damric

I was happy to see the electrical schematic, but my soldering days are way behind me. I don't have the steady hands I used to as a teenager and my 20s.

I was telling my wife and my friends about your situation when we were all discussing the news. We all hope that you make it back to your home safely. I hate that there is a refugee crisis caused by the whims of old men. We're all looking forward to any progress you make on your project.

Hah I went jogging anyway even though it's like 100% humidity, 85F, and looking crazy tornadoey outside. At least it's not a snow storm like much of the rest of the country this week. But seriously it's really gross out and feels like summer in February today.

We're having some crazy warm weather and with that some weird storms tonight. We just had a brown-out that took down 3 of my machines, including my ETF machine and Michele's ETF machine. I'm going to keep them shut down until I feel confident that the situation is over, which might be tomorrow. Hopefully I do not lose any work units, but I think that they will be fine.

This is awesome international crowd in this thread. I love it.

@axipher Can we try for the 26th and 27th?

Wow I didn't really know what Huntington's was until I just read up on it. Says it affects you at a pretty young age too. I'm glad you found it early, and I hope there will soon be better treatments. Now I understand your passion for keeping our team together.

Interested in your own f@h story when you get time, E.

The title says it all. How did you come about participating in folding@home? For me, I had some curiosity back when I had first joined some of the old overclocking forums back in the day. My buddy @neurotix always told me that folding was the ultimate stability test. So I messed around with it from time to time, but never anything serious until last year when @BWG began looking for testers for the new ETF league here at extremehw. I saw the ETF league as an opportunity to sharpen my overclocking skills, and I had many bumps along the road as I learned that the ETF league was more about endurance than just raw speed. I learned so much from the veterans here, and especially my first team, Out of Beta, that eventually I decided it was time to create my own team, hoping to expand the league a little bit more. Plus, one of my best childhood friends, @JosephStewartPE got very curious about my folding test benches, and I was able to recruit him to my team after we built him a PC. Now I have at least 3 clients folding in our home at any given time. I have my ETF test bench currently running a disappointing Quadro M2000 overclocked darn near +90%, Michele has her GTX 750 overclocked about +40%, and whatever card I'm testing on my extra slot on my main bench. I mostly try and fold on very light power cards, but sometimes I also fold on my Vega64 to help heat the home on cold winter days What about the rest of you?

You still doing dry ice and stuff?

I bet we could find a proper AM2 or AM2+ board to overclock that Brisbane. I think I had the 5400+ version back in like 2007.

Well, I left the voltages unchanged because I was worried about the already many frequent power spikes of up to 120W on the PCIE slot. I figured adding voltage to get another 100MHz would be asking for trouble. I might explore this trouble at a later date though. Things seem healthy enough right now with 65-70W average and the 120W spikes. I'm guessing that normally the clocks would be throttling often to stay under 75W if I had not raised the power limits. The card is under water with sinks on chips and fans flowing on both sides of the card. It stays like 25C while folding, which is great.

1506boost.zip gm206 original.zip

Yeah I should probably DDU and install new drivers. Sometimes I swap hardware around so much I forget, and if it works I probably just left it alone. I'm wondering now if it's actually running on Geforce drivers instead of Quadro...could be the issue...

So glad to hear from you. Glad your immediate family circle is doing well and sorry to hear about the others. Michele and I got sick like right on Christmas for a few days, but luckily it wasn't that severe. The kids got it a couple weeks later, but also not too bad. We've been having meetings with the boss E on how to pick up the folding slack. It might take like 5 of us to somewhat mitigate what you can do by yourself, but I'm pretty sure a good plan is coming in to place. Stay well, and try and de-stress when you can.

Firedfly just showed me how to check that this week, go figure. I'll pay close attention, but is there anything to do if I do see it switch to OpenCL?

