damric

Need to summon of the ancients like @BWG @Avacado @tictoc @axipher @Supercrumpet @firedfly If no one can help, I'll see if I can remote into your PC tomorrow. I've never dealt with dual CPU boards so I could do as much harm as good but I really want it to work for you.

Close enough

Yeah man. For this competition I'm running CPUs as well as GPUs. In theory the F@H server will assign smaller WUs so they have a chance to complete them. I do leave a couple logical cores unassigned to help "feed" they other CPU cores and GPUs. You can change that in the advanced, edit, change the (-1) to whatever you want on each slot.

You aren't on one of our 24/7 Extreme Teams right? If not, you're good. If so, then yes, use a different key. If not, we need a couple spots filled if you are interested in folding 1 piece of hardware 24/7.

I have 16 drives on hand today. More than likely you'll get one. I'm hoping there's at least one to go around to everyone that wants one. But there may be extra, depends on turnout. Oops I miscounted. There's 15 drives, and apparently a random DDR4-2400 SoDIMM if someone needs that instead lol.

About 8 hours to go fellas. I have enough SSDs to give away to at least the top 10 or so.

Yeah you can customize your slots in the advanced view. A lot of folks that fold 24/7 don't bother with CPU folding since it's not that efficient, but if you have cores to spare it will earn some extra points and work units during our 48 hour foldathon. I've never had a board with two CPUs like that but it looks awesome. I found that it's good to leave a couple cores open to feed the working cores and GPUs. So like on my 8c/16t CPU I fold 6c/12t, otherwise I don't get good GPU utilization. Also it's good to tune for power efficiency instead of just balls to the wall clocks so you don't run up the light bill.

You can dive right in by downloading the client on whatever machines you plan to fold. Be sure to get a key with your folding username, and be sure to enter our team number 239902. But yeah the guides are good, though for me I had to ask a lot of questions as well, and I still do.

You sure you don't need any SSDs for folding rigs?

You need to cheat more effectively. You guys till in 3rd

I have some 256GB NVMe PCIE Gen 3 drives to give away. These are OEM drives that were too small so they got upgraded. But, I know they are useful for dedicated crunching machines that just need an OS and f@h so at least 3 drives will be awarded here every month until I have none left to give away. No warranty on these, and no M.2 screws, but they are new or barely used and I will test them before I mail them out.

I think it's just a Ryzen 3000 limitation. I saw the same thing on my 3600. Write speed is just crap.

4x8GB of Micron E

Ryzen 5500 is a poor choice for a new build but it's godly for a drop-in upgrade for existing older Ryzens. I'm considering upgrading all of my $85 Ryzen 1600AFs to Ryzen 5500s, just based on what I'm seeing with the gains on this 5600G sample I recently obtained. It smashes my Ryzen 3600 at everything despite half the L3 cache and overclocks nicely. Heck it's even beating my 2700x at multicore.

Since the F@H servers failed last month, we are carrying over the prizes to this month. @axipher please do your thing

Welcome to the ExtremeHW Folding Competition, Saturday April 23rd Countdown to Event Start Countdown to Event End ATTENTION Extreme Team Folding Participants: Please make sure you do not fold anything under your ETF GPU Passkey except for the GPU you are participating in the event with. You need to use a 2nd passkey to fold anything else in this event. In the spirit of folding for the cause and good old friendly competition between members, we are hosting another folding competition. For more details please see below. 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. Prizes: $25 PayPal @ENTERPRISE- Won by TBD (4 winners) SSD @damric I have some SSDs to give away (see post below) Folding Time Prizes: TBD Excluded from Prizes: damric, avacado, hacksword, Bastiaan_NL, mmcdonald, JosephStewartPE, Enterprise All "Folding Time" prizes will require your username/passkey to be given to the donator, this will not give them any of your personal information, it just let's them be able to contribute full points to your username. Passkeys need at least 10 full Work Units to start getting the full Quick Return Bonus. Alternatively, you could setup another passkey for your Folding@Home username with a different email address and fold your first 10 units on that. This would still put the points towards your username, but they would also be tracked by a different passkey. Please note all winners must claim within 30 days from announcement of the winners. Current Event Stats: Team overall stats Note: Stats are updated every hour at XX:25 for previous hour of submitted Work Units. The first update at 00:25 AM UTC will set the "zero" for your points based on all the WU's submitted up to 12 AM UTC. Good luck to all!

Michele has the same RAM in silver and she's been building PCs since before many of you were born, just sayin'

Ok this is CPU-Z-Bench-Stable AMD Ryzen 5 5600G @ 4783.35 MHz - CPU-Z VALIDATOR VALID.X86.FR [8frhui] Validated Dump by damric (2022-04-11 16:57:15) - MB: ASRock X470 Taichi - RAM: 32768 MB

Ok so I ironed out a very good stable 24/7 overclock on this Ryzen 5600G. I'm still working on max bench overclock, but this is perfectly stable with 104 base clock + PBO. Interesting that it beats the new i5. AMD Ryzen 5 5600G @ 4627.37 MHz - CPU-Z VALIDATOR VALID.X86.FR [xv2vk6] Validated Dump by damric (2022-04-11 16:20:49) - MB: ASRock X470 Taichi - RAM: 32768 MB

You want me to just estimate? I can change your points for that day from 24million to 6.5million. zodac told me to just manually subtract 17.5 million. If that seems fair I'll go ahead and do that.

Looks unanimous but only 8 votes so I'm guessing no one else really cares that much. Anyways I'm looking at weekend of 22-23rd for the April foldathon. I'll have an announcement for that this week.

I'll look into it when I get back from vacation. Most likely we can substitute your normal daily average for the messed up days. I remember messing up mine like that before and BWG fixed it.

Yeah the basic Nvidia driver controls haven't changed in a long assed time, but also yeah if you want something that looks better you need to install the whole experience thing, which looks very much like and feels similar to newer AMD drivers in functionality.

Ok so part of the improvement work was for Michele's ETF rig. I pulled out her Ryzen 3 3200G and put a Ryzen 5 1600AF in there. I also got some cheap water cooling parts direct from China which I was going to give to Joe, but Michele decided she wanted them (sorry Joe). So now her GTX 750 is under water and folding away overclocked and her GPU core is room temperature with this 240mm aluminum radiator. Hopefully these folding machines don't go down while we leave to go on our vacation this week

I need to shut down mine and Michele's ETF rigs a little early tomorrow for some maintenance and upgrades. Replacing that 3200G with the 2700X I pulled out of my main rig. Hopefully it behaves a bit better or the 3200G will go right back in.