LTT Folding Team's Emergency Response to Covid-19

[Stormseeker9]

22 minutes ago, Zberg said:

if this is any consolation:

 

I knew nothing of folding until the video linus put up to be honest...always wondered what those badges were

 

My home PC is my gaming PC.  I prefer to be gaming as much as I can, and that is what it will go back to after the event is over.  However, I will be leaving my work PC on 24/7 365 to fold.  And I just upgraded its GPU, very significantly.  So a little something gained!

So why don’t fold with your gaming pc whilst at work + work pc 24/7?

[Ayren]

23 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

I think you're looking at the reduction of the number of new active users over a certain period (a week?).

Active users only reduced by less than 4K from peak.

 

Also note:

So far production is continuing to go up

[Shigeru]

Quick question, just trying to learn how to use  HFM.NET, what the "runningnoframetimes" means?

[Shigeru]

11 minutes ago, ZombieStew said:

I blame @Gorgon for making me feel bad about having an empty PCIe x16 slot. Now they are all populated.

*Cries in his empty slots*

[hydrochloric]

3 minutes ago, Shigeru said:

Quick question, just trying to learn how to use  HFM.NET, what the "runningnoframetimes" means?

AFAIK, it means that slot hasn't completed enough of the WU's frames to give a good estimate of time/point/etc.  After a few completed frames it should go normal green.

[hydrochloric]

1 hour ago, greblos said:

Still quite impressive to me.  That's only 10% behind my Vega Frontier Edition with the blower screaming, the core voltage trimmed, and the power budget cranked.  What sort of wattage are your 5700 XTs reporting?

My 5700XT has reported 1.1-1.4mil PPD, but I haven't actually done the math to get a hard number on it.  It draws about 189W most of the time.

[Zberg]

12 minutes ago, Stormseeker9 said:

So why don’t fold with your gaming pc whilst at work + work pc 24/7?

Im sold on it, im just going to keep letting FAH run from startup;  will turn it off at home when playing big old games at high rez.  But otherwise, I am planning on leaving it on.  Why the hell not right?

[Shigeru]

4 minutes ago, hydrochloric said:

AFAIK, it means that slot hasn't completed enough of the WU's frames to give a good estimate of time/point/etc.  After a few completed frames it should go normal green.

Thanks! I was assuming that but wanted to confirm

[hydrochloric]

21 minutes ago, ZombieStew said:

I blame @Gorgon for making me feel bad about having an empty PCIe x16 slot. Now they are all populated.

Are y'all about to make me setup my first twin GPU gaming machine?  I've been trying to hold out for RDNA2...

[hydrochloric]

15 minutes ago, Zberg said:

Im sold on it, im just going to keep letting FAH run from startup;  will turn it off at home when playing big old games at high rez.  But otherwise, I am planning on leaving it on.  Why the hell not right?

Power bill mostly, lol.

 

For long-term use, something like a 1600AF and a Quadro K4000 or similar card might be ideal.  It would be a pretty low power draw so it could just run forever.  (No I did no actual math on those recommendations lol)

[WaldorfMan]

Question: can you run an nVidia card and an AMD card in the same box?  Worried that if I throw my Radeon 7850 in to my rig, I'll end up nuking either the system (bluescreen or the sort) or that it will simply be a fruitless effort (as in, either the system or F@H won't pick it up).

 

Just want to see if I can squeeze out another few points per hour.

 

Here's what's in my rig now:

- AMD FX-8150 CPU (8 core)

- 16 GB G.SKILL Ripjaws

- ASUS Sabertooth 990FX v2.0

- nVidia GTX 1080

- Windows 10

 

Want to throw in an ASUS Radeon HD 7850 2 GB GDDR5.

 

I have the slot and the power, so that's not a problem.

 

Thoughts?  Suggestions?

[Shigeru]

Almost 100K, hurray!

[Gorgon]

1 hour ago, BlueJedi said:

How do you find the 20.x AMD drivers on Windows for compute?

 

They made some change after 19.11.3 where not all 4 compute groups are reported by the driver. Compute 2 is missing from task manager or HWiNFO. Not the cause, but any later driver with that bug has been unstable so far, at least for Vega cards. Sounds like Navi fairs better?

Just installed yesterday so I cant speak to the long term.

 

Only showing Comopute1 in HWinfo. about 95-98% on both.

 

Moving to Linux in a bit.

[Xaiux]

Just now, WaldorfMan said:

Question: can you run an nVidia card and an AMD card in the same box? Worried that if I throw my Radeon 7850 in to my rig, I'll end up nuking either the system (bluescreen or the sort) or that it will simply be a fruitless effort (as in, either the system or F@H won't pick it up).

 

Just want to see if I can squeeze out another few points per hour.

