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  1. bmichaels556
    Ugh... Over the past like 5-6 days of folding, I've only managed to actually end up with about 1.5 days of credit (looking at PPD). Is there a big delay from when work is submitted to when it's counted in the stats? Also, could it be other factors aside from too few work units, like not sending correctly or something like that?
  2. bmichaels556
    I do wonder how the HBM cards fare here. I remember back in the mining days where you could chop off like 50% of power and lose only like 10% of already huge hashrate. At least for Ethereum as I recall. In fact, all this really does remind me of my mining days.
  3. bmichaels556
    Random thing I noticed, but at face value it seemed like my experience with an RX480 8GB was that core clock seemed to matter quite a bit. Stock settings gave me a little over 400,000 PPD. But I've been doing -40% power limit and only lost about 15-20% of PPD, so that was cool. So about 365,000 average, but sometimes dipped as low as 350,000 PPD. But then I started messing with memory speed while maintaining the -40%. I went up to 1950 Mhz on memory, which automatically brought core clock down from about 1175 Mhz to about 1075-1100 Mhz. I suppose because the memory doesn't use much power overall compared to the core? But now my PPD is only just under stock settings. About 390,000 PPD average. So memory speed seems to matter quite a bit here, and you can REALLY dial down power limit and just keep memory really high from what I can tell for extreme power savings but only a small hit to performance. Hope that helps someone who was leaving things relatively stock or maybe just undervolting with no change to power limit etc etc or playing with clock speeds on core vs memory.
  4. bmichaels556
    Holy hell, I need some more money for folding lmao. Teach me your ways, Sensei!
  5. bmichaels556
    Come to think of it, it would've been cool if I hadn't sold off all my mining hardware. Actually I'm realizing... I would've crushed his PPD. No kidding.
  6. bmichaels556
    What I've found is that setting clock speeds achieved with lowering power limit, to the same speeds without lowering power limit... Doesn't change power usage or folding power. If that makes sense. I'd strictly stick with lowering power limit and calling it good. Just from my limited experience so far though.
  7. bmichaels556
    I gotta' wonder... What the hell does LegendaryPoet have access to!? (top LTT folding member)
  8. bmichaels556
    So... If I were to guess, you could probably go into "Configure", then "Slots" and then remove your primary GPU? Maybe the one you have connected to your display? Not totally sure though, but it's a starting point.
  9. bmichaels556
    Yeah, see that's what bugged me, so it doesn't seem fully dependant on CPU cores at least. Are you seeing ~2x performance splitting your cores into two jobs, as opposed to the small gains using them all on one job?
  10. bmichaels556
    Yeah, the reported numbers are a bit weird. I'm not sure exactly how it comes up with that PPD number. Current work unit? Processing power over the last x-amount of minutes? I've found it hard to tell when changing a setting actually shows the correct number on the client. Also, that number is crazy low for a GT 1030. At least, I think it is? But it might just be that the full number hasn't shown yet.
  11. bmichaels556
    Really impressed by the RX 5700 series' performance from the numbers I've seen. I do wonder what a Fury or Radeon VII could do, but I'm not sure whether F@H can benefit from memory the way crypto mining for example can..
  12. bmichaels556
    Hey gang. I was just curious why F@H is so bad when it comes to multiple cores? I've got 12 cores / 24 threads and only get a bit less hashrate using say, 12 threads, as opposed to all 24, or even 20. Clock speed seems relatively unaffected too with those different settings, but the numbers are what they are, but with vastly less power consumption. Why? Could it maybe have to do with cache or something like that where there ends up being a big diminishing returns because you're already running close to max? Same kind of situation on my i7-4600u. 1 thread gets me like 5,000+ PPD. Two gets me like ~8,500. 3 gets about the same. And 4 actually seems lower! But clock speed and cache frequency do suffer after 3+ threads which is expected I guess.
  13. bmichaels556
    Well hey, with their processing power combined, you should still be working with some serious horsepower there! How many points per day are you seeing with that GT 1030? Just curious.
  14. bmichaels556
    Bigger capacity drives? That's probably the quickest fix I would think. I kind of wonder if it'd be easier to just use the Seagate 1TB as boot drive and mostly just ditch the 500GB drive? 'Cause you'd still have 6TB of space at that point. My "NAS" setup is just a Windows shared folder with one of those cheap Chinese USB 3.0 to SATA adapters. I think you're overcomplicating it. If you really want to use the 500GB HDD as boot drive, maybe just use a USB adapter to boot off that drive, and have all the others mounted correctly. Keep it simple. I think that should seriously solve your problem with the least amount of headaches possible.
  15. bmichaels556
    Gotcha. Restarting has worked, but not as of today. I'll try pausing for longer and then try to start folding again.
  16. bmichaels556
    Gahdamm, I can't get work units on my GPU with any regularity... The hell are you guys doing to get it to work? Also on my laptop, my CPU is deciding not to fold for whatever reason. Extremely frustrating.
  17. bmichaels556
    Is there anything we can do do help with shortage of work units? Either through our own client, or somehow running as a server? Or does the latter require extensive setup / expertise? P.S., did the LTT gang ever set up their server they talked about?
  18. bmichaels556
    How do the professional cards perform in PPD compared to their similar counterparts? Do they show any major increase in compute performance?
  19. bmichaels556
    He's really taking one for the team lmao. Awesome drop in temp btw, that's incredible!
  20. bmichaels556
    Wasn't aware of this... Thanks for pointing this out! I bet maybe a lot of people's GPU's are struggling for new work because so many people are favoring GPU folding over CPU?
  21. bmichaels556
    It was running on all of 'em, but even on less, keep in mind I'm using a dual Xeon (Westmere) so not very power efficient overall compared to the more modern stuff. It does everything I need it to do very well, but there do seem to be better options if someone wants to fold with their CPU.
  22. bmichaels556
    Man... Seems like my client is just sitting around most of the time either waiting to download, or send work units. Very little of the time is actually going towards folding. I'm able to get CPU work units just fine, but it uses too much power and makes my room way too hot, so I was sticking to my RX 480 but having some trouble. Any quick fixes?
  23. bmichaels556
    Overall, Vega 56. Aftermarket card though, screw the blower cooler. The 1070 is good but hasn't aged as well. Far as I know, you simply cannot do better for the money.
  24. bmichaels556
    You got me right to what I needed to see ha. Uh, you wouldn't happen to know how to get that shared folder (or maybe a mapped network drive) to work for Steam games would you? I'm seeing some mixed suggestions from Google, so I'm wondering if you had any experience with it.
  25. bmichaels556
    Damn... The quest is over. For whatever reason I can't comprehend, the workgroup settings were different on both... I just set them the same way "home network" or whatever, and kept the workgroup name the same and restarted my main PC. Shows up fine on my laptop... Thank you!!
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