What's going on with Folding@Home?

SiriusB · 7 May 2010 at 00:34

I checked my stats just now and despite no GPU folding for most of the week I am still in 3rd place in the top 20 producers list. I see quite a few people have taken a hit in their PPD all of a sudden - excepting Bigstan as we know most of his farm is not-on!

Are we getting a flurry of bad WUs, slow WUs or is everyone winding down for the "Summer"?

verbal · 7 May 2010 at 00:40

Some of the new GPU WUs give a lower than average ppd but my money is on general slacking... disgraceful!

sir-les-mp · 7 May 2010 at 00:40

Well ive taken a hit in points over the last couple of weeks due to losing half of my 9800gx2 yet again.
Ive still to get round testing it in a differrent pci-e slot yet to see if the mobo is playing up
if not then its back to leadtek with it for yet another repair

Marine Iguana · 7 May 2010 at 00:48

I'm getting back up to speed after a week of not realizing that my wifi was dying causing me to have a rubbish week and getting the hump

Everyone else just being general slackers I think.

sir-les-mp · 7 May 2010 at 01:44

looking at my weekly stats from when i got the gx2 back and running at full speed again im only losing around 30,000 PPW which is not too bad could be worse i suppose.

SiriusB · 7 May 2010 at 02:20

I am losing around 12-14K a day. Stupid GPU/Mobo/SBS/WU/Stanford/World!

Biffa · 7 May 2010 at 04:17

I'm doing ok

Frozennova · 7 May 2010 at 07:16

Dam slackers

I might not be a high producer but production is on its way up, and I might even have a GPU of some description end of next week providiing miniyazz isnt snapping them all up.

miniyazz · 7 May 2010 at 09:11

I'll try to leave you some dregs

Frozennova · 7 May 2010 at 09:13

I guess its not so bad as my search can include those with dual slot coolers as I only have the one PCI-E slot

On a another note the misses doesnt like the fact I've removed 2 of the 5.25" bay covers on the front of the rig so I can have another 120mm fan mounted below the DVD drives, Its good for a 4 degree temp drop so I'll put up with the moaning till I decide on a solution. She should just be glad I'm not running the San Ace at full tilt.

edit 2: Job done, not the best looking solution but could be a lot worse. Superglue, bit of motherboard box foam, a bit of mesh and a stanley knife is all it needed.

dekez · 7 May 2010 at 11:07

I'm not doing too bad, everything is stable for the moment (at least until the hot weather comes back).

Frozennova · 7 May 2010 at 11:41

Im already planning for the hot weather and addition of a GPU to the rig.

Need to decide on a cpu cooler now as I'm rather space limited, bought a Hyper 212 a few weeks back that didnt fit, and it got a little damaged by me trying to make it fit. I've not seen anything above the low 50s for core temps

sir-les-mp · 7 May 2010 at 11:53

Looking at the current weekly stats im not doing too badly either, i appear to be the no1 single crucher and 5th overall within the team.

shadowscotland · 7 May 2010 at 22:06

+1 slacker here

but new job starts monday so that may change

sir-les-mp · 7 May 2010 at 23:16

shadowscotland said:
+1 slacker here but new job starts monday so that may change

yeah we noticed the news seemed to disappear again :rolleyes:

verbal · 8 May 2010 at 13:26

The last 24 hours was a shocker for the team only 257,000 points. We were up around 500,000 a few weeks ago.

It would be good to have the news back. We could get a better idea of where we're losing points. My production will be up above 10k ppd from tomorrow onwards.

Good luck with the new job shadowscotland.

Richy1204 · 8 May 2010 at 19:10

I've done 11K this week

+ got myself a 9800GT

SiriusB · 8 May 2010 at 20:01

I might be able to help with the news. I have been toying with a script to do the news automagically. I haven't looked at it for a while as I have been busy with other things. I will see if I can get it working!

Biffa · 9 May 2010 at 03:43

I ran out of dilithium and am running on coal

rich99million · 9 May 2010 at 22:20

shadowscotland said:
+1 slacker here but new job starts monday so that may change

Good luck in the new job - hope you can get some crunching going once things have settled

Personally my output is suffering badly due to a duff card I think (and as I type the GPU fan spinning down probably means another failure - grrrr) looks like my 8800GT might need a kicking.
Luckily I got hold of a pair of 8800GTX's today so should be able to do something with those and get my quad back online also :cool:

edit: Ok that's the first one fired up and a quick test using OCCT shows it's good to go, already an extra 10% PPD over the GT so we'll just have to see how it goes overnight. I won't be turning the heat on anyway that's for sure