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[macminitosh]

 

Thanks @justpoet and @Gorgon for the Input!

 

I do have to add that i'm folding on Windows - it's installed via bootcamp. I did fold on macOS first, but as you said, GPU folding is not supported.

 

If i just fold on my GPU, the fans are undetectably quiet. So if i'm at home, i'll solely fold on the GPU for the sake of quietness.

[justpoet]

10 minutes ago, macminitosh said:

 

Thanks @justpoet and @Gorgon for the Input!

 

I do have to add that i'm folding on Windows - it's installed via bootcamp. I did fold on macOS first, but as you said, GPU folding is not supported.

 

If i just fold on my GPU, the fans are undetectably quiet. So if i'm at home, i'll solely fold on the GPU for the sake of quietness.

If you want to CPU fold as well, try making a CPU slot with less than half the threads your CPU will do.  For example on my 4c8t i7 MacBook Pro I ran 3, and the fans basically didn't spin up much more than normal since it wasn't enough to heat up the whole chip.  Going 4 brought the fans up, but not to max, and then going up to 6 max'd the fans.  That being said, most iMacs share a heatsink via heat pipes from the CPU and GPU, so you may have to play with it a bit to see what works for you.  I had no GPU load going while I did the above.

[Gorgon]

On 9/11/2019 at 3:24 PM, Mattias Edeslatt said:

Agree on that... Thought it was just my specific case that have both a AMD and a Nvidia card in one system that it was impossible to get the AMD to get WU:s. but it seems not to be the case.

Both cards are recognized and both CUDA and OpenCL is installed and verified by the F@H-client. My 1060 works nicely... Well, I can both play games and crunch WU:s at the same time without any loss of production...  as the Vega 64 do all the gaming and keeping my daily tasks in the OS snappy and my 1060 is going hard in the folding-factory.

 

But it would be nice to have all that power on full steam ahead for the folding month.... 

 

But mixing AMD and Nvidia under linux seems to be no go, what I can tell by searching around on the net.

Use KVM and Create another Linux or Windows VM and pass the Vega through to it. Set up remote access for the Folding Client and connect to it from the host OS

[TVwazhere]

ITNOS seems to be stabalizing

[TVwazhere]

On 9/24/2019 at 3:40 PM, TVwazhere said:

ITNOS seems to be stabalizing

-SNIP-

Guys I lied

[Mattias Edeslatt]

There is no stabilizing with F@H, there are always days with significant lower PPD than "normal" with some heavy hitting WU:s bringing down the production.

[TVwazhere]

15 hours ago, Mattias Edeslatt said:

There is no stabilizing with F@H, there are always days with significant lower PPD than "normal" with some heavy hitting WU:s bringing down the production.

Tell that to the GPU that got stuck downloading a WU 

I've since restarted the PC, but dammit. At least it's not the folding event yet

[GOTSpectrum]

10 minutes ago, TVwazhere said:

Tell that to the GPU that got stuck downloading a WU 

I've since restarted the PC, but dammit. At least it's not the folding event yet

I am being plagued with that atm 

[TVwazhere]

13 minutes ago, GOTSpectrum said:

I am being plagued with that atm 

I've fixed it for now, but I'm not sure if the problem will persist in a few hours from now, as both my 1070ti's will be done with their WU's in an hour from now, but the earliest I'll be able to physically check their progress is over three hours from now. OH HOW MY PPD WILL SUFFER

[cpufreak101]

so I see this is the official team thread. Just wanted to pop in, say hello, and share my folding story a bit, as it's a tad odd. it's getting cold this time of year, with a cold snap having came through plunging temps down to 5 degrees celsius. our furnace unfortunately wasn't operational yet (needs start of season servicing) so I decided to open up my PC, get a fan by it, and see if it'd warm my room at least. I didn't want to just waste energy running benchmarks, so I looked into distributed computing and ended up here. been running F@H for a couple days already and just recently joined the LTT Team. on full folding my PC genuinely keeps my room warm, and it should last until the furnace starts operating (though we'll see if I even need to open the vent in here lol)

if curious of hardware, I7-2600 non-k CPU, GTX 1070 GPU (slightly overclocked).

