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What happened to my PPD?

Hello Everyone, 

 

About 2 years ago I got in to folding at home and was really into it for a while (got into the top 10 folders on the LTT team), but I moved out and had to start paying for my own power bills, so had to give it up. 

 

But now I'm back (don't have to pay for power any more and its coming up to winter and folding turns my rig into a great room heater), and have noticed something weird. 

 

When I first started folding (2 years ago) my main rig with a 2600K and 2 GTX680's was getting around 220,000 PPD, now the same rig is only getting an average of around 65,000 PPD. 

 

I have gone in and set the client types as advanced but it has not increased my PPD.

 

Has folding at home gotten harder in the past few years or am I missing something? 

 

Thanks 

 

-ces160

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If the WU is less than 3% completed, the ETA is set to the maximum amount of time you have to complete it, and so the PPD estimate is off because of that. You can check the actual completion in the log :)

 

Edit:Just realised that this isn't the issue you're having :/

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If the WU is less than 3% completed, the ETA is set to the maximum amount of time you have to complete it, and so the PPD estimate is off because of that. You can check the actual completion in the log :)

 

Edit:Just realised that this isn't the issue you're having :/

Hey thanks for the info.

 

Yeah, I'm not sure what's going on. 

 

Perhaps folding at home get harder as more and more people fold, kinda like bit coin. 

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Hey thanks for the info.

 

Yeah, I'm not sure what's going on. 

 

Perhaps folding at home get harder as more and more people fold, kinda like bit coin. 

 

Drivers are made for newer cards so the older cards with the newer drivers will be less optimized for folding on older gpu's. Just make sure you have that driver since you had that 220K points.

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Are you running core 15's on those gpu's?

Alternativly it could be a driver issue. 
 

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What drivers are you on? 347.88 has a major performance hit due to a place forcing them to make a "power saving" driver, try 347.52 or 347.09.

 

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Drivers are made for newer cards so the older cards with the newer drivers will be less optimized for folding on older gpu's. Just make sure you have that driver since you had that 220K points.

Thanks I will look into an older driver and see how it goes.

 

Are you running core 15's on those gpu's?

Alternativly it could be a driver issue. 

 

I'm not sure what you mean by core 15's, looked it up and there was some talk of GPU3 and OpenMM but I don't really understand.

Any suggestions for optimal settings I should try to maximise PPD?

 

 

What drivers are you on? 347.88 has a major performance hit due to a place forcing them to make a "power saving" driver, try 347.52 or 347.09.

Thanks, I will gives these ones a go first.

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You need to go into advanced control by right clicking on the F@H icon under the arrow thingy bottom right in windows.

There you need to select one of the gpu slots and  on the right you'll see a list of stats and stuff.

Look for FahCore and it'll say 0x15 for core 15 and 0x17 for 17 and so on. 

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You need to go into advanced control by right clicking on the F@H icon under the arrow thingy bottom right in windows.

There you need to select one of the gpu slots and  on the right you'll see a list of stats and stuff.

Look for FahCore and it'll say 0x15 for core 15 and 0x17 for 17 and so on. 

Oh OK Yeah, I just had a look and the one that is currently folding is a 0x17 with an estimated PPD of 40K.

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Oh OK Yeah, I just had a look and the one that is currently folding is a 0x17 with an estimated PPD of 40K.

Have you entered a passkey that qualifies for QRB though? 

It might just be that you are just getting the base credit for the

wu and no bonus points. Also remember, different core potentially

different point scheme and different ppd. There is a big difference

between a core 15 with no QRB and a core 17 with QRB for 

example. 

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Oh OK Yeah, I just had a look and the one that is currently folding is a 0x17 with an estimated PPD of 40K.

 

install these drivers https://app.box.com/s/s6vd9ppuwrcwhd1t61yoy8hispukg1b6tell me later you're ppd it is to low for a 690.

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