EXTREMEHW January 7-day foldathon ([H] Invite) January 24th-31st 1200 UTC

[neurotix]

So per my last post about power limiting my card in Linux, and the fact it goes by watts instead of a percentage:

 

The power limit bar in my Linux OC tool starts defaulted at 450w. Avacado posted a screenshot of his power limit being 77%. 77% of 450 is 346. So when the foldathon is over, I will try setting the power limit to 346w and see how it performs.

Edited January 30 by neurotix

[Fluxmaven]

5 minutes ago, neurotix said:

Avacado posted a screenshot of his power limit being 77%

 

 

I can see where at a quick glance that screenshot could be misleading, but his power limit is maxed out at 133. It just happened to be sitting at 77% when he took the screenshot. In EVGA Precision X1 that % number is sort of a real time usage number and the number in the box is the set limit. 

 

He even said he was "running full bore". 

 

With all that said, you should still see a pretty good PPD number running the card at 346w

[neurotix]

Oh yeah, he did say that didn't he? I sort of glossed over it.

 

I'm used to using Afterburner, so I assumed the big bright number (77) was the power limit.

 

Aside from limiting it to 346, do you have any other suggestions on what power limit to limit it to? Fiancee is not happy about the power bill as of late.

 

Most work units take 350w minimum, often 400 and rarely I'll see 450. I'm wondering if maybe I should limit it to 300w.

[Fluxmaven]

Yea I typically use Afterburner as well but I have Precision for adjusting things on EVGA cards.

 

I've never used a 4090 so IDK what wattages they tend to prefer. I would just play around with it to see what your card likes best. Some are more efficient at different power levels.

[Sir Beregond]

I dropped my 3080 Ti FE to 85% power which dropped it from 350W stock to 290-300W and only lost 11k points on a large WU (projecting 864k instead of the 875k at 100%).

Edited January 30 by Sir Beregond

[neurotix]

27 minutes ago, Sir Beregond said:

I dropped my 3080 Ti FE to 85% power which dropped it from 350W stock to 290-300W and only lost 11k points on a large WU (projecting 864k instead of the 875k at 100%).

Mine is 450w stock on the "Gaming" bios via the switch on it, but most work units come nowhere near that, even when I was using the Galax 666w bios with the slider maxed.

 

Since its often (i.e. every time I sit down at it and check it lately) only drawing 350w I think I'll give 300w a try for a few days when the foldathon is done, and see what my output is.

Edited January 30 by neurotix

[damric]

The big die GPUs get most of the performance from parallelism of all those compute cores. I'd be interested to see what clocks and voltage you can manually tune for 150w.

[neurotix]

39 minutes ago, damric said:

The big die GPUs get most of the performance from parallelism of all those compute cores. I'd be interested to see what clocks and voltage you can manually tune for 150w.

I'll take this into consideration. If I were to lower it to 150w, I think I would have to run no overclock. (The boost algorithms are pretty great on Nvidia; I think just lowering the power limit that far will cause the card to auto-adjust clocks).

 

I'll start with 300w and my current OC, before I try lowering it that much.

 

Edit: I'll run it at 300w/2940MHz (stock under Linux is like 2775MHz) for 3 days, then 150w and auto clocks for three days, and DM you the results on Discord, @damric

Edited January 30 by neurotix

[Monsterkater]

Now that this foldathon is over, I seem to have actually made it into the top ten, despite the late start. It was fun as always and all the hardware survived, which is nice.

 

Thanks everyone for your contribution to a great cause, hope to see you again for the February foldathon!

[damric]

1 hour ago, Monsterkater said:

Now that this foldathon is over, I seem to have actually made it into the top ten, despite the late start. It was fun as always and all the hardware survived, which is nice.

 

Thanks everyone for your contribution to a great cause, hope to see you again for the February foldathon!

Thanks for the contribution!

