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    LTT Official Folding Month 2020!!!

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    1 hour ago, RollinLower said:

    i bet those drives you hot swapped where mostly SATA based. if you want to hotswap your NVMe drives, you need to have a motherboard that supports PCIe hotswap. and afaik that's mostly reserved for server systems.

    True, they were SATA. I wouldn't know which motherboards support PCIe hot swap, but if it is true that only server systems have it, that would make it much harder then. Well, anyway, you can still shutdown your PC, put NVMe in and get it up and running in under 5 min in most cases.

    In your case @shaz2sxy your NVMe can wait until end of folding month I guess :).

    LTT Official Folding Month 2020!!!

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    19 hours ago, shaz2sxy said:

    I got a new 2tb NVME drive I need to put into my main system but I don't want to stop the F@H train lol

     

    need to test it aswell so ive ordered a USB adaptor just so i know its not DOA and can then get it installed after the event lol

    Aren't most NVMe drives hot swappable? I mean, it won't hurt to try. But I hot swapped my HDD and SSD-s a lot. Haven't tried on NVMe as it is my OS is on it, but I'd figure it would work.

    LTT Official Folding Month 2020!!!

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    9 hours ago, rodarkone said:

    ahahah .. I think the logic is .. fold 1 month with 100 GPU's not, 100 month with 1 GPU  ... also I am not "new" in the folding game ... the fact that I decided to fold here with this account has nothing to do with my other folding@home accounts .. that can get the same status/badge :D easily :) 

     

    @GOTSpectrum - oh .. I think I lost the crown today :)  due to the hiccups in the last 3 day 

    I know I know... Was just joke pointing you out. But we appreciate everything you do anyway, you know that?

    LTT Official Folding Month 2020!!!

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    1 hour ago, GOTSpectrum said:

    or possible a restructure of badges with previous badge holders grandfathered in, as was proposed by Den-Fi some time ago. 

    I second this!

     

    Badges need restructuring. Maybe leave these badges on profiles for those who acquired them and reuse same ones but just raise the numbers of each one. Therefore old folders will not be screwed over and new ones do not get to jump from no badge to last badge "that easily" (in under 6 months in some cases). LOOKING AT YOU @rodarkone;).

    LTT Official Folding Month 2020!!!

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    18 minutes ago, Intrinsic said:

    My E5400, when both cores are used, will complete a work unit each day, but it runs about 3K points a day. 3K points x 30 days in the event = 90K points which is far from the 500K point minimum. Why I pointed out the points minimum as being a problem for this type of CPU and said nothing about WU issues.

     

    My RX 550 on the other hand takes about 16 hours to do a work unit. 30days x 24 hours / 16 hours a unit = 45 units, barely fast enough to exceed the 40. A GT 710 is much slower and would not put out 40 units in 30 days (when I tried a GT710 it gave me a 3 days ETA to complete one work unit). I didn't say anything about points issues here as the GPU work units seem to be worth a lot more points (the rx 550 does over 70K a day)

     

    When considering ALL the event's requirements a Dual core E5400 or GT 710 will not make it.

    I could hit all requirements with my R9 380, so I am not sure what you are talking about or how you come up with such conclusions. WUs differ, and some can take few hours while some can take few minutes, it's just the way it is.

    LTT Official Folding Month 2020!!!

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    41 minutes ago, Intrinsic said:

     

    I've been playing with low end stuff, so I have a pretty good guess. Assuming your PC is run 24x7 and you have minimal issues getting\sending WUs:

     

    Confirmed too slow:

    GT 710 -  Won't complete enough work units or meet the "20 days of activity" requirements

    Core 2 CPU - Won't generate enough points in 30 days

     

    Guessed Minimums:

    First gen i5 or better. The CPU should easily complete enough work units, but the points will be close

    AMD RX 550 \ Nvidia 1030 or better. The cards will easily make the points limit, but the required number of WUs and 20 days of activity will be close

     

    Seeing as that was just an educated guess, and stuck or empty work queues seems to be a thing during these events, one step up from those minimums, or running both the cpu & gpu minimums together would be recommended...

     

    Not really, you can hit 20 days of activity with even core 2 duo. 1 day of activity = at least 1 WU done in those 24h.

    And minimum points requirement is even easier to hit with QRB, even on less powerful cards than RX/Nvidia1xxx.

    LTT Official Folding Month 2020!!!

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    18 minutes ago, Scarfy said:

    It seems you are on to something, fired up F@H got a new WU and the noise is less pronounced. I'll leave it 80% power limit as at this level i can barely hear it, and keep and "ear" on it. Thanks. 

    No worries.

     

    Also, I've noticed that when there is high-noise WU on my GPU, it doesn't really matter if it's on 50% PL or 120%, noise is there, and difference is really small noise-wise. 

     

    I run my GPU on 70% PL all the time now since there is literally no PPD drop but noise of fans and temperatures are much lower. 

     

    Tho, I do crank it up to 100% PL if I want to heat the room or if I am gaming (in hope that game won't eat all the PPD and would share those extra 30% with F@H - it actually helps a bit in PPD in most cases).

    LTT Official Folding Month 2020!!!

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    3 hours ago, Scarfy said:

    Soooo close , i can feel the 30th spot :) . But let's see if I can keep this pace, as this morning my 1080 Ti started making a weird high pitched hissing sound. The strange part is that it makes this sound only when it's folding :( , under furmark and gaming the card makes no sound. I hope it doesn't die on me.

