RichardR

Welp, looks like I'm disqualified as I didn't manage to spin up in time! Everything was looking good in the lead up, but due to local weather I couldn't get away with the study being that hot with it all running until the even began. Went to fire it all up on Thursday and my R9 290 died. No problem, my old 1060 should have been folding away, but F@H wouldn't start. Reinstall didn't help and with other commitments I didn't have time to faff. Eventually DDU drivers and reinstall, and reinstall F@H took me until Saturday to get everything running again. Still, gave me time to shuck the 1080 from my thunderbolt enclosure and get that in the folding rig for the event. I guess I'll not be doing much on my laptop for a while! I'll be folding away outside of work hours for the duration anyway to help the cause. Good luck to everyone else, and happy folding!

You're better off folding full time but at a lower power, underclock the GPU with afterburner if you like, if you're worries about your components. What kills components is generally thermal cycles, heating up and cooling down. Staying warm will be much better than getting hot and then cooling back down over and over again.

Need to get me something other than a 1060 and a r9 290 to pose a bigger threat!

I feel like I remember a mention in a video or WAN show that they were having some issues with getting it working well, possibly to do with bandwidth at the office and that it would have to be located in a data centre realistically to solve. I also think they then arranged to make a payment to F@H to sponsor some more server capacity better integrated with them.

Have a look at the F@H article on this. https://test.foldingathome.org/support/faq/points/ To summarise not all WUs are equal as they come from different projects and different parts of the same project. They run one WU from each project on a standard computer, and the points reflect how long it takes to complete. If you are folding with more powerful hardware you are likely to get harder WUs as this makes sure they get finished in a reasonable time. If you are assigned easier WUs with powerful hardware then you will finish them more quickly and so get through more of them. Hope that helps.

I really just want to fold!

That was pretty fun. Interesting to see where you stack up. The hearing one seemed a bit woolly and definntely depends on hardware. My speakers couldn't cope with anything over 15kHz, but me headphones seemed to increase my score.

AMD driver crapped out on me and managed to make itself think it wasn't installed and the graphics card wasn't installed! DDU -> no hardware detected -> strip down & re-seat -> try the Radeon Pro driver which was available this time and see if it has some stability... Just what I needed when I was checking all was OK before bed to let it fold for the night.

I finally have WUs! I was starting to think I might need to put the heating on! I'm always amazed at how exciting it is to push this cause and do good with my tech. Currently celebrating with the weirdest drink I have, unintentional homemade maple syrup liqeur. And also toblerone.

It's not network provider throttling. That's not rally a thing in the UK, at least not with any networks I've been involved with. I tethered for a couple of months when I moved a good few years ago and never got less than about 35mbps, but that was line of site to a mast with HSPA+. The problem here is with being a bit rural!

Have moved house recently and my internet doesn't get turned on until Friday. Found a BT Wifi hotspot today so catching up on everything and jst realised this event existed! Big PC unpacked and GPU re-installed. Also finally got round to putting the R9 290 that came with my 2nd hand motherboard bundle in, so a fair old hotch potch, but got to get through those sweet work units for the cause! Currently trying to download the driver at 1mbps through phone tethering and trying to bat back windows updates to save bandwidth.

I'd love a Roomba (other brands are available) but stories like this make me uneasy!

Done

They also left out a layer of the screen causing touch issues which could be resolved by bending the phone diagonally!! The fix was a new screen (still missing the layer) not covered under warranty.

I imagine they mean cable mod as in the company CableMod who have regularly sponsored LTT for cables, often custom lengths, colours and styles. They provide aftermarket cables for PCs. I've never needed to use them.