damric

I have my main rig up and crunching, but with some limits set to keep the heat in check. Ryzen 5950X folding on 24 of 32 logical cores and in ECO mode. RX 6900XT at about 100-120w. Would be better if I just used all the watts for the GPU but I want to give some of those CPU-only work units some love.

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That board sounds awesome. I hope that clock gen let's you push it. I have been browsing AM5 boards. The good ones are so freaking expensive!

I really don't remember but I think it was actually some nvidia branded utility you could download from the official nvidia site.

I remember something like that for an nforce laptop I had a very long time ago. I was able to overclock an old athlon like that and the ram too. I wonder if it's actually the same software. Must have been more than 15 years ago.

Try using just your single strongest GPU at a low power tuning like 125W. You should be able to get a respectable about of points and not heat up the house or run up the power.

That's awesome! I hope you can get these benched in time.

erythritol and sorbitol cause problems for me but sucralose doesn't give me issues

Yeah been a long time but we used to do that when I was in the navy. We could buy loose oolong tea in Singapore or wherever and brew it in jugs tied somewhere on the deck.

I do brew a fair amount of tea, but not typical tea and I always cold brew it anyway, usually right in my 64 oz stein. Lately I prefer Bengal Spice, but sometimes I do peppermint. No sweeteners or anything added. No caffeine in those, more like nice flavored water.

Not much of a coffee guy but I do drink 1 monster zero every morning. Michele, on the other hand, is a coffee nut. She has the expensive bean grinder, ninja brewer, and is very particular about what beans she gets.

Updated original post with prizes that were donated. If anyone else has anything else cool to give away, shoot me a p.m.

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Welcome to the ExtremeHW 48-hour Folding Competition, August 19-20th 00:00 *UTC* Countdown to Event Start Countdown to Event Stop ^^CLICK THOSE IF YOU LIVE SOMEWHERE NOT UTC TIME ZONE^^ How to participate: During the competition you must be folding for Team 239902 You must post in this thread with "IN" followed by your folding username (if different than forum name) for prize eligibility. Stats: You can view the stats for the foldathon here: https://ehwfoldingstats.lazypenguin.com Prizes: p.m. @damric if you have something suitable to give away* @neurotix is offering two paypal grift cards of $50 and an EXTREMEHW Mug from the official store. He said each of these are random draw with 5 WUs completed to qualify. Folding Time Prizes: tbd Excluded from Prizes: damric, firedfly. iamjanco, Cerberus Mind the EVENT START TIMER as it is UTC time zone. Note: Stats are updated as soon as possible, but less frequent than desired. Just keep folding! Note: Extreme Team Members remember to use a different pass key than your ETF key (If you don't know what that is then it probably does not apply to you). Folding is stressful on hardware, and will often break an overclock unless it's been tested with folding. I do not recommend overclocking high end GPUs as the power draw can be extreme while folding. If anything, try tuning for energy efficiency. Casualties happen and EXTREMEHW can not be held accountable if you destroy your hardware while folding. Thank you for your participation! *must be approved so please send message in private before posting.

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=u8aXJPGsno8&feature=share Was pumping iron to Sepultura this afternoon.

Play around with lowering the memory clocks if you can. Folding isn't very bandwidth intensive compared to gaming or mining, so finding the spot where you can drop the RAM clock and keep the same performance will also save some watts.

Bump for @mx500torid This is very relevant with people's power bills exploding during this heat wave. This helps especially if you have a high tier, high TDP graphics card, and even more so if you have multiple. For the last several folding contests I was running my RX 6900XT at less than half power but getting about 80% of the ppd. Not heating up the office during the summer!

Who's bringing the bag of prizes next month?

Avacado makes the video. I post the video. You watch the video Next is probably the weekend of August 19th, but that date isn't firm yet. I will make an official announcement at the beginning of the month.

Congrats!

@Avacado @Bastiaan_NL is this true we can't just disable cores?

Alrighty, I pm'd @tictoc to pick his winner for the graphics card. For my donated prize, it looks like the t-shirt is not available at this time so I'm switching that to either a hat, or a mug+coaster. The winner of that is @HaRdLy007 so Jeff pick the design you want from the EHW store and PM me. For next month I'm looking around August 19-20th and I'll announce that around the beginning of the month or so. Thanks everyone for the great work!

Indeed. Some humongous amounts of points and work units! I'll roll the dice for my random winner tomorrow after I confirm with @ENTERPRISE about the t-shirt. @tictoc would you like to draw your winner yourself? If not, @Avacado has a cool wheel of fortune thing he can spin for you.