Folding Community Board

[GOTSpectrum]

2 hours ago, Captainmarino said:

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.

 

 

I watched this earlier. 

[GOTSpectrum]

Can anyone help a struggling folding team leader out? Happy to pay a fair price, not the £70 I have seen online. 

 

 

[RollinLower]

Anyone in for some hardware gore?

 

Guess alphacool loop cleaner and a semi-copper radiator don't mix all too well.

[GOTSpectrum]

1 hour ago, RollinLower said:

Anyone in for some hardware gore?

 

Guess alphacool loop cleaner and a semi-copper radiator don't mix all too well.

So pretty!

[RollinLower]

Over an hour of hard scrubbing later and i don't think it's very pretty anymore. 
I think i'm just going to get  an ultrasonic cleaner and hope that  is able to reach in between the microfins on the waterblocks. Because if that fails, i'm going to have to buy all new watercooling for this box.....

[Gorgon]

2 hours ago, RollinLower said:

Over an hour of hard scrubbing later and i don't think it's very pretty anymore. 
I think i'm just going to get  an ultrasonic cleaner and hope that  is able to reach in between the microfins on the waterblocks. Because if that fails, i'm going to have to buy all new watercooling for this box.....

Jayz2cents likes a toohbrush and Crest 3Dwhite toothpaste for cleaning those

 

[Gorgon]

3 hours ago, RollinLower said:

Anyone in for some hardware gore?

 

Guess alphacool loop cleaner and a semi-copper radiator don't mix all too well.

We really need a "eek!" reaction for posts

[RollinLower]

39 minutes ago, Gorgon said:

We really need a "eek!" reaction for posts

yeah i'll be painstakingly taking apart every little bit of watercooling in this server and running it through some vinegar, and then ultrasonic cleaner during the coming week. i hope i'll atleast have it up and running with 1 GPU again after that!

 

43 minutes ago, Gorgon said:

Jayz2cents likes a toohbrush and Crest 3Dwhite toothpaste for cleaning those

 

i took a couple hours today to try cleaning one of the 4070Ti waterblocks, but there are som many nooks and little passageways a toothbrush just isn't going to reach that this is sadly not a 100% viable option.
It did help a bit with the open parts tho.

[HoldSquat]

On 3/9/2024 at 8:47 AM, GOTSpectrum said:

Can anyone help a struggling folding team leader out? Happy to pay a fair price, not the £70 I have seen online. 

 

 

Dang I wish I had the part since I am over in Germany right now -_-

[RollinLower]

Welp, its been a couple days of cleaning but I'm finally starting to see some progress!

 

Too bad for the EK block, which has most of the nickel plating either removed or damaged at this point. The alphacool blocks with their chrome plating took ultrasonic cleaning without issues!

 

[RollinLower]

It's starting to grow on me!

This card has been through some shit, with me cutting up the PCB and now all this. Its a trooper and now it's got the battlescars to prove it.

[Gorgon]

I had one of my dual GPU motherboards fail during Folding month and so had to move the GPUs to my last two remaining spare AM4 motherboards which are Gigabyte Aorus b450m models I picked up for $80Cdn each when they were on Clearance last year.  But these boards are micro ATA (mATX) and thus could only support one GPU each.

 

With the 4080 Supers being better values now I picked up a couple of the Gigabyte Gaming OC models. Being 3.76 Slots wide these big boys fit with just a couple of mm to spare to not overhang the I/O connectors at the bottom of the motherboards. A case swap was also required for one system as the Fractal Define C was too short to accommodate the 342mm GPU length so the guts were transplanted to a spare Fractal Define S.

 

As expected these GPUs are most efficient being at the top of the AD103 stack. One even draws just 3W at idle.

 

 

[RollinLower]

4 hours ago, Gorgon said:

One even draws just 3W at idle.

that's insane!

[RollinLower]

Getting pretty close now!

 

All that's left is the fittings... All 53 of them individually. Not looking forward to this.

[GOTSpectrum]

In the process of replacing my motherboard so I can give my old Ryzen 1700, 16GB RAM, 650W PSU and gtx 1080 to my friends kid. Also got a spare sub 1080p screen they'll use until the friend can grab a more modern screen. (Going to be building this into a system for them, with them providing the left over stuff)

 

Anyway... I'm quite happy with this paste application 

[Gorgon]

1 hour ago, GOTSpectrum said:

In the process of replacing my motherboard so I can give my old Ryzen 1700, 16GB RAM, 650W PSU and gtx 1080 to my friends kid. Also got a spare sub 1080p screen they'll use until the friend can grab a more modern screen. (Going to be building this into a system for them, with them providing the left over stuff)

 

Anyway... I'm quite happy with this paste application

That's one nasty board. I'm still running a Gaming K7 for one of my dual folding rigs

[GOTSpectrum]

26 minutes ago, Gorgon said:

That's one nasty board. I'm still running a Gaming K7 for one of my dual folding rigs

I mean... 

 

I've never had a single problem with it, either with my 1700 or my 5950x

[GOTSpectrum]

2 hours ago, GOTSpectrum said:

In the process of replacing my motherboard so I can give my old Ryzen 1700, 16GB RAM, 650W PSU and gtx 1080 to my friends kid. Also got a spare sub 1080p screen they'll use until the friend can grab a more modern screen. (Going to be building this into a system for them, with them providing the left over stuff)

 

Anyway... I'm quite happy with this paste application 

It's well known the computer gods require a blood sacrifice

 

 

[Gorgon]

Here is a demonstration of the effect of binning on efficiency.

 

 The 4070 Ti Super and 4080 Super are both based on the AD103 die. The 4070 ti super at the bottom of the stack and the 4080 Super at the top. Both working on p18220 we see Yields of 14.5 vs. 17.2MPPD:

 

So here's the kicker:

 

The 4080 Super is drawing less power while running at a lower clock speed and is still out-performing the 4070 ti Super.

[Captainmarino]

Hey @LAR_Systems. Something going on over there?

 

[justpoet]

On 3/13/2024 at 10:41 PM, Gorgon said:

One even draws just 3W at idle.

At the opposite end of the power efficiency spectrum....

...I just ripped a Radeon 480 out of a system being scrapped at the transfer station.  When we get to folding month at the end of the year, I'll have to try to get it going for my first GPU folding ever.  LOL

[Captainmarino]

Oh ! This WU is murder! That's a 6700XT twiddling its thumbs while a 1660S laps it. F@H says it still has 7.5h to complete it and the 6700XT has only completed 9% of the WU. I guess Alzheimer's is really tough on computers and their families as well.

 

[vsteel]

I am very happy, I have hit the top 10.  I don't know as I will keep it for long or ever again, but I have made it at least once.

 

[LAR_Systems]

On 3/19/2024 at 10:32 PM, Captainmarino said:

Hey @LAR_Systems. Something going on over there?

 

Yeah, I was away from home for a week so of course that's when a UPS died in my rack because hardware always knows when I'm gone.

 

Back up as of yesterday, almost all services restored.

[Captainmarino]

3 hours ago, LAR_Systems said:

Yeah, I was away from home for a week so of course that's when a UPS died in my rack because hardware always knows when I'm gone.

 

Back up as of yesterday, almost all services restored.

Note:  it's definitely technology. It's always technology.

 

Thanks for all the hard work you do and the PITA technology you have to deal with on a daily basis