They changed their naming scheme not that long ago. What we use to thing was coming out which was the 360 and the 380 are now the 470 and 480.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kingcarcas
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They changed their naming scheme not that long ago. What we use to thing was coming out which was the 360 and the 380 are now the 470 and 480.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kingcarcas
http://i49.tinypic.com/20ql269.jpg
CPU: Athlon X2
GPU: GB GTX280 Stock Clocks
Driver version 196.21
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2682/...06c6af8b_o.png
How does your GTX 260 get more PPD than your GTX 280?Quote:
Originally Posted by erikmorgan
And guess who's back up and folding!!! I'm now running my PS3 and my I7 920 24/7 getting around 12k ppd and that's without bonus points for my I7 which just completed it's 10th unit so I should be getting them soon.
I get quite good PPD on my BFG GTX260 H2Oc (192cores):
http://i2.sqi.sh/s_1/1KL/fahmon.png
How are you guys getting 8k+ on your GTX260s? What specs can you tell me. :p: My GTX260-216 is doing 6k.
here's my GPU stuff:
Until GTX590 the 560 is a pretty nice card for some ppd madness.
Attachment 112742
GB 560ti soc @ 1075/2508 1.05v (air)
Code:Projekt : 6805
Core : GPU3 OpenMM
Frames : 100
Gutschrift : 1280 Punkte
-- GTX560Ti SOC --
Minimale Frame-Dauer : 59s - 18744.41 ppd
Gemittelte Frame-Dauer : 4mn 15s - 4336.94 ppd
Aktuelle Frame-Dauer : 1mn 01s - 18129.84 ppd
L3F-Frame-Dauer : 1mn 00s - 18432.00 ppd
Effektive Frame-Dauer : 1mn 00s - 18432.00 ppd
Still don't have data on 6801, even though the card already crunched through some of them... :shrug:Code:Projekt : 6800
Core : GPU3 OpenMM
Frames : 100
Gutschrift : 1298 Punkte
-- GTX560Ti SOC --
Minimale Frame-Dauer : 1mn 12s - 15576.00 ppd
Gemittelte Frame-Dauer : 4mn 15s - 4397.93 ppd
Aktuelle Frame-Dauer : 1mn 14s - 15155.03 ppd
L3F-Frame-Dauer : 1mn 14s - 15155.03 ppd
Effektive Frame-Dauer : 1mn 13s - 15362.63 ppd
Aaaaaaaand that's it. Today the card chirped once while folding and went dark. Rebooting, reseating, different slot, nothing works. I think it went poof, so I RMA'd it. Awesome. I'm getting faster at killing hardware.
@P2501... that was some damn nice production on that card till you killed it:rofl:
Hope you have better luck with your replacement
With an i7 930, GTX 260 SuperClocked, and a 460 Hawk, I pull ~25K PPD
With my 3 480's and a 470 i would get about 65k ppd but i cannot leave it on most of the day coz my dad would turn it off.
Well it won't run at 1075 for sure because with the added extra card which is incoming I won't have any room left to slap on that Thermalright Shaman this time. But I think that's okay anyway, less volts means lower utility bill. :up:Quote:
Originally Posted by INFRNL
(currently breaking her in with 1025 @ 1.000v)
So basically.... wait, you are running bigadv or aren't you?! :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by ScottALot
Nice number anyway! =)
You seriously need to lock your dad out of your room. And you need to educate him on the wonders that electrical heating can work in cold winter nights. And on Fah, of course. :up:Quote:
Originally Posted by TJ TRICHEESE
Sounds like a plan :DQuote:
Originally Posted by p2501
Oh and if he asks about summer time, well isn't summer all about being OUT of the house, barbeque, pool time, sleeping under the stars etc.?! :rofl::ROTF:Quote:
Originally Posted by TJ TRICHEESE
On my 5830 with a new core16 WU's and I'm getting around 7200 ppd. With my SMP folding I was at the most getting like 3200 ppd depending on the WU, so this is a definite improvement.
I just run that GPU tracker thing... makes it nice and easy, like using a Mac.Quote:
Originally Posted by p2501
Me likes the new client - works nicely and seems to be a bit more efficient.
480 GTX 800/1900 MHZ | AM2+ 965 @3.4 GHZ
http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/8...dingclient.png
Too bad these 2 little babies won't fit into the cruncher's case :(
http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/2...ingmonster.jpg
This is my current production.
