Folding@home News 17th - 24th September

[dekez]

17 September - 24 September 2015​

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Total members: 2,635
Active members: 43​

# Name Weekly Increase
1 Biffa 7,933,134 459,752
2 Andy_Taximan 4,774,427 -580,101
3 Jumper118 3,774,504 457,009
4 currob 3,607,757 1,202,462
5 ozaudio 2,299,409 -492,897
6 Brown_Sparrow 1,736,252 -136,276
7 divebod 1,597,854 -152,356
8 FMTopFan 1,309,895 -919,587
9 Senture 463,206 463,206
10 CADmunkey 455,193 0
11 Team_Muck_Spreader 305,698 -141,785
12 acme15 292,135 292,135
13 dekez 287,520 95,563
14 FizzyLogic 192,957 31,159
15 Ken_Harding 141,745 21,473
16 Pilgrim57 124,972 14,517
17 BeeCee 123,840 -548,521
18 JeroenVanLaer 94,931 1,718
19 bombay121 83,436 67,036
20 Red_and_White 57,258 -1,728
21 RoryM 52,608 2,331
22 nutnut 50,908 50,908
23 Trunkey 50,598 -16,703
24 Streetlight 49,841 13,918
25 Grumble_D 29,544 0
26 sphen 26,179 25,410
27 drossgraham 25,238 3,318
28 Henley 22,179 -51,437
29 sideburns 21,561 782
30 davev8 14,013 5,231
31 FatRakoon 13,692 -651
32 octabrain 12,108 6,583
33 Pedro 10,092 -3,622
34 Jagman2k 9,744 8,768
35 JChirac 6,556 359
36 CheechWizard 2,038 -23
37 KingDing 1,880 1,552
38 sanek 1,875 0
39 voicon 1,574 397
40 Exseanat 1,449 -633
41 Illumielle 621 -175
42 SAEID_Persian 470 0
43 Magnus 207 207
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# Name Weekly Increase
1 Brown_Sparrow 1,736,252 -136,276
2 acme15 292,135 292,135
3 dekez 287,520 95,563
4 Pilgrim57 124,972 14,517
5 davev8 14,013 5,231
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# Name Credit
1 Biffa 1,210,898,783
2 Ba 824,880,655
3 loudbob 460,288,801
4 Borged_by_MGP 215,766,536
5 Andy_Taximan 169,113,183
6 Team_Muck_Spreader 118,003,696
7 Stan_Lite 116,570,089
8 Jumper118 112,168,028
9 dekez 56,745,483
10 Bigstan 52,625,969
11 mark001282 48,198,874
12 ozaudio 45,524,890
13 voicon 45,352,722
14 penfold 39,802,359
15 acme15 39,727,515
16 nutnut 35,091,518
17 diogenese 34,329,703
18 Brown_Sparrow 31,503,147
19 snapsh0t_too 27,523,080
20 LigerZero 24,797,360
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# Name PPD
1 Biffa 1,133,305
2 Andy_Taximan 682,061
3 Jumper118 539,215
4 currob 515,394
5 ozaudio 328,487
6 Brown_Sparrow 248,036
7 divebod 228,265
8 FMTopFan 187,128
9 Senture 66,172
10 CADmunkey 65,028
11 Team_Muck_Spreader 43,671
12 acme15 41,734
13 dekez 41,074
14 FizzyLogic 27,565
15 Ken_Harding 20,249
16 Pilgrim57 17,853
17 BeeCee 17,691
18 JeroenVanLaer 13,562
19 bombay121 11,919
20 Red_and_White 8,180
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SAEID_Persian
sanek

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50,000
CheechWizard

100,000
CADmunkey

500,000
Ken_Harding
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1,000,000
RoryM

12,000,000
currob

13,000,000
FMTopFan

15,000,000
divebod

24,000,000
Senture

31,000,000
Brown_Sparrow

45,000,000
ozaudio

112,000,000
Jumper118

118,000,000
Team_Muck_Spreader

169,000,000
Andy_Taximan

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1,210,000,000
Biffa

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News! All going well here, my 460s although still running fairly hot are stable with a slight overclock. Very tempted to get a 970 instead though...

 

[ozaudio]

thank, I noticed you had started producing again. 970s are brilliant , run very cool and great PPD. even if you don't want a new one you can pick them up for under £200 used!

just look at the best go

Spoiler

 

[currob]

Thanks for the news

 

[dekez]

thank, I noticed you had started producing again. 970s are brilliant , run very cool and great PPD. even if you don't want a new one you can pick them up for under £200 used!

just look at the best go

Spoiler

You're right it makes sense, probably uses the same or less power than the 460s as well. I'll get new as I like the peace of mind of the warranty, for folding purposes is there anything that helps when choosing one card over the other? Higher clocks or more memory etc? Or will a bog standard 970 get you similar PPD as the more expensive ones?

 

[ozaudio]

because they run cool inaway id just look at the cards which offer the best service rather than best coolers, zotac has a 5 year warranty so that's definitely a brand to consider , my self I went for evga which has a 3 year warranty. when I was looking around online most overclocked to 1500mhz easy when boosted, memory clocks does nothing for folding as far as im aware

Spoiler

bargin !!!

