LTT Folding Team's Emergency Response to Covid-19

[Kilrah]

Redundant PSUs are usually combined, not in an active/standby config.

Your usage should not exceed the rating of a single one, but in operation they share the load and thus don't get stressed since they run at less than half load. If one fails you don't want to take weeks to replace the bad one to avoid killing the now fully loaded one, normally you have a spare ready on the shelf to substitute straight away.

[calberto]

I have 2 client names because the Windows client will not allow spaces. I Imagine it's too late for corrections?

[Cabanaj]

Hello all,

I am considering repairing my Asus Strix GTX 970 OC edition.
What is stopping me is the cost of repair theses days. My Fans stopped working.  At a cost of 50 CAD$, not counting shipping and heat compound, not sure it is worth it. And considerinfg that the fans I will receive will probably not be new...

Another thing I must consider is my main Card: it's now an Asus 5700 xt.
My MoBO is an Asus Prime B-450-plus, so I have 2 PCIe 16X.

Since we are (just confirmed this afternoon) confined (except for essentials) until May 4th, I wanted to consider having a second card to fold for the days I want to Game (I want to continue to fold).
My PSU is a 750W and my processor is a Ryzen 5 2600.
Theorically, I should be OK with my PSU.

I would like to know from you guys How would you approach this? IS this card worth the trouble (I have seen some used at around 120-150$)?
Thanks in advance.

 

[C3Shark]

1 minute ago, biohazard911 said:

Anyone know of any recent changes to the CPU WU's? Just as of today I notice that it was hitting my CPU so hard It was starting to thermal throttle at full power setting. Had to drop to medium power to keep the system stable. I am running PBO with Ryzen 7 2700x on a ASUS ROG Strix B450-F gaming with a -.1000 voltage offset. CPU is cooled by a Thermaltake Flow Riing 360mm AIO and have NEVER seen my CPU throttle like that before under any workload including handbrake HQ transcodes. 

They released a whole bunch of new CPU WU's

[Mouse-Potato]

2 minutes ago, Cabanaj said:

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Just slap a CPU cooler on it and call it a day...

 

 

I've also have used a kraken G12 adapter on one of my GPU's and used a AIO to cool it. 

[C3Shark]

1 minute ago, Mouse-Potato said:

Just slap a CPU cooler on it and call it a day...

 

 

I have an NZXT M22 around here somewhere for that kind of emergency

[Mouse-Potato]

Just now, C3Shark said:

I have an NZXT M22 around here somewhere for that kind of emergency

Here's my post about doing it. If you have an AIO then i'd recommend just going with the kraken G12 and getting some thermal paste (non conductive) and going that route.

 

[danielocdh]

2 minutes ago, Cabanaj said:

Hello all,

I am considering repairing my Asus Strix GTX 970 OC edition.

Spoiler

What is stopping me is the cost of repair theses days. My Fans stopped working.  At a cost of 50 CAD$, not counting shipping and heat compound, not sure it is worth it. And considerinfg that the fans I will receive will probably not be new...

Another thing I must consider is my main Card: it's now an Asus 5700 xt.
My MoBO is an Asus Prime B-450-plus, so I have 2 PCIe 16X.

Since we are (just confirmed this afternoon) confined (except for essentials) until May 4th, I wanted to consider having a second card to fold for the days I want to Game (I want to continue to fold).
My PSU is a 750W and my processor is a Ryzen 5 2600.
Theorically, I should be OK with my PSU.

I would like to know from you guys How would you approach this? IS this card worth the trouble (I have seen some used at around 120-150$)?
Thanks in advance.

 

I don't even remember the card model but what I did a long time ago was to just remove the original fan and screw an 80mm fan to the heatsink of the card, it lasted until the end of life of that computer. Maybe you could do something similar with 2 fans you have and see how temps are

[Gorgon]

8 minutes ago, Cabanaj said:

Hello all,

I am considering repairing my Asus Strix GTX 970 OC edition.
What is stopping me is the cost of repair theses days. My Fans stopped working.  At a cost of 50 CAD$, not counting shipping and heat compound, not sure it is worth it. And considerinfg that the fans I will receive will probably not be new...

Another thing I must consider is my main Card: it's now an Asus 5700 xt.
My MoBO is an Asus Prime B-450-plus, so I have 2 PCIe 16X.