Sandy under water 4.8GHz @1.46volts + oldie RipJaws 1866 7-8-7-21 1.6volts
Attachment 114060
GTX580 Lightning 975MHz core /1150MHz memory @ 1.62volts
Attachment 114059
Pretty conservative for a Lightning type card I know. Might go for 1GHz+, but I dunno yet what volts that'll need to be stable. Fan at auto, the card never went above 71°C. Amaaaazing what MSI built here. :up:
Whole system is running on an Antec HighCurrent 1200. Got that one for little extra moneys from their very friendly RMA dept in exchange for an defective SG-850.
That's an amazing amount of PPD for a single CPU.
How come you're not running the v7 client for your CPU?
Thanks a lot, you have a very nice production yourself! :up:Quote:
Originally Posted by [-Stash-]
On CPU I'm running the v6 client (-bigadv) to be able to run it with -smp 7. That way one can sort the processes so you can max out both GPU and CPU. v7 is more modern and downloads new units while still folding which is nice and all but I don't like the way it enforces -smp 8. But this is not the official way to run things so I'm not encouraging anyone to try it. You maybe trash a 10xxx unit this way since they don't like uneven thread counts. If you get one of these units. Once in a year. Or at all. :rofl::ROTF:
I'm sorry I'm just venting about some blockheads over at fahforums.
Edit: Did I mention that the Lightning also went poof? It pink screened on me while folding, with nicely colored squares everywhere on the following boots. I already RMA'd it with an replacement incoming tomorrow. I should set up an GPU graveyard sig.
Thanks for the explain - did you just test around yourself to find that -smp 7 works best with a GPU going as well?
Also, are you just really unlucky with GPUs or are a lot of these going "poof" at the moment with v7?
That was a long time ago, when the fah forum on XS was still a bit more active. Back then we fiddled around with different solutions of thread sorting for concurrent smp/gpu folding. So no it's not my achievement, it was us all. :up:Quote:
Originally Posted by [-Stash-]
No it's just me, v7 in the end is nothing but an updated frontend to one and the same fahcore (15/16). When I started GPU folding I just had two 9600GSOs, those were real stable cards. But then I went through several 295's (5 I think, all ran a while and then started throwing errors on 1 GPU), 275's (2 bad clockers), 480's (2, both awesome cards but had to sell them back then), 570's (2, both with low PPD bug, sent back/RMA'd), now this is my 2nd GTX580 (1st one broken). So I don't really have a good track record with GPUs. :p:Quote:
Originally Posted by [-Stash-]
The new Lightning likes to clock with less volts than the old one though:
Attachment 114269
Sidenote: You putting quotes around poof made me think and I checked what dict.cc had to say about it. Woah, besides noting a sudden occurrence it's got something to do with gay folks. Lol, here I was thinking it was a way of saying something exploded, popped, went funny/broke etc. Did anyone here say English was not my first language?! :rofl::ROTF:
I think that might be the problem - at least your new one looks very good on 1.093v.Quote:
Originally Posted by p2501
My 580 has default 1.08v and is running now at 835/1670 on 1.10v under a EK waterblock @ 39c
Current PPD on a 6806 is 17270.
Hmh it it might have been the problem, but Lightning type cards are prepared to go up to 1.35v without any modding, the damn card has more phases than the power section for my CPU! Why would there be the same limitation as for standard cards, going above 1.15v equals danger, that is? If that holds true then buying them would be kind of senseless. Or might it be the chip itself which does not agree to that much voltage over longer periods?Quote:
Originally Posted by Russ_64
Hmmmmm, watercooling. I soooo wish there was a fullcover block for my card. What's a 6806 unit btw?! Never had them. :shrug:Quote:
Originally Posted by Russ_64
Here's a quick snapshot:
http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/299/fahppd.png
Hmm am getting a score of below 10000 PPD, using the 480 GTX so am wondering if that is normal or too low, I am using the latest drivers maybe that's the problem... I did notice that the PPD on my Linux Client runs at 14000, with a much greater Credit.... for some reason it does not run though, it just stays at Update_Core... so am gonna try it on my Hackintosh to see if their is any differences..... Ill let you guys know...
^^ WOW amazing differences between drivers, I was using the Latest WHQL Certified and I was getting close to 9000 PPD with a 480 GTX now that am using the Latest BETA am getting 29000 PPD what a difference!! :shocked: Peeps if you are folding with Nvidia GPUs avoid GeForce 306.97 Driver and go for a BETA they are better! :D
On just my machine im at around 12000. I have this installed on about 20 others though so I should be higher than I currently am, I may go through tomorrow and see why its not higher.
