LTT Official Folding Month 2020!!!

[Rybo]

@LazyDev  Awww mannnnn, unless I get some magical WUs, I think you might overtake me.  At current trajectory it's going to come down to the wire. 

 

[Collin_S]

53 minutes ago, cbigfoot said:

Same here. 

dropped temps by ~20c on the Msi and 10c on evga lol the evga is clocking higher thou along with msi. 
yeah bender will be going down tomorrow after the event for an hour for dust removal there’s a little bit of dust in there as I removed all the air filters at the beginning of the event. And imagine that having the Fans all at 100% gathered dust up  

Hahaha. That's a big temp drop. I've noticed something kind of strange while tinkering with fan speeds over the last hour: it seems like once my GPU goes above 1965 MHz the PPD Performance (at least according to the Folding in the Dark extension's DB performace comparison) starts going down. At 1965 it gets around 6-9% over the average of the database (on the current WU), but when it goes to 1980 it drops to about +4%, then at 1995 it goes to +2%. Any ideas why? could it need some more memory speed? I am just using stock memory clock (when the p2 state is off) and clock is just on the curve automatically made with MSI Afterburner's OC Scanner. Also is still at stock voltage, but the power limit is set to 120% and temp limit at 88C

[vsteel]

On 11/12/2020 at 9:19 PM, vsteel said:

My goal now is to stay in the top 50 as I lost my second machine's CPU fan which crashed the machine.  I have one on order to fix it but being one machine down hurts.  Guess the stock AMD 1700 cooler just isn't enough to cool passively. 

 

 

Cooler is in and fired back up, going to give it hell the last little bit!!!  Working on keeping in the top 50. 

 

46	nextalcupfan	3,609,410	22,428,673	136,817,494
47	chrebean1	3,932,563	22,677,443	128,361,393
48	vsteel	3,955,309	21,330,129	127,543,024
49	RAS_3885	3,609,347	23,060,476	126,118,870
50	xl3b4n0nx	4,048,721	26,310,169	120,863,655

 

[LazyDev]

1 hour ago, Rybo said:

@LazyDev  Awww mannnnn, unless I get some magical WUs, I think you might overtake me.  At current trajectory it's going to come down to the wire. 

 

Indeed. 1M is all that is needed. 

[RollinLower]

10 hours ago, yaboistar said:

the last count is the update that will happen at midnight here in GMT - so, the 11.15 6PM update, if my maths is right

also thank fuck i can hit finish tomorrow and clean my machines out

yeah i feel you on this one. my systems are full of dust and cat hair at this point.

[Frosticles]

Don't think I'll quite make it to the 100 million mark before the end of the event , but ah well, I tried haha. Been going since end of March with a bit of a break over summer because of the heat. Only got a little 1060 6gb, overclocked a lot, but still only about 8-900,000 PPD on a good day.

 

 

gg everyone, also just had a look this is my first post here in about 6 and a half years

[homeofmew]

I think we revived F@H a little :DD 

[Egg-Roll]

18 hours ago, Rybo said:

 Let's Game it Out.  I discovered this game through his series on it.  

But if the big guys don't interact well with vehicles, that might explain one of my tractors going way off the rails -- it went like 1km north of its track and seems to have clipped into the ground.  I haven't fully explored the area, but I don't think there are underground caves around there, so I can't even reclaim it.  

I found it threw a Nerd3 live stream that got uploaded (I think either that or I actually watched it live).

 

Use either https://satisfactory-calculator.com or https://github.com/Goz3rr/SatisfactorySaveEditor

All you need to do is set the Z to 9999 which makes it 100m above (i'm guessing) in games sea level, that should be enough to make it rise from the dead. For the save editor you'll need to search tractor to pull it up and look for the negative z number (or biggest one). The tractor I tested it on was sitting in front of my train station

 

  

1 hour ago, homeofmew said:

I think we revived F@H a little :DD

I'm happy we didn't fall off the face of the earth like we normally do this year.

[d0ks]

why can't you guys play "factorio" like normal people? :))

[ObscureMammal]

22 hours ago, Egg-Roll said:

 

 

thanks for posting this, didn't know about this channel and now about to go binge watch some videos

[LAR_Systems]

I'm pretty sure I joked a few weeks back I would get my 30 series card with only 2 days left in the event.

Well... I should start making stock picks, cause yeah.

[Favebook]

10 hours ago, Collin_S said:

Hahaha. That's a big temp drop. I've noticed something kind of strange while tinkering with fan speeds over the last hour: it seems like once my GPU goes above 1965 MHz the PPD Performance (at least according to the Folding in the Dark extension's DB performace comparison) starts going down. At 1965 it gets around 6-9% over the average of the database (on the current WU), but when it goes to 1980 it drops to about +4%, then at 1995 it goes to +2%. Any ideas why? could it need some more memory speed? I am just using stock memory clock (when the p2 state is off) and clock is just on the curve automatically made with MSI Afterburner's OC Scanner. Also is still at stock voltage, but the power limit is set to 120% and temp limit at 88C

It's due to how different every % of WU can be. You shouldn't be looking at "current PPD" as even a moving mouse can reduce your PPD as your GPU renders that as well as background. Turning off your monitor or letting it go to sleep can get you up to 5% more PPD or even more. Browsing through windows file explorer can lower your PPD up to 4%, that is why they are averages and why you should always look at them. 

