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I am folding with ~140k PPD right now. According to [...] A 1060 shouldn't need a CPU upgrade. Your low PPD may have to do with either over-committing the CPU (eg: folding on all CPU cores while folding on GPU), or if you're using a PCIE 2.0 x1 riser to feed the GPU. The 1060 depending on if it's t...

I am folding with ~140k PPD right now. According to all the Benchmark lists a 1060 should produce well double the points but I guess due to the very cheap board the PCIe port slows things down a lot. What I am impressed of is that the CPU is sooo ineffective. I upgraded to a Core 2 Quad with 2,6 GHz...

After messing around with drivers and CUDA and a not connecting client we rebooted that one time when suddenly everything was running perfectly.

So after all we do not know why it is working now but whatever we are folding!

Thanks for the help to everyone!

psaam0001 wrote:When you look at the expert configuration settings, The gpu false setting line can be highlighted and removed. As it should only be set if your graphics card is neither OpenCL v1.2 (or newer); or NVIDIA CUDA ready.

Paul

You mean this is the case for my GPU?

Gpu was set to false. I changed it to true. When I add the GPU in the Slots tab the Client seems to refresh for a second but the GPU does not appear... But no Error... Just no GPU The Log: *********************** Log Started 2020-10-12T10:44:05Z *********************** 10:44:05:Trying to access data...

Did you install Folding@Home as a snap container application? What distribution of Linux are you using? In general for any basic Ubuntu distribution you only need install version 18.04 latest update, Proprietary drivers from the Ubuntu repository (opencl and cuda auto included these days), client f...

11:06:06:WARNING:Attempting to update GPUs.txt from assign2.foldingathome.org:80: Could not get IP address for assign2.foldingathome.org: Temporary failure in name resolution Looks like you could not download gpu.txt. You can find it here: https://apps.foldingathome.org/GPUs.txt And it should be in...

I have an i7 (i guess i7-8550U something) and getting max 36k (more likely 30) PPD. Have you entered a passkey for your Folding? https://foldingathome.org/support/faq/points/passkey/ Yes I did. I can't help you with your Problem, but I would like to know how you squeeze 100k PPD out of an i5. I hav...

The CUDA toolkit can rather be a problem. You should uninstall it. And if you add a GPU slot in FAHControl? I marked GPU under "Configure folding slots" and simply pressed OK. A GPU with -1 appeared in the folding slots list. When hitting save an error appeared telling me there is no GPU ...

OK, so I followed the very modest instructions provided by PantherX For Nvidia GPUs, you would need: [X] 1) Ensure that Linux is fully updated. [X] 2) Install the proprietary drivers by Nvidia [X] 3) Install OpenCL package (sudo apt-get install ocl-icd-opencl-dev) [X] 4) Install FAHClient Everything...

[...]I also have a single i5-8500B 6 cores (CPU mark of 9538) that got the same WU, and it could crush it at of speed that would end up with over 100k PPD.[...] I can't help you with your Problem, but I would like to know how you squeeze 100k PPD out of an i5. I have an i7 (i guess i7-8550U somethi...

how do i force folding@home to download the smallest work units available and do only those for cpu and gpu? smallest only, no big ones taking days or week+ Thats absolutely something I would wish to be implemented. Just wondering, what's your use-case so that we can see when we can do about it :) ...

So we performed all the Updates and things are working way better now. Still kind of slow but that might ne caused by the HDD and CPU. Forgot how slow they were compared to todays SSDs. The Celeron is Folding but takes 2.4 days for one ~2500Point WU. As expected not usable for Folding. Running the S...

So I got ubuntu 20.04 running now. As an complete newbie to Linux it was quite easy to install, what surprised me to some point. Only question I have: Is it usual, that the Linux setup and first startup is very slow? After finishing the setup I bootet it just once to see if the components were recog...

Your motherboard supports Intel® Core™2 Quad Processors (https://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en/mb/in ... cpusupport). This means that for a very low cost you could upgrade your cpu to something that is still not very energy efficient, but anyway more than decent for Folding@Home or Boinc. If you look o...