NBR Folding@home Team

Okay. Give me a day or so, I'll mod using the same method as the Mobility Firepro drivers. Instead of modifying existing values like I did for the mobility drivers, I created new values for your system and apparently it won't work this way. I'll do it the other way and post up the mod by tomorrow.

EDIT: Took a quick look, will use the V9800's installer options for your system. Because there is no HD6870 equivalent FirePro card, I'll just use that and see what it does since it's from the 6xxx series of cards.

EDIT 2: Never mind, I had some spare time. Same instructions as before, modded files are being uploaded. Will edit once done.

EDIT 3: See new post.

 

Sounds good. Looking forward to trying it. Would be awesome to have crossfire firepro support Hope this isn't taking too much of your time

 

Update:

Team Rank: #3,011

Scores:
1 reborn2003 557642 523
2 DR650SE 188465 240
3 TurbodTalon 161324 123
4 JTK 154590 139
5 ganzonomy 101133 160
6 justinkw1 70654 54
7 too456 26538 20
8 privatejarhead 22246 19
9 Chiefule-reborn2003 20947 17
10 RodKnock 9775 18
11 reborn2003-M11x 8371 21
12 TONY211 5950 31
13 Rickards12 5557 9
14 Courtathor 3686 113
15 TurbodTalon_XPS 1467 5
16 Anonymous 1325 2
17 TurbodTalon_M1530 867 4
18 H.A.L._9000 778 3
19 KoI 511 1

 

As it turns out, uploading the files takes longer than modding the files

Download the modded files here, same procedure.

However, if this does not work, right click your 6990m in device manager, select update driver software and browse to [location of extracted files]\Packages\Drivers\Display\W76A_INF and see if it will install from there.

Also, it's 12 midnight here, but since I'm a very late sleeper I'll be up for about 2 more hours, feel free to ask til then

 

Sounds good. I'll try it again when I get off work. Won't be for another 5 hours or so. Thanks again, I'd rep you but gotta spread the love apparently.

EDIT: Were at 3002 in the team rankings! Another mile stone is only about an hour or two away!

 

Oh well. Tomorrow then

I'll be doing some testing of the Mobility FirePro drivers when my friend receives his NP8170 with a 6990m. If he lets me I'll do a quick test to see if it is supported, if Folding@Home runs without problems etc. Then the Mobility part of the equation will be done with. Whereas for CrossFire, if this doesn't work then there's not much more I can do

 

Stupid question.

is there a way to configure the GPU Client to get more points? My 560m has been doing the same 4 proteins (6801 to 6804) and the 260m machine has gotten almost exclusively the 576x series, and that's why i have so many WUs and so few points. What are tips for getting more pts / WU. (I'm a competitive soul)

Jason

 

Im with you. I want more points. But not sure how. I may ask on the folding forum at some point. I want a PS3 now

 

I'm only going to run the CPU on my R2 and my spare M1530 from now on. My Wife's XPS CPU i7-2720 is hitting the high 90s C. Too high for me. I might catch DR...never going to catch the Chief. I would like to see how high we can rank. I would imagine the highest ranking teams have very beastly setups.

 

Yea i can't run my R2 cpu, and your definitely going to catch me. I was hoping not but its inevitable Chief must have 5+ systems benching non stop.

 

I'm also running 6801-6804 only. Not that I'm complaining, it already takes 9 hours or so to crunch these.

 

I'm doing each one in a shade under 4.5 hrs on the 560m. I'd just like a little variety . It's nice I can do them in 2% of the required time, but it gets monotonous

Jason

 

Well, seems like they're focusing a lot on Alzheimer's disease since 6801-6804 are on a single amyloid of Alzheimer's disease. I guess it's not for us to decide, since Stanford would probably want more data on Alzheimer's to make a breakthrough

 

Looks like we got a new member!

Welcome Thierry19! Looks like he started folding just before noon yesterday and has been pumping out quite a few points working with 3 clients. Looks like a nice desktop system your folding on! i7 2700k @ 3.5Ghz and GTX 570 @850/1700/2100 1.038V

 

Update: Rank: #2,799!
Team Score: 1,487,234
WU Completed: 1,651

Individual Tallies:
Team members
Rank
(within team) Donor Score WU
1 reborn2003 606562 563
2 DR650SE 207746 260
3 TurbodTalon 185925 137
4 JTK 169190 151
5 ganzonomy 112233 173
6 justinkw1 73657 82
7 too456 30513 23
8 privatejarhead 22246 19
9 Chiefule-reborn2003 20947 17
10 Thierry19 16971 13
11 RodKnock 10541 19
12 reborn2003-M11x 8371 21
13 TONY211 8052 35
14 Rickards12 5557 9
15 Courtathor 3775 114
16 TurbodTalon_XPS 1467 5
17 Anonymous 1325 2
18 TurbodTalon_M1530 867 4
19 H.A.L._9000 778 3
20 KoI 511 1

If Theirry has a GTX 570, we should see him climbing EXTREMELY quickly! (Good for us in my book, I don't mind more desktops with GTX 570s / 580s and Radeon 6970s and 6990s helping in the least).