[cbigfoot]

7 minutes ago, Favebook said:

It's due to how different every % of WU can be. You shouldn't be looking at "current PPD" as even a moving mouse can reduce your PPD as your GPU renders that as well as background. Turning off your monitor or letting it go to sleep can get you up to 5% more PPD or even more. Browsing through windows file explorer can lower your PPD up to 4%, that is why they are averages and why you should always look at them. 

on bender i disconnect the monitor and boosts the card i plugged it into by 3-5% lol on same wu.

on suicide booth i have a gt730 running the monitor

and Flexo is headless to.

[LAR_Systems]

10 minutes ago, cbigfoot said:

on bender i disconnect the monitor and boosts the card i plugged it into by 3-5% lol on same wu.

on suicide booth i have a gt730 running the monitor

and Flexo is headless to.

It's nuts how the little changes make a big difference it's why animated GIFs are removed from the dark mode extension, they can chew up 2-5% of GPU 3D overhead... hell so can you animated forum profile image @cbigfoot

It's really a matter of getting the max out of your system is to not be on it, using it etc. headless is best.

if you're folding on your daily driver you have to accept your OS is a 3D environment for most OS's these days, browsing, video etc. all messes with your GPU / PPD.   

Even a benchmarking tool can mess with it if it's showing overlays, live updates, etc.   For max PPD all the machine should be doing is folding.

[cbigfoot]

9 minutes ago, LAR_Systems said:

so can you animated forum profile image @cbigfoot

LOL All part of the Plan LOL  i browse on my non folding Laptop...

[miker07]

Welp strong winds has knocked out power completely, so will see if my pc setup at work can keep me in 5th, assuming it doeant loose power also.

[miker07]

Well, work lost power to by the looks of it. Looks like I'm done folding early.

[cbigfoot]

8 minutes ago, miker07 said:

Welp strong winds has knocked out power completely, so will see if my pc setup at work can keep me in 5th, assuming it doeant loose power also.

its blowing good here too...Praying it dont go out...

[Egg-Roll]

2 hours ago, cbigfoot said:

its blowing good here too...Praying it dont go out...

Someone just posted over 110km/h (68mph) winds not too far away from me.

Time to get outta here, I hear the north pole is great for folding.

 

[Beowulff83]

1 hour ago, miker07 said:

Well, work lost power to by the looks of it. Looks like I'm done folding early.

 

1 hour ago, cbigfoot said:

its blowing good here too...Praying it dont go out...

My power is out no estimate on restoration.  Looks like im done early as well.

[Hunter50081]

Well according to the nearest airport the wind speeds in my location are (SW 28 G 40 mph) and I've only had to setup my folding machines twice due to the power going on and off, but the outage map looks like a mine-field...

[Gorgon]

2 hours ago, miker07 said:

Welp strong winds has knocked out power completely, so will see if my pc setup at work can keep me in 5th, assuming it doeant loose power also.

Doubt I can catch you with 8 hours left. That's only 8 million points at my current ~24MPPD output and you had a 13 million point lead as of 20:00EDT.

 

Congratulations, well played Sir!

 

I'm happy with 6th place. My local Electricity provider took me out for 12 hours near the start of the event with a scheduled maintenance window and I shot myself in the foot forgetting to stop my cron jobs for time-of-day electricity usage on the first day.

 

I've already set two of my 1060s to finish as with a 1:34 TPF there's no way they could complete another WU before 00:00GMT.

[LAR_Systems]

10 minutes ago, Gorgon said:

Doubt I can catch you with 8 hours left. That's only 8 million points at my current ~24MPPD output and you had a 13 million point lead as of 20:00EDT.

 

Congratulations, well played Sir!

 

I'm happy with 6th place. My local Electricity provider took me out for 12 hours near the start of the event with a scheduled maintenance window and I shot myself in the foot forgetting to stop my cron jobs for time-of-day electricity usage on the first day.

 

I've already set two of my 1060s to finish as with a 1:34 TPF there's no way they could complete another WU before 00:00GMT.

I was about to read this as...

"My local Electricity provider took me out for dinner as I'm personally putting their kids through college"

[Collin_S]

I have noticed when I run the OC Scanner in MSI Afterburner that it says that the GPU is power limited (even though I have the power limit set to max at 120%). The RTX 2070 (or at least the one I have) only has one 8 pin power connector. Is there anything I can do to overcome that power limit? And could this be also part of why increasing the GPU fan speed sometimes seems to slow down folding, even though temp has gone down and clock speed went up a bit?

Also, is it possible that higher GPU clock can actually start creating lower PPD? 

[Gorgon]

8 minutes ago, LAR_Systems said:

I was about to read this as...

"My local Electricity provider took me out for dinner as I'm personally putting their kids through college"

I'm going to just ignore the Power Bill for October and November.

And though I'm in the EVGA queue for a 3080 Black I still haven't heard from them yet but I'll likely just ignore the notification when it comes as I've been seeing 3070s popping up in inventory at Canada Computers.