LTT Official Folding Month 2021!!!

[Alex Atkin UK]

1 hour ago, Arrogath said:

Folding month is always good for stress testing your hardware and setup to find any weaknesses. In your case it sounds like you either need a new UPS battery, or just a whole new unit. Sometimes the battery can be hard to find at a reasonable price, depending on the unit. I'm sure mine isn't happy about being run at 90%+ capacity for the last 11+ days

Just rather annoyed as its only hit the 3 years minimum expected battery life, but then what bothers me is you never know how long they've been in storage BEFORE you get it.

I did find out it WAS a short power cut though and the other UPS on the 3080 powered through it without issues.which is ironic as THAT UPS the power LED and USB ports failed months ago, lol.   Can't say I'm impressed with the quality of Cyberpower at this point, it seems pretty hard to find a UPS brand that doesn't have issues of some sort. There was a second power cut it handled fine after I went back to bed though as it was only running the network kit at that point, so I'm not sure its actually performing worse than new, I never tried it at such a high load (nor did I intend to load it up that high as the run time is too short even under ideal circumstances).

Its why for the longest time I didn't have a UPS as I had a Belkin unit years ago which I also wasn't impressed with.  It seems every brand exaggerates how long they can run off battery.

[Pezui]

Against my better judgement I just turned CPU folding back on... 40 cores at 5.2ghz... lets hope we don't have a hardware failure.

[Pezui]

15 hours ago, Gorgon said:

Change yor preferred cause to Alzheimer’s

I have done that now, basically there are no covid work units correct, those are gone?

[BondiBlue]

1 hour ago, RollinLower said:

sounds nice and crispy tho!

just remember, bake until golden-brown.

I'll remember to do that. I don't know if the fire department would appreciate the neighbors calling about the smoke though.....

 

1 hour ago, Schnoz said:

Coat it in glaze and and add a sprinkle of thyme, and it's ready to serve! I think a card of that size is big enough to feed eight people.

The R9 270 is a little card, so I don't think it could feed that many people.

 

 

Oh, and that circular heatsink you can see under the cover? That's basically the entire heatsink. It only has 2 heat pipes. 

[Gorgon]

9 hours ago, Alex Atkin UK said:

My primary UPSes (Easton/Powerware) have this handy “bypass” switch that I used to throw while competing. Turns it from a true dual conversion to a line interactive unit like most of those from APC & Cyber Power and silences the overload alarm.

 

Eaton UPSes are about the best out there but they’re way more expensive so most people use Cyber Power these days but their battery run times are way optimistic. I have 3 CyberPower 1500VA units and they’re OK for the price. As my APC units fail (which they do after 3 years or so) I’ve been replacing them with Cyber Power units.

[Gorgon]

41 minutes ago, Pezui said:

I have done that now, basically there are no covid work units correct, those are gone?

There was supposed to be a new COVID sprint a couple of months ago but the progress bar was broken from day 1 (it’s currently at 115%)

 

There are some 13456 WUs still in the wild apparently but I haven’t seen any of those since August. I believe they only run the occasional WU for some of the potential drug candidates they’ve identified

[BondiBlue]

10 minutes ago, Schnoz said:

Reminds me of the reference heatsink on MXM HD 8790M cards:

That's a very similar heatsink to the one used here. I'll post a picture of both cards once I get the new one in. 

[GOTSpectrum]

Martini and point update shortly

 

 

[GOTSpectrum]

Points update complete, validation and what will come hopefully tonight 

[GOTSpectrum]

And the last known survivor...

 

 

[Yoomes Bond]

I'm not sure what's happened as it didn't exhibit the same behaviour earlier during the sprint but for the last 2 nights, GPU folding has failed on me overnight and uninstalled the AMD GPU drivers to boot. I've been folding a 6800 XT undervolted (1000 mV) with temps hovering around 64 Edge and 75 hotspot so I don't believe it's temp related. I was actively using my computer yesterday and it didn't show any failed WU nor did it reboot itself. But when I leave it on idle besides F@H it's failed and uninstalled the GPU drivers 3 times on 2 nights. I forgot to save a log but the only thing out of the ordinary I can remember was F@H stating that the WU had failed.

I'll try to save a log the next time this happens but just initially would anyone know what might be the issue?

[Egg-Roll]

Well this sucks  Tho I wonder about the Thermal Pad Mod... This sucks lol, on the plus side I currently can get $250 for the card in its state.

 

The real question is, did I somehow incidentally kill it or did the PSU  Difference between keeping the PSU and returning it.

[rkv_2401]

Left it alone overnight and ...

 

1660Tis are something else. Powerful enough to handle anything reasonable you throw at it, sips electricity, very affordable(at least, back when all cards used to be), and I hear they're a great card for ETH mining as well. Truly a fitting upgrade to a 1060.

 

Bonus : For a laptop with a 80-90W power limit where the 2060 mobile can't reach it's full potential, the 1660Ti mobile just about reaches it's full boost speed(1920Mhz) without throttling due to power limits. And that's before undervolting.