Funny thing I noticed: My score is an x11 multiple! 112233

Jason

 

Haha nice! Yea Thierry has almost 17K in the first 24hrs. About 1300+ pts per WU. Nice!

 

Started folding again after being away for a few days!

I'm adding into the mix a home server with an NVIDIA GTS 250. I'm having some ongoing problems with it - an UNSTABLE_MACHINE failure occurs occasionally. Now, it's folding on project 5772 but the credit and timeouts are unknown.

Update: I may have a power supply issue going on, so for now I'm removing the GTS 250 and only folding on the CPU (SMP). At least I'll be saving some power this way.

 

That sucks with the power issue Justin, hopefully it gets sorted out again. Glad to have you folding again!

Welcome to new member Prema!

 

Daily Update:

Team Id 213698
Grand Score 1628550 (certificate)
Work Unit Count 1799 (certificate)
Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) 2636 of 207927

Individual Ranks:

Team members
Rank
(within team) Donor Score WU
1 reborn2003 665191 621
2 DR650SE 220162 270
3 TurbodTalon 198167 154
4 JTK 185384 165
5 ganzonomy 121425 186
6 justinkw1 82049 90
7 Thierry19 37230 31
8 too456 31838 24
9 privatejarhead 22246 19
10 Chiefule-reborn2003 20947 17
11 RodKnock 11307 20
12 reborn2003-M11x 8371 21
13 TONY211 8141 41
14 Rickards12 5557 9
15 Courtathor 3864 115
16 Prema 1723 1
17 TurbodTalon_XPS 1467 5
18 Anonymous 1325 2
19 TurbodTalon_M1530 867 4
20 H.A.L._9000 778 3
21 KoI 511 1

Welcome Prema! GO FOLD!

 

I'm still not sure what I'm doing, but it appears it is working right O_O What do you mean I am "working with 3 clients"?

Since the power button on my case is not working, I kind of have to leave my beast running the whole time, so I might as well use all this power.
Glad I can help

EDIT: Also, just a technical detail, but I am folding at 800/1600/2100 @ .975V. It helps keeping the temperature at a good level while working on long and heavy work.

 

Awesome man. Your system is a beast. Are you folding on two gpu's? By 3 clients I mean it looks like your folding on three different chips. Like two gpu's and a cpu.

 

The Daily Update

Team members
Rank
(within team) Donor Score WU
1 reborn2003 706023 666
2 DR650SE 233410 281
3 TurbodTalon 201025 158
4 JTK 195549 174
5 ganzonomy 133575 201
6 justinkw1 88674 95
7 Thierry19 52234 45
8 too456 31838 24
9 privatejarhead 22246 19
10 Chiefule-reborn2003 20947 17
11 RodKnock 11307 20
12 reborn2003-M11x 8371 21
13 TONY211 8141 41
14 Rickards12 5557 9
15 Courtathor 4098 116
16 Prema 1723 1
17 TurbodTalon_XPS 1467 5
18 Anonymous 1325 2
19 TurbodTalon_M1530 867 4
20 H.A.L._9000 778 3
21 KoI 511 1
22 too456-XPS420 0 7

I see Too456 is using the 420 to fold. 7 Units, and no points. Too, see if someone put some pigs in your rig (hint: look at your avatar).

Jason

 

I think some pig put TNT in my rig, it simply won't run F@H on any client version. It would download the WU, then refuse to process it because of some exception, rinse and repeat. I gave it up after a while. Apparently a desktop HD3650 doesn't play nice with F@H. My other laptop is folding though, and it should be done with its first one soon since it's a computer that my family uses very frequently

 

I see, I am actually using only two (CPU and GPU). I might have accidentally used two different F@H?!
Thanks for the compliment, I'm falling in love with my rig

 

Welcome Thierry19,

Any relation to the great No. 14 Thierry?
You've seriously got an awesome rig there for Folding. Great stuffs.
Your WU to points Ratio is

HAPPY NEW YEAR to all my fellow FOLDING Teammates

It's time for me to really push things along and go for that 1 million

Cheers.

 

Last UPDATE OF 2011!

