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damric

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  1. On 18201 I am getting 16 minutes 53 seconds. I'll have some time tomorrow to walk you through how to tune it up.
  2. I sure would like to see what you can get out of yours
  3. The network print spool updates have pretty much crippled AIRBUS, where every time they deliver a plane they need to print out half of the internet in legal forms because god forbid they use electronic copies.
  4. Yeah it's bad enough for regular consumer users like me, but you should see the havock these updates cause at my wife's work place. They try to lock them down, block them, then one of the higher ups will let an update come through and break thousands of machines from printing or accessing email servers.
  5. Yeah I don't know what settings the 5000+ samples were running but I imagine they were running into power limits and RAM bottlenecks, both by channel interleaving and frequency. Michele was getting like 10k ppd before with single channel.
  6. I'll take some pictures of the BIOS settings next time I need to restart, but here is a screenshot and you can see the clocks and scary voltages:
  7. Running 1725MHz core with 2x8GB DDR4 @3466CL16 under water with high voltages, not constrained by the weak power limits. Stock for this CPU is 1100/JEDEC, and god forbid someone were to run single channel RAM @2133MHz, the PPD would be terrible, especially if they did not unlock the APU power limit since the 35W or 65W is a shared limit for the iGPU and CPU sides. Now on the other hand, the newer VEGA 8s are OC beasts, hitting 2400MHz typically. Imagine if I get my hands on one of the new APUs with better memory controller and fabric clocks. Luckily for you, I can't quite finish a WU every day, more like 3 WUs per 5 days is what I'm estimating. When Michele ran this APU for a couple weeks I noticed her PPD was *, but she was running it at stock configurations and one stick of RAM. Then the other day after the power outage I was setting up to return with my HD 7850 on the same rig. I turned on F@H and of course it started folding on everything, so I watched, then I noticed the PPD with 2 sticks of RAM was a lot better. Then I OC'd the RAM from 2133 to 3466MT/s and it was MUCH better. Then I tuned the GPU up. 1750 seemed like the ceiling when it started to crash so I dialed it back to 1725MHz. I simply unplugged the PCIE cable from the HD 7850 after it was finished, so it's just a dead card in the loop now. The iGPU, even with massive overclocks still seems more efficient than any card I own except that GTX 750. If you are interested, I'll let you remote into the rig so you can see exactly what's goin on in there.
  8. It's an actual person who will get pissy and try to dodge your questions about why nothing is in stock yet miners are still buying cards by the pallet direct from AIBs. Do drop them a few comments https://www.amd.com/en/direct-buy/us
  9. I'm an Elite member and I never get a notification despite being on all of the waiting lists. But...now I figured out how to inject AMD FSR into pretty much any game so I don't think I need a GPU upgrade now
  10. Aww hell yeah Case badges, dog tags, t-shirts, ball caps, velcro patches, pens, ect. I have a contact in Poland that 3D prints some very good case badges on Etsy for cheap. Link
  11. Yeah I guess the last time I folded on Fermi was a decade ago with a GTX 460. I only wasted $25 on that card so I'm going to give it away if I can repair the cooler. The fans are very weak and the card runs extremely hot. If I can't repair it for next to nothing then it's going to Ethan's random bin of experiments which is the last stop before recycling
  12. No. I had no idea. I just got into the habit of nuking the unwanted slot immediately if it started up. On one of my test benches it always tries to activate the CPU slot even when I remove that slot and save. On another note, that GTX 465 is a wash. Apparently F@H no longer works with Fermi cards due to open cl requirements. I thought they used CUDA, but the forum staff over there told me that's why it is disabled.
  13. We just had a pretty extreme pop-up thunderstorm with lots of lightning and it made the power go out for a few seconds. This took all of my rigs down so I 'm taking this time to re-organize all of my cards. I pulled my GTX 750 out of my main rig and I'm putting it on one of the test benches by itself, so I won't have to worry about that slot keep getting activated again every time I start the program. The bench I'm putting it on is Michele's, so I'm pulling off that god-aweful GT 730 and giving her the GTX 750. I'm going to go back to a radeon, something more efficient. I'll alert BWG but it looks like Michele and I will not be folding for a couple days until I get this sorted out. This happened at a bad time because some other family emergency just popped up as well, and of course I already have everything half-disassembled. The good news is that once these machines are back up they should be very lean and mean. @BWG @Supercrumpet @firedfly damric -> radeon gfx902 (vega8 Ryzen 3200G) MicheleEHW -> GTX 750
  14. I don't, but I'll double check. Every time I restart F@H it tries to fold on my Vega 64 but I nuke it within a few seconds as it's become a routine. I think the 20 million point day was when I must have completed 2 work units in a 24 hour period. Usually it can barely get 1 in 1 day, and sometimes it takes 2 days to get one WU. It's very inconsistent, which is frustrating.
  15. I haven't kept up with the scores this month other than checking in myself. What's going on? I know you have an awesome Kepler Quadro or something. Does it overclock like mad? I'm testing out a GTX 465 that just arrived. The card works great but for some reason it always says disabled when I try to fold. I am going to try some ancient drivers and hopefully that will make it work with Windows 10. I fed my HD 7850 to LARS at stock clocks for a week and it finally brought the PPD down below the 7870 yesterday in the database. I'm not sure which card I'll use next month. My GTX 750 gets descent points but is very frustrating because it can only complete a work unit every 2-3 days. Michele also wants me to give her one of the good tweaker cards too since her GT 730 is very underwhelming even with a huge overclock.
  16. I'm glad things are looking up! I'm also glad you are not in the Amazon warehouse. One of my friends recently started working in a UPS warehouse in Atlanta, Georgia and he couldn't tolerate the heat so he resigned after a week.
  17. If you need an AMD GPU, I might be willing to part with my golden HD 7850.
  18. You wouldn't have to worry about that. We are all aware of your situation. On that note, here's a couple of my ideas: $10 entry fee, or maybe better yet we make it a $50 team fee. Winning team gets a cut and the trophy, and each category winner gets a cut, and the forum gets a cut. Could easily do that every month. Is that even legal? I mean they are doing that with Magic cards every Saturday on a much larger scale at the gaming place down the street. Also thinking people might want to donate used stuff or unused extra stuff.
  19. Alright I'll login soon. I need to take care of a few things first.
  20. Are we going to do prizes again? If we have no sponsors maybe we can build a pot of our own?
  21. Up and folding now. My GTX 750 seems to be doing well in etf, so right now my test bench is just crunching the regular stuff, no overclocks.
  22. I've been working on getting my cheap asf water cooled test bench back online over the last week. Success! Even the Radeon HD 7850 is working. In the future I might switch back to that. For now I'm going to feed the LARS database some stock 860MHz numbers. It looks like my GTX 750 is finally starting to shine, as it just overtook @BWG in the wildcard category, despite sitting out the first week. I think there's also something like a 40% OC on that card, but only at like 40W board power, so I'm pretty happy with that, even though it can barely finish a work unit every couple days
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