[vsteel]

6 hours ago, Starman57 said:

Ah, I see you didn't see the sarcasm.  Hehe.  BTW, I've overclocked it and it's doing pseudo 5 Ghz!

 

I doubt the secret weapon will even disturb dust let alone leave you in it.  LOL.

 

Had ya worried???

 

Nah, you good Vsteel.  It is folding, but I wouldn't worry about it.

I saw the /s so I thought you were yanking my chain but then you talked about it again so I thought maybe you had some hardware you were going to turn on but maybe it wasn't that awesome.  

 

Not worried, I have everything working to the max so there isn't much more to do but see who I pass and who passes by me and just enjoy the ride. 

 

[Mxyzptlk]

7 hours ago, Pezui said:

I have done that now, basically there are no covid work units correct, those are gone?

I have seen a few Covid WU's here and there resently.

[Pezui]

Side note, passed 4 billion points finally.

[Legatus Navium]

I missed this Folding event by just weeks, I only now just got my new system built. Good luck all and see you all at the next event. So proud of LMG and the people that support. 

 

#FindingTheCURE

[Kilrah]

Weee, 4000 WUs

 

[xWeegix]

nice I also just got over 9000 xD

 

[justpoet]

10 hours ago, Gorgon said:

My primary UPSes (Easton/Powerware) have this handy “bypass” switch that I used to throw while competing. Turns it from a true dual conversion to a line interactive unit like most of those from APC & Cyber Power and silences the overload alarm.

 

Eaton UPSes are about the best out there but they’re way more expensive so most people use Cyber Power these days but their battery run times are way optimistic. I have 3 CyberPower 1500VA units and they’re OK for the price. As my APC units fail (which they do after 3 years or so) I’ve been replacing them with Cyber Power units.

I recently got a Liebert Lithium UPS which I'm extremely impressed with thus far.  Literature runtime estimates appear to be conservative so far, though I'm only around 500'ish watts at max pull most of the time, so I'm rather far from full load.  Time will tell if it holds up like it should though.

[shaz2sxy]

Jumped 102 spaces in the LTT group

 

 

 

[Alex Atkin UK]

Replaced the cooler on my NAS and its still hitting the 90s with some WUs so downclocked it to 3.9Ghz from 4.1Ghz as I honestly don't have the energy to mess around with it any more.  In the future I might swap the fan out now there is space.  It seems less than ideal as one side of the heatsink is pretty much blocked by the RAM, if I rotate to cooler to fix that then the CPU VRMs get no airflow - probably not a good idea.  I really could have done with a cooler somewhere between the two I have in height.

 

The annoying thing is it seems to be a couple of the cores run WAY hotter than the rest, so maybe I need to run a script to force folding onto specific cores.  But then is it even worth it for the points you get from a CPU anyway?

In mitigation I've added the MacBook M1 Pro to the mix anyway which is going to smoke the 8600k in the NAS.   Would be really nice if FAHClient wasn't bugged on Mac so I could actually see its PPD estimate, but it constantly freezes when you try to issue commands over telnet, even from FAHControl itself .

[Gorgon]

3 hours ago, Alex Atkin UK said:

Replaced the cooler on my NAS and its still hitting the 90s with some WUs so downclocked it to 3.9Ghz from 4.1Ghz as I honestly don't have the energy to mess around with it any more.  In the future I might swap the fan out now there is space.  It seems less than ideal as one side of the heatsink is pretty much blocked by the RAM, if I rotate to cooler to fix that then the CPU VRMs get no airflow - probably not a good idea.  I really could have done with a cooler somewhere between the two I have in height.

 

The annoying thing is it seems to be a couple of the cores run WAY hotter than the rest, so maybe I need to run a script to force folding onto specific cores.  But then is it even worth it for the points you get from a CPU anyway?

In mitigation I've added the MacBook M1 Pro to the mix anyway which is going to smoke the 8600k in the NAS.   Would be really nice if FAHClient wasn't bugged on Mac so I could actually see its PPD estimate, but it constantly freezes when you try to issue commands over telnet, even from FAHControl itself .

Try an AVX offset of 2 to 3 if it is a more modern Intel CPU (7 Gen or later). My 9900k becomes a blast furnace without this even with a 280mm EVGA CLC when running WUs.

[Gorgon]

22 hours ago, Pezui said:

I have done that now, basically there are no covid work units correct, those are gone?

Correction: I went back and looked through all the Core22 WUs and WUs 16600-9 all are COVID related and I've processed 23 of them since the start of the month.

[Alex Atkin UK]

5 minutes ago, Gorgon said:

Try an AVX offset of 2 to 3 if it is a more modern Intel CPU (7 Gen or later). My 9900k becomes a blast furnace without this even with a 280mm EVGA CLC when running WUs.

Good suggestion, with it being my NAS I'd completely forgotten about that as its not prone to having AVX workloads.