Since we are (just confirmed this afternoon) confined (except for essentials) until May 4th, I wanted to consider having a second card to fold for the days I want to Game (I want to continue to fold).
My PSU is a 750W and my processor is a Ryzen 5 2600.
Theorically, I should be OK with my PSU.

I would like to know from you guys How would you approach this? IS this card worth the trouble (I have seen some used at around 120-150$)?
Thanks in advance.

 

 

 

[Parker Kincaid]

I'm contemplating digging out an old mothballed and disassembled system and putting it to work. It's only task would be folding and maybe later down the road running BOINC projects.

 

ASUS Rampage Formula x48

Intel Q9550

Corsair Dominator DDR2 8GB (4x2GB)

EVGA GTX 780 Classified

PC Power & Cooling 750w PSU

 

CPU-wise I wouldn't expect much. Can the GTX 780 even fold at this point?

[ykdave]

1 minute ago, Parker Kincaid said:

I'm contemplating digging out an old mothballed and disassembled system and putting it to work.

 

ASUS Rampage Formula x48

Intel Q9550

Corsair Dominator DDR2 8GB (4x2GB)

EVGA GTX 780 Classified

PC Power & Cooling 750w PSU

 

CPU-wise I wouldn't expect much. Can the GTX 780 even fold at this point?

i dont see why it would be an issue,  ive got some old 650ti's and they still get wu's though not overly productive at 30kppd each lol

[chaozbandit]

2 hours ago, Full_Metal_Jacob said:

Whats the largest amount of credits you guys have received from a WU?

 

My GPU is working on a 98K one right now.

Lately been getting a couple of six figure units on both the 1080 and 290s. Those hours when they weren't being processed were causing unnecessary stress...

 

[Parker Kincaid]

Just now, ykdave said:

i dont see why it would be an issue,  ive got some old 650ti's and they still get wu's though not overly productive at 30kppd each lol

 

Thanks for the response. I might put it back together during the week. A new cheap case might be necessary, however. As much as I liked the looks of the Lian Li PC-B25B case that I used when I originally built it the airflow was awful and it ran hot. It did a lot of BOINC processing before it was retired. Would be nice to get it back into service.

[ObeliskAG]

2 hours ago, Bitter said:

I dunno why there's no love for AMD, my RX 580 does just fine folding and so does my V56. Vega cards are some of the best $/performance with compute work.

I have a 390X (275 watts) and if your workload requires double-precision computer, then like the Vega 64 (295 watts), it's a monster. However, Folding@Home is only using single precision, so these cards don't particularly stand out and are not particularly efficient. Assuming the Vega 64 is sustaining 1,546 MHz boost core clock, then that's a theoretical 12,665 GFLOPS for 42.93 GFLOPS per watt. By comparison a 2080 Ti can theoretically produce 64.78 GLOPS/watt - that's almost 51% more efficient than a Vega 64! (Boost core frequency in GHz x number of shaders x 2 = Theoretical single-precision GFLOPS)

 

[n0:name]

I think my host may have to re-apply thermal paste or install a better CPU cooler

Even more since I am only hitting 4 of the available 8 threads

[Cabanaj]

Thanks @Mouse-Potato , unfrotunatly I have not enough clearance in my case, (for the CPU cooler I have at hand). 

Thanks @danielocdh, I might resort to something like that (I have seen the video from linus end of november 2019 I believe in 2017 I have mixed the two) where he took 2 Noctua Fans and zip ties. I'll have to rewatch the video for the current. I would prefer not going that road if possible because of the noise two CPU fan at 100% will make. 

Thanks @Gorgon I did saw that thread (search last week) but unfortunatly, In my case, it's either replace both fans or change the cooling solution. I have consider Artic , but I want to stay pragmatic too. Thus why I have ask here. Since there are many veterans folders, I wanted to acertain if it's worth the effort, and if there would be some unforseen compatibility issue (I will admit it, I do not know enough about systems).

 

[Gorgon]

2 hours ago, Full_Metal_Jacob said:

Whats the largest amount of credits you guys have received from a WU?

 

My GPU is working on a 98K one right now.

The winner since 01/03/2020 is project 14503 an Ebola project, which on one of my 2070 Super Hybrid's yielded 265,616 points with a Frame Time (TPF) of 02:25

 

 

[C3Shark]

2 hours ago, Full_Metal_Jacob said:

Whats the largest amount of credits you guys have received from a WU?

