Folding Community Board

[RollinLower]

33 minutes ago, RollinLower said:

no limits set, all settings are stock.

i tried limiting clocks to 2205 aswell but that yielded no PPD, just a bit lower in temps.

 

i did purge the old driver and clean install a the latest one, but i see you are on 525.147, which is quite a bit behind mine at 545. i'll see if downgrading works.

no dice, utilization stays low for some weird reason.

i don't know what else i can try at this point. is there some obscure power setting i'm unaware of in the BIOS of this machine or something? (Supermicro H11, EPYC 7742)

@Gorgonwhat platform are you using?

[Gorgon]

1 hour ago, RollinLower said:

no dice, utilization stays low for some weird reason.

i don't know what else i can try at this point. is there some obscure power setting i'm unaware of in the BIOS of this machine or something? (Supermicro H11, EPYC 7742)

@Gorgonwhat platform are you using?

Mostly on Gigabyte x570 AM4 systems (Master & Pro) with a mix of 3000 and 5000-series R7 and R9 processors (see Signature)

[Favebook]

3 hours ago, RollinLower said:

i don't know what else i can try at this point.

If it's only affecting Nvidia cards, try updating to newest drivers and change these settings in Nvidia Control Panel 3D settings:
- Power management mode

- Texture filtering - Quality

- Threaded optimization

 

If none of those help. Try fiddling with other settings. If even that doesn't help, it's likely WU issues.

[RollinLower]

Just now, Favebook said:

If it's only affecting Nvidia cards, try updating to newest drivers and change these settings in Nvidia Control Panel 3D settings:
- Power management mode

- Texture filtering - Quality

- Threaded optimization

 

If none of those help. Try fiddling with other settings. If even that doesn't help, it's likely WU issues.

i'm running ubuntu server 22.04, so no nvidia-control panel for me

[Gorgon]

9 hours ago, RollinLower said:

i'm running ubuntu server 22.04, so no nvidia-control panel for me

what does nvtop show?

 

About all I can think is the device is thermal throttling but I assUme you've looked for that.

[RollinLower]

3 hours ago, Gorgon said:

what does nvtop show?

 

About all I can think is the device is thermal throttling but I assUme you've looked for that.

honestly thermal throttling should not be possible with the stupid overkill watercooling i put on all these cards.
i'm going to completely deep-clean all the watercooling today regardless. i'll also re-paste and re-mount everything just to rule out thermal issues. core temps where super reasonable, but i don't know if i maybe have a bad VRM mount somewhere?

when i checked on the machine this morning it was doing 20M PPD, which is a bit better but still a lot less than what this hardware should get me.

[Favebook]

42 minutes ago, RollinLower said:

honestly thermal throttling should not be possible with the stupid overkill watercooling i put on all these cards.

Actually, Gorgon may be onto something, it may not be whole card being hot, but just a part of it like VRAMs. This would explain the performance loss.

[RollinLower]

28 minutes ago, Favebook said:

Actually, Gorgon may be onto something, it may not be whole card being hot, but just a part of it like VRAMs. This would explain the performance loss.

It could be, but the timing is just weird then. Why would contact between the block and the card die right when F@H also had server issues?  

 

That being said, deep cleaning is almost done, let's see what this does.

[RollinLower]

Still testing, but so far utilization looks a lot better!

[RollinLower]

 

That's a lot more like it!

[NetoriusNick]

On 2/26/2024 at 10:48 AM, RollinLower said:

It could be, but the timing is just weird then. Why would contact between the block and the card die right when F@H also had server issues?  

 

That being said, deep cleaning is almost done, let's see what this does.

[Gorgon]

Picked up a couple of 4070 Ti Supers to add to the Fold. They appear to be most efficient around 2400MHz.

450W 29MPPD Mini Space Heater:

[mattheginger]

16 hours ago, Gorgon said:

Picked up a couple of 4070 Ti Supers to add to the Fold. They appear to be most efficient around 2400MHz.

450W 29MPPD Mini Space Heater:

Which motherboard are you utilising here @Gorgon?

[Gorgon]

1 hour ago, mattheginger said:

Which motherboard are you utilising here @Gorgon?

An oldie but a goodie - z370 Aorus Gaming 5 with a i9-9900k (remember when we used to think these ran hot?)

[Captainmarino]

Sooooo, it's a bit windy up here.

 

On a different note, I'm an enthusiastic forum-er.

[mattheginger]

19 hours ago, Gorgon said:

a i9-9900k (remember when we used to think these ran hot?)

It was a simpler time... 

 

[BondiBlue]

For the first time in quite some time I've added a new card to my collection of F@h cards. This time it's a reference GTX 980, and it seems to be folding very well. It's a Maxwell card, so the PPD is quite low compared to everything else I'm running, but that's alright for me. I mostly just like the look of those older reference cards. 