Grand Score 1823128 (certificate)
Work Unit Count 2008 (certificate)
Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) 2468 of 207957

Team members
Rank
(within team) Donor Score WU
1 reborn2003 735350 701
2 DR650SE 243978 293
3 TurbodTalon 220281 176
4 JTK 202604 179
5 ganzonomy 140371 209
6 justinkw1 100062 104
7 Thierry19 61306 56
8 too456 31838 24
9 privatejarhead 22246 19
10 Chiefule-reborn2003 20947 17
11 RodKnock 11307 20
12 reborn2003-M11x 8371 21
13 TONY211 8141 41
14 Rickards12 5557 9
15 Courtathor 4098 116
16 Prema 1723 1
17 TurbodTalon_XPS 1467 5
18 Anonymous 1325 2
19 TurbodTalon_M1530 867 4
20 H.A.L._9000 778 3
21 KoI 511 1
22 too456-XPS420 0 7

Hooray for getting over 2,000 WUs done, getting into the TOP 2,500, and over 1.8 million aggregate points! Let's keep this up for 2012 and beyond!

Jason

I've noticed that on my oldsager, where I have the NP8662 folding with the v7 client, that it's attained 10WU and an 80% completion rate and has begun getting on the SMP client the "estimated points" as a bonus. Although it may only complete 2 SMP WUs / day, this means an extra 3k to 5k points / day for me! I finally have gotten on the good side of F@H! (now if only I could get the 560m to work nicely with v7 I could have 4 clients going at once for GOOD).

Jason

 

First Update of 2012

Grand Score 2007241 (certificate) (CONGRATS ON 2m PTS!)
Work Unit Count 2199 (certificate)
Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) 2300 of 207989

Individual Ranks:
Team members
Rank
(within team) Donor Score WU
1 reborn2003 818134 792
2 DR650SE 263634 315
3 TurbodTalon 231273 188
4 JTK 210455 184
5 ganzonomy 166262 234
6 justinkw1 110825 113
7 Thierry19 83450 75
8 too456 34488 26
9 privatejarhead 22246 19
10 Chiefule-reborn2003 20947 17
11 RodKnock 12689 26
12 reborn2003-M11x 8371 21
13 TONY211 8141 41
14 Rickards12 5557 9
15 Courtathor 4098 116
16 Prema 1723 1
17 TurbodTalon_XPS 1467 5
18 Anonymous 1325 2
19 TurbodTalon_M1530 867 4
20 H.A.L._9000 778 3
21 KoI 511 1
22 too456-XPS420 0 7

Kourtathor is still getting TINY proteins.

I have to report this: JJB's Tweak has knocked about a half hour per WU off my GPU folding for my NP8130.

Jason

 

Hey DR, does the new package I made a few days ago work, or does it still refuse to install?

 

I'll have to try today, I just got back from NYC so haven't had any time lately, but it's on my to do list. Also got my new heat sink so hopefully that solves my overheating issues.

 

If it makes you feel any better DR, my CPU die is warped. I'm not even kidding. I also ordered a spare CPU heatsink, thinking it would fix my issues, but NAY! I took a straight-edge ruler to both the heatsink and CPU die one day and that's when I found it. I have to repaste pretty frequently, which sucks. I'm sure you remember 5150Joker? He was the one that gave me the idea to try the CPU retention mod. It worked really well for a while. I had the CPU over-volted to 150 and was running some insane stuff with ThrottleStop and could never get the CPU above 70°C. One day things went all to hell. I removed the mod, and here I am today with a warped CPU die.

 

Hmm, well the same behavior is on all my CPUs which makes me think it's the heatsink. I have a new heatsink with me but haven't had time to test it. So are you using the CPU still? Just redoing the heatsink tension every so often? How do you deal with it?

 

Yeah, same CPU. I just have all four heatsink screws fully tightened. I tried the method of leaving the keyboard out and adjusting the sink screws until it was perfect, but I never got anywhere. I just repaste once the temperatures start to get out of control. When I pull the sink I can see where the CPU was in contact with the sink very firmly and the other parts not so much.

 

A warped CPU die? Really? Does the heat/stress get that bad?

 

Man this is real Tough to break into the top 2000 TEAMS. We absolutely flew through, SMASHED through up until now. This must be where all the multi-millionaires live lol. Within the top 2k of TEAMS.
Keep it up guys. We can DO IT!!!

Hows your new HS DR? Any luck?

Cheers.

 

No, probably not on a system that hasn't been 'tampered' with, so to say. I used a retention mod that put a pretty questionable amount of pressure on the CPU die. It was a stupid idea, but my warranty has been gone for ages, so I didn't really care.

 

what the heck is a cpu retention mod?

 

Same as the GPU retention mod. You move the tiny 'half-moon' washers from the bottom of the heatsink to the top, right under the screws. You could tighten the screws almost all the way down on the GPU retmod. If you do that on the CPU retmod, you are going to break something. One guy ruined his mobo and CPU all in one swoop.

