LTT Official Folding Month 2021!!!

[Egg-Roll]

 

I'm going to yank (really hard) my P4 out of its hidey hole (it'll be crying ) and say F it to Unraid...

Note: Open box isn't worth the savings to get - too far away lol, the 650W should be enough for the 1070 and hopefully the 640.

They also have a 1TB WD Red for $55 which I am going to pick up too, for $5 more I could get a 2TB dirty SMR drive but ewww SMR... A SSD with likely low>no reliability is about $15 less, so... I'll be loading Linux, but which one  FYI I'm not going to pull a Linus...

[Starman57]

3 minutes ago, Egg-Roll said:

 

I'm going to yank (really hard) my P4 out of its hidey hole (it'll be crying ) and say F it to Unraid...

Note: Open box isn't worth the savings to get - too far away lol, the 650W should be enough for the 1070 and hopefully the 640.

They also have a 1TB WD Red for $55 which I am going to pick up too, for $5 more I could get a 2TB dirty SMR drive but ewww SMR... A SSD with likely low>no reliability is about $15 less, so... I'll be loading Linux, but which one  FYI I'm not going to pull a Linus...

Pull a Luke.  Linux Mint.

[Egg-Roll]

4 minutes ago, Starman57 said:

Pull a Luke.  Linux Mint.

Tempting, I'm used to the BS Ubuntu throws out  Tho... I need to find a USB stick to boot from.... Ah that's a tomorrow problem lol.

I also saved an additional $5 on my power supply too, thanks Honey!

[HeavensLastHope]

So it is it normal for the pci-slot to always be 0 on each card, but the pci-bus is different numbers? Trying to see if this might be the root cause for my random rebooting.

Spoiler

 

[GOTSpectrum]

So many times it happens too fast...

 

 

[HaRdLy007]

9 hours ago, HaRdLy007 said:

I'm down to one system, as the motherboard died in my other. RIP Asus Maximus Hero VIII

So its the PSU that has died, not the motherboard

 

RIP EVGA G2 80+ Gold 650Watt PSU

[Sam Gleason]

Im soo glad I got my RTX 3060 ti in time for this event

[Beowulff83]

3 hours ago, GOTSpectrum said:

Ahh not bad, I'm a northerner too! 

So here is a question, hopefully not offensive.. Where does a northerner Transition to Scottish?

[GOTSpectrum]

1 minute ago, Beowulff83 said:

So here is a question, hopefully not offensive.. Where does a northerner Transition to Scottish?

Once your past the Scottish border

[fordy_rounds]

3 hours ago, RichT said:

I have been folding 24/7 since the first of Nov it says 926K but this isn't the case, I'm getting about 300K which has been this way since the end of June.  If you need any other screen shots give me a shout. 

Time for my 2 cents, too. I notice you have a Cause Preference set. I'm wondering if maybe that's causing it to wait for long periods at a time between WUs, waiting for a COVID WU to become available? Have you tried changing that to Any to see if it makes a difference?

[Beowulff83]

3 minutes ago, GOTSpectrum said:

Once your past the Scottish border

Sorry if its ignorant, I'm from the states so I never thought of Northern England.  When I heard that, my mind went to Scotland. 

[rkv_2401]

4 hours ago, RichT said:

 

How would I go about folding in Linux? I haven't used Linux since I was a child and even then it was a limited experience.

 

I haven't hit the est PPD for months now.

 

 

Something's up with your internet connection, and I don't think switching to Linux would make a difference here.

 

900k for a 1660Ti isn't bad(although your overclock is way too high, I'm pretty sure your card isn't Folding-stable at 2055Mhz and that could be manifesting as errors and rollbacks in the WU), but you're only getting 300kish - which means your WUs are probably not uploading properly after your system finishes them. Trace the error log after a work unit is completed and see how long it takes to finish uploading vs when you start. For comparison, my 1660Ti mobile @ 1365/1560Mhz can do 800/900k easy, so just turn that OC off for a while until you get to the root of this issue.

 

Also, check again and make sure you've entered the correct passkey? Enter it again from your mail just to be sure.

[BondiBlue]

9 minutes ago, rkv_2401 said:

900k for a 1660Ti isn't bad

It's also not great for a 1660 Ti. 

[Aranwe]

3 hours ago, BondiBlue said:

It's also not great for a 1660 Ti. 

Keep on mind he said it's a mobile chip, so you can't compare it to a full 1660 Ti. For a desktop 1660 Ti 900k is indeed very low, but doesn't seem that bad for a mobile chip. I run a 1660 Super that averages at 1.1M ppd but that's because it's a full desktop card. A mobile chip has way less power and thermal headroom

[LazyDev]

17 hours ago, dogwitch said:

do let use know how much power it using with full folding running.

System power usage

 

Folding performance

 

 

One of my 2060's is only getting 2 PCIe lanes, which I suspect to be a bent riser card from 1 year of heat.

