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there have been reports on it working in the past. I myself am waiting for parts to arrive, to see if I can drive an old laptop from the ExpressCard slot, with an eGPU. Until then, if you're running iOS, there might be issues there. Linux could also have driver issues. Highest chance of success, wou...

I have the GTX 1060, and unless you're planning on overclocking with no more than a few Mhz, it's not going to work as well for folding. When gaming there's more tolerance to errors. For folding, it's recommended to keep the cards running stock. Even at a safe overclock (50% from the max safe overc...

Will try once I'm at home with my 1050 and 1030.
Interested to see if I could lock both of them to CPU affinity 0 or so, and what would happen.
In Windows it can be done via taskmanager.

The 1080ti should be close to the RTX 2070 in terms of performance. Is there a way to test 2x slower graphics cards, and set affinity to 1 core only, and see what happens? If 2GB equals ~1M PPD, it would be interesting to see if 2x 1050 or 1060 cards can run on one core. Just curious if the 1 core p...

yea, it would make sense that fast graphics cards may require more than just 1 core to feed them.
Or, if one is running 2 slow graphics cards (like 2x GT1030), perhaps they both can be ran off of 1 core without PPD loss (in case the load of the CPU core is lower than 50% per card)?

It has been said in the past to reserve 1 CPU core per graphics card. Is there a ballpark on CPU speed per card's performance? (eg: a 2Ghz CPU bottlenecks a GTX 1050 or so?) I'm thinking of installing a second system, with less cores (Quad core), but more powerful cards (RTX 2070 + other, higher end...

Like said, Fedora constantly updates their stuff, so if something doesn't work, it's understandable. Unlike Debian based operating systems, where I found the most stable fah client runs on the most modern Linux, rpm based fah client runs most stable on the older versions. I hardly think older redhat...

Thanks, up and running again!

Fedora is probably not the most stable OS to be folding on, since it's a redhat derivative that's 'pioneering' the newest advances, and considered the most popular, yet least stable Redhat based OS around. CentOs or OpenSuse might be a more stable option (in some cases, you can get Redhat OS complet...

Bruce, My answer was to Azmodes, who asked:

....another question. Is GPU load like that (<90%) considered normal?

Just letting you know, NaCl and webpage is down.

Technically, half the die size means either half the power consumption, or nearly double the performance. Usually, it's a mix of both. At 60% better performance, we can expect 40% lower power consumption than the Vega cards New 7nm AMD cards might be interesting for folders, if those cards will be s...

Joe_H wrote:

ProDigit wrote:Yeah, so in the app, a stable overclock on most of my GPUs is anywhere between 100-200Mhz.
But even at 50Mhz it still errors on some.

If you are still getting some errors, then your overclock is NOT stable for folding.

Indeed. Though it is stable enough for gaming and bitcoin mining.

on my cards I get a 95-98% GPU utilization. More on the slower cards than on the faster ones. The remaining 10% in your case can be dedicated graphics to your monitor (3D), and transactions between RAM and GPU. 90% is normal for faster cards. Ideally you'd want compute_0 to hit 95+%, but that would ...

CPU folding is not very effective. About 10x less efficient than mid range graphics cards, and about 100x less efficient than top tier graphics cards. If you only want to fold from CPU, remove the GPU slot in fah control settings, or fold from the native client from a chrome browser: http://nacl.fol...