damric

Have you tried tuning a super low power folding profile? I bet you can get amazing points at just 100W. Also put your CPU in ECO mode 35 or 45w and it should also still be very fast.

I'm looking at June 17th-18th for the next foldathon. I'll make a post about 2 weeks prior as usual. Next time we should give away a mug and a coaster from the EHW store.

@NBrock @Alex @Fluxmaven

Congrats @firedfly I'll get with you and get you your ballcap!!! Well done everyone!!!

8 hours to go and a tight race at the top! Who wants the white hat the most?

Also updated the countdown timer link COUNTDOWN TO EVENT STOP

We're going to let the contest continue for another 24 hours since we had a hiccup with the score card. I'll update the OP

I really meant for it to start Friday night I mean Saturday morning at midnight? Yes I really messed up the time zones myself this time around

The score card seems to be doing something now

None.

Seems fine to me on my 56K dial-up

I'm sure you'll make the right decision

BUMP because this is awesome

What's sad is I probably have enough old fans in storage bin to build that myself. I hate throwing away things that function ><

I'm investigating. It's possible that I had a miscommunication with @axipher Let's see what he says. Worst case scenario is that the server didn't start tracking and we have to push the event start back to tonight.

I don't care who you were over there I'm just glad you made it here Now please join our monthly foldathon which starts tomorrow night, and since you are an overclocker I expect you also to join our HWBOT team!!! The discord invite is on the front page!

This card allows only very minimal tuning and follows a rather strict power envelope curve. But that said, I was able to somewhat tune clocks and power limits using overdriventool, and I was able to apply offset voltages using an old version of Sapphire Trixx. I tuned a folding@home profile for efficiency, and at 100W I am still pulling over 800K on project 18717. So 80% of the performance at half the power is good to me. I might be able to drop a few more millivolts, but that's going to need some long term testing. I stuck a fan on the backside of the card over the VRM and socket area, so that might help some when I tune for HWBOT next week.

Getting some good PPD after a bit of tuning:

Yes thank you. It does look way better than those ugly Quadros. My next project is a reference HD 6850 for the HWBOT cheap chips comp next month. I'll begin testing that one this week, but it arrived pretty dirty so I'll need to clean it up and repaste.

What fun is that?

Stock clock max boost is 1500MHz. When folding or doing anything serious it hits power limit and is more like 1200-1300MHz. I can exceed power limits as high as I want with registry tweaks but then the card just eats power and runs hot as hell to boost higher. Yeah I had a Vega 64 running steady at 1800MHz but with extremely cold water like 15C and a 450W power draw It's got a high ASIC quality 94% so I'm going to experiment undervolting and see where that goes. I probably need to add active cooling to the back of the card too sice there's some bare VRMs there.

Well I discovered a nifty program called overdriventool, and it's allowing me to tweak clocks, power, and voltage, so it's all good now.

I spent all morning messing around with it. Since it has no Windows drivers, only Linux, and the one mini-display output is disabled by default, I had two options: 1) Flash it to WX9100. This allows Windows drivers and enables the mini-dp. But there's no clock tuning in the driver like there was for Vega 64 or 56. OR 2) Leave the firmware as MI25 and install a linux distro. Yeah I'm no good at that, and this would also mean no benchmarking, but at least it would fold at stock config. I went with option #1. So now it's folding away happily and says 660K PPD on project 18717, but that's at the default clock/power config which seems to be running around 1200-1250MHz. I know it can do more. I've got to figure out how to unlock clock adjustments. I think I might be able to flash the VEGA 64 FE (16GB) BIOS to it and be able to tune it, but I'll probably lose the mini-dp. Not a big deal since I have it installed with 5600G with integrated graphics, but I don't think that will allow me to run benchmarks on it. I'll have to play around and see. BTW the coolant temp is fine with just the weak 240mm aluminum radiator. 34C while folding. GPU temp 44C, hot spot 70C.