Haven't folded for almost a decade. Getting back in now. Btw where's the old F@H subforum?

found it. the subforum was deleted back in 2017, inactive https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/4270335

requested a passkey on sunday, still havent gotten them. looks like the servers are overloaded, since the same issue is reported in their forums. cant get my QRB for now

Edit: just requested the passkey using my yahoo mail, and got the passkey already. something is wrong with gmail, it didnt even got into the spam folder

seems like a lot of people are jumping in to help for COVID-19 these past few weeks, and the server ran out of WU(Work Units)/tasks to assign

This post has been edited by x800: Mar 17 2020, 08:40 PM

Now this makes sense, last time (years ago) I used my yahoo mail to retrieve the passkey.

Getting my QRB now

Good explanation there.

I'd like to add, that even if you are only folding on the gpu, everything else in your pc is also drawing power. Even cpu usage will also increase a bit.

Example, my main gaming system is idling at 70w (based on my old notes using a measuring device).

So when folding, add my 1070's estimated 150w (assuming stock) + estimated 30w for the small cpu usage, and it'll be about 250w. Add the psu efficiency factor, its around 300w.

Hmm, saying that, i definitely need to measure the power consumption of all my systems now

My bad, the earlier estimations were incorrect. The 70w is inclusive of the GPU idle (which may be about 5-10w), and the increase in cpu usage does not draw as 30w of power. Nonetheless, the point was to also include the other components power consumption in the calculation.

Anyway, just did measurements using a smart plug. These are for GPU only folding, without any programs/games running.

1. My gaming pc 4790k+gtx1070 at stock does uses 70w on idle. On GPU folding load, it jumps to 220w, for 650kppd (2954ppd/w). Lowering the gpu powerlimit to 50% with +100core oc gets the power consumption down to 180w, for 600kppd (3333ppd/w).


3. My wife's pc 2500k+gtx1060 (running fixed ~1750mhz@0.8v) uses 150w, for 400kppd (2666ppd/w)


4. My 24/7 server g4560+RX460 (all at stock, i dunno how to optimize AMD cards) uses 110w, for 125kppd (1136ppd/w)


(These data are using the current WUs assigned to me, different WUs might give different ppd.)

Hmm, I might as well stop folding on my 24/7 server, or swap the gpu since its the most inefficient.

Edit: added screenshots

This post has been edited by x800: Mar 23 2020, 10:11 PM

The idle mode is written in the FAQ at their site, but not really explaining tho

good to see lots of old timers back into folding

the PPD diffence between the old times and current times is hugeee. hardware is getting better now

This post has been edited by x800: Mar 29 2020, 10:59 AM

Hmm anyone have issues with completion of WU not being recorded by the server?

I got 2 WUs completed today but still havent show up in the FAH completed WU database, and its already 8am GMT (at time of writing this)
https://apps.foldingathome.org/wu.py?p=11753&r=0&c=1618&g=26
https://apps.foldingathome.org/wu.py?p=14533&r=0&c=1831&g=18

My hfm.net screenie (an alternative to fahmon), says it was completed at 4am+ and 6am+, and I already verified in the log that it was accepted:


Yesterday's WU was fine:
https://apps.foldingathome.org/wu.py?p=11779&r=0&c=7099&g=15

This post has been edited by x800: Mar 29 2020, 04:38 PM

Let's just hope at least they received the results for their research

Niceee. So you are one of the curecoin members

Yupp. But both your pc are folding for the curecoin team