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Thanks. I'm pretty sure he has plenty for both of us. About to send him a pm.

I'm interested in buying that from you unless you convince me otherwise.

The IO is better and clocks higher on these. I'd love to see some bench performance comparisons of what can be done with these on good air/water overclocks compared to the non-g to see if raw io speed can make up for less cache.

IR thermometer no, but I should get one. I used this glue that came with some heat sinks. Way more convenient than that Arctic mess that I used to have to mix the two tubes. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08W1Y4NKL/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 They give you a big tube, worth buying just for that.

I put my ETF rig in my sig for you guys. I left out the graphics card price, but I bought it new for about $150 almost a decade ago lol.

Stock it did not. I cut an old Z170 heat sink to fit and glued it on

I cried. I prayed. I sacrificed. Then I put it back in and somehow it worked. Then I took it out, replaced TIM, put those Z170 heat sinks on it, lots of small aluminum heat sinks, and put it back under water. Really I have no idea why it was crashing. I assumed aging capacitors or a degraded die, but it could have been other problems on my folding bench. Everything on that rig is cheap and sketchy except the PSU now.

I don't long term that my ETF card will be viable. It's been folding balls to the wall for months now on a massive overclock. It's already given up the ghost twice and been raised from the dead, and it's going on a decade old. It wouldn't surprise me if it shits the bed for good tomorrow lol.

Yeah it's an APU, so integrated graphics. Probably the Infinity Fabric making the Ryzen 3200G direct traffic better to the iGPU side.

Yeah I know memory bandwidth isn't needed much for folding on graphics cards, but her iGPU actually seemed like it was severely bottlenecked by the single channel RAM at 2400MT/s and her performance kept climbing as I started bumping the DDR. Maybe because the infinity fabric connecting it all together, who knows.

We had paused it while rough tuning, and I wish I would have paused it while fine-tuning. She lost about 6 hours of her progress after a 3rd crash when finding the iGPU frequency ceiling, but everything seems rock solid now. This was a machine I built last year for the kids doing schoolwork at home and Michele saw the prizes, and the rules, and we had a discussion and she decided to try and do this. She was on a single stick of DDR4-2400 and stock 1250MHz iGPU frequency and I saw that she wouldn't even make the WU deadline. Now she is running dual channel DDR4-3400CL16 and iGPU at 1725MHz. 1750 wasn't crashing but 1775 was, so that gives her a little bit of margin. RAM at 3466 was crashing. It's Micron E so maybe I can tighten up or add more voltage but I don't want her to have any more down time while I tweak that. It seems like she's getting almost 3-4x folding performance now. I think it doubled just from going dual channel. I dialed back CPU core speed and voltage to 2600MHz 0.975v since she's only running on a wraith prism. Temps are good 45C. Her folding rig is sitting right next to mine. I think it's awesome that she's on a team with @pioneerisloud since he was one of my mentors over a decade ago.

Looks like I have the wrong 7870 multiplier again (x44). I should have the 7850 muliplier x59.2 (GPU #142 on lars). Looks like LARS has raised average PPD on Pitcairn Pro, no doubt from few samples and me overclocking. My multi used to be x71

Quite possible. She wants to put that 3200G under water and on an aluminum frame bench just like my folder. She is at stock 1200MHz right now on the Vega 8. Probably mess around with clocks tomorrow. Actually I just noticed a glaring problem. She's got 1.5 days to complete the WU but it says ETA of 3 days. I'm going to help tune her up and hopefully that vega 8 will be viable.

This is awesome that there are more teams. If no one joins in time I can have one of the kids join the forum and fold on something as a placeholder so that your team does not fall behind on points. Deadline tomorrow right?

Hmmm. If it otherwise works and it was a good price, I would consider keeping it. You can find new brackets for dirt cheap. Maybe the seller can even give you a partial refund if it works to go towards a bracket.

@firedfly If you make a new team, my kids said they would "foster" your 2 other team slots until you can find other members, if this is allowed. I might need @BWG to help set me up. They can fold some bobo cards like GT 730 or Vega 7 APU graphics 24/7. I think we would all like to see some more teams entered for more competition.

What are you saying? Do you need one of those disks with 20 free hours of AOL?

What's the status of the stats? @zodac

I actually dialed it back some because it was making that room so hot Back to 1200 core clock (stock is 860). With my luck this card will give up the ghost when the actual competition starts.

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Looks good now. I wonder if you could do some kind of voltage mod to the GT 710.

I'm really happy with the 1080 I bought from Avacado. The only time it ever had to work hard was when I was benching my Vega 64 with power limits unlocked to 450W and it still kept the water cool. With your folding setup I would probably do one 1080 per 3 cards and build a nice rad box, maybe even pipe the radiators outside except in the winter

Wait is that one better?

Ok I'm ready to insert the tip...

My wife might be able to get you a key from her work for an upgraded version. We need you to be able to teamview! She will check Monday. About starting a team, we would need 3 more folders, one to replace me on my team, and 2 more to join the new team. I might be able to convince one of my kids to fold on some other rinky-dink card and OC to the gills, if that sort of thing is allowed.