Something happen? Youve been down for like 2 days mate..Quote:
Originally Posted by davidkozat
I only know cause im creeping on you lol, i felt like trying to compete since you and I were getting around the same numbers :( then you went dead for 2 days
Hot Dog!Quote:
Originally Posted by Gimmpy224
50k at 7pm, ill take it!
I went and checked the NVIDIA drivers, and they have 310.70 WHQL posted. I upgraded to those and didn't see any lift from my GTX460 or GTX260 :(Quote:
Originally Posted by davidkozat
LOL I am normally Folding with my 480 GTX and using the 275 GTX for normal use, but lately I ve needed the GPUs including MacBook to do some bruteforcing sorry will be back F@H tonight!! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Gimmpy224
Yeah, I need to get more clients running on more of my managed machines lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by davidkozat
So far I think 50k is my limit lol
I am only using my PC and MacBook/Hackintosh.... I top 40K PPD... so dont expect a real competitive fight.. :D
I know that it has been awhile since I have posted here, but I have been chugging along. Recently I acquired a i7 and may need configure it for more points. Either way, you should notice a jump in points. :)
Awesome dude :D
Yeah, I kinda wish I would have kept my F@H running over the 5 years I dissapeared from the forums.Quote:
Originally Posted by texnofobix
:(
started yesterday folding.
1 x i7-3930K + 4 x GPUs
http://www.pbase.com/andrease/image/...2/original.jpg
rgds,
Andy
Quote:
Originally Posted by Andreas
Damn!! That's some setup!! Lol :clap:
updating PPD...
"Tuned" the cards with EVGA's tool.
Increased speed of fans from 60% to 80%. (85% is max)
Kept max TDP at 100% and temp at 80% for stability
http://www.pbase.com/andrease/image/...0/original.jpg
Andy
Jesus:clap:Quote:
Originally Posted by Andreas
... updating ...
changed max temp from 80 to 90 degrees.
changed max TDP to 104%
http://www.pbase.com/andrease/image/...9/original.jpg
Andy
This is a different system.
Only 2 GPU cards used, but dual socket motherboard.
Due to a better thermal budget, both GPUs are oc'd.
Themperature is 53 Celsius for the CPUs and 60/70 for the GPU's.
PPD is in the same ballpark as the previous system.
http://www.pbase.com/andrease/image/...6/original.jpg
rgds,
Andy
I bet those systems electric bill is gonna be high too! :D
I wish mine would work on my GPU.
It refuses to use it past 30% of its ability
as would be expected from titan, those are some pretty impressive ppd, but as davidkozat said I wouldn't want to have to pay that electric bill lol. I just got back from my deployment and updated to the latest NVidia drivers and F@H software version. loaded it up and added the GPUs and they seem to be working like a charm. I decreased the CPU dedication to cores down to 75% (so the other 25% can be dedicated to the GPUs) and seem to be pushing 85-95k ppd (up from about 30-35k with just the CPU previously). won't have a good average until I can let my PC run without touching it for a few days. I also want to experiment with how much CPU I dedicate to folding (with regards to the rest pushing to the GPUs) to get the best ppd. I'm water cooling my CPU and 690, so I have the 690 boosted to over 1200 MHz. haven't OCed the 3930 yet (should be installing the indigo xtreme this weekend), but will have it OCed soon as well. will update as i have more info...
Interesting perspective ...
The care about electricity and overclocking (which has the "highest" diminishing marginal utility).
If we would flip the benchmark metric around, what would be your PPD/watt ?
Mine would be: 315 PPD /watt
perhaps that is my problemQuote:
Originally Posted by bds71
My i7 920 is oc'd at 3.0 atm and I have it set to 100% while my GPU a 5850 and doesnt seem to use more than 30% of itself (and im not sure if thats even F@H).
So if I decrease the CPU that will allow the GPU to gain more?
Cause it looks like my GPU is running a seperate protein atm.
Also electricity doesnt matter to me as it is a tax write off :)
Also my current main Rig only gets 11k at max.
The only reason im at 47k avg is because I have about 20 machines running it (most are just old core 2's, 3 are i5's)
that could very well be an issue. in a previous post I noted that my old 965E put out just as much PPD as it did when I was also running a GTX285 (sometimes, disabling the 285 actually INCREASED PPD!!). remember: it takes CPU cycles to push data to the GPU, so you're starving the GPU by running the CPU at 100%. but, not only that, every time you have to push data to the GPU you also have to interrupt what the CPU is doing - lowering it's performance as well. by decreasing the CPU to 75-80% you are effectively allocating that CPU performance to pushing data to the GPUs. how much is needed? I have no idea, that's why I want to run some tests to see. I know I set my CPU usage to 80% and it was still running at 98-100%Quote:
perhaps that is my problem
My i7 920 is oc'd at 3.0 atm and I have it set to 100% while my GPU a 5850 and doesnt seem to use more than 30% of itself (and im not sure if thats even F@H).
