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.

Before mentioning anything else I have safety concerns: Chocolate block connectors like that can be prone to a wire popping out when multiples are stuffed into one side. A connector that doesn't do this is something like a Wago connector. By using the chocolate block and cutting the wire the appliance is no longer double earthed (the box in a box symbol on the back) so there must be an earth connection. This potential fault would be particularly serious if a live came out and touched the metal case which it's right next to, and with no earth that's inviting a shock! It could also damage the appliance even if you don't touch it and get shocked. If I were to do this I would at least replace the mains cable with a 3 core and take the earth off to a suitable case screw for my own safety. If you make it safe then I guess it's probably, although the fan will run continuously which is a waste and source of noise, unless you switch it off at the wall after every use. Using it as exhaust also will pull unfiltered air and dust into the case through all the cracks (unless there is a filtered intake somewhere). I'd probably have gone for intake with a filter (also tidying up the hole somewhat). Dust will build up particularly quickly if you leave it plugged in and the fan runs continuously!

I really want and nearly bought a streamdeck for CAD work, but cheaped out. This makes so much sense, thanks!

I think I remember that video. IIRC the "danger" came from them all being power supplies of dubious quality, potentially old, pre-wired with the wires also being involved in the jumble/being bent/crushed/worn/cut. I think his concern was that when plugged in and used they may go on fire! Heck, even NEW dubious power supplies go on fire sometimes. Generic PSUs may also lack the same levels of protection that a more modern reputable PSU would have, like over power/over temperature/over current so they may supply more power than they are supposed to, or more power at a particular voltage than designed, encouraging fire.

Filled it in. Good luck!

I use an rpi with LibreElec, which is just enough os for Kodi. If you also want to do other things than run Kodi then osmc.tv is still a full installation I think which gives you more options. I have some high bitrate movies that play just fine through it, and DVD rips tend to look better than playing the DVD through a player, except for compression banding sometimes if I was impatient with encoding. The rpi supports CEC through HDMI, and my Sony and Panasonic TVs all support this, it's where your TV sends remote signals over HDMI to also control the connected device. Works great for Kodi, and I find it even easier than using an app ever could be, I mean, you need the TV remote in your hand anyway to turn it on! Typing is a pain though, so I got a Logitech wireless keyboard with trackpad cheap one prime day - dongle stays plugged in, keyboard has a power switch so the batteries don't run flat and lives down the side of the sofa.

I have one of those adaptors for my razor, and the one from the razor before, and from the one before that... They all have different part numbers, but do the same job, and are all designed to work on a wide variety of power systems around the world. You should be fine.

This video offers a great tutorial on following the rules ... or not ... I never used to have one, so used to do maintenance leaning at an awkward angle with my foot on a radiator pipe. Eventually I gave up and just worked without. I now own a wristband (yey Pro Tech Toolkit!), but don't have anything to connect it to without running an extension lead and making up a plug with just earth connected. Still haven't damaged anything yet.... You can find more background information here: And more seriously here. This makes a good point about NOT directly connecting your body to ground to prevent nasty side effects (like death) when accidentally touching high voltage (i.e. a safe antistatic wristband should have a 1 MΩ resistor between you and ground to limit current):

The message is from isup.me/noctua.at Sounds like pot luck and fingers crossed you get an LTT edition if buy it before 22nd Oct. I've need to put better/quieter fans in my cases. If they did the fans by themselves I'd have ordered a stack by now!

So having just watched the video and gone to check out the LTT Edition Noctua coolers - their website isn't loading. Did we crash it? oops. They do look good though! Can I justify buying one to keep for a future build?

Everytime I've pulled my computer out recently the choke bulge on the keyboard and mouse USB cables catch and they fall out. It's massively annoying and securing screws would be very welcome! Also, go hard or go home, let's make them torx!