LTT Official Folding Month V (2022)

[BiotechBen]

19 minutes ago, rkv_2401 said:

Yeah - my laptop's fan died literally the morning of the first day of the recent Folding sprint and I almost ended up not qualifying for it.

I decided to use my Plex server laptop to fold as well, and not sure when it happened, but the whimpy fan no longer spins to full speed, so it's now an open air device.

[GOTSpectrum]

2 minutes ago, BiotechBen said:

I decided to use my Plex server laptop to fold as well, and not sure when it happened, but the whimpy fan no longer spins to full speed, so it's now an open air device.

I try to keep spares of things like that 

[BiotechBen]

15 minutes ago, GOTSpectrum said:

I try to keep spares of things like that 

I think full speed on it is something like 6k rpm, it only goes to about 3k now even though it's set to "full speed" in the limited bios. In all fairness: it would spin to max at random, and sounded annoyingly like my tinnitus.

 

Edit: highest temps I've seen on open air have been 58.6C

[YoungBlade]

21 hours ago, iIzzTheWiz said:

Sorry, I'm confused. How would folding heat your room?

I have two computers that I'm using for folding. One is my main system with a Ryzen 9 5900X and RTX 2060 Super. The other is my secondary system with an i5 9600K and RX 580. I do undervolt and power limit all of the parts to be more efficient and easier on the components, but even then the two computers draw around 350W of power combined when folding. Over a 24 hour period, that's the equivalent of running a 1500W space heater for 5.6 hours - which is about how long I used to run one to keep my room warm anyway.

 

So basically, I'm not adding any extra electricity usage, but I'm still donating that electricity and computing time to a good cause.

[Favebook]

I am looking for inspiration for multiple GPU folding rigs. Anyone keen on sharing pictures of 3+ cards in their rigs? I'd love to see some!

[rkv_2401]

21 hours ago, iIzzTheWiz said:

Sorry, I'm confused. How would folding heat your room?

Depends on how much power your computer uses, my 90W 1660Ti mobile can't heat up anything but itself lol

[cbigfoot]

8 minutes ago, Favebook said:

I am looking for inspiration for multiple GPU folding rigs. Anyone keen on sharing pictures of 3+ cards in their rigs? I'd love to see some!

@Gorgonyour time to shine

[Gorgon]

10 minutes ago, Favebook said:

I am looking for inspiration for multiple GPU folding rigs. Anyone keen on sharing pictures of 3+ cards in their rigs? I'd love to see some!

5 RTX 2070 Super Hybrids & RTX 2080

 

A mix of Pascal and Turing:

 

Note that I don't run my mining chassis anymore. It's a real PITA when the download bug hits as you have to keep reloading the client and reverting all the GPUs to their last checkpoint every time one GPU gets stuck and I'd rather have multiple discreet systems as it gives me more threads for BOINC.

 

See the "Bifrost" link in my Sig.

 

@Shlouski and @LazyDev currently run +3 GPUs in their Rigs.

[dogwitch]

37 minutes ago, YoungBlade said:

I have two computers that I'm using for folding. One is my main system with a Ryzen 9 5900X and RTX 2060 Super. The other is my secondary system with an i5 9600K and RX 580. I do undervolt and power limit all of the parts to be more efficient and easier on the components, but even then the two computers draw around 350W of power combined when folding. Over a 24 hour period, that's the equivalent of running a 1500W space heater for 5.6 hours - which is about how long I used to run one to keep my room warm anyway.

 

So basically, I'm not adding any extra electricity usage, but I'm still donating that electricity and computing time to a good cause.

spec of pc on my profile. i pull 850 watts under full load. can hit 1000 watts. said pc is in its own room with windows open.

[cbigfoot]

@Shlouski Watch your 6 I know you will kick my @$$ Later but im about to run you over…OHH look at my rank it’s NICE!!

[Alex Atkin UK]

1 hour ago, cbigfoot said:

@Shlouski Watch your 6 I know you will kick my @$$ Later but im about to run you over…OHH look at my rank it’s NICE!!

I need a 4090 STAT!  I think I only lost 2 places from the last event and managed to climb back a place, trying to get back to 50th in the group but I suspect staying there is going to be hard.

 

Is there a way to pull the project list from F@H or LAR to integrate it into my monitoring script?

[cbigfoot]

1 hour ago, Alex Atkin UK said:

I need a 4090 STAT!  I think I only lost 2 places from the last event and managed to climb back a place, trying to get back to 50th in the group but I suspect staying there is going to be hard.

 

Is there a way to pull the project list from F@H or LAR to integrate it into my monitoring script?

Tomorrow you should be 50th…

[BiotechBen]

Just saw a 570 4gb for $80, and a 1070 for $155. is there a big hit to folding at non-x16 vs x16?