So if I decrease the CPU that will allow the GPU to gain more?
OCing a 3930 and a GTX690 results in about +220W power draw (above stock) which equals about 52$/mo (GE) and 9.50$/mo (US). is it worth it? that's entirely up to the individual :) note: power draw numbers were taken from varying reviews across the webQuote:
Interesting perspective ...
The care about electricity and overclocking (which has the "highest" diminishing marginal utility).
so I crunched some numbers:
24*30=720 hrs/mo
stock/OC 3930 = 250/400W
stock/OC 690 = 270/340W
stock/OC system power draw = 630/850W
Germany: .33 $/1kW/1hr = 237$/mo (850W = 202$/mo)
US: .06 $/1kw/1hr = 43$/mo (850W = 37$/mo)
as you can see, things are a bit different here in Germany (about 5-6x the US). while its not enough to make me shy away from folding (or make purchases based on power consumption rather than performance desires) it is enough to say it matters. (it just doesn't matter enough to make me stop :) )
With these high energy prices in countries like Germany the OC argument for folding makes even less "economic" sense if the intention is to contribute for extended periods. That's why a metric like PPD/Watt would potentially help guide some guys in their choices to make.Quote:
Originally Posted by bds71
From a folding perspective, taken your 220W increase in power draw as a base:
Option 1) OC the existing rig, take the 220W hit and get how much % as PPD improvement? probably less than 20%
Option 2) Keep your system at stock frequencies. Get an additional 660 Ti which will take about 120W when folding and gives you an almost 50% PPD increase vs. your GTX 690.
Cheers,
Andy
Being nosy here...
Anyone got data on ppd from the beta of the future planned open-cl folding? http://proteneer.com/blog/?p=1767
Posted yesterday OpenCL FAHBench numbers for GTX Titan
http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.ph...23440&start=45
Check the first post of this thread for an overview of different GPUs
FAHBench 1.1.1
Asus GTX Titan, 836 MHz, 1502 MHz, Driver 314.21 Beta (OpenCL support for Kepler)
OpenCL SP:
Explicit: 22.7123 ns/day
Implicit: 105.202 ns/day
@ 1097 MHz / 1565 MHz
Explicit: 29.1657 ns/day
Implicit: 136.409 ns/day
According to other sources on the web, the Titan & Cuda is above 210 ns/day
http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=1881311
Andy
I reduced my cpu to 6 cores instead of 8, and to 92% usage. Seems to have up'd my ppd some but not much as my damn GPU is still sitting at 32% and my proc is at 85-90%.
The part im not understanding is why this is so, im showing a pretty even distribution between the 3 gpu cores (single card) with the Vram on the card at ~15% used....
EDIT:
Made my proc use all 8 cores but bumped it down to 80%, restarted both (paused and start) and im up to 25k ppd now.
without going back to check (just being lazy) - I assume that's an improvement over your previous configuration? (proc at 100%)Quote:
Made my proc use all 8 cores but bumped it down to 80%, restarted both (paused and start) and im up to 25k ppd now.
that's an honest assessment, however I could not speak (yet) to its accuracy. currently, I am running with only the GPUs OCed and the 3930 at stock speeds (I'm waiting to OC until I can install the indigo xtreme - maybe in the next few days). with this configuration I'm only running at +70W since the 690 is fairly efficient even at OC speeds/volts. as such I was able to hit 94k ppd yesterday (!!) (though it still varies quite a bit since I'm home to use the computer, and likely due to different F@H cores as well) - note: previously (without running the 690 at all for folding) I hit a max of 36.8k ppd avg for the month of august with over 1.1 million for the month. it would be too hard right now (running for a week straight without using the PC) to determine the effect of OCing vs. ppd. once I go back to work (in a couple weeks) I can set the OC or stock and then let it run. I will do it for both GPU and CPU (assuming I've installed the IX) to see what difference the OC makes and if it is worth it vs. the power consumption as a cost per ppd comparison. I know the CPU watt/ppd will not be good. sandy bridge - E takes a lot to OC (75% more power vs 33% more freq). the GPU on the other hand, just may be quite good....Quote:
Option 1) OC the existing rig, take the 220W hit and get how much % as PPD improvement? probably less than 20%
Option 2) Keep your system at stock frequencies. Get an additional 660 Ti which will take about 120W when folding and gives you an almost 50% PPD increase vs. your GTX 690.
as for substituting a 660Ti for the OC of a 690: remember, the OC on the 690 only costs 70W vs. the 120W of the 660 and that you would still have to overcome the 300$ cost (with a quick Newegg search) of the 660. and, I'm not certain the 660 would fair as well vs the OC as you might think. like I said before, I'll run some numbers once I go back to work in a couple weeks.
