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I want to build something to fold with because 24/7 folding on my main is not possible and my dad keeps whining about the powerbill (21 cents/KWh) So I would like to build a cheap but effective low end GPU folding rig based around a couple of 750 ti's or something (any other suggestions are welcome but keep in mind it will need to consume the least amount of electricity possible) I was looking for good CPU's to use with a couple of GPU's but I was wondering if a dual core pentium could keep 2 of those cards at bay. or do I need more cores if so which of the AMD quad cores would be best. Thank u in advance
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So today I bought GTX 750ti for folding at home and later use as a gaming card for my brothers pc. but after I installed the GPU installed the drivers restarted my computer. I loaded up FAHControl and let both of my GPUs fold the 770 was and still is folding just fine. but when I try to fold on both GPUs the GTX 750ti always fail. It will run by it self but not together. how could this be. I got the card for 110 euros and got the G3258 with it (the overclockable Pentium, which ill be using for that same gaming pc). does anyone have any expiriecne with folding on windows with multiple different GPUs. Thank u in advanced
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Finally made it to 25,000,000 points! Time to trade in my GTX 660ti for a 980 and really get to work! :lol: Go team linus! Get a free santa hat for your avatar here: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/488920-santas-workshop-v3-santa-hat-avatars, teeth cleaning is extra - hats off ( :rolleyes:) to @LargestGnome for the effort!
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Since @PrimalNaCl doesn't post much (as far as I can tell), just wanted to let anyone here who doesn't follow the main team points page know that @ropesend has been overtaken as the overall folding points leader for LinusTechTips_Team And they did it in a blistering 8 months, surpassing Ropesends' 303,468,928 in the stats file posted Tue Nov 24 16:20:43 PST 2015, with a ginormous 303,218,906 points! AWESOME JOB PRIMAL! I hope I'm not invading their privacy by telling everyone to PM Primal and say "Way to go!", "Congrat", or whatever. <edit: added in graphic showing PrimalNaCl's new spot at #1 on the LinusTechTips folding team. That is all. - Pete
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So today I bought GTX 750ti for folding at home and later use as a gaming card for my brothers pc. but after I installed the GPU installed the drivers restarted my computer. I loaded up FAHControl and let both of my GPUs fold the 770 was and still is folding just fine. but when I try to fold on both GPUs the GTX 750ti always fail. It will run by it self but not together. how could this be. I got the card for 110 euros and got the G3258 with it (the overclockable Pentium, which ill be using for that same gaming pc). does anyone have any expiriecne with folding on windows with multiple different GPUs. Thank u in advanced
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so i have planned out some of a dedicated folding rig but i want to know what the best gpu (since folding uses the gpu primarily) for the job is (it can be used or new). can anyone help? thanks -
Hi, I have a setup with 2 GTX 770s, but one of my GPUs is not folding. I have done the following things: Restarted FAH Restarted rig Turned folding power down to light and then back to full Updated drivers and reactivated SLI It is running on full, but according to GPU-Z only one of the GPUs is running, while I have two projects for GPUs here, does anyone know how to fix this? If there is any other information you need relevant to this topic, do not hesitate to ask!
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so should i use an amd board or intel board if i am going for 2 way sli? thanks
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should i pay extra around $200 for 970 for folding? or should i go with 960? thanks
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EDIT: You know what, since there's no official pinned thread for this, let's make this the temporary official thread for video suggestion for Linus. Post your video suggestions below in the SAME FORMAT as mine (I have no idea where this type of post is supposed to be, so I'll post it here) LinusTechTips Getting started with Folding at Home Ultimate GPU Folding at Home Showdown (benchmarks) Bang for Buck Folding at Home Build Log CPU vs GPU Folding at Home TechQuickie Folding at Home As Fast As Possible Channel Super Fun Other Ways to Pay The Landlord, Featuring Linus and Luke (jk)(not child-appropriate) Airsoft/Paintball between LTT members with Go-Pro and Drone footage
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Hello everyone! I used to fold since the Prescott era, but now the numbers these gpus are cruncing are ridicilus! My gtx 970 does in 2 hours what my Pentium 4 did in 2 days! So i have a second rig, in the living room, for movies and stuff,i3-3250, B75M-D3H, 4GB ram, Win 7 64bit ,and it pulls like 6K PPD. So i thought why not install my old HD 5850 for extra poinst. SO i did that, install crimson drivers, nothing gpu sits idle. Ok something is wrong with the client, even though the client recognises the cart. Reinstall everything. Still 0% usage. After some googling, i unistall everything, with DDU and ccleaner, and install catalyst 14.9 and f@h again. Now it works, but i'm getting like 13-15K PPD. Another 6-8K from the i3 for a total of 20-23K ish PPD. So my question is, is that any good? Btw the HD 5850 is overclocked, from the drivers core and memory on max. Screenshot (without the i3 because at the time i thought it kept back the HD 5850)
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Am I missing something here? I just installed folding @ home and I see that I'm getting very low ppd (relative to what I've seen online). What gives? my specs are as follows: i5 4460 h97 mobo gtx 960 strix I apologize in advance for my possible unfathomable ignorance.
