NBR Folding@home Team

Ahh, Oh do what I mentioned to CLeonard. Put in your SMP slot the following

Here is what I told him. Just until you get 10 WU donoe with your CPU. GPU WU's don't count toward the 10.

 

Cool, i'll tell it to finish at the end of this WU

Teamviewer is up a running

 

I still can't get my GPU going.

Here is my System Info. Note the zero after GPUs, yet it recognizes my FX5000M properly as CUDA 2.0.



Here is what it looks like when I try to add a GPU. Note that is a bit different from the what is shown in the guide on the first page of this thread.



After pressing "OK" above:



Now press "Save" and:


Any ideas? If not, I'll probably uninstall and quit. My i7-740 isn't going to do much on its own.

 

You can tell it to finish the GPU WU's and then once those are done, you can uninstall and reinstall F@h, then start from scratch. The other alternative is to delete the info from the folders, but I can't recall at the moment where those are located. Took me some digging to find them. This way you wont have to wait 3 days, just a few hours for the GPUs to finish. And actually if you pause the CPU, and then let the GPU's finish, they will be a little quicker since they won't have to fight for cpu resources.

@Knight, Maybe try one of the older F@h versions, it may be a big with the Beta or something. that would be my next suggested route.

 

OK. I was hoping I was doing something obviously wrong. I'll try the non-Beta version before giving up.

 

Yea, I havn't run into that, although since my wife is gone for the week I installed F@h on her laptop and it didn't pick up the GPU, but it's a measly Inspiron 15 with integrated graphics so I didn't push much for it. Don't know if it's capable.

 

Hey Knight427,

Yep DR is right, definitely try one of the older GPU folding client's. I know that heaps of peeps had issues trying to get Nvidia GPUs to be recognised with the latest BETA Client's. My NVS 4200M GPUs weren't whitelisted until the last BETA client update only recently.
So you'll most likely need to run 2 client's separately; one for the CPU and another for the GPU.

Side Note; WooT 3 Million!!! reborn2003 3020796 2622
and TOP 800 here we COME!!!

Cheers.

 

In order to remove your active WU:

•Stop the client.

•Delete wudata_xx.dat in the FAH "work" folder.

•Re-start the client.

The work folder is located in: C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Folding@home-x86\work

Am yet to try this though.

EDIT:: Didn't seem to work. It just picked up from where it left off. Ah well, I will just wait for this SMB unit to finish.

 

Hey Douse,

There is one way to delete the WU's that you are working on. However it will wipe all of them out. That is to uninstall the client and when you do so tick the check box for uninstall data as well. However we normally only use that if something seriously has gone wrong with a current WU that we are working on; has failed or gone red, corrupted and is stuck.

What OC settings have you got your 6990M's running on atm?
Look at you go man climbing up the ranks. You'll be top 15 in no time.

Cheers.

 

Checked F@H to see if I'd gotten into #9 yet and noticed that Prema bumped himself up to 180k points total. Caught myself shouting "C'MON!"; this F@H competition is getting to my head rofl.

 

Find the Work Unit here: C:\Program Files (x86)\FAHData\work\01 and delete it. That worked for me.

Edit - Actually it didn't. I got the same WU, but I lost the progress I had made on it. urrrr

 

Hey I was having trouble with the beta client recognizing my GPU so the guys at the other F@H thread said I need the 6.23 client. I downloaded and installed the 6.23 (GPU2) client and uninstalled the beta, but when I try to run F@H, it shows me like a config screen where it asks for my username, team and passkey, which I put in and I press okay, and the same thing just pops up again! What am I doing wrong?

 

no idea, you could try downloading again and re-trying. just to be sure

 

should I uninstall it first? And should I delete the data file or config or whatever it's called?

 

Yea definitely uninstall first.

 

Wow, look at the rate we are growing!

 

...I feel so stupid now...I think the problem with the beta client not recognizing my GPU originally was because I was using my Integrated GPU....I downloaded the beta client again, switched my GPU to the discrete GPU and what do you know? It worked!

 

Smooth lol.. At least you got it working! Is it utilizing 100% of the gpu?

 

Is are temps of 69C max on my 6990M normal running 100% load FaH? Seems low temp

haven't even got round to undervolting!

 

Umm I'm not sure. How can I tell? My fans are definitely revved up

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Yeah, I found that as well. Lucky for me I just copied it out of the folder so I could restore it

Haha I would be lying if I said I wasn't frequently checking the ranks

Yeah it is all good, I will just wait it out. In no rush!!

Running a mild overclock on the GPU's: 780/950 @ 1.1v. Temp never goes over 80C.

Bumped the CPU back up to 19x all cores + 5% OC @ 70/60. Temps sit around 80.

Keep checking logs and not getting any stability errors!!!

I noticed that temps are a little lower compared to when gaming. Even though it is using close to 100% GPU, I would easily hit 90 in a long gaming stint in BF3.

 

Got it down to 65C with undervolting

Also looking at your sig...I never knew a laptop PSU of 480W exisited!!! Can the M17 even suck all that up? I am thinking of going up to 240W for the M15x but the laptop can only use about 185W of it anyway due to motherboard restrictions. But 480W is massive!

 

Nicely done

Found that if you open f@h and the WU's automatically kick off, the GPU's sit at about 60%.

By pausing both GPU work units and then starting them again it will sit at 90-100%.

EDIT:: Ooooops, sorry about double post.

