EXTREMEHW May 2024 48-hour Foldathon Begins on May 18th, 00:00 UTC

[damric]

 

 

Countdown to Event Start

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^^CLICK THOSE IF YOU LIVE SOMEWHERE NOT UTC TIME ZONE^^

 

 

 

How to participate:

During the competition you must be folding for Team 239902

 

 

 

Stats: You can view the stats for the foldathon here: https://ehwfoldingstats.lazypenguin.com

 

Prizes: p.m. @damric or @firedfly if you have something suitable to give away*

 

LIMIT BLADE M3 1000DPI GAMING MOUSE (White Version. 3 to give away. Random Draw. 5 WU Minimum, USA only)

 

Folding Time Prizes:

 tbd

 

Excluded from Prizes:

tbd

 

Mind the EVENT START TIMER as it is UTC time zone.

 

Note: Stats are updated as soon as possible, but less frequent than desired. Just keep folding!

 

Note: Extreme Team Members remember to use a different pass key than your ETF key (If you don't know what that is then it probably does not apply to you).

 

Folding is stressful on hardware, and will often break an overclock unless it's been tested with folding. I do not recommend overclocking high end GPUs as the power draw can be extreme while folding. If anything, try tuning for energy efficiency. Casualties happen and EXTREMEHW can not be held accountable if you destroy your hardware while folding. 

 

Thank you for your participation!

 

*must be approved so please send message in private before posting.

Edited May 5 by damric

[SoloCamo]

In, SoloCamo

[Fluxmaven]

In Fluxmaven

 

Now that it's consistently hot out, probably won't fold much. Last year I was willing do suffer once a month, not really the case anymore. 

[Cerberus]

in, cerberus

in, ExtremeHWCFP

in, IamJanco

[neurotix]

In bigred

[SoloCamo]

Less than 2 days, don't forget gents

[Memmento Mori]

Im IN! have some second hand 4090 to test so looking forward to it , already setting up my test bench  

[Fluxmaven]

Since I'm not planning on fighting heat running all the powerful cards this year, I decided to get another low power card.

 

I have this spare rig for tinkering with software in a 2u rack case. Really limits the GPU options unfortunately. Ended up snagging a used 4060 LP off ebay. 

 

I was testing TrueNAS Scale on the machine and was just going to add a folding VM, but was having issues with GPU passthrough. Nuked that and just tossed Mint Xfce on so I could get it folding. Will eventually put Proxmox on it since VMware is ditching the free version of ESXi.

 

[mx500torid]

What kinda ppd do you get from the 4060? How much power used?

[mx500torid]

I am in. Starting the 2080 now since i have been late on the last 2.

[Fluxmaven]

32 minutes ago, mx500torid said:

What kinda ppd do you get from the 4060? How much power used?

 

They do 3.5 to a little over 4mil ppd and pull around 100w.

 

Pretty much the same as my 2080 at half the power draw.

 

The higher end 4000 series is when the PPD gets really good. My 4070 Ti usually averages around 12mil at just over 200w. I'm loaning it to my roommate though so won't see it folding this month. 

 

 

 

[neurotix]

7 hours ago, Fluxmaven said:

Since I'm not planning on fighting heat running all the powerful cards this year, I decided to get another low power card.

 

I have this spare rig for tinkering with software in a 2u rack case. Really limits the GPU options unfortunately. Ended up snagging a used 4060 LP off ebay. 

 

I was testing TrueNAS Scale on the machine and was just going to add a folding VM, but was having issues with GPU passthrough. Nuked that and just tossed Mint Xfce on so I could get it folding. Will eventually put Proxmox on it since VMware is ditching the free version of ESXi.

 

 

Have you tried running GPU passthrough in Virtualbox? I haven't used it for years since I main Mint as my daily driver OS (Cinnamon), but VirtualBox is pretty good and free still afaik.

[Fluxmaven]

7 minutes ago, neurotix said:

 

Have you tried running GPU passthrough in Virtualbox? I haven't used it for years since I main Mint as my daily driver OS (Cinnamon), but VirtualBox is pretty good and free still afaik.

 

I haven't touched Virtualbox in years and probably wouldn't since I'm not looking for a hosted hypervisor.

 

Homelab projects are mostly just to tinker with stuff. 

[The Pook]

9 hours ago, Fluxmaven said:

Since I'm not planning on fighting heat running all the powerful cards this year, I decided to get another low power card.

 

I have this spare rig for tinkering with software in a 2u rack case. Really limits the GPU options unfortunately. Ended up snagging a used 4060 LP off ebay. 

 

I was testing TrueNAS Scale on the machine and was just going to add a folding VM, but was having issues with GPU passthrough. Nuked that and just tossed Mint Xfce on so I could get it folding. Will eventually put Proxmox on it since VMware is ditching the free version of ESXi.

 

 

what kind of issues? might be SOL on Proxmox too depending on how your IOMMU groups are setup on your board. 

[Fluxmaven]

7 hours ago, The Pook said:

 

what kind of issues? might be SOL on Proxmox too depending on how your IOMMU groups are setup on your board. 

Could be... That build is all consumer hardware and if it do be like that, no big loss. 

 

TrueNAS was just being silly not wanting to acknowledge that it did in fact see the iGPU that it was utilizing. Tryna act like "no u cant pass dat 4060 thru bcause its ya only GPU". Had iGPU set as primary display output in BIOS and literally connected a display to it that had video output and the web UI still said nah dawg that iGPU don't exist so you can't isolate or pass through the 4060.

 

With some more fiddling I probably could have gotten it to work but that rig is just a sandbox to play with stuff so there wasn't any need to waste time figuring it out.

[Broseph]

IN dahoff

 

Hopefully better late than never

[Memmento Mori]

guys i forgot to mention you can exclude me from the prices.. Thank you very much

 

[SoloCamo]

Officially over, good job all

[damric]

9 hours ago, SoloCamo said:

Officially over, good job all

I'll draw some prizes when I get home from tequila-con, tomorrow night.

[damric]

@SoloCamo

@Broseph

@Avacado

 

You guys won the random draw for the mice! P.M. me shipping info please