Its a huge improvement really. After looking around apparently ATI cards are trash when it comes to folding and my 5850hd is known to only get around 4k ppd, so my i7 920 now pushed to 4ghz will probably be the better option.Quote:
Originally Posted by bds71
my 965 at 3.8 was getting pretty consistent 15-20k. I would imaging a 920@4 would be pretty close to that as well....Quote:
...so my i7 920 now pushed to 4ghz will probably be the better option.
Ive got it at 13k right now, I was reading that if you run an odd number of cores it messes up the folding, and since I need at least 1 dedicated core for the GPU I bumped it down to only use 6 cores which took me from 6k to 13k, but my 5850hd @ 775/1125 is only getting 2k still (which is aggravating).Quote:
Originally Posted by bds71
I also read that ATI cards are junk when it comes to folding and that I shouldnt expect more than 4k from it anyways, so F.
Im just baffled at the scores some of you get from a single machine, like 90k with just a single proc and gpu. :( Ive got to fold on 30 machines to reach that lol.
I did, however, just find out about the password and the bonus points, so hopefully Ill start collecting those shortly.
to be fair, it's actually two GPUs :) the 690 is the dual GPU core....and recently, the ppd (prediction in control, not actual output) hit 122k ppd - HOLY COW!! but, don't beat yourself up too bad - the newest generations of CPU and GPU are very powerful - especially compared to 2-3 generations ago.Quote:
I'm just baffled at the scores some of you get from a single machine, like 90k with just a single proc and gpu. I've got to fold on 30 machines to reach that lol.
this actually helps quite a bit - if I'm not mistaken it nearly doubled my ppd when I enabled it (?)Quote:
I did, however, just find out about the password and the bonus points, so hopefully Ill start collecting those shortly.
well, I OCed my CPU on Wednesday (still haven't installed the IX yet, but wanted to test the CPU to see what it is capable of). stock boost is 3.8. I pushed it to 4.5 for a 19% OC. yesterday I purposely left the PC alone and let it run for a full day on the OC - I hit 125k ppd. my avg (when not using the PC) was about 95k prior to the OC, so this is an increase of 31.5% ppd. also, since this is a fairly mild OC for sandy bridge, my voltages are still fairly low at 1.27 so my power consumption should not be affected (too) much (my CPU core temps went up about 5-8C). note: this is with the CPU at 90% and both GPUs running - not solely the CPU at 100%. I haven't run any benchmarks yet to test stability, but I've had F@H running 24/7. so far everything works fine with no crashes.Quote:
like I said before, I'll run some numbers once I go back to work in a couple weeks.
Quote:
Originally Posted by bds71
:clap: Very nice! starting to get it up there!
Im looking into upgrading my current build to one of the new intel chips when they hit in June. Currently though I may upgrade this 5850 to one or two 660ti's
why not just go with a 680? I haven't looked at the benchmarks in quite a while, but wouldn't a 680 be about the same performance - both gaming and folding, but (maybe) less cost, and smaller power envelope as well?Quote:
Currently though I may upgrade this 5850 to one or two 660ti's
edit: just checked some 660 reviews - wow, didn't expect that. just did a quick game review, so I didn't check GPGPU performance, but I would assume it is on-par. yea - two 660's are definitely more powerful than a single (even heavily OCed) 680. unless the 680's are selling for 400$ now, you would certainly be better off with two 660's.
Yeah I had done some research and came to the same conclusion. Im just hoping that the next gen intels that will hit this summer will be worth the wait.Quote:
Originally Posted by bds71
large client of mine just ordered 5 elitebooks with i7's :D cant wait to get my folding on them lol.
Way to go you guys, you're really stepping it up in your production!!
I've been out of the hardware scene for a couple of years now - looks like I've missed a lot.
