Bastiaan_NL

In Bastiaan_NL I will donate a 1 year Gold Membership! And if we have more than 20 participants for the Competition I'll add a week of folding time on the 2080 super, worth anywhere between 3 and 4 mil PPD

Welcome Chiraq!

Happy and healthy new year everyone

Congrats everyone I hope we'll have a few more guys next month, but we did alright ?

Enjoy the holidays and Merry Christmas everyone! I can't wait for all the improvements here on EHW and what else 2021 has in store for us. Stay safe and

That's cool! How long did it take to print that?

As long as I don't measure the voltage on the GPU PCB after taking it apart we'll never know (I won't if it still works) Taking the extension out made a big difference in the reading, but maybe the real voltage drop is just a fraction of the displayed voltage drop.

A little update, both the +12v wires of the 24 pin connector are 12.16v under load and 12.18v with no load. If I want to check any pins on the back of the GPU I'll have to take the backplate off. So if GPU-Z is reading correct that would mean almost .4v gets lost somewhere in the motherboard between the connector and the PCIe slot, I doubt that. Once the new PSU is in I'll check again.

200w is the same my 5700xt's did. Though I never overclocked them or anything, I've never seen them go beyond 205w. It would be fun if I only received 149xx units, they do a little better than the 13438 units. I could use 3 or 4 laptops but that would only be a delay for the science of F@H instead of helping them It's better to run some efficient hardware, like you are doing right now.

Good to hear that it's working now!

I think the connectors are causing the problems, I don't think 8" long cables will cause that much resistance. Software monitoring is not perfect, I agree on that. But if I pause one client and it goes from 11.4v back to 12v and goes back down to 11.4v as soon as I continue folding that tells me enough. It's a lot better anyways, and as soon as I can shut that system down I'll replace the PSU and see if that fixes the last bit of the voltage drop. If not I'll put the DMM to good use and try to measure the board under load, though I have no idea if this cheap board has any exposed points for that.

I've got to be honest that it's the first time I checked those voltages. Somebody mentioned something about it under a video on Youtube so I added it to GPU-z (I normally only watch a few things like power consumption and load). So I have no idea what it has been doing from day one, though I never had problems like crashes. It was still running strong now, only displaying low voltages from the PCIe slot. The extension cable was on the 24 pin, made it a little easier to route it in a previous build and so I also used in this case. The 8 pin cables are all at 12v under load, pulling 450w total on 2 GPU's of which only 90w divided over the two PCIe slots. So imagine maxing out those slots, the voltage would drop even more. The PSU will be fine for the water cooling testing etc. like you said, but after 10 years of service I don't mind putting it aside

I totally agree with you on that one, but I have some reasons to believe that there is something wrong with the PSU in there (mentioned in the Team thread).

Okay, good to hear. Limiting the power is not a bad thing at all, undervolting and underclocking is something many of the 24/7 folders use to reduce power consumption. I've found a problem on the second system and solved a part of it. The voltage on the PCIe slots was dropping to 11.4v for the upper slot and 11.5v on the lower slot. Turned out it's a bad idea to use an extension cable Now it's still dropping to 11.8v but that's .4v less than before with the exact same load on the upper slot, the lower slot is at 12v. I've got the 5 months old PSU from the main system ready to go in that system to replace the 10 years old PSU and I've installed a new one in the main system. No time to install the PSU in the second system though, competition time

Getting everything ready! Switched the PSU on the main rig, no time to put the 5 months old one from the main in the second system though (I think it needs some rest after 10 years lol).

That looks nice! Over here it's raining and 12°C

@Andrew Which one? @axipher What's that for? I ordered a new PSU for the main system, so the one that's in there can go in the second system replacing the 10 year old HX850w PSU. I don't like having that PSU running 24/7 anymore.. And I also ordered an ADATA 1TB XPG Gammix S70 M.2 SSD. I don't need it at all but that's what you get if you have a few days off... It's rated at double the read and write compared to my Gigabyte Aorus PCIe SSD, let's see if that's true. The M.2 will be the main drive and the PCIe will be the second drive, gives me a bit of room for the stupid large games.

Thanks for the update, and I can't wait for all this to work!

I'm not sure what the reason is, if it has anything to do with the newer units and the Cuda support. The first time I noticed it was while I was finishing both clients to play a game. With the CPU client finished I saw the GPU client increase in PPD. It was always the same thing, give your GPU client 1 core and it has enough CPU power to run everything. But for some reason it is not enough anymore. You can always try it out by pausing or finishing the CPU client and take a closer look at the TPF from the GPU client, at least for 10 frames. I wrote a post about Process Lasso yesterday explaining that the program works perfectly but there is still a decrease in PPD(a little less than without the program) but I hit refresh by accident.... (insert facepalm)

Thanks, I'll download it I only restart the main system if there is a problem, so that startup window shouldn't be a problem!

I should give that a try. Do you use the free version?

I'll have 3 cards ready, maybe another one if the owner is not at home I stopped folding on the CPU's for now, even with 4 cores and 8 threads free for the GPU client it still impacts the TPF by a lot (up to 1.5mil ppd less). There should be a way to bind those cores to the GPU client, so the CPU folding does not delay/interfere the GPU client. Besides that, good units on all 3 GPU's compared to "bad" units makes a difference of over 4 million points.

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