Considering to start folding.

[yannickverc]

So I no longer sit on my PC all f**king day and this folding seems like a good task for my PC to do when I'm at work for 10 hours. But I do have questions:

 

- I'm fully aware that letting my PC do heavy tasks for a long time will wear it down, but is it the same kind of wearing down as heavy gaming? (10 hours of gaming where CPU runs at 60 and GPU at 65 <=> 10 hours of folding same temps)

 

- Electricity. My rig is in my signature. (For folding I'd turn off the monitors so those wouldn't use any energy.) Considering I'd let the folding run at 60°C max on both GPU and CPU. (is that even possible?)

 

So yea, those are my questions. For the starter guides I can go take a look in the FAQ page etc.

 

Thanks in advance!

[tobben]

Well... there aren't many specific questions to address here..

 

As for the wear and tear, folding will generally be more taxing than most if not all games 

out there, especially if you are running a powerful gpu on reasonable settings with vsync

on. It will be closer to running a synthetic stress test. That being said. Keep a respectable

temperature < 80*C or so and i wouldn't worry too much about it, your hardware will likely

last you past the upgrade cycle anyway. 

 

If you want a better estimate for power, you could buy a killawatt meter or something similar

that goes in the power socket, from ebay or a local store.

 

Actual cost vary much depends on on the prices in your area/country, they probably aren't

constant either, but a rough estimation would be. How many hours? 10 a day?

365 days.. 10 hours a day . 3650 hours.. how many watts?  500?

3650*0.5 =  1825 kw a year, now take the kw times whatever electricity cost is the rough 

average for you. 1825*0.1154$ = 210 bucks. 

Edited November 17, 2015 by tobben

[yannickverc]

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Thanks for the information! I'll look into it in a bit when I get home. I've been confronted with some of those diseases and I want to help everyone and anything to help. (Currently doing Movember) and This folding thing looked interesting. Because why let my machine sit at home doing nothing while it can help fight that stuff!

[iBeast_M0de]

So I no longer sit on my PC all f**king day and this folding seems like a good task for my PC to do when I'm at work for 10 hours. But I do have questions:

- I'm fully aware that letting my PC do heavy tasks for a long time will wear it down, but is it the same kind of wearing down as heavy gaming? (10 hours of gaming where CPU runs at 60 and GPU at 65 <=> 10 hours of folding same temps)

- Electricity. My rig is in my signature. (For folding I'd turn off the monitors so those wouldn't use any energy.) Considering I'd let the folding run at 60°C max on both GPU and CPU. (is that even possible?)

So yea, those are my questions. For the starter guides I can go take a look in the FAQ page etc.

Thanks in advance!

Don't even consider just do it!

[yannickverc]

Don't even consider just do it!

Yea I'll probably end up doing it!

Could you answer this Q for me? 

-> I see they say how the GPU folding starts when the screensaver is active. But I'd just turn off my monitors to save power etc. Will it still work?

[iBeast_M0de]

Yea I'll probably end up doing it!

Could you answer this Q for me? 

-> I see they say how the GPU folding starts when the screensaver is active. But I'd just turn off my monitors to save power etc. Will it still work?

That will still work I recommend only folding with the GPU since that will give u more PPD/watt and leave the CPU tasks upto 4p systems and laptops.

If ur GPU stats folding when the screensaver is active u have ur folding slider to light instead of medium or full but when u start folding with the GPU only u can let it run even when the screensaver is not active

[yannickverc]

That will still work I recommend only folding with the GPU since that will give u more PPD/watt and leave the CPU tasks upto 4p systems and laptops.

If ur GPU stats folding when the screensaver is active u have ur folding slider to light instead of medium or full but when u start folding with the GPU only u can let it run even when the screensaver is not active

Oh so no CPU & GPU folding at the same time?

[Juggernaught]

No you 

 

Oh so no CPU & GPU folding at the same time?

No, you can fold with both CPU & GPU, but for the amount of power your CPU takes its not worth the PPD you receiver.  Especially compared to your GPU.  

 

For example on my system 5930k and a 980ti I went in and changed my CPU to only use 5 threads instead of 11 (leaving one to help with GPU).  This made a 100 Watt difference in my power consumption.  My CPU averages around 10-20k PPD whereas my GPU bounces from 200-700k depending on work unit.  

 

So really your CPU just doesn't do near as much when compared to your GPU so no reason to run it at 100% especially if you have temperature problems.  With 5 threads on the CPU i am around 47 degrees C with 11 threads I was at 70 degrees C.  GPU at 100% runs at 58-60 degrees C.

[yannickverc]

No you 

 

No, you can fold with both CPU & GPU, but for the amount of power your CPU takes its not worth the PPD you receiver.  Especially compared to your GPU.  

 

For example on my system 5930k and a 980ti I went in and changed my CPU to only use 5 threads instead of 11 (leaving one to help with GPU).  This made a 100 Watt difference in my power consumption.  My CPU averages around 10-20k PPD whereas my GPU bounces from 200-700k depending on work unit.  

 

So really your CPU just doesn't do near as much when compared to your GPU so no reason to run it at 100% especially if you have temperature problems.  With 5 threads on the CPU i am around 47 degrees C with 11 threads I was at 70 degrees C.  GPU at 100% runs at 58-60 degrees C.

So I have 8 threads and if I use 3 of them that would be ok?

[Juggernaught]

You can use 7 if you want.  I don't know how much power your CPU takes, but if you want to see how much F@H costs then get a watt meter like this one.

 

http://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B000RGF29Q?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o09_s00   

[yannickverc]

You can use 7 if you want.  I don't know how much power your CPU takes, but if you want to see how much F@H costs then get a watt meter like this one.

 

http://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B000RGF29Q?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o09_s00   

I can somewhat measure the usage of my GPU and CPU with afterburner no? or is that inacurate AF?

[Juggernaught]

I believe that will give you a percentage of how much of your unit is being utilized, but not sure if it measures wattage (if you care?)  I use afterburner to measure temps that's about it.  

[yannickverc]

I believe that will give you a percentage of how much of your unit is being utilized, but not sure if it measures wattage (if you care?)  I use afterburner to measure temps that's about it.  

I don't need a 100% exact number, just an idea so I can sell this to my parents who pay the electricity haha

[iBeast_M0de]

Oh so no CPU & GPU folding at the same time?

 

Well U could but the diffrence in PPD is 20k-25k tops and it will draw about 70 watts more. I for myself removed the CPU folding slot the other day and the power draw went down from 325 to about 240 because I have my cpu overclocked aswell

 

Ik denk dat je ouders dat wel op prijs stellen ^^

Edited November 17, 2015 by iBeast_M0de

[yannickverc]

Well U could but the diffrence in PPD is 20k-25k tops and it will draw about 70 watts more. I for myself removed the CPU folding slot the other day and the power draw went down from 325 to about 240 because I have my cpu overclocked aswell

Oh nice, good to know! Thanks

[iBeast_M0de]

Oh nice, good to know! Thanks

I would like to give u some pictures but I can't do that at the moment Ill try asap