EXTREMEHW Foldathon September 23rd-24th 00:00 UTC

[Avacado]

56 minutes ago, elblat said:

Ugh, the 3060 Ti is cooking itself to death. This is a low-power triple-fan card that usually runs around 65°C. And I can't figure out why it's now pushing 85°C and throttling, even with a draconian power limit. It's clean, so maybe a fan is dead but being spun by air from the other fans. Gonna have to do surgery in the middle of the foldathon. Hopefully it won't result in dumping the CPU WU.

How long has this card been folding? Paste dries up fast on GPU's that fold constantly

[elblat]

17 minutes ago, Avacado said:

How long has this card been folding? Paste dries up fast on GPU's that fold constantly

I didn't think of that, an excellent point. The card has been folding at least 18 months now and I don't know how long temps have been rising. I'll tear it down and re-goo/re-pad it. Might have to zip tie some fans on if a fan is toast.

 

At least I got it swapped and managed to rebuild the kernel to get the drivers from 470 to 535 without dumping the CPU WU. So the farm is folding close to full capacity, maybe even better than with the throttled 3060 Ti. Looking at the nvidia-smi data though it appears the thermal limit is 93°C so there's some headroom above the target temp of 84°C, so the silicon is prolly good to fold again.

[Fluxmaven]

 

@neurotix coming for you bud 

[neurotix]

Not again. I hate you.

[Avacado]

6 hours ago, Fluxmaven said:

 

@neurotix coming for you bud 

[pio]

25 minutes ago, Avacado said:

[neurotix]

Great foldathon guys! As always.

[Fluxmaven]

As fun as it is to give you an early lead then run you down at end, it was only a matter of time before it didn't work out. 

 

Now that it's starting to cool down, I won't have to power limit the cards so expect to see a bit different outcome next time 

 

Either way, I had fun as always. I know I wasn't the only person with technical difficulties this month. Hopefully everyone can get their rigs firing on all cylinders by next time. 

[damric]

Congrats Team!

 

@elblat You won the hat or mug+coaster.

 

@T.Sharp You won the random draw of the DDR4 if you are in USA. If not, I'll have to redraw.

 

You guys message me and we will get those sorted.

[neurotix]

18 hours ago, Fluxmaven said:

As fun as it is to give you an early lead then run you down at end, it was only a matter of time before it didn't work out. 

 

Now that it's starting to cool down, I won't have to power limit the cards so expect to see a bit different outcome next time 

 

Either way, I had fun as always. I know I wasn't the only person with technical difficulties this month. Hopefully everyone can get their rigs firing on all cylinders by next time. 

 

My 3rd place win this time was a fluke anyway since your 4070 ti wasn't going for a period of time. If it had been, you would have passed me.

 

I'm pretty happy with finally getting 3rd since this has been going on since like, March. But I'm more happy that I did 62m points for the cause in 48 hours, and that everyone came together as a team again for a great cause. We did a ton of points collectively over 48 hours.

 

Now if we could just get more people folding 24/7 or close to it.

[Supercrumpet]

Aw dang, looks like my folding rig was down for the weekend. Whoops. Great stuff as always though from everyone else!