The new Hexus Teams - Setting up Folding at Home

[DDY]

I've started folding again now that the weather has cooled. This time I'm running a GTX 980, should be somewhat more productive than the GTX670 I had a year ago.

[deejayburnout]

Not folded since I moved home last year. Got a new GPU so might start again.

[deejayburnout]

Going to start tonight again if i can remember how to set it up again.

[Terbinator]

Thread bump.

The room is well ventilated and I'm off to the pub so I've just fired up some WUs on the 6700K and 980Ti (both stock).

980Ti seems to keep hitting 100% GPU usage then dropping off for a few seconds. Can't be TDP related as it's around 80% and I've got a very aggresive fan profile engaged to keep the GPU cool which is under an EVGA ACX 2.0. Any ideas?

[DDY]

Thread bump.

The room is well ventilated and I'm off to the pub so I've just fired up some WUs on the 6700K and 980Ti (both stock).

980Ti seems to keep hitting 100% GPU usage then dropping off for a few seconds. Can't be TDP related as it's around 80% and I've got a very aggresive fan profile engaged to keep the GPU cool which is under an EVGA ACX 2.0. Any ideas?

I've seen some WUs bump my GTX 980 up near 100% usage at times and stay there for a few seconds, then fall down to zero and back up again. Then there are some WUs that work the GPU at 40% constantly. Either WU it produces the expected PPD.

Consider folding GPU only, your 980Ti would be producing an order of magnitude more PPD than your 6700K but will be consuming comparable amounts of energy.

Also, the GPU is a little more productive if it's given a CPU core all to itself. You can set core affinities for both CPU and GPU clients accordingly but this approach has never worked properly for me, you can also set the CPU client to run on three threads on your quad core.

Personally, I'm just folding on my 980.

[deejayburnout]

I have been folding for the last few days and climbed under 200 in the Hexus rankings.

Actually thinking of turning an old dual core dell into a dedicated unit.

[DDY]

Stick a 980Ti in it and make 450k PPD

[deejayburnout]

Then I might catch up with you.

[DDY]

You might just do, for the time being at least because running Fallout 4 is more important right now!

[Terbinator]

I've seen some WUs bump my GTX 980 up near 100% usage at times and stay there for a few seconds, then fall down to zero and back up again. Then there are some WUs that work the GPU at 40% constantly. Either WU it produces the expected PPD.

Just realised it's the TPF what was making it alter.

Consider folding GPU only, your 980Ti would be producing an order of magnitude more PPD than your 6700K but will be consuming comparable amounts of energy.

Yeah, a lot more credits for the GPU WU. I was looking to do the BigAdv units but it seems they've been canned?

[DDY]

Yeah, no more bigadv. There was a point a few years ago where only the 16+ core machines could do the big SMP jobs, but there isn't any more new work for those the last I checked, I guess that's all finished by now.

[deejayburnout]

You might just do, for the time being at least because running Fallout 4 is more important right now!

Same for me too.

[joshwa]

Nice to see that folding @ home is still going
It's much easier to install and get running now as well (using both CPU and GPU computing)

[DDY]

I'm not making the big points anymore having downgraded from a GTX980 to a HD7770 last year, but I still have the 2500K going.

If anyone was wondering, the HD7770 can fold, but only manages a few hundred PPD and isn't feasible to run given the power draw.

[Zak33]

i used a Ryzen 1700 for a short while and a Vega.... only for a few days at work here... I catapulted up the ranks.

[Ozaron]

Taking a break from folding while GPU prices are still absurd. Want to keep my R9 healthy.. That said, only about 3 weeks of somewhat convincing work away from pos. 5. Where are all of the point scorers?