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Yeah I ran the dark mode extension. That's how it got messed up and pushed my GPU ranking so high. I was like oooh dark mode what's this looks cool...doht!

No one complained about my HD 7850 over the last 4 months while running the same 40% OC, and that was with a x73 multiplier. Now it's x56. My points should really be 30% higher if the handicap is based on the PPD from the stock clock shipped with an HD 7850, which is 860MHz, not the 1200MHz I run it now. I have higher PPD cards, but I read the rules and saw that the handicap favors overclocking and that's why I chose my HD 7850. Using one of the newer generation cards that have hardly any headroom would best be used for the 3 day foldathons.

At least we're all folding. I was watching the news tonight and it's depressing but we are at least doing something good.

Considering the rules, I'm not sure why anyone would use a modern expensive card with low OC headroom for ETF. Pre-boost era cards with voltage control, particularly ones based on cut-down dies are the way to go for overclocking and getting the most handicap. There is a particular Fermi card I'm thinking of if anyone can guess.

Mine shows up in LARS as AMD 7800 series Pitcairn Pro, which is the HD 7850. Radeon HD 7800 Series Folding@Home PPD Performance - folding.lar.systems FOLDING.LAR.SYSTEMS F@H Radeon HD 7800 Series performance as of 8/11/2021. Averages across all projects PPD:154,031 - Work...

Oh ok that looks cool. Yes I'm going to have to create one of those soon.

I'm looking at the guide. All the pictures are gone. What is HFM? What is the purpose of HFM?

Yeah... Being the folding noob that I am, I was like wow dark mode... Just folding away minding my own business... * why am I ranked over GPUs that are 2x as fast... Then I read the fine print on the dark mode... Ooops

I just let it choose at default. I see a lot of moon shot, but also a lot of cancer. My biggest problem is my multiplier falling from x73 to x56. Is the same thing going to happen with your 960 driving up the ppd in the database? We'll have to alternate cards every month, but that's going to make us all fold even more so good for the cause I guess.

Bags of sand you have

Do you think those moonshot projects would help Michele? Your GTX 960 is sick and your team is rapidly catching up to mine. I'm constantly looking over my shoulder at you.

Or there is the case of my HD 7850 where I kind of screwed myself overclocking hard before the official start of the competition. I'm thinking I'm going to change my ETF card next month, and fold my HD 7850 at stock for a few months or until whenever it corrects itself. I ordered a GTX 750 (non-Ti) for next month's ETF. As soon as it gets here I'm going to fold it at stock to create a baseline. I don't think it has voltage control so I doubt I'll have another epic overclock percentage but it's something. You guys got me addicted to folding now.

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.