OC'ed 920 and you have 3500 points. The first 10 WU are the down payment for which you only get 2000 PPD.

Is our 2 mill race off?

yea i simply wont be able to compete as i move things around. also, electricty rate caps expired to costs went up 30% !

 

[johnspack]

I can't really fold anymore, but I'm not losing my badge! Get that back on there.... I'll fold enough on my little, and only, 9800gtx to keep my badge. Someone help me find a gtx260!

 

[[Ion]]

El Fiendo, can you change my entry so it reads a HD 5670 instead?

 

[Easy Rhino]

ladies and gentlemen! in an attempt to sell this damn 8800gts i have dropped the price to $65 shipped! it is the KO edition on the g92 chip with an aftermarket cooler. as you know this card out folds the gts250. if you know anyone looking for a 6000ppd card on the EXTREME CHEAP let me know!!

 

[NastyHabits]

Finally got my 4th machine up and running. Although I'm having a heck of a time getting my both GTS 250's running at the same time (machine 3 in my sig). And when I do, one of them goes into that sending loop and I have to delete the work anyway. So for the moment only running 1 GTS 250.

 

[A Cheese Danish]

Hey Fiendo! Could you mark me as retired?
I unfortunately am letting go of this project until my I build my new system.

 

[johnspack]

Coming back. Adding a gtx260 to my farm. My badge should stay up from now on.....!

 

[johnspack]

I'll be looking for a 2nd GTX260 in one month. If anyone has one for cheap, please pm me.

 

[johnspack]

Wheee! 10.6k points in a day from my gtx260 and 9800gtx. And I wasn't running the 9800 full time! My goal: at least 4 gtx260s, and maybe even 5 as my deluxe mobo is a tri card setup. Desperately need a psu to run my sli server, she's dead in the water right now.

 

[xBruce88x]

i'll be back folding when i finish loading the software in my new rig... i'll soon be getting a new gfx card to go with the rest of the build, meaning i'll have a 9600GT on the old rig for just folding! along with the card in the new rig when i'm not gaming. the new rig also has an integrated hd3200 that i can use for web surfing while the main card folds

My new build is in my specs... the folder/crucher rig will be as follows

Pent. D 2.8ghz
1GB XMS2 DDR2 675 @ 667 (one of the sticks died, so no longer 2GB )
asrock 4coredual-vsta
generic 400watt 12v 26A powersupply
basic cd drive and such
win xp pro and whatever spare hard drive i can throw in there lol
9600GT 512MB (when i replace it in my new rig with something newer) and an ati folding capable agp card. (asrock board has pci-e and agp, and can be used at the same time!)

the 9600GT was getting up to 3200 ppd, and i figure an ati agp 4xxx series card should do at least 2500ppd. I excpect my new card to get 2x the ppd of the 9600gt since i'll be getting one with at least 128 nvida shaders or 720 ati shaders (i think someone said ati shaders /5 = nvidia equivalent roughly) so the 720 would be 144 but i know there are differences... and according to some gfx benchmarks, a gts 250 (128 nvidia) and a 5750 (720 ati) were neck in neck in fps performance. well anyway i expect the new card i get to be able to do at least 6000ppd... so in the end...

I'll be upgrading my daily PPD from 2800-3200 to up to (i'm guessing) 12000ppd while i'm not gaming and 6000 while gaming.

edit: i'm thinking of this card for the ati agp folder http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150433 it has 320 stream units so should be about equal to 64 nvida shaders, but due to archatecture differences i'm assuming there could be a 500ppd difference or so between the two (referring to my 9600GT with 64 shader units)

 

[crazyeyesreaper]

expect my gpus and cpu to start producing again soon and for me to cross the 100k line i plan to try and do a 3 day 72hr stretch so i can make it to 100k and help out a bit

 

[xBruce88x]

i'm having some problems... i'm only getting 200PPD with the 9600GT! is the presence of the ati 3200 causing this? I tried disabling it but i can't b/c as soon as i do windows tries to force a resolution that results in a black screen... its very odd... the 3200 can do 1280x1024 @85htz but when windows reverts to this (it likes it as the default res for some reason) on the 9600 i just get a black screen. I know the monitor supports it b/c it works in this setting fine on the 3200 and it worked fine on the 9600 on WinXP. any ideas?

right now, my status is confused lol

edit: gpu-z shows the gpu load for the 9600gt at 0%

 

[thebluebumblebee]

i'm having some problems... i'm only getting 200PPD with the 9600GT! is the presence of the ati 3200 causing this? I tried disabling it but i can't b/c as soon as i do windows tries to force a resolution that results in a black screen... its very odd... the 3200 can do 1280x1024 @85htz but when windows reverts to this (it likes it as the default res for some reason) on the 9600 i just get a black screen. I know the monitor supports it b/c it works in this setting fine on the 3200 and it worked fine on the 9600 on WinXP. any ideas?

right now, my status is confused lol

edit: gpu-z shows the gpu load for the 9600gt at 0%

Are you sure you're folding on the 9600? Sounds like you're folding on the 3200. What does GPU-Z show? You will have to use the - gpu (0/1) switch and the - local switch to get folding to work on the GT.

 

[xBruce88x]

how do i set those switches? all i get is a "bad arguments received" message

 

[thebluebumblebee]

how do i set those switches? all i get is a "bad arguments received" message

To see an example of how this is done, please look at this thread, especially message #8. (this assumes you are using the console client, not the system tray client)

 

[johnspack]

Well, kewl, I did 13.4k points today, really want more gtx260s now.... with my 9800gtx, best I ever did with my 280 was 16k points, and I think that was only once...

 

[xBruce88x]

um? post no. 8? http://forums.techpowerup.com/showpost.php?p=1497093&postcount=8

dont think that's gonna help much... i'd look through here... but there are 23 pages

... slowly making my way through the thread

ok i figured it out, i re-downloaded the console client and started from scratch.. now its folding on the 9600 but not the 3200, but that's fine with me lol...

however, i don't think gpu-z is working right... it shows that 412/512mb of my card is used, but says the gpu load and etc. are 0%... i'm doubting this since FaHMon is saying i'm getting 2800ppd

 

[thebluebumblebee]

um? post no. 8? http://forums.techpowerup.com/showpost.php?p=1497093&postcount=8

dont think that's gonna help much... i'd look through here... but there are 23 pages

... slowly making my way through the thread

oops, I forgot to insert the link. http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=90420

 

[xBruce88x]

haha yea i went back to the threads in this section and read thru that. thanks for the help!

now before i buy my new shiny card, which is better at folding the gts250 or ati5750?

also, i was thinking of getting a hd4650 AGP for my 2nd rig which will have my current 9600gt along with that card and the following mobo and pent d oc to 3.2

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Today, the GTS250. Who knows what is going to happen when the GPU3 client comes out, but I wouldn't bet that ATI closes the gap.

 

[KieX]

Since you're all talking PPD, can someone give me some feedback on my 4870X2: http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=user&proj=fah&name=KieX50711 (Have been playing games and watching movies with GPU acceleration)

It's proving quite expensive to fold 24/7 with this card, I know NVIDIA are meant to be better for this. Could someone recommend me a cheap GPU with better PPD that doesn't have such a power draw. If I can bring the power consumption down a little, I should be able to keep folding on my dedicated cruncher