Folding Chit-Chat

[lego batman]

Thread revival!
Folding again, running the new client as a service (I love this feature).
I had zero output for a few weeks - will the bonus points start coming back soon? I've put away 10 WUs recently...

[Queelis]

Welcome back

If you've already finished 10 SMP WUs on that machine, you should be getting bonus from the first WU.

[lego batman]

Thanks! It must just be new WUs or something then - for some reason I'm a few thousand points down per week from when I was last folding.

[scaryjim]

There are some new 1M WU that give PPD between the old 500K and 2M units (unsurprisingly ), but there are also (as Queelis has already mentioned) some new 500K units that give slightly higher PPD than the old ones. Chances are you've only picked up the 1M units so far, but be patient, the 500Ks will come

[shbris]

hey all, i'm also back folding part-time after taking a month off. feeling the heat already, not sure i can go back to full time until the autumn now!

[Queelis]

At what temps are you folk folding?

Mine runs at 49C (92mm fan spinning at 2200RPM), though it's been quite cold outside (8-10 degrees), and I haven't cleaned the dust for a while. Gotta do that before I leave to leave my brother a silent PC

[Golden Dragoon]

My Q6600 @3.4 is 41-43C right now, as not all my cores are the same, and on the Athlon about 49C (at the socket, as it's unlocked coretemp says it is over 100C)

[lego batman]

e5200 at 3.52ghz runs along with a 1200rpm 120mm fan at 51C...maybe room for more overclocking! Not sure I want to bother though since this is the highest overclock I've ever had stable.

[Golden Dragoon]

You should be able to get more out of that, 51C is quite cool, and E5200's are pretty good clockers.

[lego batman]

I will give it a go then - I know Hawker1986 had a similar setup to mine running at ~3.8! I think clock increases give linear PPD increases for folding too so will be a welcome boost to my ~2k PPD.

UPDATE: Now I remember why I never went past 3.52ghz - I'm already at 1.38v trying to get 3.68ghz stable with Intel Burn Test and it's just not happening (BSODs-a-plenty). It's not IBT stable but it seems fine...I may just run with it and see what happens. As I'm running FAH as a service, how can I find out if the client doesn't run properly with my overclock?

[Golden Dragoon]

To test for folding stability you might want to use StressCPU, it is based on the gromacs core, and from what I can gather uses actual folding projects of which the results are known, and compares results so you will know if you start hitting silent or undetected errors.

http://folding.stanford.edu/English/DownloadUtils

[lego batman]

Thanks for the link - tried it but decided to leave it as stresscpu doesn't have a 64-bit windows version. Anyway after messing around for a couple of hours I'm going to stick at 3.5ghz unless I suddenly go crazy and decide to throw >1.4v at it 24/7! Hopefully all my tinkering hasn't messed up my current WU...

[Queelis]

So what that it doesn't have a 64-bit version? Most of everything doesn't.

[Rob_B]

Lost another 500k WU yesterday on the new client, great...

[Queelis]

Strange, since mostly it depends on the core, not the client. Or so I think.

[Jay]

for some reason my PPD seem to have dropped quite a bit.