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by appepi
Sun Jun 18, 2023 9:51 am
Forum: Discussions of General-FAH topics
Topic: Too big units, comparing to just finished ones
Replies: 31
Views: 81317

Re: Too big units, comparing to just finished ones

Team "appepi" annual report. I have now been following the recipe in previous posts for 52 weeks, aiming to fold in "off peak" electricity rate times (9 hrs/day from 2200 to 0700 next day, while also finishing in "shoulder times" at about 1.5x the "off peak" i...
by appepi
Thu Aug 04, 2022 12:59 am
Forum: FAH Hardware
Topic: Best gpu for Hp Z420 with Xeon e5-1620 vs cpu
Replies: 7
Views: 12909

Re: Best gpu for Hp Z420 with Xeon e5-1620 vs cpu

Thanks bikeaddict, this is really useful information. I had tried unsuccessfully to find a specification for the 12V rail connections on a Z440, but tried Google again after your post with more luck - see https://www.compeve.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=13768. The full list i...
by appepi
Mon Aug 01, 2022 1:03 am
Forum: GPU Projects and FahCores
Topic: I was wrong about the minimum GPU requirements
Replies: 6
Views: 13350

Re: I was wrong about the minimum GPU requirements

I had forgotten my reply to this post back there in the first year of the reign of COVID XIXth, but it now pops up with the stats and details from Team appepi's 2022 configuration so a few words of explanation. All the old cards are now off the list, but the Techspot e-newsletter told me that The Gr...
by appepi
Mon Aug 01, 2022 12:27 am
Forum: FAH Hardware
Topic: Best gpu for Hp Z420 with Xeon e5-1620 vs cpu
Replies: 7
Views: 12909

Re: Best gpu for Hp Z420 with Xeon e5-1620 vs cpu

It seems there are very few posts about Z440s, so I add my experiences here for general info. I found similar posts helpful in the past and this info represents my take-home messages from a lot of scattered reading on the net. I start by noting that power requirements and safety are key points for m...
by appepi
Sun Jul 24, 2022 1:12 pm
Forum: Discussions of General-FAH topics
Topic: Too big units, comparing to just finished ones
Replies: 31
Views: 81317

Re: Too big units, comparing to just finished ones

Thanks prcowley , if anyone is off-base it is me since the base of this thread was the problem you address: the "next cab off the rank" allocation of WUs leading to the picking up giant jobs that are going to be a nuisance for one's hardware and manner of using it, and/or for the Project t...
by appepi
Thu Jul 14, 2022 6:51 am
Forum: Discussions of General-FAH topics
Topic: Too big units, comparing to just finished ones
Replies: 31
Views: 81317

Re: Too big units, comparing to just finished ones

Thanks Foxter, you have backed up and formalised some vague observations I made as I was tuning my cards down to run around 70 deg C. I use ASUS GPU Tweak II since all but one (MSI Aero 1080 made for Dell) are ASUS Turbos in order to fit the HP workstation cases. Just did a more formal test on that ...
by appepi
Mon Jun 27, 2022 8:09 am
Forum: Discussions of General-FAH topics
Topic: Too big units, comparing to just finished ones
Replies: 31
Views: 81317

Re: Too big units, comparing to just finished ones

Thanks Gunnare. Since I'm retired, and the current "team" of 5 workstations whose GPUs do the folding have no other routine demand on them, it is no big deal to switch on 5 boxes at 10pm when "off peak" starts, and see where they've each gotten to at 7am (when "off peak"...
by appepi
Mon Jun 13, 2022 6:18 pm
Forum: Discussions of General-FAH topics
Topic: Typo in stats summary: "contibuting"
Replies: 0
Views: 2910

Typo in stats summary: "contibuting"

Example: "Team was founded by appepi and has earned 204,880,204 points by contibuting 5,209 work units."
by appepi
Thu Jun 09, 2022 6:17 pm
Forum: Discussions of General-FAH topics
Topic: Too big units, comparing to just finished ones
Replies: 31
Views: 81317

Re: Too big units, comparing to just finished ones

Thanks aetch. I think the last time I wrote a .bat file was in 1992 for a 286. Unless you count autocoder on an IBM 1401 around 1970? These days it had better be clickable or Googleable or there's a Youtube video it's above my pay grade. As far as I can tell, the task scheduler seems to be OK for sc...
by appepi
Thu Jun 09, 2022 2:56 pm
Forum: Discussions of General-FAH topics
Topic: Too big units, comparing to just finished ones
Replies: 31
Views: 81317

Re: Too big units, comparing to just finished ones

Argh! This is the third attempt at this reply. The first one must have taken too long to write, since it seems I was logged out. After I finished the second the mouse fell off the table with the same result. So this will be very quick. Thanks PaulTV, but I have never encountered system scheduler in ...
by appepi
Tue Jun 07, 2022 9:21 pm
Forum: Discussions of General-FAH topics
Topic: Too big units, comparing to just finished ones
Replies: 31
Views: 81317

Re: Too big units, comparing to just finished ones

A related topic which will become increasingly important because of increasing electricity costs, is the inability to manage costs by scheduling Folding on/off by time of day. In 2020 I racked up 115 M points from my collection of 10 HP Z-series workstations, but 90% were generated by a single GTX 1...
by appepi
Thu May 19, 2022 7:09 am
Forum: V7.6.x Public Release Windows/Linux/MacOS X
Topic: Repeatedly no response from WU-Server
Replies: 11
Views: 22486

Re: Repeatedly no response from WU-Server

Good News, thanks to https://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?p=354937#p354937 by KhaleedWalten01. The post contains a long recipe for Kaspersky Internet Security (KIS) settings (German), to which I applied Google translate to find them in my English Kaspersky Total Security. Translated bits are in bo...
by appepi
Wed May 18, 2022 11:40 pm
Forum: V7.6.x Public Release Windows/Linux/MacOS X
Topic: Repeatedly no response from WU-Server
Replies: 11
Views: 22486

Re: Repeatedly no response from WU-Server

Thanks for suggestions aetch and Joe_H. The problem is partly resolved: with the 2060 in a Z440 (Donor Z442 in my solo "Team") : Not Fritzboxes, not Kaspersky but Acronis True Image 2019 scheduler seems to be the villain. Since I don't schedule backups but do occasional full backups, disab...
by appepi
Wed May 18, 2022 12:53 am
Forum: V7.6.x Public Release Windows/Linux/MacOS X
Topic: Repeatedly no response from WU-Server
Replies: 11
Views: 22486

Re: Repeatedly no response from WU-Server

I am running new RTX2060 and some WUs never upload even after restart, while others did so after restart. I reactivate RTX 1060 that sent hundreds of WUs OK before, now doesn't. Both have Kaspersky, both reach ISP through Fritzbox 7490 set as IP relay, then main 7490. Log from 1060 below: 00:31:44:W...
by appepi
Thu May 14, 2020 5:18 pm
Forum: GPU Projects and FahCores
Topic: I was wrong about the minimum GPU requirements
Replies: 6
Views: 13350

Re: I was wrong about the minimum GPU requirements

Well yes and no. While it is true that the OpenCL 1.1 status of my Fermi Class Quadro 600s and Quadro 5000 didn't stop them completing GPU tasks after they were returned to favour in GPUs.txt, you were absolutely right about their limited folding capacity being a problem. Initially I had just let th...