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  1. 7 hours ago, Alex Atkin UK said:

    Too late, I missed your sneak attack and even chucking all the coal on the fire its inevitable over the next few days you're going to overtake me, as its too darn hot with both 4090s running 24/7 and its unlikely I can resist gaming at some point.

    Of course there's an element of WU lottery here, so F@H themselves could throw a spanner in all this, always keeps things interesting.

    No, I've slowed down somewhat today as the weekend is over and Electricity is expensive most of the day again. I suspect you'll be pulling ahead of me weekdays and I'll do a bit of catching up on weekends.

  2. I might slip a bit as, of course, I had a dinner meeting this evening and wasn't able to baby sit the Rigs and watch as they started up again at 19:00 EST when the Electricity prices dropped and, wouldn't you know it, I came home to find 3 Rigs with 4 GPUs (all my 3000-series, except for one 3080) stuck at "Failed" which requires a reboot to get rid of. Back up and running again but as it's now the weekend and Electricity rates are at the most affordable all weekend I should be able to make up for lost time.

  3. Gorgon isn't looking as safe as I would like for him, looking down the ranks there are a few people who could pose a challenge to him in the long term. He takes the rank with 412,348,787 points. Oromit is up next in 6th place with 349,674,046 points, he did match Gorgons production today, but we have already seen just how much the man can do if he feels the need.

    Its the weekend so Electricity is at the lowest rate tier so my production might go up a bit 😉 

  4. 5 hours ago, Collin_S said:

    I have a 3900x that I had folding 24/7 for a good amount of the event, but even though I have the stock cooler I had a pretty good amount of airflow going over it (I had one of these sitting on the top of the case blowing fresh air straight into the case from the top, then hot air being sucked away from the computer by the air return in my dorm room, which was directly behind it). I was keeping it pretty solidly at 80C (almost always under 85C), which isn't super great but AMD has stated would not cause long term effect to the lifespan of the CPU, plus I didn't have it overvolted at all. I am planning to get some more fans for my computer, either 2 NF-A14 Chromax Black's, 2 NF-A14 IPPC 2000 RPM's, or one of each of those. I just have to decide noise vs airflow. Though If my CPU hasn't stayed under 85C, I have been dropping the cores its folding on to an amount to keep it under that.

    The change you can make for your system that will likely have the biggest impact is to replace the stock cooler with something more beefy. My 3900x has a Noctua NH-D15 and runs at 4.1GHz all-core 24x7x365 doing 18 threads of BOINC and driving 2 GPUs for F@H with 4 threads left-over for the OS. The CPU is at 64C and the VRM at 41C on a Gigabyte Aorus x570 Pro WiFi. Now that 4.1GHz won't seem that fast compared to what others have reported but this is on an AVX workload and tested for stability with mprime (Prime95) small Fast Fourier Transforms (small FFT). There is a big difference between "stable" for a Cinebench run and "stable" for Compute.

     

    A NH-D15 is likely overkill for this use case and a NH-U14 would likely be sufficient but there's some comfort knowing the NH-D15 can out-perform many 240mm AIOs.

     

    You don't mention your case model which will usually determine what your best option might be for fans. I'm running this system in a Fractal Design Meshify S2 and have replaced the stock fans with Noctua NF-A14 iPPC 3000 PWM fans, 2 for front intake and 1 for rear exhaust. These are, however, definitely overkill for this airflow focused case especially as 1 GPU is a EVGA RTX2070 Super XC Hybrid and thus dumps it's heat directly outside the chassis. The NF-A14 iPPC 2000s are likely more appropriate in this use case as they have a lower minimum speed and thus would be able to run more quietly at lower loads. I just like having the extra overhead.

  5. 14 hours ago, fordy_rounds said:

    Ah, that makes sense. So you're saying mine should be fine; I've got a 3600 (65W TDP) with a probably-overkill AIO on it. (If I were just gaming I probably would have stuck with the stock cooler, but I could only fold 5 of 12 threads without it overheating....)

