New Members Welcome & Advice Thread

[Ugly n Grey]

You are a gentleman and a scholar.

We as team 36362 are gaining considerable momentum and Pythagoras and I are not going to sit on our hindmost parts and not take notice. A membership drive and some other interesting things will definitely be happening for xtremesystems.org in the not distant future. Sign up now and be a part ! We will be kicking some serious buttocks!

****The above statement is a highly biased view of team 36362, the owners and operators of xtremesystems.org take no responsibility for the ranting of a madman.

[Revv23]

We should put the Guide up on the front page as news, and then like a week later put the roster up on the front page as news...

maybe we can get some more users on the forum that way at least.

[Haltech]

I just got done setting up a 3800+ X2 @ 2800 mhz with 2 F@H cores running. I did the usual tweaks.. I needed to test stability and this is the best way imho So, we will see how many WU i can crunch. Hopefully it will help you out. I was hoping i could have xfered my points from another i crunched for before, but i see standford disable that option now.

[Big Deel]

Welcome to the team.Let us know how that X2 is doing.If it can maintain 2800mhz then it will crunch good.

[Ugly n Grey]

Yeah that's some serious MHz
Welcome to our team!!

[Haltech]

I installed that FAHmon tool. my cores are showing up orange. Can someone point me out to what to look for to get them both green? Less than 24 hrs i hit like 245 WUs. Im not to pleased with the results.

[Ugly n Grey]

I think your systems are erroring out, it takes a very stable rig to run F@H. what version of the program are you running? command line or GUI? in either case, start it with a switch -verbosity 9 so I can get some log details from you and figure our what is happening

[Haltech]

i figured it out.. I had the switch used for Intel instead of AMd. i used ForceSSE and now it shows green. thanks

[Ugly n Grey]

That's excellent news, your stats will start climbing. If you wish to use it, the link to your personal stats box for you signature is

"http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/sigs/sigimage.php?u=156834"

Just take the quotes off and use that URL to your stats picture in your siggy.

Cheers
UnG

[cronic]

hey guys, just downloadd the gui for folding and installed. i am running a3800x2 at 2550 with 2 gig of ram. anything i need to know about running on a dual core.?

[pythagoras]

Hi and welcome chronic,

To take full advantage of a dual core you could download the console version as well as running the gui, that will use both cores.

Yes, you can. Additional processors must run the console version (with the "-local" command-line argument if run on Windows). First, make additional directories for each processor and copy the FAH Console executable file into each. Then configure them with the -config switch, filling in settings for each. It is very important to make sure that under the "Advanced Settings" option each copy is given a unique machine ID (from 1 to 8). The first copy will default to a machine ID of 1, so additional copies should be given IDs of 2, 3, 4, etc. Each may then be run out of their installed directory, using the -local switch on windows."

So make a new directory and download the console version to that directory and then follow the directions above.

Regards

John.

[lawrywild]

I installed the GUI

I burn in my cpu a lot so this seems ideal

[[XC] moddolicous]

Ok, I guess this can also be considered the Q&A thread? I have a couple:
1) I downlaoded this version (the one at the top)
http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html
I check the tweaking guide, but its all for a console version or something. Any tweaks.
2) How much can I expect from an A-XP 2200 @ 2.1ghz a day?
3) finally, how can I get one of those snazy sigs?

[Ackbar]

Ok, I guess this can also be considered the Q&A thread? I have a couple:
1) I downlaoded this version (the one at the top)
http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html
I check the tweaking guide, but its all for a console version or something. Any tweaks.
2) How much can I expect from an A-XP 2200 @ 2.1ghz a day?
3) finally, how can I get one of those snazy sigs?

1) Personally, I'd strongly recommend the console version. It seems to offer a lot of "tweaks" and runs quicker than the graphical version.

2) I get 200-300 ppd on my A64 @ 2.5GHz (pretty variable depending on what core I get)

3) Here's the link to your sig: http://folding.extremeoverclocking.c...licous&t=36362

Doesn't appear to be working yet, but should be once you get some WU submitted...

Welcome to the team!

[[XC] moddolicous]

DO you have a link to the console version? And, would it be worth it to me to uninstall the version I have now to run the console version and tweak it?

[heater918]

Hi all just getting up and running i'm installing console version and have made it to. Change advanced options? yes or no.
Hope i don't have to post for every question

[sc00p]

Hi all just getting up and running i'm installing console version and have made it to. Change advanced options? yes or no.
Hope i don't have to post for every question

Yes... if you just might want to check over that -advmethods flag is set on (or yes) which allows with Intel-cpu to get QMD WUs (for the best PPD rate).

[sc00p]

DO you have a link to the console version? And, would it be worth it to me to uninstall the version I have now to run the console version and tweak it?

Should uninstall first that GUI version before you setup console version. You find the console version from the same download link you put to your own post Third option downward -> 5.04Beta "no nonsense" http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandeg...04-Console.exe.

[sc00p]

I thought it would be useful to put link also to this very robust monitor for F@H-cores
http://fahmon.silent-blade.org/download/FahMon_203.zip (662KB).

[heater918]

Thanks for the help i'm up & running should show up on the team page shortly. heater

[heater918]

Installed beta 5.04 and chose to run as a service everthing is running but i have yet to be added to team. It ran overnight before i rebooted to run as service would that explain why i don't show up? After reboot it stared on same client i believe. Also does it upload manually or do i upload results.
Pic of log txt.

[pythagoras]

Need to see the log file to see whats going on. Any chance of attaching it to your post?

Regards

John.

[heater918]

I hope this is it Edit: I'm on now. Ahead of Mod ha ha better re-instal quickly Mod ! Thanks for help and i will look for some tweeks now that i'm on the XS F@H team.

[[XC] moddolicous]

Alright, I got a question. This rig looks like its time to reinstall windows. Is there anything I have to save from the F@H folder so that its still sees I have only 1 cpu?? Or can I just save what I need and, reinstall windows, then reinstall F@H??

[heater918]

Alright, I got a question. This rig looks like its time to reinstall windows. Is there anything I have to save from the F@H folder so that its still sees I have only 1 cpu?? Or can I just save what I need and, reinstall windows, then reinstall F@H??

This is just a bump for you. I have no clue as i was struggling to get my name on the stat chart F@H for Team XSBTW i'm on now.