Folding@Home, Team 239902

[Hacksword]

Awesome! I finally put together a dedicated folding rig again and have been testing it out. Old GPU's are surprisingly more effective than I thought they would be. Hope to put up some consistent points for a while. 

[damric]

On 04/06/2025 at 18:22, Hacksword said:

Knock, knock... Hello, friends. Is anyone still here?

Should have a foldathon posted tomorrow. 

[Hacksword]

Well, that sounds cool  

[bonami2]

Good timing i just realised i can push my 9070XT at 230-250w + 13900k at 200w + 5600G at 40w and my A/C keep up now   Running BOINC and F@H currently 24/7

[bonami2]

 

 

[BWG]

Hello, is there anybody out there?

[bonami2]

11 hours ago, BWG said:

Hello, is there anybody out there?

Am alive but work ways too much.

And for some reason chrome disconnected me from ehw on my phone.

How are you?

[Fluxmaven]

I'm folding to stay warm 

[bonami2]

3 minutes ago, Fluxmaven said:

I'm folding to stay warm 

I came back home and it was 77f open the windows and turn on the portable A/C 

And now one side get -10c air and other side cold air from the A/C

 

Running world community grid / sidock@home

 

And F@h on a 1070 at like 1 to 1.5m ppd and my 9070xt pulling 5-8m

 

 

 

Edited December 8 by bonami2

[mx500torid]

I am searching for a better folding card that does not use a bunch of power. The 2080 and the 6800xts are just not efficient. Being on a fixed income and tight budget makes things harder. I will be back here and there but 24-7 is definitely a no go.

[Fluxmaven]

On 08/12/2025 at 23:34, mx500torid said:

I am searching for a better folding card that does not use a bunch of power. The 2080 and the 6800xts are just not efficient. Being on a fixed income and tight budget makes things harder. I will be back here and there but 24-7 is definitely a no go.

 

I've been replacing a lot of my older cards because I get tired of the office being an oven. It still is, but not as bad lol.  Newer Nvidia cards are really the only way to go. AMD just isn't very competitive for F@H.

 

I replaced my 6950XT with a 5070Ti and it's been great. Little over quadruple the PPD while sipping less power. 

 

Really anything RTX 40 or 50 series is great for folding. All the 8GB cards are pretty equally hated by gamers so they can be found relatively cheap when people upgrade their prebuilt rigs. So, 4060 or 5060 and the TI versions of those cards. They also undervolt pretty well to further drop the power consumption without losing hardly any PPD. 

 

4070 and 5070 are in a weird spot. They typically go for more than I'd like to spend on a secondary card that's mostly for folding. Being a 12GB card, they are not something I'd put in any of my main rigs. IF you find one for a great deal, they are solid cards.

 

4070 Ti  is in the same boat as the above. The 4070 Ti Super and 5070 Ti are 16GB cards and good candidates for a main GPU and also really strong for F@H.

 

4080 and 5080 are again in a bit of a weird spot where the jump in cost outpaces the jump in performance from the previous tier. 

 

4090 and 5090 are god tier for PPD, but are way overpriced. Thanks AI... 

 

[mx500torid]

How much ppd does that 5070ti put out on average?

[mx500torid]

On 06/12/2025 at 17:54, BWG said:

Hello, is there anybody out there?

Made me fire up Pink Floyd as if I needed a reason

[Fluxmaven]

On 12/12/2025 at 13:50, mx500torid said:

How much ppd does that 5070ti put out on average?

18.5 mil PPD in a Windows gaming rig. When I get caught up on some other projects I'd like to see what it will do on Linux.