[GOTSpectrum]

1 minute ago, BondiBlue said:

For the first time in quite some time I've added a new card to my collection of F@h cards. This time it's a reference GTX 980, and it seems to be folding very well. It's a Maxwell card, so the PPD is quite low compared to everything else I'm running, but that's alright for me. I mostly just like the look of those older reference cards. 

I had a palit 980ti and it was ridiculously large, 3 slots deep and massive, it ran passive even when gaming most of the time

[BondiBlue]

3 minutes ago, GOTSpectrum said:

I had a palit 980ti and it was ridiculously large, 3 slots deep and massive, it ran passive even when gaming most of the time

I'd like to build out a collection of reference/founders edition cards. Aside from my Quadros this 980 is the only one I own that isn't a 3rd party design. Even some of my OEM cards (2070, 2070S) are based on reference designs, but they have custom shrouds.

 

The 980 Ti was a damn nice card for the time. I never owned one myself, but I knew plenty of people who did, and I always heard good things about it. 

[GOTSpectrum]

1 minute ago, BondiBlue said:

I'd like to build out a collection of reference/founders edition cards. Aside from my Quadros this 980 is the only one I own that isn't a 3rd party design. Even some of my OEM cards (2070, 2070S) are based on reference designs, but they have custom shrouds.

 

The 980 Ti was a damn nice card for the time. I never owned one myself, but I knew plenty of people who did, and I always heard good things about it. 

The thing about 980tis is their price plummeted after pascal, but if you are like me and only play indie games, old games or low fidelity stuff the 980ti was a beast of a card for the prices they were available at. I had mine from like mid cycle 900 series.

 

Then when 10 series came out I got a 1080 which I kept as my main gaming card until I got the 4070ti 

[Baha]

I don't usually post too much about fussing around with my PCs, but after moving to a new apartment last year and realizing I needed to downsize my home server, CoffeeBox, I finally finished the project! I'd like to share because I'm really happy with how it came out, and it's where most of my folding gets done.

This was the previous chassis, a Fractal Define 7 XL. It sat in my entryway and was fine in the winter (the cables were managed after this photo was taken to not be a tripping hazard), but in the summer the lack of insulation for the entryway resulted in the hard drives running over max temperature threshold. This resulted in me moving it, and led to the moment during the November folding event where the washing machines shook screws out of it and caused a short.



This box pulls a few different duties -- it runs a media server, a bunch of game servers, a discord bot, my personal website, holds backups, acts as a NAS, and runs compute projects for me. Notably, none of these really require the big box, I only went with it because it gave me lots of slots to throw old GPUs in, which has been proving increasingly expensive as electricity prices around here keep going up. It'd be cheaper in the long run for me to just downsize to a more power efficient solution. Between the need for a smaller box, wanting less power consumption, and recent back-to-back boot drive failures (thank you Samsung for your repeated faulty SSD batches, two dead 970 Pros at less than 10% of their TBW rating)...



CoffeeBox 2.0! Roughly a quarter of the size (23.5% of the volume, or 28% with the drive enclosure), faster, quieter, and more power efficient. I kept the same drives, memory, and CPU (Which had recently been upgraded from an i7-8700k when 13th gen had a brief price crash due to 14th gen releasing), but swapped out basically everything else. The most noteworthy migration was from 2x2060s and 1x1080 to a single 4070 Ti super, which should just about triple GPU compute performance at half the power consumption before tuning! It's still on a UPS, but that now sits further away from the machine.



CPU: Intel i9-13900k (power limited)
GPU: MSI 4070 Ti Super Ventus 3X
Motherboard: ASRock Z790 PG-ITX/TB4
RAM: 64GB G.Skill Trident Z5 DDR5-6000
PSU: Corsair SF750
Cooler: Noctua NH-U12A
Chassis: Cooler Master NR200
Drive Enclosure: Sabrent 10-Bay DS-UCTB
Storage: 7x WD Red Plus 12TB, 1x WD Black 8TB, 2x WD SN850x redundant boot drives

Now I just need to figure out if I'm going to wait a few weeks for my linux distro to release a driver that actually SUPPORTS the 4070 Ti Super, or if I'm going to be impatient and add a repo for it...

[Captainmarino]

Feel free to watch the whole thing as, for math nerds, it's quite interesting, but for all you BOINC fans out there.... skip ahead to 19:00.

 

 

[TVwazhere]

53 minutes ago, Captainmarino said:

for math nerds

My head fucking hurts, but I still found it interesting

[Captainmarino]

1 minute ago, TVwazhere said:

My head fucking hurts, but I still found it interesting

Amen, brother. Reminded me of how I felt taking calc IV & V 

[RollinLower]

welp, that's a new one for me:
 

15:46:25:WARNING:WU05:FS02:Exception: Failed to send results to work server: 10002: Received short response, expected 512 bytes, got 0

 

it connected to a second server and uploaded just fine tho.