Folding@Home News 3rd - 10th December 2010

Biffa · 13 Dec 2010 at 15:40

Speed said:
Yeah maybe, but the system has hung again with no GTX480 Overclock. Hmms...

It should be ok at stock, did you reinstall the drivers? Sometimes that helps.

It could be power, you got an i7 overclocked in there? Probably pulling close to 300W plus a GTX480 which will pull near 300W on its own when under heavy load, add a few bits and pieces on the rig and your well into the upper, non efficient end of what a 750W PSU is capable of handling cleanly. Age of the PSU could have an effect on its efficiency and performance as well.

Speed · 13 Dec 2010 at 15:49

Yeah I did when I swapped the cards around.

I expect it is the PSU, TX750s are normally pretty good but the system is pushing it: 2 x GTX460 OC 900Core, 1 x i7 920 @ 4GHz and 1 x GTX480 @ Stock.

Frozennova · 13 Dec 2010 at 17:02

Biffa, just noticed you mention that the redwings are pap on rads, what did you replace them with out of interest as I'm going to be reworking my loop shortly with new fans, tube route and possibly get rid of my EK 240 rad and replace it with a Thermochill.

Biffa · 13 Dec 2010 at 18:12

Well, on weebeastie I have all Scythe Gentle Typhoons which are probably the best 120mm x25mm radiator fans for static pressure and controllable noise. They are hard to find sometimes and cost more than many other fans. Other good fans are Yate Loons (cheap but effective) & Akasa Apache blacks (mid price range)

My experience and opinions of course, from the research and testing I have done myself, other people will obviously have other ideas, some people swear by 38mm thickness fans, and I have 3 38mm Yates Loons of them on my 360 radiator just out of my own inquisitiveness, they work ok but have a different harmonic sound.

Sometimes its not just about performance, its about what will fit, same thing applies to tubing and radiators.

Biffa · 14 Dec 2010 at 02:42

Woot! World #40 for PPD, looks like today is going to be my biggest output so far

loudbob · 14 Dec 2010 at 03:55

Ah, but I see Stompy is coming along nicely - even if it's only till the new year

Biffa · 14 Dec 2010 at 08:47

loudbob said:
Ah, but I see Stompy is coming along nicely - even if it's only till the new year

Yep stompy will be awesome :eek:

and if it doesn't look like its going to make it to the mill I'll throw my lot in for the ride too

But back to today, or rather yesterday.

Code:

	   Daily Production
Day 		Points 		WUs
12.13.10 	340,039 	61

That was 3 bigadv's all completing on the same day :cool:

dekez · 14 Dec 2010 at 09:20

Biffa said:
Woot! World #40 for PPD, looks like today is going to be my biggest output so far

Congrats Biffa that is an amazing achievement :cool:

Any more plans for expansion?

BaBa · 14 Dec 2010 at 09:34

Have to say Mr Biffa you are going on very nicely :eek:

Biffa · 14 Dec 2010 at 09:53

It is going to be up and down, I think my PPD will average out around 210-210K with 300K+ spikes when bigadvs finish on the same day, also some days will be sub 100K when there are no bigadvs on the rare occassion they run out or I take down a machine for maintenance (or overclocking testing)

However the SR-2 is doing a bigadv in under a day so hopefully sub 100K will not happen much. There is maybe 30-40K more per day I can squeeze out but then thats going to be it unless I convince someone to give weebeastie an SR-2 upgrade

Hmm.. sell 4 x GTX470's, a i7 970 and P6T7 WS.. thats almost half way there

I could sell the concept on the power savings alone!

Speed · 14 Dec 2010 at 11:37

Hmm, getting Error: Bad packet type from server on my 460s. Solved one by deleting work folder and the queue file. But this other one is still not getting any new WUs.

Looks like they are out of WUs.

Biffa · 14 Dec 2010 at 12:37

Same with one on weebeastie, other three seem fine. But gpu0 ran out of work and is now paused. Gonna remote in and kick it.

dekez · 14 Dec 2010 at 13:05

Seems ok for me *touches wood*, I picked up one WU at 11:26 and another at 12:46 on my 460s.

Speed · 14 Dec 2010 at 13:44

My second 460 is backup thankfully, had to restart it a few times but it finally got a WU.

Biffa · 14 Dec 2010 at 13:57

Mine ok now

Marine Iguana · 14 Dec 2010 at 20:24

Doing some Folding getting system back up on it's feet going OK so far

Edit: Does HFM.net have a problem knowing what project 6806 is as it show as unknown core and has no PPD and I have updated the psummary file for it

Its a GPU workunit.

Biffa · 14 Dec 2010 at 23:47

Mine knows what it is :confused:

What version you running?

Project ID: 6806
Core: OPENMMGPU
Credit: 1348
Frames: 100

Name: Mars GTX 460
Path: D:\fah\gpu\
Number of Frames Observed: 68

Min. Time / Frame : 00:01:36 - 12,132.00 PPD
Avg. Time / Frame : 00:01:37 - 12,006.93 PPD
Cur. Time / Frame : 00:01:38 - 11,884.41 PPD
R3F. Time / Frame : 00:01:37 - 12,006.93 PPD
All Time / Frame : 00:01:37 - 12,006.93 PPD
Eff. Time / Frame : 00:01:38 - 11,884.41 PPD

ToxicTBag · 15 Dec 2010 at 00:02

Evening chaps, quick question Mr Biffa sorry to interrupt. I have looked all over and cannot find the waterblocks you used on gemini, i don't want it to look like a Gemini clone but i was taken with the blocks

Biffa · 15 Dec 2010 at 00:09

CPU blocks?

The ones I sent back or the ones I used, which are EK-Supreme HF Acetal+Nickel

The ones I sent back were Kryos XT;s

ToxicTBag · 15 Dec 2010 at 00:12

Yeah the cpu water blocks i know they were ek? But all i can see when i search is the nickel ones etc

Ahh thank you for that yes the ones you used they were nice eye candy i must admit.