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Just joined not too long ago as well. 43% on my second WU on my laptop. My laptop's i7 chews through WUs faster than my rig's i5. Probably because of the hyperthreading.

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Another update, however this one is not as grand...

 

I was looking to hit the gold Badge before the year's end, sooner than I had guestimated in the above quote.  (I discovered that not running utorrent overnight, increased my PPD)

 

Anyway.... Some of you may have noticed I haven't been active for almost 2 weeks now and a couple of weeks prior my PPD had halved as I was not folding 24/7 anymore but playing a couple of games.

 

And then this happened

 

I fried my TitanX !! ..I literally saw a plume of smoke emanating from one of it's IC's, I've RMA'd it but it can take up to 4 weeks apparently

 

In the meantime I've just swapped out the ram in my signature for 32GB of Dominator Platinum @ 3000 as I was running out (not folding, elsewhere)

 

Oh and I'm running on an Asus 980 Ti ...I'm not sure what my plans are now, re: folding ...I'll wait and see what Gigabyte say about the TitanX then decide. ...I did really want that gold badge ...currently I'm a little shy of 80M points.

 

Oh man - bad luck!  I hate it when that happens...

 

You must have been in just the right place to see that happen!  Can't say I've ever seen an IC go out; last plume of smoke I saw was from a cap in a PSU.

 

Any information you can pass on to the rest of us to keep from frying our video cards?   :blink:

 

Like don't fold while playing Witcher 3 with 3 monitors at 4k?  :P

 

Hope your replacement does better than the last one!

 

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Folding For Linus since July 2015

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I fried my TitanX !! ..I literally saw a plume of smoke emanating from one of it's IC's, I've RMA'd it but it can take up to 4 weeks apparently

 

In the meantime I've just swapped out the ram in my signature for 32GB of Dominator Platinum @ 3000 as I was running out (not folding, elsewhere)

 

 

Oh man, that sucks... when you see the smoke rising from the computer, your heart just drops...

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Joined last week at folding and i'm on team Linus Tech Tips!

 

Is it safe to fold at full? My cpu gets 100% usage when i use full.

 

Use something like HWmonitor and keep and eye on temps. As long as they are good and you have good airflow, you shouldn't have any issues.

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Hah yeah it did suck, But at least it made tracking down why my PC wasn't working fairly quick :)

 

I just got the card back, actually a brand new one, they (Gigabyte) just replaced the whole card, about a week ago.

 

Haven't put it back in yet, am currently using a 980ti Strix.

 

While I was there I upgraded my memory too, I think I mentioned that in a post above somewhere.  When I get round to putting the Titan X back in, I will also install the ram coolers that came with the Dominator Platinum DDR4

 

Still undecided about folding. I did really want that gold badge,  I'm tempted to fold again but with a standard clock.  I can't be certain but i do feel this had something to do with the Titan death.  I had it turned up a bit, including voltage, running 24/7.

CPU: i7-5960X @ 4.5Ghz MB: Rampage V Extreme GPU: Titan X (self OC) Mem: 32GB Corsair Dominator Platinum DDR4 @ 3000 PSU: Corsair AX1200i With Green/Black Sleeved Cablemod Cables, Case: Corsair 900D KB: Corsair K95 RGB Cherry Red, Mouse: Logitech G502 + Destructor 2 Mat, Sound: Logitech Z623 Speakers, Display: 2x Samsung BX2440's, Cooling: Corsair H100i on CPU. 5x 140mm Intake fans + 1x 140mm Exhaust.

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Hah yeah it did suck, But at least it made tracking down why my PC wasn't working fairly quick :)

 

I just got the card back, actually a brand new one, they (Gigabyte) just replaced the whole card, about a week ago.

 

Haven't put it back in yet, am currently using a 980ti Strix.

 

While I was there I upgraded my memory too, I think I mentioned that in a post above somewhere.  When I get round to putting the Titan X back in, I will also install the ram coolers that came with the Dominator Platinum DDR4

 

Still undecided about folding. I did really want that gold badge,  I'm tempted to fold again but with a standard clock.  I can't be certain but i do feel this had something to do with the Titan death.  I had it turned up a bit, including voltage, running 24/7.

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I think you should change your profile picture before a mod catches you...

 

 Lol what?  I think it's pretty mild. Linus and co make inuendo's in their vids all the time.Do you find it offensive ?

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 Lol what?  I think it's pretty mild. Linus and co make inuendo's in their vids all the time.Do you find it offensive ?

Lol, No I don't find it offensive. But some people on here may.

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Lol, No I don't find it offensive. But some people on here may.

 

Some people may find wearing a blue t shirt offensive.  Shit happens. You can never please 100% of the people 100% of the time.

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Some people may find wearing a blue t shirt offensive.  Shit happens. You can never please 100% of the people 100% of the time.

They literally made a video about how to hide your porn.  I think you're safe ;)

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Started folding again when im not gaming, got about 700k points in the last two days. I think I will be near 10 million by the end of the week.

My 980 ti matrix really chews through wu's! Last night I woke up after letting it fold for about 10 hours and it said estimated ppd was 740k!

Glad I bought the matrix and not another model, my temps sit in the 58-62c range while folding, memory gets about 60-64 and the vrm does the same as the memory.

