jctappel67

1 minute ago, starsmine said:

You can both be sorry about the wrong you did and not be ok with all the people sending you, your co workers, and family very personal and vile attacks. 

You are correct, and I feel that those should be in two separate statements, possibly even different press releases/videos. Address your apology first, wait a bit, then defend your people so as not to detract from the weight of the apology itself.

@LinusTech If Madison's allegations are true, there's no way that I can continue supporting LTT, even if mostly with my eyeballs and on the folding team.

On top of that, I watched Linus's portion of today's video, and felt that it was another non-apology. It came across as "I'm sorry, BUT [insert excuse here]", and it doesn't matter what the excuse is, you've nullified the apology by making an excuse.

I am disappointed in the developments of the last 72 hours, and I'm even more disappointed with the company's response.

On 6/20/2023 at 3:14 PM, RollinLower said:

that sounds like you're planning some kind of murder for next event.

It was meant to be from "All the Small Things" by Blink-182, but I like your version better.

Made it to team rank 45, and now due to financial concerns, I'll have to stop until Folding Month 2023. I'll be around. Watching. Waiting. Commiserating.

I finally did it! WOOO!

Just did a(n almost) full rebuild, excluding case, psu, and gpu. With the old parts, I rebuilt my old folding rig in my old case with my *old* RTX 2070 Super. Not sure if such an ancient card can handle folding in this day and age, but I figured that maybe it would allow me to FINALLY break into the top 50.

2 Billy! Closing in on Diamond!

14 hours ago, cbigfoot said:

yeah the only normal competition i have is between me @GOTSpectrum because we normally are about equal and is normally dependent on a system crash/hang to separate us...and @jctappel67 just because hes "local" to me and i MAY have bought a 2060 off him...at one point and during the covid event we where going blow for blow lol.  but i feel/pray with my new HW i have acquired for mining may leave them in my dust and will have to find new real competition...but if your going to be folding might as well join the event but thats totally up to you.

 

You're just lucky that I'm saving up to buy a house in September. Otherwise, I'd have already caught up. Well, that and the GPU shortage we're finally getting out of.

Just remember, I don't get tired, and I can't be reasoned with.

P.S.: I have officially moved to Shreveport (Ratchet City), Louisiana. This is as close as I ever plan to work and live to an inner city. Also, it's a bummer since I was hoping to buy @cbigfoota beer now that the pandemic is over (as far as I care), but c'est la vie. 600 miles is a long ways.

1 hour ago, LAR_Systems said:

You set the hours you want to fold between, then it switches to finishing and stop at the end of that folding time window to wrap up work units so you don’t loose return bonuses paused.

 

so in your case you would want folding to start at 18:00 and stop at 15:00 which would be the next day.  Then I would recommend based on the time your gear takes to complete a work unit set it a bit earlier like 13-14:00 to give your system time to finish work units.

 

Last, the timer only works if the extension window is open and running, you close the browser window or tab the script can’t run, so that’s important.

 

 

 

That's so cool! Something I've wanted for a hot minute now, but never made the time to learn how. Thanks for making such an easy-to-use tool!

On 4/29/2022 at 3:31 PM, LAR_Systems said:

Version 2.0 of Folding at Home in the Dark has hit the Chrome Extension Store and is PUBLIC!

Someone needs to let Linus / the LTT writers know that it's ready for the next sleeper PC with the new "Monitor" selector in addition to the LTT RGB Lambo theme.

I have a question. How does the "Time of Use Folding" thing work? Does it let me set a time when the rig is not allowed to fold (e.g. from 15:00 to 18:00, when it's hot as balls)?

On 4/22/2022 at 5:10 PM, GOTSpectrum said:

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I only did it during the initial few months of craziness. Was using some cloud folding rigs, and forgot to input the team name. Those 150,000 points still haunt me to this day. Think of what might have been...

Welcome to the Forum!

I won't comment on the connections since that's not my area of expertise. Ideally, you should run 2 separate cables to the GPU, but it's also not always required, depending on how much juice you'll be pumping through the card. Generally, an 8-pin PCIe connector can support up to 150 watts, and the PCIex16 slot provides 75 watts, which combined is enough to power a 3070 Ti, if it's not balls to the wall. My understanding (not authoritative) is that you can fudge it a bit using the daisy chained connectors, but again, having two discrete connectors is generally the best practice.

Edit: See this article for more info on the cables issue:

https://www.pcworld.com/article/395059/one-cable-or-two-for-powering-a-graphics-card-heres-the-answer.html

On 4/20/2022 at 12:21 PM, Gorgon said:

I got one of those monster 420,000 Atom 18042 WUs today and while I was waiting for it to finish I played with power limits and got some interesting data.

I'm running HfM.net and it's configured to calculate the performance over the last 3 frames so I adjusted the Power Level of the RTX 2070 Super it was running on from 125 (minimum) to 240W (maximum) and recorded the Credit and Time-per-Frame (TPF) after 4 frames.

So while you can run your GPUs "Balls to the Walls" your rigs will run cooler, quieter and most efficiently at the lowest power limit your card supports.

Tested this while running WU 18201. Cut cards power limit to 65% (~200W). It's running about 8 C cooler with a loss of only 300k ppd. I'll take it if the darned thing doesn't make my room into an oven anymore.

Does your motherboard manual have a list of trouble codes? If it's throwing the same lights every time the codes should let you know what's up.

