damric

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

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.

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.

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.

If you need an AMD GPU, I might be willing to part with my golden HD 7850.

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.

Alright I'll login soon. I need to take care of a few things first.

Are we going to do prizes again? If we have no sponsors maybe we can build a pot of our own?

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.

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

For ETF, where you run a card 24/7, I take 3 things into consideration. 1) Power efficiency. You don't want to run up your electricity bill or cause global warming. Otherwise I'd run my VEGA 64 with the power limits unlocked at 1800MHz. 2) Overclock headroom. The handicap multipliers are based on the LARS database which is supposed to be based on base clocks (really it's random as hell). The winners will be the cards that overclock to perform much higher than the LARS baseline. We have figured out that it's best to run a card for a week or so at stock clocks with the LARS dark mode enabled to feed it baseline data before you enter it into competition. Then be sure to disable the LARS dark mode plug-in when you run overclocked or you will bork up your handicap like I did a few months ago because I didn't know any better. 3) Can it effectively complete WUs in a reasonable amount of time. I'm having this problem with my GTX 750. While it is efficient and overclocks well, it seems to have some very gimped compute performance. I'm going to switch back to my HD 7850 as soon as I get my water loop rebuilt, hopefully this week. Michele is having the same problem with her GT 730 so I ordered her a GTX 465 for $25 on ebay. Supposedly Fermi has good compute performance and that model has good OC headroom (in theory) since it has a huge portion of weak shaders disabled from the 480 core. lol the first picture with the baby MSI card actually has all power connectors plugged in, because there's only 2, the CPU and motherboard. I'll take some more pictures this week. If you are curious, it took me about 2 bars of aluminum angle which I cut into 10 inch pieces to fit the 9.5x9.5" mATX motherboard tray. This time I used rivets instead of screws to fasten it together and it's very strong.

@firedfly Michele was offline for about 36 hours while I built her ETF bench from aluminum angle. Ethan spray painted it black. I think it looks mean asf. Ethan said it looks better with the GTX 980, but I told him that's going in Rachel's rig. I did order a better tweaker GPU from ebay for Michele which should hopefully arrive soon to replace this crummy GT 730 which doesn't seem to earn many points despite being juiced to the gills. Here a couple pics with it up and running.

Oh that case is sexy asf.

Honestly BWG needs that bench frame for all of them damn cards he's cooking. On a related note, I'm building another open bench this weekend for Michele and her little ETF rig. Hers has been just sitting on a table.

Ooh I know my son Ethan is going to want this AIO for his Ryzen rig. It looks very good. I love prizes

I need to show that to Michele. She's an even bigger more obnoxious Metallica fan than I am

Already having hardware trouble. Every time I come back it's been crashed. I've been helping with hurricane repairs for my buddies in Louisiana so I do not have time to troubleshoot my etf rig. I moved the card to an empty slot in my main rig as a bandaid measure and set it to fold at stock. Hopefully I'll get some time this week to delve into this further.

Mother of all sandbags those are some high multipliers this month. This should be highly interesting. My goals 1) not explode my etf rig. 2) not drive up the power bill too high and piss off Michele! 3) Bring big points to Out of Beta!

@BWG @zodac @Supercrumpet @firedfly @tictoc Question on the ETF manual rules for hardware swapping, 1x with hardware failures. If your hardware fails and you switch to a back-up card, can you switch back to the original card once you get it in working order? Would that charge you any hardware swaps or would you still be able to do one more swap? Example: My HD 7850 rig exploded last month so I switched over to my Vega 64. That was a freebie swap, right? What if I cleaned up the mess and want to switch back to the HD 7850? Does that charge a swap or would I still have 1 more swap not due to hardware failures?

@BWG @Supercrumpet Michele is pissed about the power bill. No more Vega 64 folding (well unless * breaks again). Next month I will fold on my GTX 750 since I can run that OC'd with very little juice. I know you will have to switch around the AMD/Nvidia/Wildcard slots.

Power is out on the gulf coast, including my folding.

Weird. I have been getting the same USB overload warning on my folding rig. I think windows did something stupid.

I am going out of town for a few days so I dialed my Vega 64 up to +50% power limit from -50%. Finishing strong!

Hah, I was going to post it in EVGA FTW fanboys.