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... The newest LAR Systems dark mode Chrome extension for Folding@Home has a rudimentary time-of-day setting which you can use from the browser, instead of setting up scripts in the OS. This time-of-day setting issues a "start" and "finish" command at the specified time, but if ...

Folding probably accounts for <10% of total power during summer months, and <15% during cooler months. Heat pump hardly runs in basement though. And gas furnace probably a bit less on first floor even. :) As luck would have it, my electricity supplier recently decided to shut down the beautiful 4x5...

This is just an update to my previous post, needed because Kaspersky Total Security has been replaced by Kaspersky Premium and the behaviour is different and so is the interface. The good news seems to be that there is no need for any special settings and you can just treat FAHclient.exe as a regula...

Team "appepi" annual report. I have now been following the recipe in previous posts for 52 weeks, aiming to fold in "off peak" electricity rate times (9 hrs/day from 2200 to 0700 next day, while also finishing in "shoulder times" at about 1.5x the "off peak" i...

Thanks bikeaddict, this is really useful information. I had tried unsuccessfully to find a specification for the 12V rail connections on a Z440, but tried Google again after your post with more luck - see https://www.compeve.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=13768. The full list i...

I had forgotten my reply to this post back there in the first year of the reign of COVID XIXth, but it now pops up with the stats and details from Team appepi's 2022 configuration so a few words of explanation. All the old cards are now off the list, but the Techspot e-newsletter told me that The Gr...

It seems there are very few posts about Z440s, so I add my experiences here for general info. I found similar posts helpful in the past and this info represents my take-home messages from a lot of scattered reading on the net. I start by noting that power requirements and safety are key points for m...

Thanks prcowley , if anyone is off-base it is me since the base of this thread was the problem you address: the "next cab off the rank" allocation of WUs leading to the picking up giant jobs that are going to be a nuisance for one's hardware and manner of using it, and/or for the Project t...

Thanks Foxter, you have backed up and formalised some vague observations I made as I was tuning my cards down to run around 70 deg C. I use ASUS GPU Tweak II since all but one (MSI Aero 1080 made for Dell) are ASUS Turbos in order to fit the HP workstation cases. Just did a more formal test on that ...

Thanks Gunnare. Since I'm retired, and the current "team" of 5 workstations whose GPUs do the folding have no other routine demand on them, it is no big deal to switch on 5 boxes at 10pm when "off peak" starts, and see where they've each gotten to at 7am (when "off peak"...

Example: "Team was founded by appepi and has earned 204,880,204 points by contibuting 5,209 work units."

Thanks aetch. I think the last time I wrote a .bat file was in 1992 for a 286. Unless you count autocoder on an IBM 1401 around 1970? These days it had better be clickable or Googleable or there's a Youtube video it's above my pay grade. As far as I can tell, the task scheduler seems to be OK for sc...

Argh! This is the third attempt at this reply. The first one must have taken too long to write, since it seems I was logged out. After I finished the second the mouse fell off the table with the same result. So this will be very quick. Thanks PaulTV, but I have never encountered system scheduler in ...

A related topic which will become increasingly important because of increasing electricity costs, is the inability to manage costs by scheduling Folding on/off by time of day. In 2020 I racked up 115 M points from my collection of 10 HP Z-series workstations, but 90% were generated by a single GTX 1...

Good News, thanks to https://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?p=354937#p354937 by KhaleedWalten01. The post contains a long recipe for Kaspersky Internet Security (KIS) settings (German), to which I applied Google translate to find them in my English Kaspersky Total Security. Translated bits are in bo...