50,000,000 Points. Since Sunday.

"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
04/17/2020 at 12:50 • Filed to: None

DISCUSSION (37)

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
04/17/2020 at 12:53

I’m going to have to get on board with my i5 mac

ttyymmnn > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
04/17/2020 at 12:54

Macs don’t share the GPU, so they run painfully slow. I’ve tried it with my older iMac, and then gave up.

PowderHound > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
04/17/2020 at 12:59

I haven’t got a WU in about 24 hours.

jminer > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
04/17/2020 at 13:02

It’s a battle royale in here today !

I keep flip flopping between 1 and 2 with a couple serious contenders 1-5. All it’ll take is a few lucky work orders for one of us to top the others.

Shoop > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
04/17/2020 at 13:07

Is this a fold at hom E thing ?

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
04/17/2020 at 13:09

Busted out MSI Afterburner and am now seeing how far it’ll go. I’m just doing my best to stay in the top 10!

TheRealBicycleBuck > ttyymmnn
04/17/2020 at 13:09

My server doesn’t even have a GPU! You’re right, without the GPU, the contributions are small. But they are contributions. I find it hilarious that my rank is dead last. What’s frustrating is that my estimated daily contribution is 17k, but the posted score is only 5k

Kinja'd!!!

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > ttyymmnn
04/17/2020 at 13:13

Well, I guess I’ll just watch from the sidelines.

getFuckedHerb > jminer
04/17/2020 at 13:14

just leaving me out of the serious contender talk eh? I see how it is..

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > PowderHound
04/17/2020 at 13:20

Have you tried a reboot?

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
04/17/2020 at 13:23

Staying in the top 15ish is basically my goal, too. There's still some serious computing power climbing the ranks after jumping on board the few days. There's also the fact that I'm also going to spend some time playing with my newly upgraded rig that will mean pauses in folding.

Grindintosecond > PowderHound
04/17/2020 at 13:28

use the advanced manager, pause and restart every time it bumps up over a few minutes between attempts. youll get one faster that way.

PowderHound > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
04/17/2020 at 13:28

I’ve stopped folding and restarted there. Haven’t done a full computer reboot yet. I’ll give that a shot

Grindintosecond > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
04/17/2020 at 13:28

yay im in the millions club

jminer > getFuckedHerb
04/17/2020 at 13:31

You’re not out of it - but you are 1 million points behind the 5th. Not saying you can’t pull it out in the next couple days but odds of you hitting number 1 today aren’t good.

You are definitely putting down some serious numbers though!

jminer > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
04/17/2020 at 13:32

Keep at it! This is a ton of fun

jminer > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
04/17/2020 at 13:33

I’ll admit I haven’t gamed on my PC this week at all for that reason exactly. My Switch has been getting a ton of play though.

Once someone firmly knocks me out of 1st I’ll press pause on it to do some gaming though.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Shoop
04/17/2020 at 13:39

Hi Shoop. Take a look at this article. It explains everything very well. If you do a search on Oppo for “folding” you’ll get lots of hits because lots of posts.

In short, they have these yuuge computational science problems for medical research and they slice up the work and distribute it to computers all over the internet. Oppo users have formed a team, beginning on Easter Sunday six days ago, and we’re sprinting up the team list.

You can download the app at www.foldingathome.org

Gaming rigs earn the most points because the GPUs in the video cards are powerful.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > PowderHound
04/17/2020 at 13:40

That’s a thing to try. PowderHound... like loading?

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > jminer
04/17/2020 at 13:42

You’ve almost hit 5 million in a week. Holy crap, man!

jminer > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
04/17/2020 at 13:50

Yeah, it’s been a ton of fun and a challenge for me.

It’s helped push me into learning a few more things that I wanted to as well. For example I spun up some cloud resources as well yesterday to boost my PPD a bit.

ttyymmnn > TheRealBicycleBuck
04/17/2020 at 13:51

I really have no idea how the scoring is calculated or really what it all means. It’s just fun to watch and contribute.

ttyymmnn > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
04/17/2020 at 13:52

You can always play along, just with the understanding that you’re handicapped a bit. I would leave it running in the background of my iMac just for grins, but my wife is using the computer for real work and I don’t want to slow her down.

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
04/17/2020 at 14:45

Eury is nipping at JKMiner’s heels!!

And I’m still making sucking sounds near the back of the pack. Once upon a time I thought I could stay ahead of Poor_sh, but it’s not to be with the old crap I have.

