Lots of power doing nothing...

"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury) 04/15/2020 at 14:31 • Filed to: None

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Ready? READY? Gimme something to do!!!

Slant6 > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 04/15/2020 at 14:39

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I got lucky and have had 3 good GPU WU back to back. I’m now beating you! 

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Slant6 04/15/2020 at 14:42

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I know, and it’s driving me crazy! I should be crushing it!

https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/1176722-foldinghome-gpu-waiting-on-ws-assignment/

I did a little research and it seems that there are more people requesting work than there is work to do - a good problem to have, on the surface of it, but now the organizers of this project need to work on figuring out how to get those jobs out there.

facw > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 04/15/2020 at 14:56

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Your CPU is at least going?

My i3-2100 is chugging away though (best way to have a work unit most of the time is to be really slow to complete it)

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > facw 04/15/2020 at 15:02

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I would like to have the ability to choose where the processing gets done. That  CPU is overclocked to over 5 GHz, but the GPU is stock. Rather than use up the life of the CPU (I know I'm shortening its life with the OC) I'd rather see the more capable GPU do the number crunching.

facw > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 04/15/2020 at 15:11

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I mean you can remove the CPU slot and have it never do work there.

I’ve been overclocking for 22 years without cooking a CPU, but 5GHz+ is a pretty nice number. Mine is only at 4.7Ghz, and runs folding at 4.4 because I needed an AVX adjustment. Unless I really want to crank up the voltage, I doubt I get more than another 100 out of it since I haven’t delidded, but doesn’t feel worth the risk of physically damaging the processor to get ~5% more out of it.

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 04/15/2020 at 15:41

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I have been having to shut down F@H and restart it in order to get work units. Sits there doing nothing all day but as soon as I restart F@H there’s instantly a work unit for me.

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > facw 04/15/2020 at 15:42

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F@H CPU and GPU work units are different tasks. Pulling your CPU out of the work won’t push the work over to the GPU, it will just mean you won’t get any CPU tasks assigned.

facw > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 04/15/2020 at 15:52

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Yep, I get that. But if the concern is over-stressing the CPU, that’s what you would want. Alternatively you could limit the number of cores in the hopes keeping overall load low.

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > facw 04/15/2020 at 15:54

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I have my CPU turned of in F@H because the VRs on my motherboard are garbage and get way to hot when my 3900x starts folding. I’m replacing the board when my stimulus check comes.