[vsteel]

Just about ready to start the event and I think I lost my 2080.   It seems to run a desktop OK but any kind of folding or stress like furmark and it dies in about a second.  I am going to try swapping it into another system to make sure it isn't the power supply but I don't have a lot of hope.

[Shlouski]

5 hours ago, Gorgon said:

See the "Bifrost" link in my Sig.

 

@Shlouski and @LazyDev currently run +3 GPUs in their Rigs.

 

@Favebook

 

I have the most ugly DIY setups ever.

 

View the pictures at your own risk, and I am not responsible for any injuries 

 

As I live on a small Island it is very difficult to get hold of anything out of the norm, getting anything unusual or specialized is a pain in the butt, and to make things worse many venders on the mainland don't like shipping here due to many customs and tax issues. The solutions are, to get lucky sometimes, overpay, or DIY something if possible.

 

I can't find server frames to sale, so I have made my own in the garage. I can't find any server cases that would be able to hold more than 1 or 2 gpu's, so I made my own.

 

Originally I made this case to go in my server rack, but I ended up putting it on a different breaker in a spare bathroom that isn't used anymore. The case used to have 3 industrial pc fans that went behind the dust filters on the front of the case, these pushed the air out of a large vent on the rear where the tube is now attached, I have made it so I can switch easily switch between the tubing and the vent in case I want to mount it back in the rack.

 

Now the case has no fans, just a centrifugal fan that draws air though the case and straight out of the window. Please forgive the lack a cable management, pretty much the only place to put them is where they are, they are tied down so they don't move, I also had to mount a second psu on the back so I can run all the cards at full power if I wish. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Mxyzptlk]

6 hours ago, Favebook said:

I am looking for inspiration for multiple GPU folding rigs. Anyone keen on sharing pictures of 3+ cards in their rigs? I'd love to see some!

Example of mine in a link on my signature. Although the pics are a bit dated, the ‘mining’ chassis (never mined a day in my life) has a 3070ti, 3070, and a 3060ti at the moment. 

[BiotechBen]

So it looks like my 480 doesn't like extra juice available while gaming, but will happily take a +10% power limit boost for folding.

[Shlouski]

@Favebook

 

I also have a system with 3x 6600 xt's, 2x 1050's, and a 6650 xt. This system uses a mining motherboard and pcie 1x risers.

 

Fortunately it seems that these cards are not adversely affected by the lack of pice lanes and score around the average ppd according to lars's database, scoring over 6 million ppd. 

 

 

Hopefully this week I will get the parts I need to finish another 5 gpu rig using bifurcated risers like the ones in my bathroom rig. 

[justpoet]

2 hours ago, vsteel said:

Just about ready to start the event and I think I lost my 2080.   It seems to run a desktop OK but any kind of folding or stress like furmark and it dies in about a second.  I am going to try swapping it into another system to make sure it isn't the power supply but I don't have a lot of hope.

Thermals ok?  Could be a paste issue or memory heat issue if the TIM gave it up.

[GOTSpectrum]

42 minutes ago, justpoet said:

Thermals ok?  Could be a paste issue or memory heat issue if the TIM gave it up.

It could also be a VRM issue, when it hits a higher p-state the card would turn on more power stages and that could be where the issue is 

[Shlouski]

7 hours ago, cbigfoot said:

@Shlouski Watch your 6 I know you will kick my @$$ Later but im about to run you over…OHH look at my rank it’s NICE!!

 

Nice, I'm generous guy so I will give you a head start 

 

I think there's a good chance I'm going to have my butt kicked in this event.

[gravitywave]

I signed up, will be my first event!

[Alex Atkin UK]

8 hours ago, cbigfoot said:

Tomorrow you should be 50th…

And thus it was so:

 

There's just something about being in the top 50 that puts a smile on your face.

[TVwazhere]

13 hours ago, Favebook said:

I am looking for inspiration for multiple GPU folding rigs. Anyone keen on sharing pictures of 3+ cards in their rigs? I'd love to see some!

Mad lad @LazyDev

 

And the hot second ITNOS had three cards in it, before the 970 + 750ti were replaced with a second 1070ti

[vsteel]

6 hours ago, justpoet said:

Thermals ok?  Could be a paste issue or memory heat issue if the TIM gave it up.

Yea, they seem to be good.  a cold card can have a crash very quickly, it would have to have really given up totally. 

5 hours ago, GOTSpectrum said:

It could also be a VRM issue, when it hits a higher p-state the card would turn on more power stages and that could be where the issue is 

I figure if I verify that it is 100% the video card I will take it apart and see if there is something I can replace.

 

My best hope at this point is I have a bad power supply.