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I was reading a few articles on folding, and still don't understand why people do it. Could someone help clarify this for me. Do you get a benefit or something out of it?
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A few days ago, my parents asked me why my old Sony VAIO was always on. I explained what Folding@Home was, and they flipped out. At first, they thought it was a scam, and it wasn't actually from the University of Stanford (my dad said we could be criminally investigated for that comp power). Then, they investigated and found out that it wasn't a scam, but they had no evidence that they were actually using our computing power for protein folding, and nothing else. So, my question is, what actually has been accomplished by Folding@Home, and what proof do we have that our computers are actually running protein folding simulations, and not doing something else (secret military development, New World Order, Illuminati, etc.)? EDIT: Please don't say that my parents are lunatics, overprotective, conspiracy theorists,etc. That's not it at all- 11 replies
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Hey this is my first post here, so please forgive me for not being familiar with the general etiquette here yet. Well, just recently I was browsing through the interwebs to look for some interesting stuff and I found something. I used to be a bitcoin GPU miner and also did a bit of F@H and back in the days I was wondering if there was a way to make it more efficient. I was thinking ARM but no hardware to that purpose was on the market so I discarded the idea. And now I've stumbled over a company which sells SBCs (http://www.gateworks.com/product/item/ventana-gw5100-network-processor) and expansion boards which enable these super low power ARM systems to have up to >>7<< PCIe x1 connections. These SBCs can run Linux and it's also well known that nvidia has ARM GPU drivers that support pretty much their entire later desktop lineup (http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-arm-display-archive.html) Of course you can't just go and plug your GTX Titan X into a Mini-PCIe port, but there are things like http://www.delock.com/produkte/F_375_Mini-PCIe_41851/merkmale.html?setLanguage=en Or other powered Mini PCIe risers, so that shouldn't be too much of a problem What do you guys think, what could be achieved with an nVidia GPU farm that runs of just a low power ARM CPU without much power overhead? Is my scope of thinking (mining/f@h) too limited? Is there ARM-software out there that could enable this setup to do even more interesting tasks like GPU accelerated video rendering or stuff like that? As I said I'm new here, so I might've inadvertedly broken some rules. If that is the case I'd appreciate a reply so I know better in the future. Thanks
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I recently got into folding about 3 days ago, and I've had non-stop problems with my R9 270X. It always has 8+ days left on it's work load, and that doesn't change even while letting it run over night. My CPU is folding perfectly fine, and has already finished quite a few work loads. I've been using MSI Afterburner to check it's usage, and it's never gone above 4% GPU usage. At first, I was trying to use the 270X as a card just for folding while I used my 780 to do everything else I do on my computer, but nothing could seem to get the 270X to want to fold. (Note: I have all the latest drivers for it, (Version 9.14.10.01128), so that can't be an issue, can it?) To test if the card actually was working, I lunched bitminter to let it mine for a bit to see if that got it's GPU usage up, and I did. right after I clicked start, the usage Shot up to 100% After this, I decided to just take the 780 out to see if that was the issue. Nope... With just the 270X in, it still wont fold. Deciding to finally give up, I'm asking you guys. Does the 270X have an issue with folding? Do I need a certan driver version? Or is there some settings I need to change to get this card to co-operate? Anything helps. Thanks In advance
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@Whaler_99: I made a posts >2 weeks ago, and the problem with the Folding program not being able to use my GPU seems fixed. What the problem seems to be Windows 10. So with that said, I reinstalled Windows 7, and now it folds using BOTH my GPU and CPU. AWESOME!!! That's two WU's being done simutaneously. And the GPU does it around 4 times faster than my CPU. However, with that comes a new problem: my computer's stuttering using Chrome. Unusual. See my specs down below for more details. And the problem points to Core18, which to my understanding is the folding core for NV Maxwell cards (K620=GTX 745). It uses >139,000 KB of my RAM (~139 MB). Chrome uses that much RAM for >5 tabs, so it is very unusual. That can be compared to the FaH Core_a4, which utilizes cores and threads for Intel processors. That's 60 MB, where it usually is even for my older laptop, running Sandy Bridge. So what could've caused the Core18 to use that much RAM? Specs: Lenovo P300 30AH004MUS Lenovo Intel C226 Chipset Intel Xeon E3-1241 V3 PNY NVidia Quadro K620 1x8GB Samsung ECC RAM 1TB Seagate Hard Drive Asus PCI-N53 Wireless adapter -
I recently started folding on my PC and I was fiddling with getting my one laptop to remotely control my desktop (the currently afflicted) and my other, gaming laptop. Somehow it suddenly stopped being able to connect to the local client (not exactly a thing but that's what it says :unsure:) - all settings in that area are still default. I am running Windows 7 on HP Pavilion p6780t (shit, I know) and as far as I know nothing is awry except it suddenly stopped connecting to the local client. I have restarted my router and PC multiple times. Also, the laptop I said I was going to remotely control the other two with is unable to connect to this particular PC only. The gaming laptop is fine. I have included screenshots of my settings and the client list in the Advanced Control window. Any ideas? Thanks EDIT: I know I probably sound like a complete noob, but I am very bad at networking and I literally started this an hour ago.
