TPU's F@H Team

[phill]

Last thing fist - yes it works in Linux. Setting it up can be a pain but you gain 10 % in general, for some WU 50 %, 14163 spring to mind for the latter. I wouldn't mix AMD and NVidia in the same rig but it can be done.

So you played with the indexes and got it to work. Normally it shouldn't be necessary in Windows but it clearly was in your case. Be prepared to do the same if you decide to set up a Linux folder.

There are big differences between WUs. When I was folding with a 2060 in my daily rig which have HFM.net installed I saw between 525k to 980k PPD.

The points you are getting now look OK. 13816 is also on the low side for my 2060&2070, 1070&1070ti in Windows (roughly 10% lower than average) . I assume that it was the first 13186 you did and it picked up in points after the 3%.

This morning when turning it on, the damn thing is showing up as not supported again.. What is going on with this stupid program.... Was fine when I turned it off last night

 

[mstenholm]

This morning when turning it on, the damn thing is showing up as not supported again.. What is going on with this stupid program.... Was fine when I turned it off last night

Lesson learned - leave it on. Strange indeed. I will scan the official forum today.
One question- where did the Nvidia driver come from, Windows or Nvidia?

 

[phill]

Lesson learned - leave it on. Strange indeed. I will scan the official forum today.

The amount of power this thing takes I couldn't afford to leave it on.. It's as bad as the miner I had on

I've just tried pausing it and then closing the program and restarting it, so we'll see if that works... Report back in a few ]

Edit - That did nothing so I'll restart it and see if that helps, if not, then I'll just uninstall and reinstall the software and see if that helps...

 

[mstenholm]

The amount of power this thing takes I couldn't afford to leave it on.. It's as bad as the miner I had on

I've just tried pausing it and then closing the program and restarting it, so we'll see if that works... Report back in a few

Open Cl problem. Try to get rid of the old driver (NVCleaninstall) and install a new, try 425.31, the newest is not optimal PPD wise. Use custom install unless you want the lot.

 

[phill]

This was a brand new install as I put in a new SSD into the rig.. I've tried the change and it's not helped, it's just sat saying ready without anything further at all... It's being a &%$£ lol

 

[mstenholm]

This was a brand new install as I put in a new SSD into the rig.. I've tried the change and it's not helped, it's just sat saying ready without anything further at all... It's being a &%$£ lol

That didn't really answer my question - Nvidia or Windows. Try uninstall as I suggested.

 

[phill]

That didn't really answer my question - Nvidia or Windows. Try uninstall as I suggested.

It was a completely fresh install with Windows and a fresh install of Nvidia as well. It's errored with the same message, try setting the opengl-index manually which I've set to 1 in the regedit section from the link you gave me..

I'll try re-enabling it and see if that sorts it's life out

Well none of what I did made any difference until I uninstalled the Nvidia drivers and tried some newer ones (I think 419.17, I try to keep them on my home server just in case) and I think I might have had some fairly good scores today..

It seems my work units have shot up by 50 units but I'm guessing that's with all the messing about and such but thankfully, everything now is up and running as it should be.. Hopefully I'll find out tomorrow...

Special thanks for all the help and advice with this Very much appreciated May as well make the most of free electric whilst I can I'm sure it'll be raining soon

 

[NastyHabits]

Got my Ryzen powered PC back on line. Glad to be back folding and crunching for the cause (and of course, TPU).

 

[phill]

Great to have you back with us @NastyHabits

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Got my Ryzen powered PC back on line. Glad to be back folding and crunching for the cause (and of course, TPU).

Did I just lose track of time, or was that pretty quick?

 

[NastyHabits]

Did I just lose track of time, or was that pretty quick?

I was able to find a refurbished MB at a very reasonable price (same make and model). Also, I was down for 2 weeks. Not so quick.

 

[debs3759]

Just bought a GTX 1060 to add to my farm, so my ppd should at least triple by next week. Hope to soon buy a high end NVidia card and an enthusiast level CPU and board to replace the Llano based system I use daily, as it is too slow to fold on and really slow when recoding video files

 

[XZero450]

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My other 2 machines will be coming down for periods of time over the next few weeks as I do some maintenance on the water loops and perform a couple upgrades.
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So this maintenance never happened. I am going to do it soon now. They will be coming down to move and I will not be bringing them back online until this maintenance has been done.

 

[mstenholm]

So this maintenance never happened. I am going to do it soon now. They will be coming down to move and I will not be bringing them back online until this maintenance has been done.

That is the only way to do it. I'm going on year four postponing cleaning my water-block. Now it looks like I don't have to do it at all since I plan to replace it with an AM4 ditto.

