Folding Forum

Argh! O.K. I signed up with EVGA, they got the hook set and I am so driven to get the RTX3060, or maybe the RTX3060ti at a price as close to the MSRP as possible. Early this morning I bought an RTX2060(Amazon) but later discovered the MSRP priced RTX3060s from EVGA were available, I cancelled the R...

My brief experience with mild overclocking on a GTX 1650 Super is that you are at increased risk of intermittent BAD_WORK_UNIT errors that will cause the WU to dump at a random point before completion and lose points. The small few percent increase in performance is not worth the risk. What I do is...

It's entirely up to you how you run your kit but I personally try to discourage others from overclocking. The card runs hotter, it draws disproportionally more power, the fan spin faster and noisier. Agreed. The novelty of higher clocks is long faded for me, stock is just fine, less heartaches. Bac...

The 3050 has a very low boost speed of below 1500Mhz (~1480Mhz), vs the 1870Mhz boost of a 2060. More modern 2060s you can run at 2050Mhz boost easily, but the 3050s I don't know. Even though the 3050 has 33% more cuda cores, it also is operating at ~25% lower frequency. That paired with the slower...

Argh! O.K. I signed up with EVGA, they got the hook set and I am so driven to get the RTX3060, or maybe the RTX3060ti at a price as close to the MSRP as possible.

The RTX 3060s have 'attractive' PPDs (2,126,824 PPD) according to: https://folding.lar.systems/gpu_ppd/brands/nvidia/folding_profile/ga106_geforce_rtx_3060 Newegg has one sub-500$ RTX 3060 currently. No doubt I'm in a hurry to get another GPU online before summer electric bills start, but maybe I sh...

The "sweet spot" price wise for me is around the $400 mark, for a GPU folding acquisition . Currently the RTX 2060 and the RTX 3050 fall into this range, but performance numbers are not what I expected, considering the hardware specs. RTX 2060 specs: 6GB 192-Bit GDDR6 1920 CUDA Cores PCI E...

aetch wrote: ↑Fri Apr 22, 2022 8:20 am If it works it's all good, there's a lot of answers I don't know.

All thoughts and ideas lead us to solving the common goal.

You really need to download and install the proprietary driver from the nvidia/geforce website. The drivers available from the ubuntu repository don't have all the components required to fold. What worked to add the Open CL libraries: apt install ocl-icd-opencl-dev https://foldingforum.org/viewtopi...

You really need to download and install the proprietary driver from the nvidia/geforce website. The drivers available from the ubuntu repository don't have all the components required to fold. The GPU section of your system info should look more like this 21:40:45: CWD: /var/lib/fahclient 21:40:45:...

Well I'm going to throw caution to the wind and say that this problem has been solved . I replaced the original Ubuntu(Mate) install with Ubuntu Studio, which by default come with the XFCE DE. The Nvidia 470.xx.xx driver happened to be installed automatically. So far so good, if the problem returns ...

As a backup or for migration to another machine, can I just copy the .FAHClient directory to a usb drive?

Wow, cooling [actually lack of] really hit home when I shut the rig down and opened the case. I replaced both the front and rear 120mm fans, am seeing lower temps all around, am still keeping a eye on this machine. If the problem persists I'll likely be blaming the age of the AM3 system, and pull th...

@Neil-B & @aetch,

I got my punch list of tasks to check into, thanks.

another system to remote monitor this rig
download and install the proprietary driver
disable automatic updates
manually set the size of your CPU slot to 2 cores

Without a doubt folding can be tough on a system, but I view it more as the best system stability tool available. Did you do any monitoring of temps and such with the new card and PS? I've got the GPU fans set to 70%, GPU temp running 82 C. lm-sensors reports the system temps as: ~$ sensors it8728-...