What would be an easy, cost-effective way to get a good jump in my PPD? Just grab an next-gen Nvidia GPU? Or new mobo/CPU?
a 660ti looks to put a good amount of ppd down, but I still think a 4-core/8 thread ivy bridge with a slight OC can do (much?) better. Haswell (next gen Intel CPU) is scheduled to come out this summer (22nm process). history has shown approx. 15-20% improvements per generation, and that is only a few months away. I would wait. it's a mainstream platform, so mobo/cpu cost will be normal (not high end like SB/IB-E). Haswell (4000 series i5/i7) and a 660ti would put out good ppd for sure - and should do so with fairly low power draw, and will also give you a decent gaming rig if that's your thing!! note: Maxwell (nVidias next gen gpu core) won't be coming out 'till '14, so no major improvements in gpgpu unless you want to spend a grand on a titan (ppd MONSTER!!) which was designed for gpgpu.
edit: I just noticed your current (if sig is correct) rigs - upgrading to at least IB (ivy bridge - current 3000 series Intel CPUs) should give you a VERY noticeable jump in ppd. note: ivy bridge had some QC issues: they were using crappy paste beneath the heat spreader (sandy bridge heat spreader was soldered) - a lot of water cooler enthusiasts removed the heat spreader and either applied liquid metal or some other high quality paste and re-mounted the heat spreader and got some pretty dramatically different (much better) results - some times up to 20C!! I don't know if they (Intel) ever fixed this issue or not, but I would still recommend IB over SB (sandy bridge - 2000 series CPUs) actually, I would recommend Haswell if you can wait....
I'd be careful with a GPU selection for now.
With FAH version 1.7 the architecture will change for NVidia GPUs from Cuda to OpenCL as an interface. While fully supported by AMD with OpenCL v1.2, NVidia is currently on version 1.1 and has not yet announced support for 1.2.
Most likely, there will be Cuda based work packages for a longer time, until all these older projects run out.
thanks for the heads up!!
Good thing I have not made any purchases yet. Unfortunately I usually go off of bang for buck rather than F@H performance, so hopefully both will be fully supported at some point.Quote:
Originally Posted by Andreas
anyone else notice points have been pretty crappy for about a week now? or is it just me? different cores....the 7600 cores were giving 14k credit....lately I've been getting 8000 cores which only give 3875 credit (and take about 2 hours) I hit over 120k twice during the last week of march, but can't seem to get higher than 80k this week...haven't changed anything on my PC except OCing the CPU (solid as a rock) by about 18% if it keeps up with the crappy points i'll remove the OC and see if it goes back up. i'm guessing it's the cores being DLed though.
Quote: I did, however, just find out about the password and the bonus points, so hopefully Ill start collecting those shortly.
Hi guys, a very n00bish question but could you explain (or point me in the right direction) about the bonus points? Also by password I assume you are referring to the pass phrase you can setup on the client of users and team section?... :)
Thats the one!Quote:
Originally Posted by davidkozat
They use it to authenticate the user in a bonus program they provide for folders that return the cores in a certain amount of time and that have higher end machines running the software.
and yeah, my points are taking huge hits atm and I have no idea why. I began messing with my setup at the house to see what I could come up with and ive got nothing.Quote:
Originally Posted by bds71
we lost someone >_< our team ppd avg is down nearly 200k :(
yea - I'm guessing it's just the cores that are currently DLing - crappy cores with crappy points (sometimes it's just like that) - I checked a few charts and it seems everyone is down a bit...Quote:
and yeah, my points are taking huge hits atm and I have no idea why. I began messing with my setup at the house to see what I could come up with and I've got nothing.
yea, Angra (who normally produces an average of about 250k ppd) hasn't produced anything since about mar 31st. he averages more than the rest of us put together (or very near) so if his farm breaks (or if he turns it off for whatever reason - i'm assuming he must be having issues) then the team suffers.Quote:
we lost someone >_< our team ppd avg is down nearly 200k
Does anyone have any idea as to what his setups are?Quote:
Originally Posted by bds71
From one of his posts in 2011: 18 x Dual X5660Quote:
Originally Posted by Gimmpy224
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...=1#post4881513
Andy
Yeah, Angra does research and has access to a large test lab. Thus he's able to put up some massive output.
If only I could come up with a way to get it on my client's servers :(. Unfortunately im sure they would be pissed at the speed lol.
ah well, I wish some of the old folders would show back up so XS doesnt drop 10+ places like we are about to soon :(
i just noticed this: 15 hours straight, 2 WUs, 7748 points....what the heck is going on?? (note: if you notice the was from yesterday and the day before - it obviously changed since then). how can i get better WUs?!?!?! (enquiring minds wan'a know!!)
