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[xBruce88x]

i've set the cpu to just finish the WU its on now, should be done in 6min or so. after the cpu is done looks like i'll be back at about 36000PPD. looks like it dropped quite a bit since the last time i looked.

edit: seems to be fluctuating between 36000 and 58000 PPD.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

i've set the cpu to just finish the WU its on now, should be done in 6min or so. after the cpu is done looks like i'll be back at about 36000PPD. looks like it dropped quite a bit since the last time i looked.

edit: seems to be fluctuating between 36000 and 58000 PPD.

The new client does that. No worries.

 

[xBruce88x]

won't be a big deal here soon after my settlement ... no one t-bones me, almost kills me, and totals my car and gets away with it... can't go into too much detail.. but lets just say my folding power will jump quite a bit... hopefully by winter.

 

[xBruce88x]

got to 99.99% then it just sat there... can't even get the client to load, not even the web client

Edit... starting to see why i gave up last time. Cant even pull up any of stanfords pages. Gpuz shows the card at full load but i still cant access the client or even see if the last WU even finished, ive already had one crash on me. I dont mind folding, but if all.its gonna do is burn up my gpu... i might just have to build a cheap rig for my 8800, i think i have enough parts. I will mess around a bit before i give up on folding with the 7850

 

[thebluebumblebee]

got to 99.99% then it just sat there... can't even get the client to load, not even the web client

Edit... starting to see why i gave up last time. Cant even pull up any of stanfords pages. Gpuz shows the card at full load but i still cant access the client or even see if the last WU even finished, ive already had one crash on me. I dont mind folding, but if all.its gonna do is burn up my gpu... i might just have to build a cheap rig for my 8800, i think i have enough parts. I will mess around a bit before i give up on folding with the 7850

Happens from time to time with AMD. Hasn't happened to me, but I think the answer is to shut the client completely down and restart it. When it restarts, it will sit at 99% for a while and should then finish. If it won't finish, you might have to delete the WU.
If norton wasn't so busy right now with his work, I know he'd be here to help since he Folds with HD78x0's.

 

[Norton]

7850/7870's do great with folding but wu's on any gpu get stuck once in awhile...

First, what driver are you using? Did you run the power control to +10% or higher, I run at 15-20% most of the time

Things I try (random order):
- idle the F@H client and restart- run the client back up to full (it might restart around 50%)
- check the log for errors
- dump the wu by deleting the slot
- back off on any overclocks on the gpu

 

[johnspack]

Despite how poor I am, 1k into it, I've got 3 more smokers off tobacco, and on ecigs. So much better spending for cancer research for me at this time. Keep it up guys, we all have to contribute any way we can.

 

[xBruce88x]

there are no overclocks at the moment, i've just set the power to +10% and forced the fan to run 100%. It's currently at 92% with the WU, hopefully it finishes this time. also, using CAT 14.4. Had to browse to the FAH client directory and launch it from there for w/e reason it has a fit trying to load the web version

 

[Norton]

there are no overclocks at the moment, i've just set the power to +10% and forced the fan to run 100%. It's currently at 92% with the WU, hopefully it finishes this time. also, using CAT 14.4. Had to browse to the FAH client directory and launch it from there for w/e reason it has a fit trying to load the web version

Best to just load the Advanced View (right click/select off of the F@H icon in the tray)

 

[Nordic]

Haven't had ppd for a little bit. That is because two of my gpu's broke and I was gaming with the other. I just got the broken 750ti back, so it will start folding again .

 

[Norton]

Haven't had ppd for a little bit. That is because two of my gpu's broke and I was gaming with the other. I just got the broken 750ti back, so it will start folding again .

Same here but just giving the power bill a break in my case

It's supposed to be a lot cooler this week/next week so I'll likely put the 7850 and the 7970 back to work for awhile

 

[manofthem]

Same here but just giving the power bill a break in my case

It's supposed to be a lot cooler this week/next week so I'll likely put the 7850 and the 7970 back to work for awhile

No joke about the power bill! Last month my bill was much much higher than it normally is, and the wife wasn't happy about that. But I'm going to start up the 290s for a little folding run. I figure I haven't run the PCs as much for the last week or so due to circumstances so I need to make up for it; wouldn't want too drastic of a drop in the power bill


Edit: they're folding!

 

[Nordic]

I am just super excited for bigger (M)axwell chips to come, if the 750ti is anything to go by. 70k ppd at 50w is just insane.