 

[debs3759]

Woohoo! My ppd is going to shoot up for a couple of days. Just received a GTX 980 Ti that needs forwarding to Russia, and have been given the OK to fully test it before I go to the Post Office with it on Saturday

 

[mstenholm]

Woohoo! My ppd is going to shoot up for a couple of days. Just received a GTX 980 Ti that needs forwarding to Russia, and have been given the OK to fully test it before I go to the Post Office with it on Saturday

600k PPD and a hot case provided you have the 2 x 8 pins for it.

 

[debs3759]

600k PPD and a hot case provided you have the 2 x 8 pins for it.

Yes, I have plenty of power connectors. 1000W PSU and only one card in the machine, which is being replaced anyway

 

[debs3759]

The 980 Ti I have been testing would not fit in my top two slots without digging out the right hex key to remove the back of the case, which I wasn't desperate to do for just a day or two of testing. This is because of the push switch to change BIOS settings, at the top end of the rear bracket. I had to put it in a x8 slot. It is only reporting around 450K to 480K ppd on the work units it has done, and is only using between 85% and 88% of the GPU. Could this be because it is only using 8 PCI-e 3 lanes?

I'm not going to fret over it, as will be putting my GTX 1060 in the system tomorrow and packing the 980 Ti to go abroad, but it would be handy to know what might be the future before I come across the same problem again.

One other question. For the less powerful system I browse and watch videos/Netflix on, I have bought a Radeon RX 570 4 GB (one of the fastest 4 GB RX 570). Mainly because DivX Converter can use it to speed up the transcoding I do when I download bloated mkv files. When I am not transcoding videos, is there any point folding on a Polaris based card? The card I bought can perform over 5300 GFLOPS, compared to the GTX 1060 at under 4000 GFLOPS, but I know f@h used to be optimised for NVidia cards and perform miserably on AMD cards. The AMD is more powerful on paper, but was also about 20% cheaper.

I will of course try it out, but it would be good to know if I am wasting my time.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

You can take a look at this for an idea (with a grain of salt) of how the 570 will F@H: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vcVoSVtamcoGj5sFfvKF_XlvuviWWveJIg_iZ8U2bf0/pub?gid=0

PCI-e lanes have almost no effect on F@H. How busy was the CPU while Folding with the 980 Ti?

 

[mstenholm]

@debs3759
We had an undervolted 570 folding here for a while. The posts are deleted but I seem to remember she did around 300k PPD.
You had some 14163-14165s on your 980 TI. They are crap on Windows.
Edit: 437k PPD for a 11728 is not great for a 980 Ti. As @thebluebumblebee wrote the PCIe is hardly limitied @ 8x3.0. Get the 1060 and 570 running for less heat and more points.

 

[debs3759]

You can take a look at this for an idea (with a grain of salt) of how the 570 will F@H: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vcVoSVtamcoGj5sFfvKF_XlvuviWWveJIg_iZ8U2bf0/pub?gid=0

PCI-e lanes have almost no effect on F@H. How busy was the CPU while Folding with the 980 Ti?

The PC was folding on 6 threads on an i7 6700K. The only other task running on that machine (other than the usual suspects, such as anti-virus) is Bit Torrent software.

Thanks for the link.

Got the 980 Ti in the mail to its final destination, and the 1060 folding. The current wu is saying around 320k ppd. So I'm happy. Will break the 1/2 million ppd when I fold on the RX570 as well

 

[debs3759]

When I installed the RX 570 and drivers, the drivers couldn't see the card. It would only use the M$ drivers, so no GPU compute and no second monitor. I informed the eBay seller, and they offered a refund. I put the GT 730 back in the system and reinstalled the drivers then couldn't get online with that PC! Looks like the motherboard was failing, and the upgrade pushed it over the edge. Getting another A75 FM1 motherboard is a big expense for an entry level PC, so I may just build an AM4 system with a Ryzen 2700X. It'll take a couple of months to save that much, but at least my main folding PC is working, and temporarily has a GTX 980 in it. As soon as 3DMark fix their servers so I can upload a benchmark score, I'll add my GXT 1060 back in. Until then, it looks like I'll be producing 470K ppd.

 

[debs3759]

Damn! I went to reinstall the GTX 1060, and found the RX 570 that I thought I had returned. I get confused, because of health stuff, and it seems I packed and posted the wrong card! I really hope the seller is honest enough to return my card and refund for theirs, as I am getting no reply to my communications, including my return request.

 

[phill]

I hope all sorts itself out @debs3759

I'll be doing the Pie updates this evening everyone, I've not forgotten

 

[debs3759]

Good news. The seller has refunded me for the RX 570, and is returning the GTX 1060.