[Mattias Edeslatt]

Welcome aboard @cpufreak101, always nice with some new members on the team. Hope you keep folding even when the furnace is up and running  

[cpufreak101]

2 hours ago, Mattias Edeslatt said:

Welcome aboard @cpufreak101, always nice with some new members on the team. Hope you keep folding even when the furnace is up and running  

I plan on it as it'd be a good use of the hardware when I'm just watching youtube or reading emails. might just have to adjust folding with the temperature though lol

[Kn1nJa]

I came here for almost exactly the same reason. I just got a new house and it doesn't have heat in the basement (where I spend most of my time). I figured I could run something like prime95 to warm it up, but I forgot completely about FAH. Now I'm keeping my basement nice and warm and helping science! 33,505 points (2 WU) and counting! (about to finish a 32,675 point CPU WU).

 

My rig isn't anything special, but it's working well enough I think. I have a first gen Ryzen 7 1800X (3.6GHz 8 core) and an RX 480. AIO from arctic cooling is keeping things mid 60s, though I snagged the new black noctua after the video today. I'll be curious to see the difference.

 

 

[Gorgon]

1 hour ago, Kn1nJa said:

I came here for almost exactly the same reason. I just got a new house and it doesn't have heat in the basement (where I spend most of my time). I figured I could run something like prime95 to warm it up, but I forgot completely about FAH. Now I'm keeping my basement nice and warm and helping science! 33,505 points (2 WU) and counting! (about to finish a 32,675 point CPU WU).

 

My rig isn't anything special, but it's working well enough I think. I have a first gen Ryzen 7 1800X (3.6GHz 8 core) and an RX 480. AIO from arctic cooling is keeping things mid 60s, though I snagged the new black noctua after the video today. I'll be curious to see the difference.

 

 

Welcome to the basement heating club. You should aim higher though.

 

I'm running north of 2.9kW of heat now and had to hang a box fan in midair to push the heat out of the unfinished portion to the rest of the house. It's 1C outside now and its 24C in the house and I've yet to turn the heat on!

[Gorgon]

Power-assisted Super Space Heaters:

[Guest]

45 minutes ago, Gorgon said:

Power-assisted Super Space Heaters:

 

Got more GPUs?

[Morrowgamer]

I have a couple 780s just hanging out not plugged into anything, will F@H use them even if they don't match the current GPU inside the system?

[Spotty]

15 minutes ago, Morrowgamer said:

I have a couple 780s just hanging out not plugged into anything, will F@H use them even if they don't match the current GPU inside the system?

Yep. I've been using a GTX1080Ti with an AMD HD7970.

 

GTX780's are power hungry cards so just make sure your power supply can handle it and that it isn't going to cause the other card(s) to overheat.

[Morrowgamer]

1 hour ago, Spotty said:

Yep. I've been using a GTX1080Ti with an AMD HD7970.

 

GTX780's are power hungry cards so just make sure your power supply can handle it and that it isn't going to cause the other card(s) to overheat.

I was considering just tossing them onto a test bench to act as a Folding rig.

[Stormseeker9]

6 minutes ago, GOTSpectrum said:

The lower power setting makes the client only fold when Idle(on the screen saver). What was you trying to achieve with the lower power setting?

less power consumption, as I mentioned in my post, can't be running full throtle 24/7/365 at EUR0.27Kw/H.

 

I might be doing it wrong lol?

 

6 minutes ago, justpoet said:

Lower on the slider doesn't run all the time, especially GPU.  Move the slider back up and it should start chugging away.

In case you found the oddity, right clicking a slot also shows an "on idle" checkbox.  Make sure that's not checked.

and thanks both for pointing that out 

[justpoet]

ACHOO!

[GOTSpectrum]

39 minutes ago, yaboistar said:

update: I’ve sneezed a total of 26 times so far and I haven’t even started dusting it yet dear god help me

That teaches you for putting salt and pepper on your folding rig

[Stormseeker9]

@yaboistar nice one haha 

[palespartan]

OP is edited now that folding month is over.

 

Now has the announcement of our new F@H team leader @GOTSpectrum Huge congratulations and thanks to him for being able to organize us!

 

Also links to the badge request thread if you need to get or upgrade your bling

 

note: EVENT BADGES ARE GIVEN OUT AUTOMATICALLY DO NOT REQUEST IN THREAD

 

And added links to the Folding Month 2019 thread if you want to search through all 218 pages of it for some goodies as well as a link to the Award Ceremony blog post with the final results of the event.

 

Happy Folding everyone.

-Pale

[TVwazhere]

1 hour ago, yaboistar said:

update: I’ve sneezed a total of 26 times so far and I haven’t even started dusting it yet dear god help me

 

Spoiler

 

Nice hair  And case choice too