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As topic states...can I be logged in with username and passkey on two different machines at the same time and fold? -
So I recently downloaded and started folding via the chrome app. Do you guys have any tips if there are any at all? Complete noob, but happy to help with projects that may one day make a real difference!
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So I've set up Folding@home tonight (well it's actually 4:30 AM here and no, I haven't been to bed yet). I set it up following best practices (I think), and I'm experiencing a horribly laggy screen when doing things like right clicking, dragging windows around, browsing files, switching tabs... I can't think of anyway to fix this while still using my GPU slots, which lets face it, are the most efficient slots for this type of highly parallel work. So I guess I should probably share my rig first, and then utilization data, that might help: I'm running an i7-4770K at stock speeds 16 GB of DDR3 1333MHz and two GTX 750's in SLI. So I've set my cpu slot up to use 1 thread. It's hovering around 25% cpu utilization which is what I expected. Ram stays between 4 and 6 GB used (with multiple tabs in chrome). My GPU utilization on GPU 0 bounces between 0 and 90%, which boggles my mind because GPU 1 is staying pegged at 99%. Surprisingly my GPU temp is quite low for being at full utilization for so long staying around 60C. Any ideas on how to fix the laggy screen? I'm wondering if the process priority is defaulting to a higher priority then actually running the GUI, but all ideas are appreciated. -
Hey guys, im new to folding and joined this team because it helped me alot to understand folding, i saw the FAQ said that there are badges that are awarded to people when they reach a target point, how do i know how much points i am getting per work unit so i know when i can hit the target point?
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Hey all, So i've been thinking about buying a server to replace my Seagate business 4 bay NAS so i can get a better experience & also im interested in running a few VM's for various tasks but also a game server likely for myself and a couple friends. So im really looking to see how much i need to spend and if i need a xeon? im sure i could get away with a reasonable I5 or something but having a decent network card and a decent raid card would be nice, I live in New Zealand and was going to buy a second hand HP Rackmount such as this one due to seemingly good value for money compared to anything else around that price range. But do i really need something that big (racks take up quite a bit of space...) Well 600x600x980 is the size I was looking at. I've currently got a I7 3930k with 12gb of ram that im running a few VM's on as well as both a sickrage & couch potato bot which would be nice to move away from my main pc. Lastly how can you divvy up resources for folding? Seeing as if i end up getting the above rackmount how will i get it to use a specific amount of cpu/ram usage so it doesnt make too much noise. Thanks a lot Ayrton
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Hi, I've been looking to get into folding recently, and I'm wondering whether a Tesla would be good for such an application with it's high CUDA core count. So, is it, or is it better to go with a Titan X or something of that sort? Thanks
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Just a heads up for those wondering why their points plummeted on the ExtremeOverclocking and other stats pages, while their web control kept chugging along like normal. I posted an FYI to the official folding website notifying them that their user stats download file was not updating (since 3am Sat.) and got a response back just a couple minutes ago. It sounds like many of you are used to this, so I guess it's not that important, but just in case you're wondering... Per bruce at the official foldingforums.org web site: https://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=27829&start=30#p281085 "I'm sure this will be taken care of on Monday." - Pete
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