Folding Forum

Are you using the cpu's because you have them on hand or because the budget wont stretch to something better? I have a 25w tdp chip driving a 1070 and 2060 and i'm currently getting 1.3m PPD, idle power draw from the wall is 68w and full load is 400w from the wall. Admittedly the cpu is an E3-1230L...

Sometimes Linux only shows you the base speed, not the boost speed. If you're running a mobile device, with low base clock speed (especially if ran in powersaving mode), it might not show the CPU ramping up to boost speeds. On a low power Celeron processor, I've had Ubuntu tell me my CPU was running...

I think Fahclient has 2 different versions of itself installed in Ubuntu, with the same name, or the FAHClient file doesn't respond properly using the command from any directory. When trying to start fahclient from the terminal, other than from /etc/init.d, it won't work properly. It will respond, b...

I don't have a lot of Linux knowledge, but I remember trying to install fah as well on other Linux machines, and found that the installer (apt or apt-get) doesn't install the dependencies. Since then, I use a built in installer from the GUI, so I don't need the command to force-install the dependenc...

If I'm not mistaken, it's been a while since I ran FAH on Windows, Last time I checked, NVidia drivers can choose CUDA over OpenGl, when you set which card you want to use for CUDA in their Nvidia-windows Control panel. Anyway, I noticed one of my cards getting nearly twice the PPD rating, while the...

Well, at least Windows is thinking about giving the end user 30 days before installing updates. Windows been making a real mess with win 10. Almost as if they're pushing updates well before their time, and spend too little time to check if the new update don't make the OS worse than before. I've exp...

Taskmanager in Windows, and system monitor in Ubuntu and Lubuntu, or htop in Linux terminal, will show you how much of the CPU is dedicated to locking the CPU thread, and how much (kernel time) is used to actual data. In htop it shows as the primary color of CPU utilization, and the thread locking (...

... and there are a lot of choices between a 710 and a 2060, depending on you budget. True, but I'd agree that nothing folds as good for the money as a 2060. The increase in initial purchase price over Pascal cards, is well worth it in the long run on the cost to run these cards (especially when ra...

The advanced method uses an older fah client. The guide probably hasn't been updated. Remove it (sudo apt remove fahclient), and fahcontrol as well Then go to the main page, and download the Deb or rpm package, whatever your system runs, and install from Deb (you can use an installer in the gui if y...

Linux or Windows?

@Bruce,
It would be interesting to know what PPD range this card has, just to know which similar cards will be unsupported in the near future.
I'm suspecting it probably performs close to a modern dual core 35Watt CoreI5 CPU ?

True, a VM usually doesn't have direct access to the GPU. The first option would probably be to try to run the x86 Linux FAH program through ExaGear Desktop. (though they currently claim to be 'sold out'. How can one sell out software, is beyond me :| ) They claim "ANY" program would work;...

No, the folding cores for both GPU and CPU folding are compiled to run on x86/AMD64 processors. 1- Are we talking about FAH would totally not install on an ARM device? Or FAH could, but wouldn't perform as well? 2- Is there a possibility to run FAH through some sort of emulation on these OSes, to e...

First off, the RockPro64 is ARM based. But it has a PCIE 4x slot. https://www.pine64.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/ROCKPro64-SBC.jpg I know Ubunut runs on many ARM devices already. But RockPro has a precompiled list of all kinds of operating systems that would work on this board, including Debian, ...

Great choice!
EVGA runs pretty cool, and thus fast and silent too.

EVGA is also known for their great customer service, as they have establishments in USA.