Folding Forum

I've had some moments that I've had to interrupt lately for health reasons and because the current is too high to pay but now it's lowered again. They never want to, I don't know why. Thanks Franco for bringing up this engagement issue. I've read wider empirical studies that suggest, like you (I as...

Peter_Hucker wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2024 4:34 am Solar connected to the grid is a ripoff, they pay you a fraction of the value when you give it to them than when you get it back.

Yep, it's the same setup in Australia.

Peter_Hucker wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2024 4:34 am If any cards come my way I'd be happy to provide the power for them.

Great! What's your power draw from your current system, and are you happy to continue providing this amount?

Peter, you could act as a energy provider to cut ongoing costs. If people buy more efficient cards than yours and send them to you, you could setup a better performing system, no?

Totally. I'm renting so can't justify the capital investment in solar as we're likely to move before our payback period starts.

Yeah, cool. Hopefully AMD do a NVIDIA and boost their GPU performance significantly via bettering the framework (CUDA, for NVIDIA) they use.

Peter_Hucker wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2024 3:51 am That's cheap electricity. If I bought it from the grid I'd be paying about £20,000 a year.

How many GPUs are you running? Core count total, etc? Are you running a Data Centre or is my estimate off?

Want setup, build and parts would you recommend? thanks I'm running 4 x NVIDIA 3060 Ti's on a mining rig (open-airflow) 'case' hooked into a HP z420 motherboard. I saw no significant drop in performance with using all PCIE slots (down to x4), via adapters (i.e. risers). Underclocked the GPUs to all...

12 year old GPUs can be very cheap. Sure, upfront. But the electricity costs are relatively big compared to newer cards. The efficiency gains on power usage over the last ~10 years are significant (approx. 10 x core count for same power draw). Also, NVIDIA RTX 4 series have better folding performan...

Maybe they decided the heatsink was feeding heat to the RAM from the GPU?

Maybe they realised that fancy new (i.e. insignificant) 'features' sells cards?

My GPUs aren't even inside the cases, I use mining risers on USB cables. Similar as my current setup! But I'm looking at custom-designing a wooden case with metal plaque with some textual info. about F@h written on it - geared towards marketing/awareness of the whole folding endeavour. Q: Do you th...

The motherboard and the SSD are now broken. Dam, luckily I haven't had any such issues. I'm trying to prototype a new configuration, your comments makes me think it needs to be almost production-quality at the same time (e.g. pre-designed and properly mounted to avoid human-induced errors). Annoyin...

Peter_Hucker wrote: ↑Thu Sep 28, 2023 6:05 am Are you saying you fixed the GPU by moving something?

Nope, but I was having issues where I couldn't boot into Ubuntu until I touched (moved) the motherboard (I think). Maybe a poor connection, they're off Ebay.

Peter_Hucker wrote: ↑Thu Sep 28, 2023 3:14 am ... then they magically work.

I moved my case about 4 cm and suddenly it was booting (without infinitely rebooting). Go figure.

Thanks Peter! Just swapped in another GPU and my OS sees it, so I'll give your suggestions a go, thanks again.