 

I'm in a shed with active ventilation, so temps are stable at this.

 

I would also note that, my 2060's for what ever reason, are both underperforming. As mentioned above, I suspect that the riser cards are bent from heat, further information on GPU-z shows high PCIe bandwidth utilization.

 

Previously, my system was capable of 12 - 13M PPD. It's aging, for sure. Will be seeing the points for today, will be interesting.

 

 

 

[shaz2sxy]

5 hours ago, Beowulff83 said:

Sorry if its ignorant, I'm from the states so I never thought of Northern England.  When I heard that, my mind went to Scotland. 

The area at the top is Scotland. part of the UK but still a separate country. 

 

sort of like states in the US.  so when we say northern England we are not taking into account Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland.

 

 

 

[LazyDev]

Little points update. It seems my system has just woke up, and became a heater.

 

[dogwitch]

24 minutes ago, LazyDev said:

Little points update. It seems my system has just woke up, and became a heater.

 

ha! that happen when i do full double precision prime math work loads

[Egg-Roll]

3 hours ago, shaz2sxy said:

The area at the top is Scotland. part of the UK but still a separate country. 

 

sort of like states in the US.  so when we say northern England we are not taking into account Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland.

I would say you're more like Canada with Quebec with countries in a country.

 

Also can't your last part be true when talking about states and provinces etc in any country? I know UK is unique in the way that it can easily confuse people unlike other places and I keep forgetting you guys took a bite out of Ireland like the Apple logo, maybe that's where Rob Janoff got his idea from.

 

  

9 hours ago, HaRdLy007 said:

RIP EVGA G2 80+ Gold 650Watt PSU

At least your PSU died and didn't decide to go on a rampage and murder 2 boards...

[rkv_2401]

In 2005, we had top consumer-spec folding machines doing 500PPD. (I was folding back then  - Athlon 64 3200+ producing in the low hundreds PPD in 2005/6 - can't remember the username I used to fold under then though )

In 2010, people were pulling 50k PPD.

In 2015, 500k PPD was fairly common(1070s and above released in 2016 could do that).

 

In 2021, >5 million PPD has become possible with just one card (A single 3080Ti can do 7.5 mill PPD if I'm not mistaken). Wonder if we'll still be around, still folding when 50 million PPD becomes possible from a single rig. Then 100 million. And so on.

 

Men may fold, and men may go. But the project folds on forever.

Edited November 13, 2021 by rkv_2401
Edited date

[Egg-Roll]

8 minutes ago, rkv_2401 said:

In 2005, we had top consumer-spec folding machines doing 500PPD. (I was folding back then  - Athlon 64 3200+ producing in the low hundreds PPD in 2005/6 - can't remember the username I used to fold under then though )

In 2010, people were pulling 50k PPD.

In 2015, 500k PPD was fairly common(1070s and above released in 2016 could do that).

 

In 2021, >5 million PPD has become possible with just one card (A single 3080Ti can do 7.5 mill PPD if I'm not mistaken). Wonder if we'll still be around, still folding when 50 million PPD becomes possible from a single rig. Then 100 million. And so on.

 

Men may fold, and men may go. But the project folds on forever.

I remember when you could technically mine Dogecoin on computers and be profitable  I'm confident I either lost the wallet for that or gave up on it. I do remember those early days of folding too, don't recall my username either, I don't think the points algorithms have changed but our hardware has become that good.

 

 

[GOTSpectrum]

3 minutes ago, Egg-Roll said:

I remember when you could technically mine Dogecoin on computers and be profitable  I'm confident I either lost the wallet for that or gave up on it. I do remember those early days of folding too, don't recall my username either, I don't think the points algorithms have changed but our hardware has become that good.

 

 

The hardware that is used to decide on points rewards hasn't changed in many many year. I will have to see if I can dig out the info on it. Unless @Gorgon remembers better than myself 

[Mihle]

AMD GPU is really not the best for folding, sadly for me.

 

RX 5700 XT, 1,2 million per day if I did run it all the time.

I only fold at day time tho, when I am home. Electricity is expensive right now so dont want to it all the time.

Tho technically, unless I open windows because heat, and that I definitely do not in day time this time of the year, I think the electricity my PC uses would just make the normal heating use the same amount less?

Also, I have noticed, its not that many in the event this year it seems like.

[Lightwreather]

9 minutes ago, Mihle said:

AMD GPU is really not the best for folding

It seems like the latest drivers don't like folding. There's a post in this thread about that

[svmlegacy]

8 hours ago, LazyDev said:

would also note that, my 2060's for what ever reason, are both underperforming. As mentioned above, I suspect that the riser cards are bent from heat, further information on GPU-z shows high PCIe bandwidth utilization.

Definitely so. My TU106 RTX 2060 has been pretty reliably hitting 1.5 - 1.7 million PPD.