 

No luck yet, I was too lazy yesterday and still recovering from my weekend trip. I think tonight I should be giving it a go though. It looks perfect so I'm hoping it doesn the job.

 

Broke the 100k earlier today
I left my computer folding while I am out of town for a few days to do some winter sports!

 

So ya basically remove the safety measures to get more contact.... i'm NOT gonna say a word

Today's update in score:

Grand Score 2185196 (certificate)
Work Unit Count 2367 (certificate)
Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) 2172 of 208024

Team members
Rank
(within team) Donor Score WU
1 reborn2003 882973 859
2 DR650SE 282424 333
3 TurbodTalon 244359 199
4 JTK 227821 191
5 ganzonomy 191586 259
6 justinkw1 119027 120
7 Thierry19 102207 90
8 too456 38463 29
9 privatejarhead 22246 19
10 Chiefule-reborn2003 20947 17
11 RodKnock 14375 32
12 reborn2003-M11x 8371 21
13 TONY211 8141 41
14 Courtathor 6706 119
15 Rickards12 5557 9
16 Prema 2605 3
17 Ayle 1576 2
18 TurbodTalon_XPS 1467 5
19 Anonymous 1325 2
20 TurbodTalon_M1530 867 4
21 H.A.L._9000 778 3
22 too456-3820TG 511 1
23 KoI 511 1
24 TANWare 353 1
25 too456-XPS420 0 7

We got Ayle, too put up another rig, and TANware. KEEP up the folding... if you get a passkey and with passkey, get 10 SMP WUs done, you start getting bonus points (and if ya have a fast rig, it can be thousands of points per SMP WU).

Jason

 

Essentially, yes. It worked quite nicely on the GPUs when people first started doing it. CPU...not so much.

 

Yea, the only thing I do with the CPU is adjust the screws. I havn't removed anything from the screws themselves.

 

I am not sure what is considered a fast SMP rig. I have a q9200, I am trying at 2.66 GHZ but not sure with folding it will be stable as the cores are 80-85c. At 2.4 GHZ the cores are max 80c so to fold I may have to turn it down a bit.

With the older CQD is would be better, faster, to run 2 SMP dual thread if we could set affinity to core 0+1 and 2+3 as then the L1's and L2's would dedicate to the threads rather than have to load to both of the physical cores................

 

TAN, do NOT overclock. F@H doesn't like OC'ing because of the fact the data cannot be corrupted by instability. IT says so in their FAQs, forum, etc.,

Jason

 

Alright boys, slowing down production. I can't stand my fans whining all of the time. Both of the Wife's rigs will still be going though. Hopefully we are in the top 2K soon!

 

At 2.4 GHZ the Q9200 is correct clocked. It is an Xtreme CPU, the GPU is also correct clocked. To be comfortable to leave the machine alone I have to run at 2.4 GHz. When using the system I have to pause F@H. May not be the fastest in the world but I'm getting some production out..............

My system was flooded with the defaullts in v7. I set to SMP3 from SMP4 (-1) in settings and set the GPU to 50%. Monitored GPU averages about 90% as it bounces between 80% to 99% but works fine. Now while a bit slugish I can fold and use the system and only pause when more intense work is being done.

It would be nice if there were selectable configurations while the client is running so we could turn it up or down when needed.............

 

Tan, Read and apply JJB's SSD Tweak. It's helped my system when I want to use it while folding, with minimal increases in heat

 

You are talking about using this on an iCore? I have an older generation CQD....

 

Daily Update

Grand Score 2362785 (certificate)
Work Unit Count 2546 (certificate)
Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) 2059 of 208053


Team members
Rank
(within team) Donor Score WU
1 reborn2003 941553 912
2 DR650SE 301711 354
3 TurbodTalon 257698 214
4 JTK 243789 202
5 ganzonomy 218323 286
6 Thierry19 127796 110
7 justinkw1 124327 124
8 too456 39788 30
9 privatejarhead 22246 19
10 Chiefule-reborn2003 20947 17
11 RodKnock 16361 35
12 reborn2003-M11x 8371 21
13 TONY211 8141 41
14 Courtathor 7009 120
15 Ayle 6868 14
16 Rickards12 5557 9
17 TANWare 4236 12
18 Prema 2605 3
19 TurbodTalon_XPS 1467 5
20 Anonymous 1325 2
21 TurbodTalon_M1530 867 4
22 H.A.L._9000 778 3
23 too456-3820TG 511 1
24 KoI 511 1
25 too456-XPS420 0 7

 

We should be in the top 2000 teams by days end!