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I figured I would take advantage of the fact this post hasn't been locked yet to spread the word about this years folding month.

 

Folding month 2019!!

See the thread for detail and don't forget to spread the word!!!

 

 

@leadeater you can now lock this one.

 

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2 minutes ago, palespartan said:

Well that deescalated quickly. Whats with the change down to just a 1080?

Shhh, I'm just pretending. ?

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UPDATE: Going to change the timezone of the competition to GMT since @Ben Quigley is volunteering to do daily updates and track scores. If there is a huge uproar against this I can change it back but cant imagine there being an issue since most people should just be folding before and after the deadline anyways but if you wanted to be exact just calculate GMT vs your timezone for the start and end of the competition.  And a huge thank you to @Ben Quigley for taking this on and adding another element to this event!

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1 minute ago, palespartan said:

UPDATE: Going to change the timezone of the competition to GMT since @Ben Quigley is volunteering to do daily updates and track scores. If there is a huge uproar against this I can change it back but cant imagine there being an issue since most people should just be folding before and after the deadline anyways but if you wanted to be exact just calculate GMT vs your timezone for the start and end of the competition.  And a huge thank you to @Ben Quigley for taking this on and adding another element to this event!

It is my pleasure, I'm not sure there will be as much to comment on as with BOINC events as you cant really hold onto WUs. 

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21 hours ago, Ben Quigley said:

It is my pleasure, I'm not sure there will be as much to comment on as with BOINC events as you cant really hold onto WUs. 

Instead of people being able to hold onto WU's it will let us know when someone's system crashes (will a full month of this I expect crashes). Or when someone brings home a new GPU or tries to get their CPU folding.

 

 

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4 minutes ago, palespartan said:

Instead of people being able to hold onto WU's it will let us know when someone's system crashes (will a full month of this I expect crashes). Or when someone brings home a new GPU or tries to get their CPU folding.

 

 

Yeah, it will be interesting to see if people can squeeze out for performance. I'm going to be trying to play the least intensive games on stream as possible to help keep my scores up.

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2 minutes ago, Ben Quigley said:

Yeah, it will be interesting to see if people can squeeze out for performance. I'm going to be trying to play the least intensive games on stream as possible to help keep my scores up.

For me it will be to remember to turn my folding OC on when not gaming (and turn it off when gaming) Oddly enough I have a higher OC for folding than can maintain in Fortnite or rocket league.

 

Also as a bit of advice for anyone else out there on a pascal gpu it looks to me like mem overclocking helped my scores so don't sleep on the memory.

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17 minutes ago, palespartan said:

For me it will be to remember to turn my folding OC on when not gaming (and turn it off when gaming) Oddly enough I have a higher OC for folding than can maintain in Fortnite or rocket league.

 

Also as a bit of advice for anyone else out there on a pascal gpu it looks to me like mem overclocking helped my scores so don't sleep on the memory.

If you remember it's thanks to me that you know about mem overclocking for F@H ;)

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1 hour ago, Ben Quigley said:

If you remember it's thanks to me that you know about mem overclocking for F@H ;)

Lol. My bad. Credit definitely due to you on that one. I totally forgot about that.

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59 minutes ago, palespartan said:

Lol. My bad. Credit definitely due to you on that one. I totally forgot about that.

Tbh I discovered it accidentally when OCing my venerable Vega 64

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5 hours ago, palespartan said:

Also as a bit of advice for anyone else out there on a pascal gpu it looks to me like mem overclocking helped my scores so don't sleep on the memory.

Yea, I never ordered pads or replaced my 1070 after the whole thermal issue, because I'm lazy... So no OCing for me :P Unless I buy 3 more fans ?

 

It's a shame you cant work on 1 WU for all GPUs...

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4 hours ago, Mattias Edeslatt said:

Paused the Boinc-client and activated F@H-client again to help out for the upcoming month ?

 

Dual Xeon E5-2670 and a 1060 at your service ?

Folding month is November btw, don't forget to sign up in the sigh up form! 

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Just edited the original post to let everyone know that badges will be given to those who participate!

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When I got my Fury I was hyped to go hard on this and even (surprisingly to me) scrape the top 10 producers list (on the LTT team), but due to power consumption cost I had to stop.  That was quite a while ago and I want to get back into this, but I need to do it efficiently.  Luckily I think that should be possible... after doing some tests, I have these results:

  • CPU folding: ~35k PPD at ~90 W
  • GPU folding, full OC: ~350k - 450k PPD at ~250 W
  • GPU folding, limited: ~300k - 350k PPD at ~150 W

It was fairly obvious what setup I need to run after seeing this.  GPU only, power limited to 150 W

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On 10/5/2018 at 3:43 PM, Ben Quigley said:

If you remember it's thanks to me that you know about mem overclocking for F@H ;)

What about memory overclocking for F@H?