04.10, 3am 7,748 2
04.10, 12am 7,748 2
04.09, 9pm 7,748 2
04.09, 6pm 7,748 2
04.09, 3pm 7,748 2
Im having the same ones come through. Though I only get maybe one a day then ill get the smaller ones. Perhaps these are the experimental / advanced cores?Quote:
Originally Posted by bds71
nahhhh, the new/experimental WUs are usually the ones that give big points - these are probably generic WUs (read: when they actually run out/complete the series of the advanced WUs)Quote:
Perhaps these are the experimental / advanced cores?
they seem to have stopped finally and im back to normal. That was odd lol.
man now bds quit folding :(
Well at least i sparked some interest over a month or so lol.
nahhh i aint quit - my cooling just crapped out on me (so, obviously i can't run the PC). the control unit for my Boreas burned up (interestingly enough, i had just finally got it working right lol!!). anywho, been waiting for some new rads/fans to arrive - gonna build an external wood shroud w/ built in pump, rad, p/p fans, and controllers this weekend. the rad part will consist of MORA 3 and 18x Gentle Typhoon 4500 RPM fans on manual controllers. once that's up and running i'll be folding again!! not sure what i wanna do with the Boreas unit since it's built into the case (can't buy controllers anymore). pretty sure i know what blew, but hard to get those kind of parts here in Germany. oh well, it was struggling to keep my OC'ed CPU and GPUs cool anyway.
Oh Oh, losing Angra is bad news indeed. :(
well, everything came in, but (of course) i forgot to order a few of the small items (y-adapters for all the fans, tubing pass-through for the PCI slot covers, long enough tubing to get to the external set-up, quick disconnects......power supply to run 30 fans and 4 pumps....you know, the small stuff :))...but, i did get a temporary solution up and running so at least my main PC is running again. now i can game again (just got the new 2013 simcity and been playing diablo III) and can return to folding....it's good to fold again, i feel ..."right" again :)Quote:
nahhh i aint quit - my cooling just crapped out on me (so, obviously i can't run the PC). the control unit for my Boreas burned up (interestingly enough, i had just finally got it working right lol!!). anywho, been waiting for some new rads/fans to arrive - gonna build an external wood shroud w/ built in pump, rad, p/p fans, and controllers this weekend. the rad part will consist of MORA 3 and 18x Gentle Typhoon 5400 RPM fans on manual controllers. once that's up and running i'll be folding again!! not sure what i wanna do with the Boreas unit since it's built into the case (can't buy controllers anymore). pretty sure i know what blew, but hard to get those kind of parts here in Germany. oh well, it was struggling to keep my OC'ed CPU and GPUs cool anyway.
guess this means ill need to step up my folding game to stay ahead of you :DQuote:
Originally Posted by bds71
not that it matters, i just like to compete. i figure it drives me to increase my game a little.
hopefully a client of mine will be ordering 30 desktops with the new haswell i7's in them here at the beginning of june, as well as myself going out and getting one plus a 2 new gpu's. i should see my numbers skyrocket
it's all good - trust me, I would try to beat you too, but I got what I got. if I could get more out of it, I would :)Quote:
guess this means ill need to step up my folding game to stay ahead of you
not that it matters, i just like to compete. i figure it drives me to increase my game a little.
i'm [still] waiting for IB-E !! (hopefully this fall/winter) since it's a direct replacement part for my SB-E I can upgrade without having to change everything. not so sure that haswell will be able to outperform SB-E, but i'm game to find out hehe. i'm still not keen on the whole integrated GPU on all these parts. since i'm - at my core - a gamer, i'll always have a discreet GPU, so having one on the die (for me) is all but useless. a waste of space. I went from Nehalem to SB-E, and hope to go next to IB-E. with any luck, Intel will continue to think about those of us who don't want to be mainstream and will continue producing CPU's like those I've purchased in recent years.Quote:
hopefully a client of mine will be ordering 30 desktops with the new haswell i7's in them here at the beginning of june, as well as myself going out and getting one plus a 2 new gpu's. i should see my numbers skyrocket
what GPU's are you looking to get? NVidia or AMD? if AMD, then I could seriously be hurting to keep up - from what I saw (at least with the core 17 WUs) the 7000 series AMD cards are 2-3 TIMES(!!) the performance of my 680 GPU cores. and if we start getting the bonuses for our GPU compute WUs...well, i'm sure you can figure it out hehe...
oh, since this is a "post your PPD rates" thread:
woohoo!! I hit 1 million again for the month of april!! (only happened twice for me now) not bad considering I was down for 11 days lol. looking at some of your guys' past/recent months, I guess this is no big thing for you guys - each of you (gimpy, mele, wfo) hitting 1M every month - with 2 million occasionally, and even 5.8M and 4.8M (!!) from wfo in dec and jan - nice !! very nice :) I will endeavor to do better :) - I just gotta stop playing SimCity and turning off F@H lol - nahhhhhh, oh well...
