LTT Official Folding Month V (2022)

[LAR_Systems]

30 minutes ago, bigygf said:

It looks like I can't post to the blog as I'm a newb, but I started the event cpu folding on a AMD Ryzen 9 4900HS Mobile Processor, then tried to switch to a Radeon RX Vega 7 integrated graphics card that isn't supported, and now I'm using an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090, hence the rise in output.  My room is up to 70F right now.  I do debate if I should try getting a 4090 though.

Don’t buy a 4090 until they figure out the power draw problem that’s melting cables.

 

There are people with melted native cables on new PSUs with the 12v cord so it’s not just the nvidia adapter, it’s the card pulling more power than it should.

[BiotechBen]

1 hour ago, bigygf said:

It looks like I can't post to the blog as I'm a newb, but I started the event cpu folding on a AMD Ryzen 9 4900HS Mobile Processor, then tried to switch to a Radeon RX Vega 7 integrated graphics card that isn't supported, and now I'm using an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090, hence the rise in output.  My room is up to 70F right now.  I do debate if I should try getting a 4090 though.

I tried on the Vega iGPU on my 5800H, worked for a little bit but it was just too anemic to actually be worth folding, and now it can't even get a WU.

[LAR_Systems]

1 hour ago, Lightwreather JfromN said:

Just realised, neither am I. I did change my Forum name 2-3 months or so ago. Folding name: Jeshurun

Thanks.

You're on the list now.

[RockSolid1106]

5 hours ago, CT854 said:

here in NYC it's like 21C and I have my AC unit on

Lmao that's the lowest temperature today here

Spoiler

 

Its 34 at the moment and I'm still not feeling uncomfortable at all, might be due to the humidity which is 28% but yeah the pc fans are at full blast

[rkv_2401]

1 hour ago, LAR_Systems said:

You're on the list now.

[rkv_2401]

7 minutes ago, RockSolid1106 said:

Lmao that's the lowest temperature today here

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Its 34 at the moment and I'm still not feeling uncomfortable at all, might be due to the humidity which is 28% but yeah the pc fans are at full blast

where dat

[dogwitch]

man am getting so many long wu. now with far less point ones... i blame g.o.t

[BiotechBen]

480 update: 

18454 gets to 52%, then goes back to 1%. Anyone else see this behaviour with this WU? 

[Alex Atkin UK]

10 hours ago, LAR_Systems said:

Don’t buy a 4090 until they figure out the power draw problem that’s melting cables.

 

There are people with melted native cables on new PSUs with the 12v cord so it’s not just the nvidia adapter, it’s the card pulling more power than it should.

I think it was Buildzoid who said NVIDIA just don't design overcurrent protection on their cards, seems its really biting them in the ass this generation.  If you're going to design a new connector with tighter margins, you really need to be enforcing the current per pin, never mind limiting it further up the chain.   Just assuming its going to balance across all pins is not good enough if you have no safety margin.

 

I will probably still get a 4090 but leave it on 50% TDP until we know what is going on.  Unfortunately its still happening to too few people to get a picture for is certain VRM controller configurations are specifically impacted.

What's really interesting is it seems the cards with the worst transients aren't in the list of confirmed cases.  Is this just because people buying those cards are less informed so not checking their connectors?  Or are those cards with less phases somehow not triggering the issue?

[podkall]

Is there a way to allocate more CPU cores for the GPU task?

[Alex Atkin UK]

6 minutes ago, podkall said:

Is there a way to allocate more CPU cores for the GPU task?

AFAIK that is primarily the GPU driver doing that so it wouldn't really help if you could.  Even if its FAHClient, I'd expect sending data to/from GPU to be a single-threaded task.

[podkall]

Just now, Alex Atkin UK said:

AFAIK that is primarily the GPU driver doing that so it wouldn't really help if you could.

is there a way to utilize the GPU more?

 

because I only have the GPU task running and it's taking 20-30% of CPU and 20-23% GPU

[Alex Atkin UK]

Just now, podkall said:

is there a way to utilize the GPU more?

 

because I only have the GPU task running and it's taking 20-30% of CPU and 20-23% GPU

Change Windows power management Prefer Performance, if NVIDIA maybe set the same in the driver?

Also if dedicated to folding maybe look into Linux as it pushes the GPU harder.

[GOTSpectrum]

3 minutes ago, podkall said:

is there a way to utilize the GPU more?

 

because I only have the GPU task running and it's taking 20-30% of CPU and 20-23% GPU

Where are you seeing this utilisation? 

 

as in what program are you using to view it 

[podkall]

1 minute ago, Alex Atkin UK said:

Change Windows power management Prefer Performance,

That setting in pertucular is automaticaly enabled everytime I ever install fresh Windows.

 

2 minutes ago, GOTSpectrum said:

Where are you seeing this utilisation? 

Obviously task manager,

 

utilisation: 19%

3D: 3%

Copy: 21%

Vram: around quarter full

[GOTSpectrum]

1 minute ago, podkall said:

That setting in pertucular is automaticaly enabled everytime I ever install fresh Windows.

 

Obviously task manager,

 

utilisation: 19%

3D: 3%

Copy: 21%

Vram: around quarter full

You need to swap one of the graphs to CUDA, as the general utilisation really doesn't mean anything 

 

[podkall]

1 minute ago, GOTSpectrum said:

You need to swap one of the graphs to CUDA, as the general utilisation really doesn't mean anything 

 

How do I do that?

[GOTSpectrum]

Just now, podkall said:

How do I do that?

just click on it and it will give you a drop down 

[podkall]

1 minute ago, GOTSpectrum said:

just click on it and it will give you a drop down 

 

I never doubted that it was slacking considering it runs at 70C, but the graphs were misleading.

[GOTSpectrum]

Just now, podkall said:

 

I never doubted that it was slacking considering it runs at 70C, but the graphs were misleading.

I mean, task manager is misleading in general, use something like HWInfo if you want to be properly informed imo 

[podkall]

Just now, GOTSpectrum said:

I mean, task manager is misleading in general, use something like HWInfo if you want to be properly informed imo 

Hwinfo is a wall of numbers, task manager has a readable graph of general stuff that I usually look for.

Except temps those I look with Hwmonitor.

[podkall]

@GOTSpectrum another question would be, what if I don't have enough time to finish my WU?

[GOTSpectrum]

15 minutes ago, podkall said:

@GOTSpectrum another question would be, what if I don't have enough time to finish my WU?

I'm not sure I understand? 

[podkall]

9 minutes ago, GOTSpectrum said:

I'm not sure I understand? 

For example if I had 5 hours to complete task and my ETA was 10 hours, can I do something about it or can't?

[GOTSpectrum]

15 minutes ago, podkall said:

For example if I had 5 hours to complete task and my ETA was 10 hours, can I do something about it or can't?

you cannot