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Official 2010 Chimp Challenge Thread

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Chicken Patty said:
is there a page to view stats by users and such?
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Folding.extremeoverclocking.com (my favorite, just search for ChimPowerUp in the box on the left) or Stats.Free-DC.org also does F@H (but EOC does it much better IMO)
 
Getting things set up on my primary rig right now. I will get the other system up and running later today.

If I have 1 CPU and 1 GPU client on the same rig, do I set it to the same Machine ID?
 
No, each client needs a different Machine ID

EDIT: IIRC the CPU and GPU clients have different Machine ID's by default but you can check when first setting it up.
 
Crap. I just ran a test and they had the same ID. The GPU failed, gave me some error message about this test will be ignored and restarted. Everything seems to be running fine, but the PPD for my CPU seems really low. I will post a pic cause I am fairly sure I did something wrong.

Edit: I found where I can manually correct the GPU ID to 2.

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oily_17 said:
No, each client needs a different Machine ID

EDIT: IIRC the CPU and GPU clients have different Machine ID's by default but you can check when first setting it up.
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What he said. I normally set my GPU's machine ID to 2 and 3, leaving machine ID 1 for SMP2 or -bigadv;)
 
I had downloaded the FAH6.23 from the assistance thread and updated to FAH6.29 last night is there a difference?
 
Makaveli said:
I had downloaded the FAH6.23 from the assistance thread and updated to FAH6.29 last night is there a difference?
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I think as they bring out newer WU/projects that they update the clients so that they will be able to run them.

Older clients may not run the new projects and may not get any work to do.
 
Sorry for the double post, but I am an ASS!!

I knew one of my rigs was having problems with it's PSU (random shutdowns and the PSU was squealing like a pig).

So, I was in a hurry to get it going for the challenge and ordered a new PSU at the weekend.

Was looking in the attic today for other things and found a perfectly good PSU sitting in a box :banghead: :slap:

So anyway my rig is back running and I should have a new PSU here tomorrow :ohwell:
 
Heh, I found a ton of NANDs on my 8800gts client after pushing the memory to 2200 this morning. Good thing I caught it before the challenge :toast:
 
OC'ing the shaders gives more performance than anything else on nVidia cards.

Leave the memory at stock and keep the core at a stable level as well.
 
oily_17 said:
OC'ing the shaders gives more performance than anything else on nVidia cards.

Leave the memory at stock and keep the core at a stable level as well.
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I typically OC the shaders as high as they will go stabily, and then because I also use my card(s) for gaming, I'll OC the core/memory a bit as well. I'm currently rocking a 100mhz core OC, a 120mhz memory OC, and a ~350mhz shader OC on the 8800GTS
 
Is it normal to be getting back to back A3's? I just finished one that took about 5 hours 50mins. And got another one.
 
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Is it normal to be getting back to back A3's? I just finished one that took about 5 hours 50mins. And got another one.
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Yeah, it can be pot luck sometimes, depending on what WU,s are available on the server.

Got my rigs all running again -

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100K PPD :rockout:
 
There is one reason and one reason only that I hate folding... Setting them up are a pain in the A**...... took me 2 days to get 12 instances up and running... not to mention dealing with all the workarounds and seriously inefficient engine... SMP was a pain to set up, VMWare was worse, -forcegpu ati_r700 is just a ridiculous workaround, and worst of the is getting 2 NVIDIA GPU to get detected... Can't they all just follow BOINC and have 1 client that can work on multiple project and CPU + GPU at the same time???

Of course I am also cheezed off as being a "ATI Guy", I am seriously getting crippled here... :banghead::banghead::banghead:

But hey whats all the pain in setting up compared to the gains in donating to a good cause huh? So I'm throwing in 3 SMP -bigadv clients and 9 GPU clients.

Could somebody PM me the passkey to ChimPowerUp? I am taking up folding just for the sake of the poor chimp :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes: If HFM is reporting correctly, I can pump up to 79k PPD...

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Passkey sent. And I agree, setting up FAH is really a pain in the ass compared to WCG, that's one of the tings that I hate most about it
 
I guess I'll be needing a passkey for ChimPowerUp as well. I may throw a 260 at it...
 
Ok. Thanks to Oily and guides written by Buck, Bogmali, and other TPU Folding Vets, I am all setup for tomorrow.

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Whats the diff. between the passkey u guys send out and the pass key that can be generated if u put your team name on the folding at home website?
 
Do I need to use the passkey on my GPUs?
 
I am STILL pushing my 8600GT. With the stock cooler the Shaders maxed at 1650 right now on the Zalman cooler i am at 1660 and not a problem. Temp sits at a cool 51c load and 40c idle. Considering giving it alittle more voltage to try to get shaders close to 2ghz :)
 
dustyshiv said:
Whats the diff. between the passkey u guys send out and the pass key that can be generated if u put your team name on the folding at home website?
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Every user (such as myself, thebluebumblebee) generates their own passkey for F@H for their own user. In this case, we are all Folding for one username (ChimPowerUp) so we need to use the passkey for THAT username.
 
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