LTT Official Folding Month 2019!!!

[RollinLower]

3 hours ago, GOTSpectrum said:

With me hitting 1 billion points it looks like one of my systems, which was actually built to order for a client will finally be going to its new home now the client is paying up. Part of me kinda wished it took them longer. 

What kinda hardware are you pulling out of the fold with that system?

[Favebook]

3 hours ago, shaz2sxy said:

Woohoo hit 20m

 

 

Surprisingly  even though i was folding on full  on CPU & both GPUs - CS:GO was running fine.  Now had to stop folding on the 2070s for a couple of hours while i played some competition games.. just encase lol

I disable folding only during the night as coil whine is unbearable on my 1080Ti (even though I am on custom water loop) when everything is silent in the room. During the day, I play Faceit and Competitive MM with GPU folding always on "Full", I lose a few fps but it does not matter for me as my PC gets 150-200fps during the game but I have "only" 120Hz monitor.

 

Tho, I do not know much about CPU folding, but since you already earning 1.3m per day, I'd recommend you to disable it as it uses too much power for little gain. And it heats up the room much more than GPU in my case at least.

[shaz2sxy]

12 minutes ago, Favebook said:

I disable folding only during the night as coil whine is unbearable on my 1080Ti (even though I am on custom water loop) when everything is silent in the room. During the day, I play Faceit and Competitive MM with GPU folding always on "Full", I lose a few fps but it does not matter for me as my PC gets 150-200fps during the game but I have "only" 120Hz monitor.

 

Tho, I do not know much about CPU folding, but since you already earning 1.3m per day, I'd recommend you to disable it as it uses too much power for little gain. And it heats up the room much more than GPU in my case at least.

Hmm Good point ref the CPU... will help with keeping temps down & noise

well at least until i sell the 1070ti

[TVwazhere]

5 hours ago, shaz2sxy said:

I havent hit full speed yet but for right now you are on my radar as a threat  

Also dat team rank tho

[shaz2sxy]

47 minutes ago, TVwazhere said:

I havent hit full speed yet but for right now you are on my radar as a threat  

Also dat team rank tho

Hmmm might just keep the 1070 ti now lol

[Stormseeker9]

4 hours ago, Favebook said:

 

 

Tho, I do not know much about CPU folding, but since you already earning 1.3m per day, I'd recommend you to disable it as it uses too much power for little gain. And it heats up the room much more than GPU in my case at least.

What do you mean CPU folding uses too much power for gain? Should I just be folding on GPU?

[Zando_]

3 minutes ago, Stormseeker9 said:

What do you mean CPU folding uses too much power for gain? Should I just be folding on GPU?

Yee, most people just fold on the GPU because it’s much more efficient. The CPU just eats power and doesn’t add much to the score. 

[Stormseeker9]

12 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

Yee, most people just fold on the GPU because it’s much more efficient. The CPU just eats power and doesn’t add much to the score. 

oh right lol. Didnt know that.. What would be the best (cheapest) GPU I could add to my current system for more folding power (literally only thing ill use/buy it for)

[Favebook]

1 minute ago, Stormseeker9 said:

oh right lol. Didnt know that.. What would be the best (cheapest) GPU I could add to my current system for more folding power (literally only thing ill use/buy it for)

As far as I know 2060 is the best PPDPD(Points Per Day Per Dolar) card out there but you can check all the PPD's of cards here and I think you can find somewhere in this thread, someone compared all PPDPD's recently.

[Zando_]

4 minutes ago, Stormseeker9 said:

oh right lol. Didnt know that.. What would be the best (cheapest) GPU I could add to my current system for more folding power (literally only thing ill use/buy it for)

Like @Favebook said, the 2060 is the best PPD/$. The 1660 Ti is close and starts cheaper though, so if you want the cheapest GPU then it's the best option rn. That's what I have in my folding rig, a 1660 Ti and 1050 Ti. IDK how much the 1050 Ti helps, but 1660 Tis push about the same PPD my RVII does while using a heck ton less power and being less than half the price (RIP Vega for folding, it's not a workload Vega does very well). 

[GOTSpectrum]

5 hours ago, RollinLower said:

What kinda hardware are you pulling out of the fold with that system?

