Folding Community Board

[Captainmarino]

12 hours ago, Gorgon said:

Did you sign up again at EVGA or find one elsewhere? I'm still waiting on my notification from November for a 3080 XC Black.

 

Resist the temptation and don't be one of those evil scalpers.

 

I'm waiting for a set of replacement fans for my Gigabyte GTX 1060 6GB and once I have those I'm going to put it up on a local site for $150 which should be a nice present for someone local looking for a GPU to hold them over. I've seen people offering them for $500Cdn locally.

 

I gave up today and picked up a 3950x and a Aorus ax570 Pro WiFi bundle with a $230 discount from a GigaByte promo from a local retailer.

 

The 3950x is going in my ax570 Master and the 2700x that was in the Master is going in the Pro WiFi to replace a Gigabyte x370 SLI and Pentium Gold 5500 in one of the systems.

 

Not much change for Folding but it will help BOINC!

I would love to have a 1060 to fold. My spare card is a R9 280 with a couple of MacGuyver'd up case fans on it. I've been looking around trying to get a GTX 960/970 for $100-$150 but haven't had much luck (aside from sketchy posts).

[Gorgon]

3 hours ago, Captainmarino said:

I would love to have a 1060 to fold. My spare card is a R9 280 with a couple of MacGuyver'd up case fans on it. I've been looking around trying to get a GTX 960/970 for $100-$150 but haven't had much luck (aside from sketchy posts).

Have you looked at this:

 

[Captainmarino]

23 hours ago, Gorgon said:

Have you looked at this:

 

Thanks for the idea. I took a look in the classifieds a little bit ago but haven't been able to reach the 100 posts limit yet. Getting there slowly.

[Gorgon]

2 hours ago, Captainmarino said:

Thanks for the idea. I took a look in the classifieds a little bit ago but haven't been able to reach the 100 posts limit yet. Getting there slowly.

They're in NYC city so same state and they prefer contact via email!

 

Not that I'm trying to encourage someone's hardware habit

[Captainmarino]

21 hours ago, Gorgon said:

They're in NYC city so same state and they prefer contact via email!

 

Not that I'm trying to encourage someone's hardware habit

It's a slippery slope and I'm only wading into the water. I just would like a half decent, "old" card to put to good use and keep out of the landfill. A little efficiency is a bonus over the 280 at the moment

[RollinLower]

so i ran the 6900XT for a bit and then switched it off, and the graph on EOC shows a nearly 4M PPD drop.

this is kinda strange tough, since the card is usually doing about 2.5M PPD on average. The graph was still in an upwards trend after i switched off the 6900XT. i'm pretty curious as to where it would have flattened out now, so i'll probably keep it on for about a month and see what we can get!

 

[cbigfoot]

i shared this in the Sprint page but thought i would share here too

 Sorry guys but I have to post this it’s……so……………beautiful…………….

Spoiler

Yes I know the damn cards worth more than everything in the case in the case & the case combined. 

Spoiler

 

 

[LazyDev]

Just bought an RTX 2070 for £185. It has Code 43, which has to be driver related. Hope it works out for me.

[TVwazhere]

The Banano.cc team is seeing a huge resurgence of farming folders...

 

They're now the first team to beat out active user count, and they're not far off from our declining 24 average. With an unexaggerated trillion points between our totals, they wont overtake anyone anytime soon, but something to note

[Captainmarino]

42 minutes ago, TVwazhere said:

The Banano.cc team is seeing a huge resurgence of farming folders...

 

They're now the first team to beat out active user count, and they're not far off from our declining 24 average. With an unexaggerated trillion points between our totals, they wont overtake anyone anytime soon, but something to note

[Kilrah]

And since we have an event starting soon we'll probably double active users for a while

[TVwazhere]

Ho-lee-shit GTX 1080's are selling on r/hws for $500..... I paid $250 for both of my 1070ti's (each)...

 

After this event I might stop folding full time for a bit. 

[GrockleTD]

6 hours ago, TVwazhere said:

Ho-lee-shit GTX 1080's are selling on r/hws for $500..... I paid $250 for both of my 1070ti's (each)...

 

After this event I might stop folding full time for a bit. 

i've forgotten, when is that?

[Kilrah]

Now

[RollinLower]

3 hours ago, GrockleTD said:

i've forgotten, when is that?

the event has been running since monday, and will end this friday.

i'm afraid you kinda missed the boat on this one.

[TVwazhere]

8 hours ago, GrockleTD said:

i've forgotten, when is that?

