LTT Official Folding Month 2019!!!

[Gorgon]

This is Fold8:

She's a Gigabyte z370 SLI with a Pentium G5400, 2 x 4GB GSkill RipJaws V DDR4-2400 and an 128GB AData SU8000 m.2 NVMe SSD in a Fractal Designs Define C. It's a tight fit in there so she's got a 140mm Noctua iPPC3000 PWM as the lower front intake and a 140mm PWM Redux as the upper intake and a 120mm Redux 1700rpm PWM as the rear exhaust to keep the CPU and EVGA RTX 2070 Hybrid XC Gaming and GTX 1070Ti SC Gaming cool. Keeping everything powered is a Corsair HX650 power supply.

[leadeater]

6 minutes ago, Spotty said:

How many of those CPUs do you have if you can get 10m PPD with them? 

Ah.... I dunno I only semi count and just throw in what I can get powered and network that has been decommissioned. We just started pulling out 20-30 or so ESXi host with 2x E5-2690v4s so I'll swap out some of the older LGA1366 crap that is pretty slow now days. I've got two 4x E7-8890v4 systems, two 2x E5-4650 and I've got lots of 2x E5-2667 and 2x E5-2690 systems.

 

Pretty sure I can do 6-8 mil PPD but I'd really like to hit that 10mil mark.

[Egg-Roll]

45 minutes ago, Gorgon said:

You mean a 2070?

Yes  I'm so used to typing in 1070 since that is what I have.

[leadeater]

@Spotty I think 10mil PPD is around 960 CPU cores..... I might have to lower my hopes heh

[Stormseeker9]

21 minutes ago, yaboistar said:

no, because that's only a difference of 10mhz so you haven't actually gone to the next step down on the turing clock speed ladder yet

It did go to 1995 after setting 150 from 165, but  at checking back a bit later it was running at 2010 again. As 15mhz steps 150 would be 10 steps right ?

[mattheginger]

34 minutes ago, Gorgon said:

This is Fold8:

She's a Gigabyte z370 SLI with a Pentium G5400, 2 x 4GB GSkill RipJaws V DDR4-2400 and an 128GB AData SU8000 m.2 NVMe SSD in a Fractal Designs Define C. It's a tight fit in there so she's got a 140mm Noctua iPPC3000 PWM as the lower front intake and a 140mm PWM Redux as the upper intake and a 120mm Redux 1700rpm PWM as the rear exhaust to keep the CPU and EVGA RTX 2070 Hybrid XC Gaming and GTX 1070Ti SC Gaming cool. Keeping everything powered is a Corsair HX650 power supply.

Do you rate the Define C? Good airflow? 

 

I'm still using my original Corsair 650D, but it's so bloody big that I've been contemplating getting a new case to save some space..

[Egg-Roll]

29 minutes ago, leadeater said:

@Spotty I think 10mil PPD is around 960 CPU cores..... I might have to lower my hopes heh

It's partially the reason why I didn't put my server on or my 2-1 like last year the stats don't fell like the hassle (esp the server). 

[TensorVortex]

1 hour ago, leadeater said:

 

People r nuts!

 

Btw can't believe people r buying GPU for folding, r u guys thinking about returning them after folding month lol that would be too savage? I guess if u have few hundred bucks that u are thinking about donating to charity anyway, blow it on folding is a good cause! (Instead of beer)

[TVwazhere]

53 minutes ago, Spotty said:

How many of those CPUs do you have if you can get 10m PPD with them? 

48 minutes ago, Gorgon said:

This is Fold8:

 

Spoiler

 

What did I tell you about posting Fractal design cases? MY DM'S ONLY

[TVwazhere]

Just now, TensorVortex said:

Btw can't believe people r buying GPU for folding, r u guys thinking about returning them after folding month lol that would be too savage? I guess if u have few hundred bucks that u are thinking about donating to charity anyway, blow it on folding is a good cause! (Instead of beer)

I bought two 1070ti's for no other purpose but to Fold

Neither off these cards will ever see a gaming workload (so long as they're in ITNOS anyways)

[The12th Unique]

Do you need to be connected to the internet for the folding to work and if so then how much data per day and bandwidth does it typically use ? 

[Egg-Roll]

24 minutes ago, TensorVortex said:

People r nuts!

 

Btw can't believe people r buying GPU for folding, r u guys thinking about returning them after folding month lol that would be too savage? I guess if u have few hundred bucks that u are thinking about donating to charity anyway, blow it on folding is a good cause! (Instead of beer)

One could turn these cards after competition for crypto mining, I'd buy the 2070's one would be for gaming in a new rig the other 2 would be used for things mentioned and would likely be put into my server, tho my server only has one appropriate PCI-E slot for the cards... But if I go that route I prob could figure out something then.

 

12 minutes ago, The12th Unique said:

Do you need to be connected to the internet for the folding to work and if so then how much data per day and bandwidth does it typically use ? 