1070ti

 

[RollinLower]

6 minutes ago, GOTSpectrum said:

1070ti

 

welp, atleast it's no Tesla V100  

[LavenderPhantom78139]

5 hours ago, Favebook said:

I disable folding only during the night as coil whine is unbearable on my 1080Ti (even though I am on custom water loop) when everything is silent in the room. During the day, I play Faceit and Competitive MM with GPU folding always on "Full", I lose a few fps but it does not matter for me as my PC gets 150-200fps during the game but I have "only" 120Hz monitor.

 

Tho, I do not know much about CPU folding, but since you already earning 1.3m per day, I'd recommend you to disable it as it uses too much power for little gain. And it heats up the room much more than GPU in my case at least.

Just as a question why not disable any overclock to lower or remove the coil whine while sleeping then reenable it when you wake up. You could see a vast increase in effective folding

[Favebook]

27 minutes ago, LavenderPhantom78139 said:

Just as a question why not disable any overclock to lower or remove the coil whine while sleeping then reenable it when you wake up. You could see a vast increase in effective folding

Actually tried that already. Tried almost everything (didn't replace PSU and didn't try other mobo as I do not have too much money to throw on it - already "wasted" a lot on it).

Lowering CC or MC does not affect coil whine at all. Using 100% power limit is the worst. 150% with max core voltage seems to be best as I get a lot more from my GPU and weirdly coil whine is lower...

And going below 100% PL does seem to lower coil whine but not enough as I still cannot fall asleep even if it is on 75%. On 60% it seems to be the most quiet but I do not think PPD on 60% is worth that much in my opinion. 50-60% PL is same on coil whine matter but it does lose 10% of power so I do not even consider going lower than 60%

[palespartan]

On 9/5/2019 at 1:35 PM, leadeater said:

Can't the ports F@H use are outbound blocked so I'd have to ask for it to be allowed for the proxy or ssh tunnel, F@H uses port 80 and 8080 (this one is now blocked).

If you proxy, ssh, or vpn out of your network you can do so using whatever port you want then on the other end (outside of your network) it would use the ports it wanted to. (80 and 8080 are commonly used for http traffic so very common for them to be blocked) vpn might be the easiest to implement.

On 9/6/2019 at 1:27 PM, Zando Bob said:

Damn brb time to sell my soul to buy racks, mobos, and every 2060 on the market.... 

see it always starts as a joke then next thing you know your paying for ac in the middle of winter since you started running enough gpus to heat a small village.

 

12 hours ago, Erudito said:

Met all the requirements for the event. Now to wait.

The requirement were for during the event not before. But great work.

9 hours ago, GOTSpectrum said:

With me hitting 1 billion points it looks like one of my systems, which was actually built to order for a client will finally be going to its new home now the client is paying up. Part of me kinda wished it took them longer. 

Oh sorry looks like the shipping company had "problems" you wont be able to get it until November 5th now...

 

1 hour ago, Stormseeker9 said:

oh right lol. Didnt know that.. What would be the best (cheapest) GPU I could add to my current system for more folding power (literally only thing ill use/buy it for)

It really depends on your budget but really the best thing to do is just buy the best used one you can for your money. There are references for which ones are better than other but general rule of thumb is better gaming performance = better folding performance.

4 minutes ago, Favebook said:

Actually tried that already. Tried almost everything (didn't replace PSU and didn't try other mobo as I do not have too much money to throw on it - already "wasted" a lot on it).

Lowering CC or MC does not affect coil whine at all. Using 100% power limit is the worst. 150% with max core voltage seems to be best as I get a lot more from my GPU and weirdly coil whine is lower...

And going below 100% PL does seem to lower coil whine but not enough as I still cannot fall asleep even if it is on 75%. On 60% it seems to be the most quiet but I do not think PPD on 60% is worth that much in my opinion. 50-60% PL is same on coil whine matter but it does lose 10% of power so I do not even consider going lower than 60%

I had the same problem on my 970s it seems the coil wine is directly related to the core clock as it would get higher pitch as the clock got higher but never went away no matter what the clocks were. I can only imagine how much worse it is on a water cooled rig. I found for mine that it was the mobo gpu combination that was the actual cause of it. I believe it comes from the power delivery that comes straight from the pcie slot so maybe if your feeling risky enough to go into bios and change the pcie power settings it could help if you wanted to mess around and see but definitely no guarantee.