[pututu]

FINAL RESULT. Congratulations to all the five participating teams in the 2024 5th BigAdv EOL Challenge. TAAT takes the top spot follow by the overclockers.com, ExtremeHW, EVGA and [H]. We contributed a total of 12% (28,777,419,685 points) of the world daily aggregate, a gradual drop from the beginning of the race due to a new crypto folding team. About 350 folders contributed to this race. Hope to see you all again next year.

[Avacado]

5 minutes ago, pututu said:

FINAL RESULT. Congratulations to all the five participating teams in the 2024 5th BigAdv EOL Challenge. TAAT takes the top spot follow by the overclockers.com, ExtremeHW, EVGA and [H]. We contributed a total of 12% (28,777,419,685 points) of the world daily aggregate, a gradual drop from the beginning of the race due to a new crypto folding team. About 350 folders contributed to this race. Hope to see you all again next year.

Thank you for the invite, we had a ton of fun. We look forward to next year!

[Sir Beregond]

That was a lot of fun and really my first time really folding. Look forward to next year!

[pio]

I thought it ended at 4pm PST, not 4am. -_-.  Wasted 12 hours of high electricity usage.

 

Either way, was super fun!  That was my first time EVER getting a top 10 spot.   my 7900XTX and 7900x system for this.  

 

EDIT:

AHHHHHHHHH ITS FREAKING QUIET IN HERE NOW OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I've had deafening screeching reference blower fans going for a week, and now silence.  AHHHHHH!!!!!!!  

Edited February 1 by pioneerisloud

[SoloCamo]

Alright people, less power limiting to save a buck next time, this was too close;

 

[Fluxmaven]

36 minutes ago, SoloCamo said:

Alright people, less power limiting to save a buck next time, this was too close;

 

That huge PPD decline had almost nothing to do with power limiting and everything to do with decisions to not continue renting farms of GPUs. 

[damric]

Team did great though. We know team EVGA, especially our friend @CoolGTX really crunch hard, so it was unexpected for us to do this well.

 

Thanks @pututu for the score feed, and [H] for hosting.

 

Don't forget that next month is OUR second annual folding competition, and luckily we only do 48 hours 

[axipher]

13 hours ago, pioneerisloud said:

I thought it ended at 4pm PST, not 4am. -_-.  Wasted 12 hours of high electricity usage.

 

Either way, was super fun!  That was my first time EVER getting a top 10 spot.   my 7900XTX and 7900x system for this.  

 

EDIT:

AHHHHHHHHH ITS FREAKING QUIET IN HERE NOW OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I've had deafening screeching reference blower fans going for a week, and now silence.  AHHHHHH!!!!!!!  

 

This is why I'm so glad I moved my computers to the other side of the wall and used some brush plates to route my cables through.  Can set all my fans to 80% manual and just forget about it.
 

The extra quietness can be really eerie at times.

[Cerberus]

good run everyone!

[Cerberus]

22 minutes ago, axipher said:

 

This is why I'm so glad I moved my computers to the other side of the wall and used some brush plates to route my cables through.  Can set all my fans to 80% manual and just forget about it.
 

The extra quietness can be really eerie at times.

 

I too use the brush plate set up, its nice.

 

can still hear the whine of the deltas and san aces though

[Sir Beregond]

14 hours ago, SoloCamo said:

Alright people, less power limiting to save a buck next time, this was too close;

 

Oh I took off my power limiting. I just checked what it would do for one WU.

 

EDIT: But Flux is correct in terms of why points dipped.

Edited February 1 by Sir Beregond

[axipher]

7 hours ago, Cerberus said:

 

I too use the brush plate set up, its nice.

 

can still hear the whine of the deltas and san aces though

 

I still have my original Gentle Typhoons from OCN days...  Nice and quiet and I just add a little bit of instrument oil to them every year during Spring cleaning.

[SoloCamo]

On 31/01/2024 at 21:28, Fluxmaven said:

 

That huge PPD decline had almost nothing to do with power limiting and everything to do with decisions to not continue renting farms of GPUs. 

 

All good, was just busting balls with that post.  Thanks for the explanation either way.