To fold no, to download/Upload obviously. The bandwidth is usually about 50-100 up/down a piece.

 

Edit: I have crappy upload connection, and so sometimes it fails.

[shaz2sxy]

16 minutes ago, TensorVortex said:

People r nuts!

 

Btw can't believe people r buying GPU for folding, r u guys thinking about returning them after folding month lol that would be too savage? I guess if u have few hundred bucks that u are thinking about donating to charity anyway, blow it on folding is a good cause! (Instead of beer)

I bought the 2070 Super as washed an upgrade from the 1070 Ti... I'll be selling the 1070ti after the event though 

[sanya567xxx]

6 hours ago, Spotty said:

RIP
I think I did a little too good of a job dusting my system yesterday.

GTX1080Ti was happily folding at 2037MHz at around 60-62°C all day. Was a little warm today, high 20s low 30s so I had the fans running 100%.
Came back to my computer after cooking dinner and GPU temp had dropped almost 10 degrees down to 53°C and the core clock was boosting up to 2062MHz. Wasn't long before it crashed with unstable clocks, went from 1.2M PPD estimate for the card down to 800K PPD estimate.
Will need to restart my PC to reset the card but I have a large file transfer (~600GB) backing up to my NAS and I can't restart until that's finished.

Damn you temperature dependent GPU Boost 2.0! 

idk how it locks the card for you, it doesn't for me even if F@H crashes. I just edit the OC and click apply in afterburner again

/shrug

I wish one could just lock pascal cards to a certain frequency and prevent them from going higher or lower. Really bugs me out to see some WUs it's dropping to 2038 when I know it's stable at 2050 and then on others it goes to 2061 and crashes there, while if caught early and left at 2050 it's still stable. dumb ****ing nvidia gdi (Btw hi buildzoid)

5 hours ago, yaboistar said:

depending on what the card is doing, my 1080ti can idle anywhere from 35-60c based on whether i've got things like chrome or origin open which are utilising the GPU, even in the background

basically, any hardware accelerated app. that will make the card run in low power but 3d mode, i.e. mine is at 1569MHz at about 0.8 volts. That's for chrome, origin and other apps like this (and also very low complexity games running on minimal settings like xonotic, it's always bottlenecked by the cpu for me, even at 700 fps on some maps)

The clocks for true 2d idle are about 139-165MHz at 0.650 volts for me.

[TVwazhere]

10 minutes ago, yaboistar said:

that SC2 is a beauty of a card - i owned one myself until i put it into @Kohrak_Kal's machine

It's technically a FTW2,  so it's a bigger cooler than the SC2

Spoiler

 

[TensorVortex]

21 minutes ago, TVwazhere said:

I bought two 1070ti's for no other purpose but to Fold

Neither off these cards will ever see a gaming workload (so long as they're in ITNOS anyways)

nice cards, i like the evga 1070 SO MUCH, however their first gen 1070 would blow up vrm, which is not cool... but it looks super nice on the outside

[sanya567xxx]

2 hours ago, TVwazhere said:

competition is a lot stiffer this year

yea.. no dawg I think we ain't getting there.

[TVwazhere]

1 minute ago, sanya567xxx said:

yea.. no dawg I think we ain't getting there.

Last year I stayed in 15th with an average PPD of about 1.5M. We will have to see if I can even stay in top 20 this year, RTX cards are so powerful....

[The12th Unique]

14 minutes ago, Egg-Roll said:

One could turn these cards after competition for crypto mining, I'd buy the 2070's one would be for gaming in a new rig the other 2 would be used for things mentioned and would likely be put into my server, tho my server only has one appropriate PCI-E slot for the cards... But if I go that route I prob could figure out something then.

 

To fold no, to download/Upload obviously. The bandwidth is usually about 50-100 up/down a piece.

 

Edit: I have crappy upload connection, and so sometimes it fails.

So it won't be a problem if I leave it disconnected and then turn it on towards the end ? 

[sanya567xxx]

1 hour ago, leadeater said:

 

[The12th Unique]

Also exactly how much data does it use ? (don't wanna go over the cap so......)

[Egg-Roll]

10 minutes ago, The12th Unique said:

So it won't be a problem if I leave it disconnected and then turn it on towards the end ? 

Shouldn't be, I've gone offline and had no issues. Issues happen if it can't connect to the server before the deadline displayed in the program.

[The12th Unique]

Just now, Egg-Roll said:

Shouldn't be, I've gone offline and had no issues. Issues happen if it can't connect to the server before the deadline displayed in the program.

How much data does it use ? any idea.? 

 

[Egg-Roll]

10 minutes ago, The12th Unique said:

Also exactly how much data does it use ? (don't wanna go over the cap so......)

That depends on the project downloaded and the time it takes you to complete it, so assuming the worst at 200 per project you can go based on the time it takes to complete 1 task.

[DieselWeasel]

is 700$/e a good deal for 2x1080ti's in your country ?