[Rusted]

1 hour ago, yaboistar said:

1070ti is about 750kppd for core21 and the best part of 1mil for core22

If I have understood correctly core22 is not in use at the moment due high failure rate. Or has this changed recently?

[Favebook]

1 hour ago, palespartan said:

Oh sorry looks like the shipping company had "problems" you wont be able to get it until November 5th now...

I am so guilty of using this as an excuse for quite a few times...

 

1 hour ago, palespartan said:

I had the same problem on my 970s it seems the coil wine is directly related to the core clock as it would get higher pitch as the clock got higher but never went away no matter what the clocks were. I can only imagine how much worse it is on a water cooled rig. I found for mine that it was the mobo gpu combination that was the actual cause of it. I believe it comes from the power delivery that comes straight from the pcie slot so maybe if your feeling risky enough to go into bios and change the pcie power settings it could help if you wanted to mess around and see but definitely no guarantee.

Yeah, my first plan is to try and endure this as much as possible. The next phase will be replacing the PSU with one that is not corsair. If that doesn't work, I will just give up and wait for next build (probably not before 2020-2021) as it would be too much of a hassle to get a new Mobo, new cpu block for that mobo and then bend the tubes again due to little variances...

 

Also, I've done some overclocking during the last 2 years, but I never saw PCIe power settings in BIOS. I have Gigabyte motherboard, do you know where might these settings be located?

[GOTSpectrum]

@JoeDaCabbie has just donated a prize of  a 32 GB RAM kit, can we all give the man a thanks!

[TVwazhere]

48 minutes ago, GOTSpectrum said:

@JoeDaCabbie has just donated a prize of  a 32 GB RAM kit, can we all give the man a thanks!

[shaz2sxy]

1 hour ago, GOTSpectrum said:

@JoeDaCabbie has just donated a prize of  a 32 GB RAM kit, can we all give the man a thanks!

@JoeDaCabbie

[palespartan]

3 hours ago, Favebook said:

I am so guilty of using this as an excuse for quite a few times...

 

Yeah, my first plan is to try and endure this as much as possible. The next phase will be replacing the PSU with one that is not corsair. If that doesn't work, I will just give up and wait for next build (probably not before 2020-2021) as it would be too much of a hassle to get a new Mobo, new cpu block for that mobo and then bend the tubes again due to little variances...

 

Also, I've done some overclocking during the last 2 years, but I never saw PCIe power settings in BIOS. I have Gigabyte motherboard, do you know where might these settings be located?

No idea its not really something I've even looked at outside of mining boards. but usually there is a way of changing power state setting near where you choose the PCIE gen settings.

[leadeater]

6 hours ago, palespartan said:

If you proxy, ssh, or vpn out of your network you can do so using whatever port you want then on the other end (outside of your network) it would use the ports it wanted to. (80 and 8080 are commonly used for http traffic so very common for them to be blocked) vpn might be the easiest to implement.

I don't think you understand, there is no path out of our datacenter that does not go through the firewall hence a proxy or ssh tunnel isn't going to help in this instance. There are armed guards at every exit that will shoot on sight . I jest but these servers cannot just connect to a proxy or ssh tunnel as to do so would mean the traffic has to go through the firewall to these or you have to create them inside the datacenter network so the servers can connect to them but then the datacenter firewall will just block the proxy/ssh tunnel server.

 

Sadly I don't think even Colonel Hogan could break out of this POW camp.

 

Edit:

If I get round to it I'll ask for the ports to be opened for the required servers, I mean F@H is a kind of legit purpose lol.

[Ithanul]

On 9/8/2019 at 6:20 PM, Gorgon said:

It would appear that the PC Games Hardware folding team has decided that we are an American Team and wont last long.

Google translate:

Time again to show these Germans the lasting power of an Allied force?

 

Have they not heard of Folding Viagra?

???  Um, are they not aware LTT is based in Canada?

 

Also, Americans do not last long?  O boy, that is fighting words to me.  This southern gal going to bring the full squad to bear now.  Seems I will be busy later this month getting everything up and going for all my rigs.

[leadeater]

Not sure if this has been posted already but this is a majestic and beautiful sight to behold.

[Ithanul]

3 minutes ago, leadeater said:

Not sure if this has been posted already but this is a majestic and beautiful sight to behold.

Guess the meme coin has run its course.