Well, the 480 watt PSU isn't really something that you can buy. Myself and another member called Aarpcard put together two 240 watt PSU's using a rectifier diode. As for the M17x using it all, that is another story. Because it is still using 240 watt PSU's, the laptop still detects it as a 240 watt PSU. So we still get throttling but we have a lot more headroom then normal. I can sit at up to 300 watts and beyond without throttling and without the worry of the PSU tripping from being overloaded. I would not be overly comfortable allowing the laptop too pull more than that (although I have seen up to 350 before) because i think something would possibly blow in the laptop.

 

We broke the top 800!

796 of 209353 Thats in the top 4% of teams!

 

Nice!

DR, it looks like you've been able to process 1000 WUs successfully - great job!

 

Hey peoples,

I'm excited for my new machine that I plan to use to contribute to folding@home overnight.

Quick question though, how much internet bandwidth will it eat up per night?

 

It will only download new WUs when the current WU is almost done. Depending on the size of the WU, it can be anywhere from tens of KB to 10MB. Even though big WUs are supposed to be way larger, I haven't seen them yet

 

Thanks! Didn't even realize it!

Welcome!

Yea, and it depends on how quickly you process the work units. But not much at all. I have mine set to download a new work unit once the current unit is at 99% completion, this way my GPUs/CPU can jump straight into folding the next WU.

 

Nice work guys!!!!!

I have to say I am liking this as a stability tester. I mean, if you system can stand up to this much punishment then it is pretty solid!

LOL and my whole laptop is warm! It warms my fingers when I type Probably because I have had the lid closed....I wonder if that would increase temps at all?

 

Hey if I put my cpu in turbo mode, will f@h work better?

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F@H will usually peg your CPU up to full power anyway. I have turned off CPU Power Management in the BIOS and I give F@H all of my 2.99GHz cores. Under Turbo Boost, it would have gotten those anyway, but when I'm plugged in I like to have full power all the time.

 

2.99Ghz across 4 cores? That is impressive. You must be overclocked as that is out of spec for that processor across all cores. Unless I am mistaken.

 

Not overclocked, it's a stock i7-2720QM. All I did was to disable Turbo Boost (I think...) and allow it to go to full power. Well, mostly, since Intel quotes my processor as having a clock speed of 3.3GHz on Turbo, though that's probably on one core.

Only changes I've ever made to my notebook are physical ones: RAM and SSD.

 

Fair enough, it depends on how many cores are being used. If all your cores are being used that would be sitting at 2.2Ghz

 

I run my 940XM as SMP 6, so it uses 6 threads/3 Cores for the CPU, This makes a little room for the CPU to feed the GPUs. If you run a single GPU, and not CPU for folding, you will see that on a quad/6 thread, it will keep your system at about 12%. I figured this would help with resources. Though I don't know if it does or not, just my line of thought. Wonder if it actually makes a differance.

 

Desktop is up and running, but due to lack of CUDA, GPU seems slower than my Quadro...

 

Interesting theory. It does make sense.

When I paused my CPU I tried to keep an eye on my GPU work units but the estimation thing sucks so I couldn't tell if it was performing faster or not

Damn you and your CUDA!!! /Shakes fist

 

I never realized the power of CUDA until I just started the desktop.

ATi 5770 has much more raw power, but fails abysmally, even with OC, taking 13 hours to complete a single 300 credit one..

Quadro on the other hand takes 6 hours to finish a 1348 credit one.

 

Just a quick note to alert you that voting for the NBR Amazing Content Contest comes to a close on February 17th! Also, we added an additional prize for the thread that comes in 2nd place in the member voting, so get out and vote for this thread! Rally your supporters and storm the voting both while there's still time!

 

I voted for another thread when I wasn't folding, can I change my vote?

 

Takes about 8 hours to do a 1835 points 0x16 WU on my 6970m.
Wierd that a desktop ATi 5770 takes that long though?

Seems my SSD behaves again so i got nearly 2 days of folding done before the weekend started.

 

Don't forget that 6970m is a lower clocked AMD HD 6870, so it's stronger than 5770

 

My gtx460 does 5187 point WU's in ~14hrs stock.. I going to crank up the clocks/voltage to see how much time I can knock off my next wu.. Good thing about my eGPU being set up as an Optimus configuration is that if the driver crashes from an unstable OC, it doesn't skip a beat. The driver crashes, recovers, and continues folding at stock clocks..

Estimated ppd 9305
" tpf 8min 01sec
FahCore 0x15 <---------- what's this?

 

Do it

(10char)

 

Is there any way to amp up F@H while I'm not using my computer? The way I see it, my CPU/GPU must be doing something like running the screen, and other useless crap when I'm not around. Is there any way to disable all that useless junk so F@H can harness more power?

Also, is it bad for my fans, CPU/GPU to run at full power 24/7? My CPU is fluctuating between 70-80 degrees and my GPU is around 60-70 degrees.

 

I wondered about the fans also, but I imagine they will be fine. I would like to think there would be very high quality!!!

I have another question. My CPU is currently working on Folding@Home Projects

Now, that says the preferred deadline is 25 days, so I imagine it is a pretty big WU. I will be completing in a total of ~ 5 days, yet the score is so, so low at only 1722.50. My GPU's get more then that and they smash through their WU's at around 7 hours.

 

None of the WUs that my Notebook pumped out today reflected on the stats page...?

 

Stats server is probably down for everyone. There may be an update here sometime soon.

Folding Forum &bull; View topic - Stats server down?

I would continue folding. The servers that receive the WU's seem to be working according to my log. So once the Stats server is back online, those WU's should be credited.

@Douse, 1722 is the base credit. Then you will recieve additional credit for the SMP bonus points if you've completed 10 WU's with your CPU so far.