damric

Welcome to the ExtremeHW 48-hour Folding Competition, June 17th-18th 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. Stats: We will be using a different stats tracking site for this foldathon. 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* @iamjanco is donating one matching EHW Mug and Coaster, and a hat for top score (see below he said no cloud GPUs). @Hequaqua is donating one box of Masterkleer PVC Tubing 10' 3/8" ID 1/2" ID new in box from FrozenCPU. This will be a random prize to anyone who completed 5 WUs and he is happy to ship it wherever you are, as long as it is in the USA. Folding Time Prizes: tbd Excluded from Prizes: @Alex 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 participating in foldathon.

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.