I'll be putting a universal Waterblock on it soon, so I'll see what memory temps hit after that, and point a fan at it accordingly. Gpu core temps will only be 30-35 after I watercool though :)

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Not sure if someone does this regularly or not, but since it's the beginning of a new year I grabbed some screenshots of the current progress and rank. I also can not wait to get an EK Predator AIO for my 970 as the fan is damn loud haha.

 

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Not sure if someone does this regularly or not, but since it's the beginning of a new year I grabbed some screenshots of the current progress and rank. I also can not wait to get an EK Predator AIO for my 970 as the fan is damn loud haha.

 

Yeah the team point and position are posted every so often, we hit 12th place not long ago.

 

Welcome to the forum and to the folding team!  :D

 

You may want to check this site out as most of the folding team uses it to keep track of score. 

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i signed up last night, and the team was ranked 13th according to stanford... 

 

i put an i3 rig with a gt640 into full time folding duty.. one unit completed already :)

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Hey, just joined, How does it predict what points you get? i have been seeing users with twice my score and Way less quality equipment? 

https://gyazo.com/0ffaa1673b208f4e5a5cf6293f24b882

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Hey, just joined, How does it predict what points you get? i have been seeing users with twice my score and Way less quality equipment? 

https://gyazo.com/0ffaa1673b208f4e5a5cf6293f24b882

So with folding and after getting a passkey, you have to finish a certain amount of workunits (I think 10?) to get the time return bonus. your 980ti should make i think 600k ppd on qrb's.

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So with folding and after getting a passkey, you have to finish a certain amount of workunits (I think 10?) to get the time return bonus. your 980ti should make i think 600k ppd on qrb's.

 its a 6700k and a 980ti g1 gaming both oc'ed a little with the only thing going is chrome and the folding@home application, been doing it almost 2 hours and im at the 4 WU mark the time bonus makes my 25 - 26k into 600K? wut

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You will have to complete more WU's to get the quick return bonus(QRB)

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Just joined LTT and the team today lol, getting 300k ppd at medium(don't want to fry my 980 as its my only good card otherwise it's a broken 770 or a good 750ti) should I go for full or stay at medium my 980 is getting 65 degrees Celsius at medium and I really don't want to destroy it like my 770

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You will have to complete more WU's to get the quick return bonus(QRB)

Lel, did not realize that there was tabs for cpu/ gpu was just looking at cpu, my actual score is 574,009 but im at 6wu now (it slowed due to me playing games T_T)

 

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i am now running folding on a chromebook xD

it would probably help the cancer reasearch hospitals or whatever more if i didn't even try with this thing xD

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Welcome to all new members! Happy folding  ^_^

 

Just joined LTT and the team today lol, getting 300k ppd at medium(don't want to fry my 980 as its my only good card otherwise it's a broken 770 or a good 750ti) should I go for full or stay at medium my 980 is getting 65 degrees Celsius at medium and I really don't want to destroy it like my 770

Just to make you aware, there is little you can do to restrict the load on your gpu.

medium or full is pretty much irrelevant as far as the gpu is concerned. But 65

degrees  is barely even lukewarm, nowhere near any temperature i would find

questionable. I am pretty sure your 980 will do just fine.

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Hah yeah it did suck, But at least it made tracking down why my PC wasn't working fairly quick :)

 

I just got the card back, actually a brand new one, they (Gigabyte) just replaced the whole card, about a week ago.

 

Haven't put it back in yet, am currently using a 980ti Strix.

 

While I was there I upgraded my memory too, I think I mentioned that in a post above somewhere.  When I get round to putting the Titan X back in, I will also install the ram coolers that came with the Dominator Platinum DDR4

 

Still undecided about folding. I did really want that gold badge,  I'm tempted to fold again but with a standard clock.  I can't be certain but i do feel this had something to do with the Titan death.  I had it turned up a bit, including voltage, running 24/7.

 

 

Re-installed the TitanX around 3am last night lol ...I was bored and not tired. ,,,Started folding again, however no where near as aggressively. Overclocked the GPU slightly but no voltage increase this time around.  It's running @ around 52 Celcius.

 

I'm considering throwing the 980Ti in also for folding.  Man that card is huge, I hate it.

 

Decided to make use of some CPU this time too, with NaCl ...Never run this before.  Does it yield many points ?

 

I won't be folding 24/7 as before and I am not sure if I will continue after getting the elusive gold badge. We'll see.

CPU: i7-5960X @ 4.5Ghz MB: Rampage V Extreme GPU: Titan X (self OC) Mem: 32GB Corsair Dominator Platinum DDR4 @ 3000 PSU: Corsair AX1200i With Green/Black Sleeved Cablemod Cables, Case: Corsair 900D KB: Corsair K95 RGB Cherry Red, Mouse: Logitech G502 + Destructor 2 Mat, Sound: Logitech Z623 Speakers, Display: 2x Samsung BX2440's, Cooling: Corsair H100i on CPU. 5x 140mm Intake fans + 1x 140mm Exhaust.

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Decided to make use of some CPU this time too, with NaCl ...Never run this before.  Does it yield many points ?

 

 

It doesn't yeild a lot of points (nothing compared to GPU folding), but you can crank through a LOT of small WU's if you have that running on full on a decent CPU.

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