 

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My rig is back to folding agian as well. Was BOINCing for a while but starting today until the end of the year my rig will be 24/7.

I noticed the team scores have been dropping so this cant be ignored we fell back a few places this year.

 

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9 hours ago, imreloadin said:

What about memory overclocking for F@H?

 

Also I just officially signed up!

GPU memory. Test it first but higher v-ram speeds will definitely add to folding production. And with Nvidia cards folding is read as a different kind of workload so most cards will go into a different power state and usually have a lower mem clock so make sure when you are testing you do so wile folding.

8 hours ago, SansVarnic said:

My rig is back to folding agian as well. Was BOINCing for a while but starting today until the end of the year my rig will be 24/7.

I noticed the team scores have been dropping so this cant be ignored we fell back a few places this year.

 

Awesome! That will definitely be a nice boost to the team.

23 hours ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

When I got my Fury I was hyped to go hard on this and even (surprisingly to me) scrape the top 10 producers list (on the LTT team), but due to power consumption cost I had to stop.  That was quite a while ago and I want to get back into this, but I need to do it efficiently.  Luckily I think that should be possible... after doing some tests, I have these results:

  • CPU folding: ~35k PPD at ~90 W
  • GPU folding, full OC: ~400k PPD at ~250 W
  • GPU folding, limited: ~85% of full performance at ~150 W

It was fairly obvious what setup I need to run after seeing this.  GPU only, power limited to 150 W

That is a huge drop in wattage for only a 15% drop in performance.

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9 minutes ago, palespartan said:

GPU memory. Test it first but higher v-ram speeds will definitely add to folding production. And with Nvidia cards folding is read as a different kind of workload so most cards will go into a different power state and usually have a lower mem clock so make sure when you are testing you do so wile folding.

Ahh gotcha, yeah I'm running +500 on my 1080 Ti in Afterburner xD

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13 hours ago, imreloadin said:

Ahh gotcha, yeah I'm running +500 on my 1080 Ti in Afterburner xD

nice. Just remember to turn that off when you go back to gaming since there is a huge difference between running 5500mhz and 6200mhz. (I have crashed so many times because of this.)

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10 minutes ago, palespartan said:

nice. Just remember to turn that off when you go back to gaming since there is a huge difference between running 5500mhz and 6200mhz. (I have crashed so many times because of this.)

I must be lucky because the +500 is stable in games too lol. Guess that means that I could push it a little further in folding though...

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7 minutes ago, imreloadin said:

I must be lucky because the +500 is stable in games too lol. Guess that means that I could push it a little further in folding though...

Don't just look at the offset. Make sure you know how many mhz its actually running at. That is the important part.

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9 minutes ago, palespartan said:

Don't just look at the offset. Make sure you know how many mhz its actually running at. That is the important part.

Do you know how different cards are affected?  I used to run my Fury with mem at a ~10% OC because it took it without having to boost any voltages or anything, but it's a pain to do and recently I haven't even been able to make it happen.  During my reading trying to figure out how to make it work, I came across discussions where some people claimed the card has excess memory bandwidth and would not benefit from more, but other people said they had seen tests where it helped, and my own experiments with mining would seem to confirm that.

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17 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Do you know how different cards are affected?  I used to run my Fury with mem at a ~10% OC because it took it without having to boost any voltages or anything, but it's a pain to do and recently I haven't even been able to make it happen.  During my reading trying to figure out how to make it work, I came across discussions where some people claimed the card has excess memory bandwidth and would not benefit from more, but other people said they had seen tests where it helped, and my own experiments with mining would seem to confirm that.

Mining is definitely totally different since it loads everything onto the v-ram and runs the gpu almost completely independently the more memory bandwidth the better. Folding is different but I think maybe HBM is fast enough on its own to match the power of the gpu itself. but there's still plenty of time before November to play around and see how it does.

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Mining is definitely totally different since it loads everything onto the v-ram and runs the gpu almost completely independently the more memory bandwidth the better. Folding is different but I think maybe HBM is fast enough on its own to match the power of the gpu itself. but there's still plenty of time before November to play around and see how it does.

Well the issue is memory overclocking on these cards seems to be heavily locked down.  At first it was just difficult but now it just doesn't work at all

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