;) the awesome thing for me is that i dont run it currently on my desktop lol. my i7 is getting at most 5k ppd for some reason. so i shut it down and let the ones i installed on my clients machines do my folding.Quote:
Originally Posted by bds71
and i was looking into getting 2x 660ti's but with the new studies on the ati cards i may end up getting 2 of those, especially since bang for buck wise they typically beat out the nvidia gpus
preface: this is not intended to hate on AMD - their from Austin, i love em if nothing but for that alone :PQuote:
especially since bang for buck wise they typically beat out the nvidia gpus
AMD cards do have better OpenCL performance (as the reviews i posted myself show). but, one of their big downfalls in the past is driver support - it's kept many a valued customer away - not to mention gaming performance. nVidia tends to hava the better gaming experience and bang for buck in the price range your looking at, so if these cards will be pulling double duty as gaming cards, and folding cards, this would be something to take into consideration. note: it has been a while since i've heard any of the really negative comments concerning AMD drivers....perhaps they have gotten better? any AMD graphics cards holders have any input - concerning driver refreshes/issues?
just to throw my 2 cents, my current 5850hd when overclocked will cause refresh bugs on my monitor, resulting in ridiculous blinking. the fix, i have found, is running the f@h gpu client which will force the card to do work and keep its oc settings high rather than auto clocking them down for some reason
yea, just saw the AMD thread about the AMD cards only running at 33% and driver issues - i guess the AMD driver issues haven't been completely ironed out yet...too bad, it would seem they make a decent product - if they could just generate some support for said product (ie: drivers) they could give nVidia a real run at things (at least in the mainstream and dual GPU arenas)
Im not sure what happened, but suddenly my i7-920 @ 3.8 went from ~4k ppd for the last 3 weeks to 48k... 0,0
EDIT: now its back to 2k ppd.... wtf :mad:
not sure - I used to fold on a 965 (clocked at 3.8 as well) and would pretty consistently get 45-50k ppd. only thing I can think of is bad WU's. do you have any advanced settings set up? check in the configure -> expert tab and see what's listed there. if the only thing listed is open-web-control:true then add the following:
(example) name:value
client-type:advanced
max-packet-size:big
that should give better WU's (maybe?) it might not always give better WU's, but should most of the time. (note: you can do this either for the individual component - ie: CPU or GPU - in the slots tab, but doing it in the expert tab should apply it to all the components)
I also noticed that you passed me!! now i'm gonna have to get my old 965 back up and running and ditch my worthless media server :) - note: oh, it's coming....count on it...it's on brother man!! :) in fact, just disregard everything I said above - total hogwash...won't do a thing for you <wink>
i had advanced but not the packet size.Quote:
Originally Posted by bds71
and i was hoping you wouldnt notice so i could get some padding in :D
i just added 2x i5's to my folding so my numbers went up ~30k ppd avg, hopefully i can get one of the haswell's when they hit and some new gpu's soon :D
sheesh - look at this crap!! (WTF, over?)Quote:
05.08, 3am 23,076 6
05.08, 12am 7,748 2
05.07, 9pm 7,748 2
05.07, 6pm 7,748 2
05.07, 3pm 15,496 4
05.07, 12pm 0 0
05.07, 9am 7,748 2
05.07, 6am 7,748 2
05.07, 3am 15,496 4
05.07, 12am 9,612 3
05.06, 9pm 8,843
**note: 7748*2=15496** which means I've been getting the same (CRAPPTASTIC!!!) WU's for two friggin days now!!! incidentally, those 7748's are all GPU cores - which apparently is all I've been getting credit for. 24 straight hours with no CPU credit - wtf ?!?!
I just checked the CPU WU I am working on:
WU: 8090
3.8% complete
ETA: 13.5 hours (~14 hr total)
base credit: 925 (really? seriously? for a 14 hr WU?)
estimated credit: 6411 (are you friggin serious?!?!)
and, of course, my GPU's are getting the ever persistent:
WU: 8071
60% complete
ETA: 1 hour (~2.5 total)
base credit: 3874 (x2 for each GPU for the ever present 7,748 - I really hate that number)
estimated credit: 3874 (yep - no bonus....at all....ever)
im feeling the hit aswell on this side. I just finished a gpu WU that took 26 hours for 8k points.
>_<