 

Here's what's in my rig now:

- AMD FX-8150 CPU (8 core)

- 16 GB G.SKILL Ripjaws

- ASUS Sabertooth 990FX v2.0

- nVidia GTX 1080

- Windows 10

 

Want to throw in an ASUS Radeon HD 7850 2 GB GDDR5.

 

I have the slot and the power, so that's not a problem.

 

Thoughts? Suggestions?

Plenty of people here are running some combination of AMD and Nvidia cards

[Gorgon]

59 minutes ago, Zberg said:

whats the gestalt on safe GPU temps running all day?  I dont mean like super safe, i mean like borderline safe

Low 80s

[Zberg]

2 minutes ago, hydrochloric said:

Power bill mostly, lol.

 

For long-term use, something like a 1600AF and a Quadro K4000 or similar card might be ideal.  It would be a pretty low power draw so it could just run forever.  (No I did no actual math on those recommendations lol)

My issue is my primary PC usage is in gaming and photo/video editing.  I will never be primarily a folder.  So it has to be optimized for gaming first, power be damned!  But I am happy to let it fold, will be interested to see this power bill though

[Zberg]

1 minute ago, Gorgon said:

Low 80s

ugh, that means I have some airflow to fix

[greblos]

1 minute ago, WaldorfMan said:

Question: can you run an nVidia card and an AMD card in the same box?

I'm curious about the implications of this in relation to folding too.  I have a perfectly good GTX 1050 Ti SSC 4GB sitting on my desk.

[WaldorfMan]

3 minutes ago, greblos said:

I'm curious about the implications of this in relation to folding too.  I have a perfectly good GTX 1050 Ti SSC 4GB sitting on my desk.

I'll let you know if anything blows up.  NO GUTS NO GLORY!

[Gorgon]

40 minutes ago, ZombieStew said:

I blame @Gorgon for making me feel bad about having an empty PCIe x16 slot. Now they are all populated.

Gee. I have an open PCIe slot in my Win10 daily driver and in my KVM system but that one is in a Fractal Core 1100 and even with a Noctua iPPC2000 running full-bore tends to get a little hot with a GPU in it.

 

Must resist urge ...

 

My next purchase will probably be a 3900x or 3950x to replace the 2700 in my x570 Pro WiFi

[Jackeno]

1 minute ago, Zberg said:

My issue is my primary PC usage is in gaming and photo/video editing.  I will never be primarily a folder.  So it has to be optimized for gaming first, power be damned!  But I am happy to let it fold, will be interested to see this power bill though

Yeah, I'm curious what my leccy bill is gonna be.

I've just been letting mine and the wifes machines fold 247, unless they're needed for something

[hydrochloric]

2 minutes ago, Xaiux said:

Plenty of people here are running some combination of AMD and Nvidia cards

Doesn't it depend a lot on the OS though?  I know on the Windows side of things, Windows 7 had issues with multiple drivers like that, though I think 10 fixed it?

 

It would be fun to toss the K4000 into a machine just to see what it can do.

 

1 minute ago, Zberg said:

My issue is my primary PC usage is in gaming and photo/video editing.  I will never be primarily a folder.  So it has to be optimized for gaming first, power be damned!  But I am happy to let it fold, will be interested to see this power bill though

Originally it looked like mine was going up by about 60%...  Now it's getting close to 100%.

[Xsilent(X)]

4 minutes ago, greblos said:

I'm curious about the implications of this in relation to folding too.  I have a perfectly good GTX 1050 Ti SSC 4GB sitting on my desk.

  

3 minutes ago, WaldorfMan said:

I'll let you know if anything blows up.  NOT GUTS NO GLORY!

 

You can fold with Both nVidia and AMD GPU cards in same systems. Just make sure the last driver of the card you install is in the firsts top PCI-E 16X slot.

 

2 minutes ago, hydrochloric said:

Doesn't it depend a lot on the OS though?  I know on the Windows side of things, Windows 7 had issues with multiple drivers like that, though I think 10 fixed it?

 

It would be fun to toss the K4000 into a machine just to see what it can do.

 

Originally it looked like mine was going up by about 60%...  Now it's getting close to 100%.

 

Nah even on windows 7 it was just fine...

[Gorgon]

59 minutes ago, cbigfoot said:

look at this chonker 

yeah, those get a little North of 2MPPD on my 2070 Supers

[Gorgon]

28 minutes ago, hydrochloric said:

My 5700XT has reported 1.1-1.4mil PPD, but I haven't actually done the math to get a hard number on it.  It draws about 189W most of the time.

Once you have HfM running for a while just search by slot name in the Work Unit History Viewer, export to CSV, open in Sheets or Excel and away you go.

 

Haven't seen 1.4MPPD on Windows for the 5700s yet