MillerPanda

In general you never want to assign all your threads/cores to BOINC, Folding at Home or any other such Distributed Computing Application.
 
You always should leave at a bare minimum (for say a headless Linux System) one thread free for the OS. OSes with more overhead (say a Linux Desktop running X-Windows) will typically need  more resources and Windows tends to need more than a Linux System.
 
This will vary depending on the projects being run and the only way to tell for sure is to run a new project with say 1/2 your available threads and slowly increase the number of threads closely monitoring the yield and see if you hit a point of diminishing returns when approaching using all available threads or, in many cases, see your yields start to dramatically decrease at that point as your system is "thrashing" trying to juggle the Distributed Computing tasks and the overhead needed by the OS.

The term bottleneck only really makes sense when you're talking about one component holding back another component. So for example if your GPU can't reach 100% utilization because your CPU isn't fast enough to keep it fed with data to work on.
 
In that case intentionally reducing your CPU's workload might increase the time it has to feed the GPU, increasing the GPU's utilization giving you better overall performance. Alternatively you could increase the workload of the GPU, so that it requires new data less often. That would reduce the GPU-specific workload on the CPU and give it more headroom for other stuff.
 
So if you're running BOINC on your CPU and GPU, it might give you better overall performance if your GPU has a high enough workload that doesn't require constant "refills" from the CPU, so the CPU can spend more time working on its own workload. But if you're just running on the CPU, intentionally reducing its workload will simply reduce the amount of work it will do over time.
 
Reducing workload might make sense if your CPU is thermal throttling, to reduce its temps and keep up clocks, but then a better cooler would have the same effect, while allowing you to run at full utilization.

So just to let everyone know. I got the EKWB for the ref cards and it works great. Thank you again everyone for your help

So just to let everyone know. I got the EKWB for the ref cards and it works great. Thank you again everyone for your help

So just to let everyone know. I got the EKWB for the ref cards and it works great. Thank you again everyone for your help

Just searched HP RTX 2080, though I cannot find the info on the 2080 Super but it seems like the board is identical at least by looking at the back of it, you can double check by removing the cooler and compare it to the Founder's Edition Super right here
 
It's very likely just a founder's edition board with HP's own cooler

how did you find that so quickly, i searched for like 10 minutes lol 

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/hp-rtx-2080-oem.b6679
 
HP OEM Card

tbh it looks quite simular in design to the msi 2080 super aero

or the asus 2080ti

other than that i cannot find any information on the one you posted 
 
 

Same.  I'm in Florida, so the heat is still up there currently.  Kinda why I have yet to fire up all the GPUs.
 
Though, currently glad my internet stop spazzing out from last week and the stop downloads have stop occurring for me.

Probably good to let someone else get the top spot for once.
 
All hail the king. 

Would like to say Thank you to everyone who made this event possible and to everyone who pushed the LTT team to new highs.

We were looking at annual with smaller events from time to time. I'm wanting to do a BOINC event spring time. 

Would like to say Thank you to everyone who made this event possible and to everyone who pushed the LTT team to new highs.

Would like to say Thank you to everyone who made this event possible and to everyone who pushed the LTT team to new highs.

Would like to say Thank you to everyone who made this event possible and to everyone who pushed the LTT team to new highs.

Would like to say Thank you to everyone who made this event possible and to everyone who pushed the LTT team to new highs.

Would like to say Thank you to everyone who made this event possible and to everyone who pushed the LTT team to new highs.

Hey all, I'm sorry that it has taken me so long to push the badges out. Unfortunately I've been quite ill and busy over the Christmas and New Year period and haven't had the time or ability to start assigning them. But at last, the badges have been handed out!
 
The event badges should have been handed out to everyone who met the requirements for them. If you believe you were supposed to receive the badges and they haven't appeared on your account yet, please send me a PM and I'll sort it for you. Hopefully though everyone has received their badges without issue.
 
Thanks for your patience everyone!

It's looking like the badges should be starting to be issued tomorrow, but please, if you haven't got yours yet, be patient.

@Ben Quigley Thank you for all your time and effort. 

Well due to this fan rearrangement, I've been able to get another 25 MHz out of the 1080, and 38 out of the 1080 Ti. Interested to see how much this will bring up my avg PPD. Probably like 50k lol

If we maintain this level of folding we will overtake the next team in 15days...
 

Annnnnd... BANNED!! ?

So I have been Avg about 180k per day on my GTX 960, but now i got a hand me down GTX 970 no time to fine tune that overclock,it is running at 1479MHz right now with a 100+ to the core clock. In the end it will get me higher points per day. I'll be happy to just stay within the top 100 for this contest.