LTT Official Folding Month V (2022)

[Alex Atkin UK]

1 hour ago, dogwitch said:

power flicker so lost 5 wu... then doing a bit of napkin math. gotten a ton of long and low point wu. normal i do way better with my folding stats.

also dealing with yet another hurricane.

So your case airflow wont be a problem then!   Oh wait, I was thinking of tornadoes.   Ahem, so more water cooling?

[justpoet]

Let's see if PBO can help me any.  There's plenty of temp for it to play with, fans usually not ramped much at all. LOL

[dogwitch]

50 minutes ago, Alex Atkin UK said:

So your case airflow wont be a problem then!   Oh wait, I was thinking of tornadoes.   Ahem, so more water cooling?

more wind the anything else.

 

[Alex Atkin UK]

1 hour ago, justpoet said:

Let's see if PBO can help me any.  There's plenty of temp for it to play with, fans usually not ramped much at all. LOL

I turned PBO off a few days ago as I felt the voltage was a little high and didn't want the hassle of trying to manually adjust the voltage offset.  Plus its so hard to be enthusiastic about another 50K for 50W when the Macbook Pro can get 250K at ~35W.

Speaking of, project 18415 is a beast, 28% complete with 9 hours to go on a 5950X using 8 threads.

[Alex Atkin UK]

Well that was unexpected.

[Senzelian]

2 minutes ago, Alex Atkin UK said:

Well that was unexpected.

I thought about doing this aswell. Maybe order like 5 of them and later send them back. Just for folding. But seemed like a lot of effort  

[BiotechBen]

1 hour ago, Alex Atkin UK said:

Speaking of, project 18415 is a beast, 28% complete with 9 hours to go on a 5950X using 8 threads.

In other good news, yesterday was the first 18454 WU that didn't crash on my 480

[Alex Atkin UK]

10 minutes ago, Senzelian said:

I thought about doing this aswell. Maybe order like 5 of them and later send them back. Just for folding. But seemed like a lot of effort  

It was more the fact the NVIDIA site said "Buy Now" rather than "Out of Stock".  I've literally never seen it say anything other than out of stock as I went through the same song and dance trying to get a 3080 FE last year.

 

With the 4090 though, even though my case says it can take 190mm air coolers, I wasn't confident any of the good AIB models would fit without an uncomfortable bend radius on the adapter and given the (granted limited) reports of melting plugs and the fact the AIBs are all about £200 over their RRP, I'd pretty much come to the conclusion if I couldn't get an FE I'd just have to wait until prices get more sane.

Also interesting that it got added to my Scan account when you have to provide all fresh details on the NVIDIA site.  Maybe because I was already logged in to the Scan site?

Plus the fact its getting warmer for a few days, I was concerned I might have to stop folding on the 3080 or pull its power limit down.

[cbigfoot]

20 minutes ago, Alex Atkin UK said:

Well that was unexpected.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MY RANK!!!!

 

also the Request Cancelation button doesnt work for me  

[Senzelian]

3 hours ago, Alex Atkin UK said:

and the fact the AIBs are all about £200 over their RRP, I'd pretty much come to the conclusion if I couldn't get an FE I'd just have to wait until prices get more sane.

You're already buying a 4090. Nothing sane about that price anyway  

Here in Germany they start from 2100€  

[Ben_F]

Reinforcement has arrived We shall see how many points it will generate 🥹

[BondiBlue]

Update on the overclocked GT 1030: I left it running F@h overnight, and so far so good. It seems to be perfectly stable (for F@h, at least), and the temperatures haven't increased at all. The power consumption only went up about 1 watt, and for that increase my PPD on that card went from 93K to 120K. Now I'll just have to see if that remains the same over time. 

 

Normally I wouldn't even bother folding on such a low end card, but I got this one for free and figured it couldn't hurt to throw it in the mix for folding month. Despite being an incredibly low end card, this thing actually started out life installed in a fancy HP Omen gaming desktop. It was paired with a Ryzen 5 1400 CPU, the oldest and lowest end Ryzen 5 chip from AMD. The GT 1030 was replaced by a brand new Radeon RX 6600 back in May, and the GT 1030 was given to me to do with as I see fit. 

