New Members Welcome & Advice Thread

[INFRNL]

^^^ I cannot not help with your issue, But I would like to the 2 new guys to the team...

[GTSRboy]

Im back up an running. The new 285 still whines but only when folding. So in other words, 24/7. It doesnt sound as bad as the last one. Ill have to see how well i deal with the ringing, ill try a few days and if i cant sleep/deal with it ill just have to stop folding

[OldChap]

Hey GT you might like to read this:

http://theovalich.wordpress.com/2008...280-squealing/

[annihilus]

Now you know why they call them farms, pig farms that is

[GTSRboy]

Hey GT you might like to read this:

http://theovalich.wordpress.com/2008...280-squealing/

Yea i saw that, im a bit nervous about dumping nail polish on my new card. Itll void the warrenty and all..

The noise isnt as bad as it was on my last card, and it seems to be quiet at 648 mhz, and gets alot louder if i under or overclock it. Ill most likly be able to deal with it and keep folding

Now i just have to learn to live in this room with my computer is generating this much heat.

[Quad-Damage]

Anyone help with me a MAC OS setup for folding?

[Shadowtester]

I am pretty sure the finstall script also works for Mac OS X here is a link to that and there is also a good OS X section on the Stanford Folding forum you might check out for additional help with MAC OS X folding setup.

finstall
http://ra.vendomar.ee/~ivo/

Stanford OS X folding forum section
http://foldingforum.org/viewforum.ph...b8b155ce67bc6a

[GTSRboy]

is 6500ppd normal for a 285? thats about what mines averaging

[justageek95]

is 6500ppd normal for a 285? thats about what mines averaging

That seems very low unless you are getting 511 point WUs. Mine does 7200-7500 on those and I run the shaders at 1728MHz. Most other WUs are close to 9500 PPD.

[Quad-Damage]

I'm now folding on my Mac. I joined team 36362

24/7 folding on the mac i never use, will try to setup more pc's around work not doing anything
Im folder under quaddamage

can someone link me to my stats

[GTSRboy]

That seems very low unless you are getting 511 point WUs. Mine does 7200-7500 on those and I run the shaders at 1728MHz. Most other WUs are close to 9500 PPD.

how to you figure out what kind of work unit it is? I guess that was just one work unit, not its at about 7600ppd with "5906 R6, C23, G28"

[p2501]

how to you figure out what kind of work unit it is? I guess that was just one work unit, not its at about 7600ppd with "5906 R6, C23, G28"

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/psummary.html

[shadowwind]

GTS are you using fahmon if not its a good tool and it will benchmark your PPD
and give you eta times its a good program to run and it does a lot more things
than just benchmark give it a try if you dont have it.

[kevikev]

Have y'all ever had your PPDs look totally out of whack?

I had to reboot one of my rigs yesterday due to 2 FAH processes not being able to come out of EUE state and after reboot, the PPD rates about about 60% of what they should be. Checked all my shaders and core/mem clocks and they are fine, just the calculated PPD rates are quite low. It might be that I need the current WUs to finish and then the next set will be normal.

[shadowwind]

i had some thing similar happen i was in windows 7 and needed to reboot and i lost wu from gpu 1 gpu2 gpu3 i stopped it and went back to ubuntu and wine
i put the win7 on the media center up stairs all is good now. im not sure what caused it.

[GTSRboy]

just got this SMP warning "warning long 1-4 interactions" or somthing like that, and it stopped folding, core activity was up and down randomly

now SMP doesnt work

[jcool]

Anyone tried the 9.5 Catalyst yet? Any improvements for 4870X2's? It'a about time...

[masska]

found this, hope it helps.http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1419852

[jcool]

Wow, nice. This seems to work well on my HD4870X2 (used the parameters from post #1). Only running on GPU core #1 for now, CCC shows 99% GPU load, taskmanager assigns 2-3% of one HT core of my i7 to the FAH client (equals 1-2% w/o HT). Now we'll see about the PPD... Thanks mate!



Edit: Works with 2 GPUs as well. Only that PPD rates still suck in comparison to NV cards... FAHmon gives 5200 PPD for both cards, at the beginning of the WUs, so maybe 5500-5600 total.
I am now using Win Server 08, Catalyst 9,4, the dll tweaks fromt he link masska posted, and the following parameters: -verbosity 9 -gpu 0/1 -forcegpu ati_r700
Am I missing anything to further improve performance? Thanks!

Edit2: Damn..

[12:52:16] Completed 14%
[12:53:21] mdrun_gpu returned
[12:53:21] Nonzero force sum on GPU
[12:53:21]
[12:53:21] Folding@home Core Shutdown: UNSTABLE_MACHINE
[12:53:25] CoreStatus = 7A (122)

That was GPU 0. Either it didnt like that I was gaming while folding, or I need to adjust FLUSH_Interval to a lower setting.. maybe 64 instead of 96?

[jcool]

Well, it seems it didn't like me running a game while folding... seems pretty stable now.
So, where is folding with ATI cards at?

+ low CPU utilization
+ works without vga dummies or similar crap
+ PPD have somewhat improved
- still lower PPD than NV cards compared their processing power
- still a PITA to setup, FAH should really try and learn to get more simple like integrating into BOINC (see GPUGrid, for example)
- clients crash when folding and playing a game at the same time (?)

[kevikev]

What's up with the 0 update @ 9PM then a huge catchup the next update?

Been happening a lot lately!

[PoppaGeek]

I had my ATI 4850 running fine for a few days then started the same crap all over again. I am really getting tired of trying to figure it out. It isn't just GPU errors. I am actually tired of even talking about it.

[GTSRboy]

Anybody know whats up this this SMP error? Im not sure what it is/ or how to fix it (already did a re-install)

[Snow Crash]

Hi y'all ... I am a WCG crossover ... what's the best set up for me to both crunch and fold with the rig in my sig?

[jcool]

Hey,

just read through the dual GPU set up guides I guess.. giving your GPU client higher than normal priority is important I guess, it should only use a few % of the CPU to tend to the GPUs.. with Nvidia and Multi GPU you may need to extend your desktop to your 2nd GPU, either using a real monitor or a vga dummy plug, but I'll leave that to someone else to explain, since it works w/o on my 4870X2 (just that you'll get 2x as many points with your NV card )