Folding@home News 8th - 15th October

cadmunkey · 18 Oct 2015 at 18:40

currob said:
Maybe i didn't leave it long enough, patience and patient are not words used to describe me

It could be this actually, they seem to take an age to update properly. My PPD took all day yesterday to re-stabilise after my rebuild.

currob · 18 Oct 2015 at 19:38

currob said:
Maybe i didn't leave it long enough

cadmunkey said:
It could be this actually

I do need to learn to be patient (vaguely remember being made to write that 100 times by a teacher many years ago)

"Idle" and "Light" seem to do the same for me - machine pauses waiting for idle. "Medium" is producing ~300k ppd and "Full" ~430k ppd

Interesting thing is the gpu use, gpu temp and gpu power do not change between full and medium even though the ppd changes so much :confused:

FMTopfan · 19 Oct 2015 at 00:52

Thanks for the update dekez, though you have dropped me out of the Single PC league from the last update - you forgot didn't you?

Btw, my Folding is haphazard with my schedule (I'm hardily in). When it does get running I try to keep it going for a full day or two than every other night, especially since we are doing so well atm.

andy_taximan · 19 Oct 2015 at 05:58

FMTopfan said:
Btw, my Folding is haphazard with my schedule (I'm hardily in). When it does get running I try to keep it going for a full day or two than every other night, especially since we are doing so well atm.

Im hardly ever in but pc runs 24/7, got Team viewer installed so can keep an eye on it from my phone whenever but no need to , just saying lol

dekez · 19 Oct 2015 at 06:32

FMTopfan said:
Thanks for the update dekez, though you have dropped me out of the Single PC league from the last update - you forgot didn't you?

Sorry! Wasn't deliberate honest!

I've added you again

dekez · 19 Oct 2015 at 08:26

I find the stuttering depends on the work unit only some of them cause it. I tend to keep it on full all the time then just pause it if I use the PC and it's stuttering.

FMTopfan · 19 Oct 2015 at 08:49

andy_taximan said:
Im hardly ever in but pc runs 24/7, got Team viewer installed so can keep an eye on it from my phone whenever but no need to , just saying lol

Thanks but my issue is heat related. Home is very well insulated and room with the window open reaches 26C very easily even with temps of 9C outside, can't imagine to think what it would be with it closed :eek:

Thought for a while it would be neat if there was a way to have my rads safely on the outside without corroding and not looking ugly, plus would be very low temps and make the rads passively cooled. Having my window open is annoying but I'll have to make do.

dekez said:
Sorry! Wasn't deliberate honest! I've added you again

Np it happens when you make the umpteenth update, where would be without you

currob · 19 Oct 2015 at 09:32

andy_taximan said:
Im hardly ever in but pc runs 24/7, got Team viewer installed so can keep an eye on it from my phone whenever but no need to , just saying lol

I'd be lost without teamviewer, not having admin rights at work I can use the web based management console to connect to my pc's. I just hope they don't do what logmein did and scrap the free for personal use option.

andy_taximan · 19 Oct 2015 at 19:37

FMTopfan said:
Thanks but my issue is heat related. Home is very well insulated and room with the window open reaches 26C very easily even with temps of 9C outside, can't imagine to think what it would be with it closed

Thought for a while it would be neat if there was a way to have my rads safely on the outside without corroding and not looking ugly, plus would be very low temps and make the rads passively cooled. Having my window open is annoying but I'll have to make do.

Np it happens when you make the umpteenth update, where would be without you

heres how i do it, cant say its neat but it works

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dekez · 19 Oct 2015 at 20:22

^ love a bit of ghetto cooling

currob · 19 Oct 2015 at 20:43

What's actually holding it in position ?

andy_taximan · 19 Oct 2015 at 21:19

Nothing, its just resting in the window, the pipes hold it still

FMTopfan · 19 Oct 2015 at 23:11

Thanks Andy, I like your thinking and certainly one way of doing it

If only I had that type of window I'd do that over the weekend but the single window opens entirely backwards from the top and only by a couple of inches. I didn't mention this but I have two 480 rads that would never fit like that as you'll know yourself from that single 360.

divebod · 20 Oct 2015 at 07:09

Thanks for the news.

cadmunkey · 20 Oct 2015 at 11:26

andy_taximan said:
heres how i do it, cant say its neat but it works

Haha that's a cracking setup lad

currob · 20 Oct 2015 at 17:37

andy_taximan said:
Nothing, its just resting in the window, the pipes hold it still

That must get you some amazing temps in winter !!

andy_taximan · 20 Oct 2015 at 19:59

currob said:
That must get you some amazing temps in winter !!

not just in winter but at night as well ,its better when the wind is blowing , looking forward to a nice freezing cold winter

ozaudio · 20 Oct 2015 at 20:04

the fact your only running one gpu now must have also shaved some temps of aswell

cadmunkey · 20 Oct 2015 at 23:16

andy_taximan said:
not just in winter but at night as well ,its better when the wind is blowing , looking forward to a nice freezing cold winter

My missus and daughter would have a giddy fit if I left windows open in winter

andy_taximan · 21 Oct 2015 at 06:17

When i had my other rig running it kept the bedroom warm enough so the heating was off, now i have covered the open window with tape so now no draughts blowing in tho the heat from the rad is wasted.