Folding@Home News - 5th November - 12 November 2010

Tea, I'd pull back on all the overclocks, get one card working right then bring the second one online and keep an eye on the temps, gpu usage and other graphs in something like EVGA precision or one of the other GPU overclocking tools.

Take it slowly and don't just chuck everything on at once. :D
 
:D yup just sat down with cuppa cha and going to take it nice and easy, will leave evrything at stock untill its all up and running, forgot am 2 gpu down (rma ocuk) so won't be going too mad.
Appreciate the help and advice now go get on with your build we need more pics!!!! :D

By eckers lad i didn't realise it automates the whole thing! I was thinking it was a tracker or monitoring tool just having a read now......
 
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I've had 2 unstable machine failures on the trot with 6811's.
Just removed the overclock on the card to see if I can run them at all.
 
Well fingers crossed, so far the curse of TBagTowers has not struck and am happily folding away. 2 small failures earlier but all stable and running errrr fine.
How do i know once i have picked up a higher scoring wu and are there any particular numbers to look out for? Ta muchly :)
 
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ToxicTBag said:
How do i know once i have picked up a higher scoring wu and are there any particular numbers to look out for? Ta muchly :)
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There's 2 ways to look at scoring 1] higher point WU's & 2] higher ppd WU's which is what you'll probly be interested in ;)
The new 6800 (1298 points) 6811 (7202 points) give lower ppd than the older 10*** units that gave 200-600 points per WU but much better ppd's. As an example the 68**'s give me 10.5-11.5K ppd the older 10*** WU's were giving 14-16K ppd.

As for finding out what units you have you can find that at the start of each log entry or the easier way is it will show in any monitoring software you use eg HFM.net
 
Gotcha Mr Reaver am with it now, all 6800's so far around 13.500ppd. Im using the folding made easy tracker v2, talk about it coming out at just the right time :D
Will resist the temptation to try big adv for 24 hours and if nothing blows i'm in :)
 
Has your ppd dropped email since you started using the gpu tracker?
Seeing as i'm only a few hours into this judging by uncle google and the good folks on this forum am i correct in thinking you stand abetter chance of getting the higher ppd 6811 units if your gpu's ar ran at stock?
I have 470's on a mild o/c 700core fans at 75% if i knocked them back to stock might i stand abetter chance at getting those wu's, there again they would take longer with the gpu's at stock.....oh fiddlesticks decisions decisions...wonder how Mr Biffa's getting on :)
 
Didn't notice earlier but HFM says I've completed 3 before, PPD seems ok says 13,952K :cool:

Its definitely pushing my 470 the heat is rising, good job its under water :p
 
Don't think the clocks make a difference. The only thing i've heard of/seen is that the 6811 runs 15Deg+ hotter on the lower end 450/60's i don't think 470's are having the same issues or if they are they are not a bad but i'd be keeping a close eye if i were you.
So far from what i'm seeing on my system is the 6800 and the 6811 WU's give roughly the same ppd due to the fact that the higher point 6811 unit takes x times longer than the 6800.
 
Well yesterday I was getting over 15k ppd off both cards, and this morning it had dropped to this:
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It's roughly the same output in the new tracker software.

What I don't understand is the different outputs of the cards on pretty much identical units.
Is this right or is there a problem somewhere?
 
Check your core clock on GPU1, looks like it has throttled back. The same thing happened to me a couple of days ago on that unit.
 
With GPU1 @ 0% it may be a dodgy estimate, depending on how HFM is set to work out ppd, but it may be worth checking the card hasn't throttled.

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To slow ;)
 
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