Sorry dude, what they said

[GrockleTD]

5 hours ago, TVwazhere said:

Sorry dude, what they said

 

11 hours ago, RollinLower said:

the event has been running since monday, and will end this friday.

i'm afraid you kinda missed the boat on this one.

Oof lol

[Starman57]

On 3/23/2021 at 9:23 AM, RollinLower said:

so i ran the 6900XT for a bit and then switched it off, and the graph on EOC shows a nearly 4M PPD drop.

this is kinda strange tough, since the card is usually doing about 2.5M PPD on average. The graph was still in an upwards trend after i switched off the 6900XT. i'm pretty curious as to where it would have flattened out now, so i'll probably keep it on for about a month and see what we can get!

 

Looks like your 6900xt got a steady diet of Cancer WUs in the 17711-17743 range.  I started a forum thread at FAH about this.  Eventually the FAH attack dog got on and ran what appears an obfuscating, go away scrub dialog.  FAH doesn't see any problem, and AMD won't help them.  It ended with a bunch of FAH angst.  I ended the convo.  If you think that FAH cares, they don't, I guess because mean old AMD won't help them.  If you think that there's equity in results given FPU32 performance, there isn't.

 

These cancer WUs kill 6900xt results.  Yes, the PPD for these WUs are in the 1.6m-1.7m range (there are a few outliers at 1.9m).  Strangely enough, the equivalent WUs done on an Nvidia card don't show the same problematic drop (Lar systems reports them doing 5.6m-6.0m for a 3080).  Oh, and these cancer WU's also kill performance of other AMD GPUs too.  Yes, I have a HD7950 and 5700xt doing folding too.  They both show the same killer drop (my estimation is about 2.5x). Normally the 6900xt sits around the 3rd place spot, behind the 3080.  Ok.  Look at these problematic ones and the 6900xt sits around 18th spot, right behind the 2060.  Ouch.  To put it another way, the 3080 computes these problematic WUs in about 30 minutes.  The 6900xt takes 75 minutes (which is why I'm guessing at around 2.5x).

 

BTW, my tickled 6900xt is doing about 4.5m-5.6m (regularly hitting 5.0m) PPD on various WUs, just so long as it DOESN'T do anything in that problematic cancer WU range.  All the while I'm also folding on the 3950x (edit: now a 5950x) at the same time (love those A8 WUs).  I'm running current 3401 bios on the Asus ROG Crosshair VIII Hero wifi, resizable BAR on (doesn't make any difference as far as I can tell), and Radeon drivers 21.3.2.

 

Of course, YMMV.  So enjoy your Foo Foo Dust PPDs, because they must be pulling them out of fairies backsides for these cancer WUs.

[LazyDev]

Has anyone (Who's lucky enough) noticed if resizable bar support increase folding performance to the GPU? My bios, vbios and drivers were all updated, yet support is still disabled (GPU-z), so I can't see it for myself.

[Starman57]

11 hours ago, LazyDev said:

Has anyone (Who's lucky enough) noticed if resizable bar support increase folding performance to the GPU? My bios, vbios and drivers were all updated, yet support is still disabled (GPU-z), so I can't see it for myself.

I have resizable BAR on my rigs (see GPU-z screenshot below).  As for an increase in folding performance?  I believe I've heard FAH says it doesn't do anything for their application since the memory load from FAH on the GPU isn't that much.  I can't say myself I've seen much of anything in terms of improved performance, but with the varied work these units do, it'll be really hard to find that out unless you manage to process the exact same WU, with and without resizable BAR.

[piratemonkey]

Now that the event is over, I think I'll continue folding, at least for the next little while

[Skiiwee29]

I have officially joined the F@H team this morning. Been meaning to do it for a long time, just never did. Been folding for an hour or so already:

 

[RollinLower]

5 minutes ago, Skiiwee29 said:

I have officially joined the F@H team this morning. Been meaning to do it for a long time, just never did. Been folding for an hour or so already:

 

welcome to your latest moneypit! glad to have ya

[Gorgon]

On 4/4/2021 at 10:48 PM, LazyDev said:

Has anyone (Who's lucky enough) noticed if resizable bar support increase folding performance to the GPU? My bios, vbios and drivers were all updated, yet support is still disabled (GPU-z), so I can't see it for myself.

No. See this thread

[Skiiwee29]

Folding makes my space heater go BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR...

 

 

Green is GPU white CPU. I have my office AC running too