 

[manofthem]

Agh, not sure what's happening but I had some graphical corruption and then a display driver crash/recover; it looks like it was isolated to one of the cards, the primary display, but I'm not certain. Lovely, not off to try to find out what the deal is here

Going to try to driver clean it, reinstall F@H, seem how it goes.

@Norton, what driver are you using on your AMD cards?

I am just super excited for bigger haswell chips to come, if the 750ti is anything to go by. 70k ppd at 50w is just insane.

yeah, that's insane! Amazing ppw there!

 

[bubbleawsome]

Haswell? I've been folding on 14.7 but my card died. They seemed stable.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

So, I'm not the only one who has problems with Haswell/Maxwell.

 

[manofthem]

Just did a clean sweep of drivers and installed 14.7. Reinstalled F@H too so time to check this out now and see if it still gives me issues.



Update: just logged in remotely and it seems to be working fine for the last several hours; no crashes, reboots, or anything like that.

I guess the reinstall did it

 

[johnspack]

If any of you want to help fight cancer, voice your concerns to Health Canada about their possible upcoming regulations concerning electronic cigarettes. It will kill 1000s because of sheer ignorance and government greed. Same thing probably for the States. I'm 9 months smoke free on the 28th because of ecigs. After 40 years of smoking. Don't let greed and moronity take away the chance to live for many, voice your concern.

 

[Norton]

7970 is back up and folding again... should pull at least 130k points today!

 

[mx500torid]

We missed you Norton.

Look like MStenholm is back in the fray.

weather getting cooler maybe we will see more.

 

[Nordic]

750ti is crunching strong at a consistent estimated 75k ppd since 9-12. Its an estimate, but it usually didn't estimate that high before. Possibly a driver/fah optimization?

 

[xBruce88x]

so far looks like everything is working fine, takes about a day for each WU but each one is around 45k ppd.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

I am just super excited for bigger (M)axwell chips to come, if the 750ti is anything to go by. 70k ppd at 50w is just insane.

Is that measured wattage? And what card? w1zzard's review of the Nvidia reference puts power consumption at 52/57/66 (average/peak/maximum) but the MSI Gaming is at 61/65/74 watts. Just wondering if the OC'd cards are worth it.

 

[Nordic]

Is that measured wattage? And what card? w1zzard's review of the Nvidia reference puts power consumption at 52/57/66 (average/peak/maximum) but the MSI Gaming is at 61/65/74 watts. Just wondering if the OC'd cards are worth it.

I was rounding w1zzards data. I can do some less exact testing with mine and a killawatt if you want.

I still need to play with how little CPU I need like I said I would too.

 

[Nordic]

I was rounding w1zzards data. I can do some less exact testing with mine and a killawatt if you want.

I still need to play with how little CPU I need like I said I would too.

Ok. Awhile back, @thebluebumblebee you were wondering how low of a cpu one can use for folding.

I crunch my 750ti/s with an Intel celeron g1620 2.7ghz dual core
1 and 2 gpu's it is maxing out the gpu's and feels responsive. I know it maxes it out, because I have folded with all the hardware the same except instead an overclocked 2500k.
With 1 gpu, I can crunch on both cores with WCG and not harm folding ppd.
So I just tonight dropped to 1 core at 2.7ghz. Felt responsive. Appears not to harm folding performance.
Still with 1 core, I dropped the clocks to 1.6ghz. System is not very responsive even without folding. I will leave in in this configuration for a few days to see the effect. It will be hard to tell at first because at the moment I have 0x15 low point work.

So folding with a 750ti can be a bit of roulette between 0x17 and 0x15.

So in response to overclocked over not overclocked.

Spoiler: hard numbers

I fold at 1300mhz core and 1525 memory which is the highest folding stable clock I can achieve at stock volts. With cpu at a normal dual core 2.7ghz and folding with 1 gpu overclocked as such I get a total system power usage of 88.8w at the wall. With out the gpu overclock I use 82.5w at the wall. 88.8w-82.5w= 6.3w

Gpuz data shows I use ~89.8% of tdp when overclocked which equates to 60w*.898= 53.88w overclocked. Not overclocked I see a ~80.6% tdp which equates to 60w*.806= 48.36w not overclocked.
53.88-48.36= 5.52w.

So to summarize: my overclock of 1300/1525 gives me ~6w more power used for what I believe is 5k-15k more ppd with a 0x17 core work.

My exact gpu model is this.