Folding Forum

Thanks for answering my questions Zagen, Monster build btw :) my builder has said that i can go to 2.8g cores with a turbo boost of 3.2 for an extra £170... for that price i am not sure to say yes or no, part of me says yes but i could buy a second hand 760 in the uk for that from ebay or a brand n...

TDP is Thermal Design Power. Technically it's how much heat a chip produces under somewhat plausible real-world loads, so that people making the coolers for it know how much heat needs to be dissipated. In practice TDP is a rough shorthand for how much power a chip consumes, as a higher TDP means it...

It's no different than installing it on a computer you have physical access to. Go to the main F@h page and find the installation guide for the OS you plan to use; they're pretty hold-your-hand. Linux will be cheaper than Windows, so if you go that route, you may have to follow the Terminal Installa...

I wouldn't spend much extra money on the CPUs for folding purposes. Currently, having hexes over quads means that the machine would be capable of folding bigadv WUs, which need at least 24 threads. With HT, dual hexes just meet that 24 thread requirement, while dual quads don't. I'm not 100% positiv...

Yes, Timeout=Preferred Deadline and Expiration=Final Deadline. The current client automatically uses n-1 threads if a supported GPU is detected, be it Nvidia or AMD. This is enough to keep one GPU fed. If you ever wanted to manually adjust that, you'd open Advanced Control and select Configure->Slot...

I've been running them on my 780s since the day they were released without any issues. Of course, being GK110, they are not affected by the low-PPD issues that GK104 has seen since 331.xx.

Core 15 does not run natively in Linux (it is possible to run FAH via WINE, but it's somewhat complicated). If an Nvidia card can't get core 17 work in Linux, then it will get nothing. I haven't been keeping super up-to-date on this thread, but it sounds like they temporarily blacklisted Maxwell car...

I noticed it was too quiet in my living room, where my BA server is located. When I remotely checked the logs, I saw that it had finished a BA WU but appeared to have gotten stuck at around 97% of the upload. It also hadn't gotten any new work for about 10 minutes. Pausing and unpausing the client d...

Anyone with a 750 (Ti) could temporarily install the v6 GPU client, as it cannot get core 17 projects and would therefore only get core 15.

There was one report at OCN that it was an improvement, but a) that was on a core 15 WU and b) later WUs that person did saw no improvement. Over at EVGA, a couple people tried them out and saw no improvement on 9401 WUs. Someone else there reposted an email chain with an EVGA rep where the rep said...

Core 17, which is where the major points are at GPU-wise, runs a lot better on the 7000 and R9/R7/R5 series than the 5000/6000 series (and much better on the 600/700 series for Nvidia vs. 400/500 series). I think each GPU would get around 40k PPD, for 80k total. Or maybe it's 20k per GPU/40k total; ...

I recently updated my 3 folding rigs to 334.89 WHQL. My PPD has dropped SHARPLY - but it's too early blame this version of the driver. It could be a rash of poorly designed WUs that got into the AS hopper (some of which take over 24~72 hours to complete on a GTX-770 or GTX-690)! Nvidia pays a lot m...

Also note that there are no faster or slower clients, as the client doesn't do any of the calculations. The core and project are what determine your PPD. Currently it's rather random whether the WU you get is from a core 15 or core 17 project, and you may see long stretches of WUs for one of those c...

No that's pretty much it. As I said above, it's likely due to the varying PPD of the core 15 projects, which I don't think they're going to fix at this point.

It would help to know what your hardware is. In theory, yes, PPD should remain relatively constant. There will always be scaling oddities when one's hardware differs from the benchmark machine, especially if yours is significantly more or less powerful. But obviously you're seeing more than the 10% ...