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-071-ZT&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1010

 

[colinmcr]

So 4 970's is cheaper than 2 980ti

Which would you choose because I think the 980 would match them for points total per day. But running costs would be greater for 970s would they? I need to try on my watt metre when I get home.

 

[ozaudio]

1. 2 v 4 gpus running 24/7 power costs will be cheaper
2. depends on what work units the cards get 4 x 970 with decent wu will be well over 1million PPD , myn had 340k from one unit as above in the screen shot!!

you already have 2 970s col , thats anything from 250k to 300k + per card depending on o/c and work unit

I think you have the same evga card as I have

found this from another forum in regards to the 980 ( NONE TI ) power draw

My GTX 980 is running at 450K PPD with total system draw of 220W (not including monitor), without the 980 running, my system pulls about 105W - This is in Ubuntu 14.10.
So, go figure about 300+K with a 970 with similar or lower power draw

 

[Jumper118]

because they run cool inaway id just look at the cards which offer the best service rather than best coolers, zotac has a 5 year warranty so that's definitely a brand to consider , my self I went for evga which has a 3 year warranty. when I was looking around online most overclocked to 1500mhz easy when boosted, memory clocks does nothing for folding as far as im aware

Spoiler

bargin !!!

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-071-ZT&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1010

i would spend an extra £10 and get a windforce oc, just because the cooler is much better.

So 4 970's is cheaper than 2 980ti

Which would you choose because I think the 980 would match them for points total per day. But running costs would be greater for 970s would they? I need to try on my watt metre when I get home.

i would choose 2 980ti tbh, because unless you have x99 you will run out of pcie lanes and 4 cards in one rig will get hot unless water cooled.

 

[ozaudio]

ye even the gigabyte has 3 year Warranty and is uk based, which ever 970 you picked would do a decent job as only 1 card wouldn't get to hot inaway and draw less than 2 460s but give 10 times the performance.

 

[dekez]

Cool, thanks for the advice guys

 

[colinmcr]

I seriously need to make my setups more streamlined, as I'm not taking advantage of the motherboards I have really, only using two cards per machine.

Think I'm gonna eventually ditch my z68 and my x2 680 and x2 780ti on MM then put any cash towards populating the spare pci lanes I'll have left over.

I have two boards (Z10PE & x79 Deluxe) capable of taking four cards but I think 3 is enough without having to replace psu's. My X99 will replace my z68 everyday system.

So if I keep to 3 cards per Z10 + X79 and 2 cards x99 that's 8 slots to fill. I can fill 4 of them and have 4 still to populate. The 970 seems like a cheaper quick way to do this or I see what comes along on MM.

Maybe I'm getting a wee bit carried away but I do tend to be rather impulsive, the fact that I made a tidy profit on shares recently is making my pockets burn.

Hey maybe even the freecycle thread might get used I did keep the air coolers for 780ti

 

[ozaudio]

you already have 2 970s col, even just selling of some of your older stuff would pay for 2 more! that's 1000'000 PPD MIN but overclock them abit and itll be more like 1.1 - 1.2 million ppd

arnt the 780ti worth using? look at robs output from his 780ti, still very good, unless you need to fill an ever growing upgrade bug lol

 

[colinmcr]

you already have 2 970s col, even just selling of some of your older stuff would pay for 2 more! that's 1000'000 PPD MIN but overclock them abit and itll be more like 1.1 - 1.2 million ppd

arnt the 780ti worth using? look at robs output from his 780ti, still very good, unless you need to fill an ever growing upgrade bug lol

780 and 970 are very similar true with regards to ppd, I should check the power draw and compare. Told you I'm compulsive...

Update: Seems there is about 70W difference under load, so this suggests ditching 780ti for adding 970s is pointless in real world terms...

 

[ozaudio]

not unless you can sell the 780tis for near what you would pay for a pair of 970s. recent members market shows a 780ti air cooled sold for £200 inc postage, if you could get that plus sell the blocks of aswell then you would be within £30 - 40 of buying new 970s

 

[colinmcr]

I'm just remembering Biffa telling me previously the only compute score that matters for Folding is single-precision implicit. Just looking back at Anandtech reviews as they seem to be only place to use FAHBench.

Nanoseconds per day as follows..
980ti= 316.9
970= 253.8
780ti= 195.1

Seems pretty clear cut looking at that.

 

[ozaudio]

Spoiler

dam I need another 970 !

not sure what hes running but jondi hanluc is steaming away, every update hes dumping a load of points...

 

[hanluc]

You've nothing to worry about Oz, I won't be hitting FAH for long, getting back in the top 20 would be nice however.
I currently have 2 x r 290s which give a nice return, a 7970 which is Ok and a 7950 which is rubbish in comparison.

 

[PDW]

You've nothing to worry about Oz, I won't be hitting FAH for long, getting back in the top 20 would be nice however.
I currently have 2 x r 290s which give a nice return, a 7970 which is Ok and a 7950 which is rubbish in comparison.

Got your new kit sorted out yet ?

 

[hanluc]

Got your new kit sorted out yet ?

Oh don't get me started, RMA replacement has been approved but they're now out of stock next week, hopefully

 

[PDW]

Oh don't get me started, RMA replacement has been approved but they're now out of stock next week, hopefully

Sorry

Still, plenty of time to read the manual on how to get the best out of it