New F@H Team Members Post Here First

[mstenholm]

I've joined the team. Using same username as here.

I managed to download and process a couple of WUs last night, but much like on @Hellfire's system the program has been sitting there just waiting for WUs ever since.

I'm using my second PC with a 3570k @ 4.2GHz and an RX 570.

Hi @s3thra and welcome. The best you can do to get a new job is to pause and wait 5-20 seconds and then resume in FAHControl advance control. That will in most cases reset the counter to next download try.

 

[s3thra]

Hi @s3thra and welcome. The best you can do to get a new job is to pause and wait 5-20 seconds and then resume in FAHControl advance control. That will in most cases reset the counter to next download try.

Thanks. I'll give that a go every once in a while if it sits there for too long.

 

[snorlaxgangs]

https://stats.foldingathome.org/donor/Eighty20

I joined the team 3 days ago. The name Eighty20. Old rig x58 i7 990x 980Ti, small contribute. Btw, how to check if i'm working on any covid19 project?

 

[biffzinker]

I'm setup to start folding.

There's activity on the GPU now. Should I leave the overclock on the GDDR6? I scaled back on the overclock when I was having artifacts on textures in the Witcher 2.

 

[windwhirl]

https://stats.foldingathome.org/donor/Eighty20

I joined the team 3 days ago. The name Eighty20. Old rig x58 i7 990x 980Ti, small contribute. Btw, how to check if i'm working on any covid19 project?

Check https://client.foldingathome.org

You will see the project number and a short description of it.

 

[hat]

I have the opinion that you shouldn't use overclocked hardware unless you've extensively tested it to be stable. I don't want to deal with crashes and other unstable behavior, so I spend a lot of time testing.

For folding or world community grid, a bad OC can also give bad/invalid results, and those aren't worth anything.

 

[windwhirl]

I have the opinion that you shouldn't use overclocked hardware unless you've extensively tested it to be stable. I don't want to deal with crashes and other unstable behavior, so I spend a lot of time testing.

For folding or world community grid, a bad OC can also give bad/invalid results, and those aren't worth anything.

Agreed on that. Back when I just started I had a slight core overclock (1380 vs 1365 MHz) on my RX 580. F@H logs reported that there was corruption or something, so I rolled back to normal clocks and problem solved.

 

[biffzinker]

I switched from the GPU to just CPU. CPU is getting a workout 4 GHz averaging, and temperatures are 70C.

 

[j0taDasFestasPT]

Using it for a good cause
you should too

 

[trparky]

OK, so I'm joining in on this project here. I'm folding under the same user that I post here. I've got a couple of questions though.

When I put the system at Light Power Mode it stops GPU processing because apparently it's waiting for it to be idle but I'm not gaming so I'm not using the GPU. My browser, Microsoft Edge (Chromium) is however set to use hardware acceleration. Is this the reason why it's waiting for idle or is it because it's waiting for the CPU job to finish?

 

[mstenholm]

OK, so I'm joining in on this project here. I'm folding under the same user that I post here. I've got a couple of questions though.

When I put the system at Light Power Mode it stops GPU processing because apparently it's waiting for it to be idle but I'm not gaming so I'm not using the GPU. My browser, Microsoft Edge (Chromium) is however set to use hardware acceleration. Is this the reason why it's waiting for idle or is it because it's waiting for the CPU job to finish?

I was under the impression that the slider was working some versions ago but I could be mistaken. I haven't use the basis viewer for 10 years.

With this you know if you are folding....
If you put the slider to Light and if it works then it stop using GPU if the GPU load is higher than a very low value (0?) indicating that you are using the PC.

 

[trparky]

Is there a way to make it so that Folding@Home doesn't use the CPU? It seems that letting Folding@Home use my CPU causes my 8700K to suck power like there's no tomorrow.

 

[mstenholm]

Is there a way to make it so that Folding@Home doesn't use the CPU? It seems that letting Folding@Home use my 8700K sucks power like there's no tomorrow.

Yes, Configure, Slots, remove CPU. CPU folding is not worth it....

 

[trparky]

OK then, as soon as the CPU job is finished I'll delete the CPU slot. I want to help out with this but I also don't want to run up the electric bill.

 

[Gmr_Chick]

Greetings all! I've been folding for a few days now, but haven't been able to join a team until just a few moments ago. Of course I joined TPU's team! I go by "Littlecheeks" for folding. I fold with my main rig using an Ryzen 5 3600 (with a small OC to 3.8GHz) and a Nitro+ RX 580 (while my new Nitro+ 5700 XT comes back from being RMA'd) and I've accumulated 157,810 points thus far. I'll mainly be folding for cancer, but have been lucky enough to get several WU's related to COVID-19, so here's to hoping I'm able to donate even a tiny bit to the cause!

 

[Bones]

Check https://client.foldingathome.org

You will see the project number and a short description of it.

This can also be useful to that end, shows every active project currently being worked on with the server ID and who's in charge of the WU project, credit for each completed and so on.

Folding@home Project Summary

You guys may want to bookmark it, pin/post it somewhere as a reference.

 

[mstenholm]

Greetings all! I've been folding for a few days now, but haven't been able to join a team until just a few moments ago. Of course I joined TPU's team! I go by "Littlecheeks" for folding. I fold with my main rig using an Ryzen 5 3600 (with a small OC to 3.8GHz) and a Nitro+ RX 580 (while my new Nitro+ 5700 XT comes back from being RMA'd) and I've accumulated 157,810 points thus far. I'll mainly be folding for cancer, but have been lucky enough to get several WU's related to COVID-19, so here's to hoping I'm able to donate even a tiny bit to the cause!

Welcome to our folding team. In general we don't think that CPU folding is the best way to utilize your CPU, you could try WCG instead, but that is your choice. Under what name do you fold? MilkDoctine? If so better get the pass-key punched in. Pass-key. @Gmr_Chick

 

[Gmr_Chick]

Welcome to our folding team. In general we don't think that CPU folding is the best way to utilize your CPU, you could try WCG instead, but that is your choice. Under what name do you fold? MilkDoctine? If so better get the pass-key punched in. Pass-key. @Gmr_Chick

Thanks! I fold under the name "Littlecheeks"

ETA: Got my passkey all set up!

 

[mstenholm]

Thanks! I fold under the name "Littlecheeks"

ETA: Got my passkey all set up!

If you want to fold for TPU then use team 50711

 

[Gmr_Chick]

^ Already done, friend!

 

[mstenholm]

^ Already done, friend!

Yes I can see but you still don't get bonus...I know that there were some kind of pass-keys problems with the big influx of new folders.

 

[hat]

Don't you have to have done a certain number of WUs or something for the bonus to take effect?

 

[thebluebumblebee]

10 successful WU’s before you get the bonus.

 

[Gmr_Chick]

^ The past few days have been a whirl for certain. I usually fire up my rig at around 1500 and let it fold while I do other things on my rig. I set it to full power and let it go until I go to bed, which is anywhere from 0200 to 0500 (I'm a total night owl). I haven't been keeping track of how many WU's I've done thus far, but if I had to guess...somewhere between 8 and 10, the majority of which have been COVID-19 WU's with "high priority" CPU-based WU's. That's what the description said at least.

 

[snorlaxgangs]

I let my F@H running 24/7 on my 2nd pc for the past couple days. However, sometimes either cpu or gpu ready but there is no project running, so i have to remove and add cpu/gpu again. Is there a way to make sure both cpu/cpu always get projects to do without doing the whole remove-add slot again every 1-2 hours?