[ Folding ] We only need 13,000ppd more to start catching ABXzone

miniyazz · 20 Nov 2009 at 16:20

Just got myself set up. Only running one core (in sig) because it's a compromise between quietness and performance.. and what with Firefox eating up one core half the time, this eating up another, KIS eating up another half the time, I already average 50 odd % CPU usage and any more, and I'll have to put my fans up a notch (temps high 60s, fans minimum). Anyway, every little helps.
Also got two 8600GTSs going on full - though I doubt they have much folding power?

Mid 60s temps.

Biffa · 20 Nov 2009 at 16:28

It all adds up mate

miniyazz · 20 Nov 2009 at 16:29

Biffa said:
It all adds up mate

How long does it take for this or this to update? Assuming they're the right pages..

Biffa · 20 Nov 2009 at 16:32

Not sure about the stanford one but the extreme site only updates like once a day on the main stats calculations

miniyazz · 20 Nov 2009 at 16:36

Biffa said:
Not sure about the stanford one but the extreme site only updates like once a day on the main stats calculations

Cool

I'm aiming for top 40 ppd/day for the moment.. though that might be a bit optimistic, who knows :confused:

vertica · 20 Nov 2009 at 18:01

.walls said:
Cool, thanks.

btw: coming past in about 2 weeks - i'll only be there for about a week, so I'll try not to leave too much of a mess in your cell when I leave

you may be in that cell faster than that!

I'm having some hard-lock issues with my VM - my machine is IBT, prime and memtest stable, but locks up after a random period of time using the VM. can be days or minutes :mad:

As a result my ppd has been al aver the place this week. CBA to sort it atm, so back to gpus only. My rig will be off for 3-4 weeks in december too.

miniyazz · 20 Nov 2009 at 18:04

I may have been somewhat pessimistic about my 8600GTSs, they're on ~1850PPD each, lol.

vertica · 20 Nov 2009 at 18:21

miniyazz said:
I may have been somewhat pessimistic about my 8600GTSs, they're on ~1850PPD each, lol.

that looks about right to me.

Happy · 20 Nov 2009 at 19:09

I moved to Win 7 proper from the RC and I have lost around 500PPD off every type of WU using the same drivers, which is what I what rambling about before.

.walls · 21 Nov 2009 at 14:49

vertica said:
you may be in that cell faster than that!

I'm having some hard-lock issues with my VM - my machine is IBT, prime and memtest stable, but locks up after a random period of time using the VM. can be days or minutes As a result my ppd has been al aver the place this week. CBA to sort it atm, so back to gpus only. My rig will be off for 3-4 weeks in december too.

what hypervisor are you using? If the rig is stable on prime/ibt/etc... it might be worthwhile trying a different one.

eggcup · 21 Nov 2009 at 17:11

helloo all, just switched from custom pc to ocuk, with my 260gtx

dekez · 21 Nov 2009 at 18:11

eggcup said:
helloo all, just switched from custom pc to ocuk, with my 260gtx

welcome to the team!

custom pc have got to many folders anyway

.walls · 21 Nov 2009 at 18:13

eggcup said:
helloo all, just switched from custom pc to ocuk, with my 260gtx

Welcome! and good choice (balance out the power, etc!)

=D

Happy · 21 Nov 2009 at 22:16

Welcome to team 10

Marine Iguana · 21 Nov 2009 at 22:20

Hello and welcome may your stay be long and fruitful

miniyazz · 22 Nov 2009 at 00:14

Odd. It appears my 8600GTSs don't like running 100%, 24/7. Temperatures are steady at 59/63ºC respectively - which I think is perfectly reasonable? - but after a few hours, they artefact. First one did it, I turned down the core usage to c. 90-95% (whatever the second-to-full usage in the nvidia folding@home config is) and so far so good, but the other just started artefacting + calculation failure. Guess I'll turn that down a notch too and see how I go :confused:

any thoughts? They're both at stock clocks.

Also, any way of 'resetting' the GPU without having to restart? It's kindof annoying

vertica · 22 Nov 2009 at 00:28

.walls said:
what hypervisor are you using? If the rig is stable on prime/ibt/etc... it might be worthwhile trying a different one.

I've just run another bout of stability checks, inc 40 passes of IBT using all available ram, memtest and prime also still clean, so my rig is stable!

I'm currently using VMware player 3.0 - the latest release with true multicore support and the ability to create VMs. Running a Notfred disk on the VM.

The really odd thing is the machine has never locked up on me whilst i've been using it. It seems to get 'lonely' when i'm not there, lol. The lockups are less frequent if i leave music playing or somethign that seems to be activity, so maybe its a power saving detection in the VMware?

I'll try running a true linux distro at some point, unless anyone has any other suggestions for good VM hosts?

dekez · 22 Nov 2009 at 10:18

VMware was freezing on me on occasion, I'm using Ubuntu and the screen saver was set to go blank.
After turning this off and the power management a couple of days ago, touch wood I haven't had any lockups yet so could well be the case.

theheyes · 22 Nov 2009 at 15:17

Can anyone give a quick run-down on what hardware generates what ppd these days?

Are Ati cards still lagging behind nVidia cards? What is the best bang per buck graphics card to use? Is CPU folding still way behind GPU folding? Do people still use the dual VM method to work their Quad cores?

I've been out of the loop for a while and don't fold 24/7 anymore (nor have a dedicated folder) so it would be nice to know what the current climate is. When I took my eye off the ball the 8800GT was a good card to use.

Unfortunately I'm not planning to buy any new hardware - purely out of interest.

miniyazz · 22 Nov 2009 at 15:23

theheyes said:
*snip*

I'd be interested to know this too. For comparison: from experience, an 8600 GTS does c. 1850 PPD; a Q6600 @ 3.45 does about 275 PPD per core, depending on the workload.