    _SHOULD_ be fine but I'd try running an all-core workload for 10-15minutes and monitor the VRM thermals using hwinfo to make sure it stays under 100C (70-80C would be better). If the VRM thermals do get out of hand (>100C) then just keep that in mind and when pushing the CPU hard for longer periods of time. I would also NOT recommend over-clocking a 2600 too hard on this board as a 2600 over-clocked can quickly approach the native 105W of a 2700x.

     

    Hardware un-boxed has a pretty decent review of early b450 board VRMs:

    and what he says about the Aorus b450m Pro is applicable to the DS3H as it has an even worse VRM configuration and a much less substantial heatsink.


    BuildZoid is pretty scathing in his opinion of the VRM on this board but his comments are buried in the middle of a general review video he did of b450 boards.

  6. 14 minutes ago, fordy_rounds said:

    [fordy_rounds glances nervously at the DS3H in their case]

     

    But really, sorry for your loss @Gorgon and everyone else who sacrificed to appease the hardware gods.

     

    Great month, I look forward to doing this again next year.

     

    And as for the new levels, I'm glad I got my 25M Silver during this event.... though the slog from here to the new Gold is going to be very long.

    If you have a 105W processor in it I Don’t recommend running CPU folding or BOINC on it 24x7.

     

    The upside is I replaced it with an Aorus x570 Master for ... ummm ... a VRM upgrade. 5900x likely to follow to replace the 2700x

  7. 20 minutes ago, justpoet said:

    Looks like low but solid CPU spare core folding numbers put me in a race for 300.  Been hovering above and below all event except the first couple days.

    I’ve just left all my threads on OpenPandemics on World Community Grid. Gotta spread the love and also I’m working on my 50 year badge for OpenPandemics. Didn’t mind that @miker07 passed me here as he seems to have pulled his CPUs off WCG so I’ve passed him there in the meantime.

  8. 46 minutes ago, Den-Fi said:

    My money is on @Gorgon. His seems to have better success at WUs than I do.

    That would be quite the trick seeing as I'm not signed up. I feared I would be really tied up at work with the nature of the current emergency and was for a couple of weeks getting things ready but since then things have slowed down massively and there is a change freeze in-place so project work has pretty much ground to a halt and most operations as well.

     

    I decided to not participate anyway as I'm focusing on my duties as a Beta tester and providing regular reports to the researchers so Work Units can quickly transition out of Beta and to the general population. This gives me a bit of an un-fair advantage in some ways as with some recent changes I've been getting fed Beta WUs non-stop.

     

    The good news is that there are a ton of new CPU and GPU Work Units being prepared and at least 2 of the new massive Work Servers close to being in production with a few smaller ones popping up so I'm hoping things will improve so we can fully utilize all this contributed power.

  9. 1 hour ago, Meticulous7Seven said:

    Whelp, better luck next year for me.#207

     

    AMD seems to be way behind NVIDIA when it comes to FAH. My primary rig had the cores necessary to utilize the GPU (Ryzen 2700x w/ 1x RX 580) and averaged 400-500k PPD. Unfortunately, what I thought would be my ace in the hole - my 6 GPU cryptomining rig - was severely bottlenecked by the CPU. It only runs a dual core Celeron to save on power. I was desperately looking for something I could swap out the CPU with on the cheap (wanted to find a 6th or 7th gen Intel CPU for cheap), but kept losing my bids on Ebay.

     

    Next year ?

     

    Grats to the winners!

    Out of curiosity what did you get on the mining rig and what GPUs does it have?

  10. 3 hours ago, GOTSpectrum said:

    That is a question for @Gorgon

    @justpoet yesterday was the only day that the stats showed 0 points in the 24 hour window we monitor so according to the stats we collect you have folded for 20 days so far and accumulated 1.25 million points over 31 WUs and thus have already met all minimum requirements.

     

    It is unfortunate that your getting WUs that are taking longer than 24 hours to complete as your systems have been processing work units but the sampling window is too short for the WUs you’ve been assigned to capture this.

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