etf Team 1D10T5

[damric]

We are TEAM 1D10T5

 

 

@damric Wildcard/Captain Quadro M4000

@mmcdonald12 Quadro M4000

@JosephStewartPE Radeon HD7950

 

 

Edited May 14, 2023 by damric

[BWG]

@damriccan you make a new thread that's formatted the way the others are so I can pin it as official? Add the red etf tag too.

 

 

[damric]

15 hours ago, BWG said:

@damriccan you make a new thread that's formatted the way the others are so I can pin it as official? Add the red etf tag too.

 

 

Ok let me try and figure this out

 

Ok I edited this thread. Let me know if we are in compliance

Edited January 7, 2022 by damric

[zodac]

On 31/12/2021 at 12:28, damric said:

We are TEAM 1D10T5

 

 

@damric Wildcard/Captain W4100

@mmcdonald12 Nvidia GTX 750

@JosephStewartPE AMD W2100

 

 

Why are you idiots when you're asking the *real* questions? 

[damric]

2 hours ago, zodac said:

Why are you idiots when you're asking the *real* questions? 

 

[damric]

Well dang. We're having a severe thunderstorm and power went out for half a second, enough to reset every computer in the house. All of my clients were able to save the work units except my etf rig, so probably lost a day's worth of work on this W4100. On the bright side I might have some better cards for the team soon.

[BWG]

On 09/01/2022 at 19:59, damric said:

Well dang. We're having a severe thunderstorm and power went out for half a second, enough to reset every computer in the house. All of my clients were able to save the work units except my etf rig, so probably lost a day's worth of work on this W4100. On the bright side I might have some better cards for the team soon.

 

Maybe at some point, you can swing a decent battery backup to send those blips away and carry on!

[damric]

28 minutes ago, BWG said:

 

Maybe at some point, you can swing a decent battery backup to send those blips away and carry on!

Battery probably costs more than the card I'm folding on which was $20 on ebay 

[mmcdonald12]

Yay we took the lead.  We rock!!!!

[Avacado]

[BWG]

On 29/01/2022 at 21:52, mmcdonald12 said:

Yay we took the lead.  We rock!!!!

 

What a great accomplishment!

 

 

[damric]

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.

 

 

[damric]

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 

Edited February 3, 2022 by damric

[Avacado]

35 minutes ago, damric said:

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 

I would be more worried about your MOBO PCI-e slot than the card. That card can handle 120w no problem if properly cooled. 

[damric]

4 minutes ago, Avacado said:

I would be more worried about your MOBO PCI-e slot than the card. That card can handle 120w no problem if properly cooled. 

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.

[Avacado]

2 hours ago, damric said:

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.

Be careful before you also end up with a fire avatar. :)

[Avacado]

I really need to recreate those EHW toe tag stickies. Throwback pic!

 

 

Edited February 4, 2022 by Avacado

[damric]

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.

[damric]

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?

 

Edited February 9, 2022 by damric

[Avacado]

6 minutes ago, damric said:

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.

 

 

You might want to check your logs and make sure the M2000 did not switch to Open_GL from CUDA. I had tons of issues with them running CUDA the first WU and switching to Open_CL for the next.

 

[damric]

3 hours ago, Avacado said:

You might want to check your logs and make sure the M2000 did not switch to Open_GL from CUDA. I had tons of issues with them running CUDA the first WU and switching to Open_CL for the next.

 

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?

[Avacado]

10 minutes ago, damric said:

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?

Put your head between your legs and kiss your arse goodbye. No, it's really annoying. It entailed drivers having to be re-installed.

 

[damric]

7 minutes ago, Avacado said:

Put your head between your legs and kiss your arse goodbye. No, it's really annoying. It entailed drivers having to be re-installed.

 

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...

[Avacado]

46 minutes ago, damric said:

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...

You should send me a copy of your modded vBIOS so I can check out what alterations you made. 

[damric]

9 hours ago, Avacado said:

You should send me a copy of your modded vBIOS so I can check out what alterations you made. 

 

1506boost.zip gm206 original.zip