I’ve know my system was getting long in tooth as the last major upgrade I did was back in 2010.

I’m gonna do a major upgrade later this year.

Was on canadacomputers.com last night and thinking about what new hardware I’m gonna get.

There will be a new motherboard (probably with the B450 chipset), new Ryzen CPU with either 6 or 8 cores and either 12 or 16 threads, there will be at least 16GB ram, there will be an M2 SSD and there will be an NVidia graphics card that will cost at least CAD$220.

But I’m also fantasizing about winning the lottery and then getting a 470X motherboard and building a setup that will include dual NVidia Titan RTX cards

But I think I should buy a car that is nicer/better than my beater 2008 Honda Fit before building a monster system that would likely cost close to CAD$10,000 to build.

Eury - AFRICA TWIN!!!!!!! > jminer
04/17/2020 at 15:23

Getting work units Is the Issue. With the 2 cards In my system, I’m seeing one card just sitting there doing nothing. Luckily It’s the slower and the 2070S Is getting packets worth 220k and finish In about 2hr. If I could feed the 1080 also it’d be good for nearly 2.7 million PPD, but as it sits it’s around 1.8 .

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Manwich - now Keto-Friendly
04/17/2020 at 15:32

All of that stuff I have no idea about. But I will be liberating my Nvidia Quadro 2000 GPU here in the coming days...

jminer > Eury - AFRICA TWIN!!!!!!!
04/17/2020 at 15:59

I’ve got a mid-range card (RX 5700 ) and a low end (GTX 1050) in two systems. The GTX pulls small enough units it stays fairly regularly fed but the bigger AMD usually only woks half the day.

I do love seeing us flip back and forth 1/2 today. I’m sitting here racking my brain to figure out how to generate more without buying a new RTX card. I fear while I’m still putting down decent numbers I’m going to fall a few places by the time the weekend is over.

getFuckedHerb > jminer
04/17/2020 at 17:38

I was just joking I am definitely out of it. It’s taken me 128WU’s and I’m not even where I was with 46 previously, not getting the big fat GPU work units like I was!

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
04/17/2020 at 18:30

FYI... according to this chart:

https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/directCompute.html

That Quadro 2000 scores a ‘958'.

By comparison, my GeForce GT 640 scores a 688. And note, you may have heard my graphics card is shit.

And how does that stack up to new stuff?

A GeForce GT 1030 that costs CAD$125 like this one scores at 1307.

And a GeForce GT 710 that costs around CAD$70 like this one scores a pathetic “might as well stick with on-board graphics” 404.

And speaking of on-board graphics, the current “Intel(R) Iris(R) Plus Graphics 645" you get integrated in premium laptops like this one scores a 4087

At the other end of integrated graphics, the current Intel UHD 610 you find in crappy Celeron systems scores a 362

What does all this mean?

It means that Quadro 2000 is the performance equivalent to a graphics card worth about CAD$90.

If you got it for nothing or next to nothing , great!

I predict that card will earn points at a rate that is ~4 0% faster than my donkey-ball-sucking slow card.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Manwich - now Keto-Friendly
04/17/2020 at 18:43

I’d sell you mine for $15 plus the postage.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > TheRealBicycleBuck
04/17/2020 at 19:12

Did you get a passkey with your email address? I swear my point jumped after registering.

TheRealBicycleBuck > gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
04/17/2020 at 19:23

I did. Perhaps I need to make sure I put it in correctly.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > TheRealBicycleBuck
04/17/2020 at 19:26

On your configure, Identity tab, I have a little green light below when copy/paste the passkey, and reenter box.

TheRealBicycleBuck > gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
04/17/2020 at 19:34

Just checked. It showed correctly, but I reentered it just in case.

Kinja'd!!!

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
04/18/2020 at 08:39

I’ll make you a counter offer of CAD$5

(Thinking of the recent Tom McParland article and one of the commenters said how his wife wanted him to offer $5000 for a Ford Flex with an asking price of $15,000)

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Manwich - now Keto-Friendly
04/18/2020 at 09:12

Well the replacement that I was going to use is totally unacceptable which perhaps you've seen on the other post. So I'm kind of stuck right now.

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
04/18/2020 at 10:07

I just read that post now... geez.

Was that card used in a pc being used in a saw mill or carpenters shop?

How much did you pay for that very dirty GTX 1060?

Mind you it might be salvageable with some alcohol cleaner and compressed air.

I bet they got rid of it because the card was overheating because of being so dirty