 

My GPU is working on a 98K one right now.

project:14411

03:51:39:WU02:FS01:Final credit estimate, 355236.00 points

[Gorgon]

2 minutes ago, Cabanaj said:

Thanks @Mouse-Potato , unfrotunatly I have not enough clearance in my case, (for the CPU cooler I have at hand). 

Thanks @danielocdh, I might resort to something like that (I have seen the video from linus end of november 2019 I believe) where he took 2 Noctua Fans and zip ties. I'll have to rewatch the video for the current. I would prefer not going that road if possible because of the noise two CPU fan at 100% will make. 

Thanks @Gorgon I did saw that thread (search last week) but unfortunatly, In my case, it's either replace both fans or change the cooling solution. I have consider Artic , but I want to stay pragmatic too. Thus why I have ask here. Since there are many veterans folders, I wanted to acertain if it's worth the effort, and if there would be some unforseen compatibility issue (I will admit it, I do not know enough about systems).

OK, so a GTX 970 would yield around 375,000PPD running.

 

If it were me as Kepler is getting rather long in the tooth, and your not willing to Ghetto mod it removing the shroud and zip-tying fans I'd save the $50 and put it towards either a used GTX1060 6GB which will out-perform (475-550kPPD) it consuming less power or a GTX1660Ti (750-900kPPD).

[Gorgon]

4 minutes ago, C3Shark said:

project:14411

03:51:39:WU02:FS01:Final credit estimate, 355236.00 points

Right you are - I only looked at page 1. Apparently since the 1st of march I've completed 2969 WUs

 

I had one at 376,672 points; TPF 02:24

 

[Kilrah]

6 minutes ago, C3Shark said:

project:14411

03:51:39:WU02:FS01:Final credit estimate, 355236.00 points

Indeed, 14411 is the big one, bit higher than I remembered actually.

 

22:28:27:WU00:FS01:Sending unit results: id:00 state:SEND error:NO_ERROR project:14411 run:0 clone:93 gen:0 core:0x22 unit:0x000000000d5262775e7e46f9afc8dd74
22:32:10:WU00:FS01:Final credit estimate, 354632.00 points

02:50:50:WU01:FS01:Sending unit results: id:01 state:SEND error:NO_ERROR project:14411 run:0 clone:417 gen:0 core:0x22 unit:0x000000000d5262775e7e46f8e6922754
02:54:33:WU01:FS01:Final credit estimate, 358501.00 points

07:03:32:WU00:FS00:Sending unit results: id:00 state:SEND error:NO_ERROR project:14411 run:0 clone:370 gen:19 core:0x22 unit:0x000000140d5262775e7e46f8494a2520
07:07:10:WU00:FS00:Final credit estimate, 372939.00 points

 

Unfortunately the massive 650K one I had was one of the first I did some 3 weeks ago and the log rotation got rid of it

[Gorgon]

43 minutes ago, Cabanaj said:

... And considerinfg that the fans I will receive will probably not be new...

No reputable OEM would install used fans as part of a repair. They would either be New Old Stock or a compatible newer model

[Bombastinator]

Finally got an alternate email thing ready, kind of.  I may finally be able to get in on this.

[Cabanaj]

4 minutes ago, Gorgon said:

OK, so a GTX 970 would yield around 375,000PPD running.

 

If it were me as Kepler is getting rather long in the tooth, and your not willing to Ghetto mod it removing the shroud and zip-tying fans I'd save the $50 and put it towards either a used GTX1060 6GB which will out-perform (475-550kPPD) it consuming less power or a GTX1660Ti (750-900kPPD).

Thanks alot @Gorgon for that info on PPD! I did try to check about that, and ppd/watt, could not fint it anywhere! That will simplify things. I might just give the card (GTX 970) to someone That can do something with it. I try to waste as little as possible.

As for the OEM part, I should have make the precision: When I was talking about buying a fans module, I was refering to Newegg or ebay. Only ones I find are around 50$ and on Newegg, 30$ + 59.95$ shipping... it make it 90$.

[Kilrah]

I can validate, 400K-ish PPD is about what I get with my 970 (well got, pulled it out earlier since it was causing issues and not really worth it given my other GPUs)