    It happens on some WUs for me too. Do not worry about it too much until it starts being active 100% of time.

    I even have constant coil whine whenever I do something that uses 100W+ (doesn't matter if it's GPU or CPU).

    I have narrowed down my problem of coil whine to Mobo or PSU but I am too lazy to diagnose it further as I've learned to live with it until I make next big upgrade.

    LTT Official Folding Month 2020!!!

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    15 hours ago, Collin_S said:

    Though you would think people who set up what team they contribute to would also have set up their passkey and username

    Some people do not like publicity.

    12 minutes ago, d0ks said:

    What i mean is, if the server's bad, and it won't collect the data at all, it will expire anyway.

    My reasoning was that it's a waste of computing power if this particular server has issues, not the project WU per se.

    It won't expire, server cannot "be bad", it just happens from time to time, they get stuck or full with data, it will collect the WU when it's ready, there is nothing you could do, and dumping WU is the worst thing you can do as someone else then has to fold it all over again and you get 

    11 minutes ago, Arrogath said:

    while I agree with you, the client may dump these WU's itself after failing to send results for too long anyway. This hasn't happened to me much outside of a handful of times during the crazy busy folding event last year so you're better off just letting it ride. While we may be slightly competitive it's in the spirit of encouraging more folding not cut throat tactics that throw the WU assignment system into disarray

    As I said above, this is not advised nor smart thing to do.

    F@H Web Client Dark Skin with PPD comparison by GPU / WU

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    1 hour ago, marknd59 said:

    @LAR_Systems How long do you think it will take for the database to reflect meaningfull numbers for the 3xxx cards and new Nvidia CUDA so I can update my GPU PPD per kWh spread sheet ?

    Seems like WUs are changing by the day, it's gonna be hard for you to have long-term spreadsheet. Additionally, some variants and models of 3xxx are not even registered on this extension. I'd say that at end of folding month would be okay time to take the numbers, but even that is too early if you want long-term spreadsheet. 

    LTT Official Folding Month 2020!!!

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    2 hours ago, LAR_Systems said:

    @Favebook DESTROYER OF FANS, SCURGE OF THE SECONDARY MARKET! lol

    Hey, great deal for you on this (insert GPU model here), clean home, looks new, never overclocked, used for light gaming, getting rid of because I upgraded... ;)

     

    The fans...

    -snip-

    Hahahah, well, if Nvidia makes that bad fans that they cannot run 100% for one month, then idk, I am to blame. However, I always put my cards for sale locally and note that they were used for F@H. Also, I always provide support for any card I sell. Whatever problem buyer has, he is free to contact me and we can resolve it before RMA-ing it if it's in warranty. But as I said, I ONLY sell them locally, so I can even go to location to test it (not now in 2020 for obv. reasons).

    LTT Official Folding Month 2020!!!

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    25 minutes ago, TVwazhere said:

    Personally, I'd rather my GPU be in the high 50's-60's and have my fans spin at half the speed. The fan bearings on a card will die long before the GPU dies because of heat cycling hot-cold-hot

    I do not give an f about fans, even if they fail, I'll replace them. And both of those cards are in warranty anyway. Also, they are gonna be sold in next year, therefore, there is no reason to spare those fans right now.

    LTT Official Folding Month 2020 Corrections

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    1 minute ago, marknd59 said:

    The script used to get the points from F@H servers has been running for the last few days to test everything is working. At the moment there are 23 folding names that it can't find. When the script runs to get the start points on the 12th any name that errors at that point will be removed. I've spent days hinting, asking nicely and shouting loudly for people to check the signup sheet and correct any errors there is only so much I can do. 

    So you are saying that if 20 of those people finish the first WU AFTER their event starts, they will be excluded from your script and therefore from event?

    LTT Official Folding Month 2020!!!

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    5 hours ago, Launch_a32 said:

    Hey all,

     

    I'm new to the forum and PC world in general and just found out about Folding@home. I thought the idea was amazing after seeing a LTT video on it and jumped onboard. I was hoping (and apologies if this isn't the correct forum) if someone could tell me if there was any danger in how long I leave my PC running the WUs. I have an AMD Ryzen 7 3700X with single rad AIO liquid cooler and AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT (MSI air cooled) PC and running the WUs at medium power I'm leveling out at 86C on the cpu and 81C on the GPU (though GPU mem and hot spot show 90C and 100C respectively) based off HWMontior. How long is too long at those sustained temps?

    As suggested by @Gorgon lower power limit on your GPU; you won't lose much points, but you will have much lower W/PPD and temps will be lower too.

     

    Feel free to read how sliders work ( HERE ) as they can be misleading for new users (they sure were for me).

     

    Your temps should be fine tho as I think you are running default fan curve on your RX 5700 XT. You could edit it a bit to be more aggressive if you do not mind a bit of noise. Same goes for your case fans.

     

    Your computer won't get destroyed suddenly, but you should care about temps.

     

    I have one of my rigs folding 24/7/365, 2 GPUs and CPU. During winter it's no problem, but during summer GPUs can hit 70C max, and I do not even blink when I see those numbers because I know they can handle them. CPU is usually between 60 and 80C and that is more than fine for me.

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