7 minutes ago, jctappel67 said:

Welcome to the community!

 

As far as I understand it, even a 3090 Ti still doesn't have enough throughput to really warrant a PCIe 4.0 connection, so you shouldn't lose anything.

 

For the power supply, you should be totally fine. The recommended power supply is based on some efficiency rating ideal. As long as PCPartPicker says it's good with all of your big parts included. You're good to go.

 

Edit: For reference, I am running a 3070 Ti off of a 650W power supply, while a 750W PSU is recommended. I run folding@home 24/7 unless I'm playing a game, and have never had any issues.

Wow. This @jctappel67 guy is such a noob. Hitting reply instead of edit. What a scrub.

Welcome to the community!

As far as I understand it, even a 3090 Ti still doesn't have enough throughput to really warrant a PCIe 4.0 connection, so you shouldn't lose anything.

For the power supply, you should be totally fine. The recommended power supply is based on some efficiency rating ideal. As long as PCPartPicker says it's good with all of your big parts included. You're good to go.

Edit: For reference, I am running a 3070 Ti off of a 650W power supply, while a 750W PSU is recommended. I run folding@home 24/7 unless I'm playing a game, and have never had any issues.

I know I've been posting a lot lately, but I just had a (good) holy shit moment. I was playing some Far Cry 5 at 1440p Ultra, and I was wondering why my frames were so low, but I capped the framerate at 60 and went on with the session. When I quit playing, I realized that I had left the card folding the whole time I was playing. This thing's an absolute monster, maintained a steady 60 fps, and continued folding at about 2.25 Million PPD, that's insane. My mind is blown. Have a good day.

1 minute ago, TheMiniMiney said:

The Machine was on when the outage occurred. No its not protected by any ups

Is it protected by a surge protector of some sort. Usually power strips are also surge protectors

Has he lost framerate in those games, or just seen the changes in utilization?

Going to agree with @emosun about the reason for upgrading bit.

AS for your second question. I am running a 3070Ti off my 650W SFX power supply, so it should be fine.

Are you planning to do productivity-type work, or streaming? If so, the best option is two monitors, hands down. Being able to put things on two screens has saved my sanity while teleworking, and I just bought a portable monitor for my travel-heavy job.

If not streaming or doing productivity work, then I would go with the 27 inch monitor. I have a 27-inch (1440p) as my main monitor, and my old 24-inch (1080p) as my second monitor for when I'm working.

13 hours ago, Gorgon said:

650w would be fine as long as you power-limit both cards while folding. I run my 2070 Supers at 170W with little to no degradation of points and it should be the same for the 3070ti. Now having enough PCIe power connectors might be an issue.

There lies the the rub. I have an SFX power supply in this computer, with only the 2 PCIe outlets. I could make use of the daisy chain connectors, but that's just too janky for my blood. Not even sure if the other would fit without choking out the chonky new GPU anyway (2.7 slots according to MSI).

This is why I kept the old case & PSU around anyways, so it's all good.

Also, I have housemates that I assume would (probably) not appreciate having a power hungry heat box sitting in the corner of a common area, cause it's certainly not staying in my room. My main rig makes my room hot enough as it is. Hopefully I'll have my own house this time next year to alleviate that issue.

My new GPU came in today. Added 3400 points (35 percent) to my TimeSpy score after light overclock. Now I know it's somewhat stable, so I can get it folding!

P.S. Unfortunately, my PSU (650W) does not have the cojones to run both a 2070S and a 3070 Ti at the same time, so my PPD won't be going up as much as it could until I can justify purchasing a new mobo, cpu, and ssd to put in my old case with my old PSU (750W) and run it as a dedicated folding rig. First world problems (le sigh).

4 hours ago, LAR_Systems said:

Can't do it, I have tried.

 

Firefox sandboxes the Extensions in such a way the browser can not communicate with the local folding@home client service (in party because it runs insecure on HTTP) URL required to get the folding clients API stream.

 

The best I could do in their sandbox is drop CSS/JS on top of their HTML (running 2X the resources) and read the values they write to the HTML and try to parse them to send the DB data.   Kind of pointless to the user, as it's just the same default broken UI with dark tones.

 

On Chrome / Chromium / Edge I can replace their HTML completely and in the latest update, replacing their code with an LAR version that provides more features than the default client and far more than what I can do in Firefox to make it worth doing that.

 

I'm more about the user experience and fixing/improving the folding client than I am just about feeding the DB, I want something useful that looks good in my own browser and yours with information and utility.

 

Showing a responsive modern UI, (trying to add accessibility) skins, system and slot averages for more accurate folding information for users / DB and what I'm wrapping up now... Time of Use fold scheduling to enable folders that want to not go broke on power to use off peak times to fold only, then auto finish otherwise is my highest priorities and hopefully make using Edge or Chrome worth it.

 

Time Shift / Time of Use Alpha (Testing GUI)

 

 

That all said, I'm exploring what can be done with Python or .NET core to run a local package for users that are headless or want to load things up in any browser they like... but that has been back burnered due to the need for the Chrome Extension needing to be updated to the latest Google publishing standards... and I only have so many hours to maintain the extension and database site.

 

 

Thanks for explaining that in a language my Luddite self can understand. Bummer that it doesn't work, but understandable. These projects are like a car that you restore for a couple of years when you have the time to do some work on it.