What I don't understand is why @mmcdonald12 is still beating me on daily points. She's running a GTX 750, with fewer maxwell cores and about 75MHz slower overclock than the M2000 I'm running. She's killing me in handicap points, but what's more alarming to me is that she's also beating me in real PPD. Is it that the servers are giving her better WUs? We're both set to random WUs, no preference. Edit:I noticed she has a small VRAM overclock. I thought that didn't do anything for folding?

The beginning of the video was realistic enough to suck me in, but once he took the cooler off, well... The GPU socket though, my M2000 has something that looks like a damn AMD CPU socket. I didn't try to remove it, but clearly it's modular design. I appreciate the amount of work that they put into that video, and it did make me laugh.

You'll be missed. I can't believe I missed this post until now. Who is going to fill your shoes?

I was wondering why I was only getting 95% GPU utilization. Well the Ryzen 1600 had a single thread pegged to 100%, so I guessed it was bottlenecking somehow since it was running at default clocks and JEDEC RAM speed. I bumped CPU core to 4000MHz and the RAM up to 3200MT/s and now it's at 100% usage. Who knew folding could get CPU bottlenecked? 5% more utilization means a lot when folding 24/7.

Oh yeah that's always on my mind. I had it running for the last few weeks alongside my Vega64 in my main rig. Now it's moved to it's own board. I keep feeling the slot and the PCB on the board and the card and they are cool. I do have fans pointed on both front and back of the card to help. We'll see if this here B450 board can take it, or if it blows something, welds itself to the slot, or goes up in flames. I'm seriously playing with fire on this one, but you know that's how I roll. I can't wait to see the score in 24 hours. My first for the month's competition was completed by the W4100. As soon as it was done I messaged BWG and he changed it out on the score card. It will be interesting to see either it's destruction or a truly massive amount of ETF points. I need to set up a ring camera so we can all spectate as this speeding train goes off the rails.

Yup I had to retire that W4100. Yes it OC'd almost 100%, and yes it had a crazy multiplier, but it was so damn slow it was barely completing WUs by the deadline and missing out on quick return bonuses. Now I unveil the Quadro M2000. It always feel appropriate to put AMD fans on Nvidia product This could easily become another damric crash and burn story. I edited the firmware on the M2000 to bypass the clocks, but also the power limit was greatly increased. If you look closely at GPU-Z you can see that while it averages ~65W while folding, there are a * load of spikes up to 120W, and this card is only PCIE slot powered

Well I tried modding and flashing Michele's GTX 750 BIOS again. It failed to flash, no matter what version of NVFlash or KBT or MBT I used. It always says sanity check failed. I'm thinking EVGA put some sort of lock on it. I'm not too upset about it, it's already like 40% OC

I was looking at LARS again, and that entry for the GTX 750 Ti is very skewed. It's got it faster than cards like GTX 950, which means that whoever fed the last 500 submissions was juiced to the gills. I suggest switching to another card for ETF. then running that GTX 750 Ti on another key and feed it to LARS at stock clocks. Not the factory overclocks (if any), use the stock clocks for GTX 750 Ti according to techpowerup database which is base 1020MHz, 1085 Boost. Do 500 subs, and hopefully it fixes it since it only counts the last 500 as far as I can see. That should bring the stock PPD back in line to what it should be, which is somewhere between a stock GTX 750 (non-Ti) and a GTX 950, and fix your handicap multiplier so you can fold again on it next month. I hate beating you guys if it's not fair, and that * ain't fair.

Great job team! Since this was our debut month, I couldn't be more proud or happier about our strong performance. @mmcdonald12 I don't think you had any down time this month, which made a huge difference. And I am so glad we finally got @JosephStewartPE sorted out. I'm sorry that W2100 was a bust. In theory with 100% it should have mauled the competition same as my W4100, but it turned out that on the battlefield it was just too slow to complete units reliably. Thank you for your patience and perseverance. You really pushed us in the end when we needed it. I'm heavily considering retiring the W4100 for the same reason. Even with 100% OC it's just slow and can't even get 1 WU done per day.