[BondiBlue]

39 minutes ago, Schnoz said:

Woohoo, I traded away my 1080 for a 3070, a Zotac Twin Edge OC thing! (Please excuse the, uh, quite liberal Kryonaut application lol.)

 

It folds and overclocks like an absolute champ too! Nearly 5M PPD, and rock-stable with a huge memory overclock.

Very nice! I don't have a whole lot of experience with GA104-based cards (the only one I've used is the RTX A4000), but I've had a pretty good experience folding on a GA102 (3080). The only thing I don't really like about the 3080 is the massive power consumption (by my standards, that is), and the heat that it puts out because of that power consumption is a bit hard to deal with sometimes. 

 

The temperature in your Afterburner screenshot is quite a bit lower than the 3080 I'm using right now. Does it stay that low under an extended load? If so, that's pretty good. 

[TVwazhere]

On 11/7/2022 at 9:07 AM, TVwazhere said:

@OhBoy

Update. I have dropped from the top 50  

[BiotechBen]

16 minutes ago, BondiBlue said:

Very nice! I don't have a whole lot of experience with GA104-based cards (the only one I've used is the RTX A4000), but I've had a pretty good experience folding on a GA102 (3080). The only thing I don't really like about the 3080 is the massive power consumption (by my standards, that is), and the heat that it puts out because of that power consumption is a bit hard to deal with sometimes. 

 

The temperature in your Afterburner screenshot is quite a bit lower than the 3080 I'm using right now. Does it stay that low under an extended load? If so, that's pretty good. 

I'm currently in need of more watts of heat, after the sun goes down it gets really chilly really fast.

[Senzelian]

1 hour ago, Ben_F said:

Reinforcement has arrived We shall see how many points it will generate 🥹

What's in them? Where did you get this? Can I get these? Will you give them to me? 

[GOTSpectrum]

11 minutes ago, Senzelian said:

Can I get these? Will you give them to me? 

 

[Alex Atkin UK]

5 hours ago, cbigfoot said:

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MY RANK!!!!

 

also the Request Cancelation button doesnt work for me  

I've got some bad news for you.

 

[GOTSpectrum]

5 minutes ago, Alex Atkin UK said:

I've got some bad news for you.

 

I think I will do the same, save up for a high end team green card next year 

 

Will probably be okay with my 1000w psu tbh 

[Senzelian]

19 minutes ago, GOTSpectrum said:

 

[DANK_AS_gay]

On 10/3/2022 at 6:54 PM, GOTSpectrum said:

 minimum requirements: 500k points,

Almost there. I kinda just sorta maybe forgot to sign up using the google form 

I finally built my gaming PC with a 1070 and an i5 10400f

PPD with my Macbook Air = 33,000 points

PPD with PC = 160,000

[LAR_Systems]

Reading this page of posts, I simply have to accept I will not be in the 10 ten by the end of the event pretty much regardless of what I do.

 

I salute you those with sick hardware hookups.

[BiotechBen]

So I found a sick deal on a 2070S, $100 but is throwing weird artifacting. 

 

How close to dead is this card? My only experience with this kind of artifacting is from a Quadro that had Hours of life left and a driver that was like 6yrs old for support.

 

Seller says that the green areas change with boot and sometimes is totally fine, can be fixed with a re-seat.

[GOTSpectrum]

18 minutes ago, BiotechBen said:

So I found a sick deal on a 2070S, $100 but is throwing weird artifacting. 

 

How close to dead is this card? My only experience with this kind of artifacting is from a Quadro that had Hours of life left and a driver that was like 6yrs old for support.

 

Seller says that the green areas change with boot and sometimes is totally fine, can be fixed with a re-seat.

Wack it in the oven!!!

 

jk

[GOTSpectrum]

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