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They should design new Nvidia cards to use more power instead of less. If a card nowadays uses 75w, then make it use 125w and make it exceptionally unstable if undervolted. That will remove the market for mining on them, gamers dont tend to care too much if a card uses more power or gets hotter sinc...

Cool explanation page. It does seem to lay it out quite nicely. I also wonder if all cards from this point onwards will have this tech installed. I expect it will, since its being deployed at the silicon level and presumably has been implemented in the core chip as well as vBIOS. If they use a compl...

Besides, I couldn't stream "Tenet" on my notebook machine without experiencing interruptions when the F@H was running a simulation. I have only one cable modem. I had to stop F@H before I could stream without interruption. How am I going to use 4 machines dedicated to F@H at one time? Won...

I considered asking on the Nvidia forums, but its a bit hit and miss on there. I am also not asking for myself per se. Having enough money to buy any card from the 3xxx series is not likely for a while. It also seems like this is aimed at specific cards. I read somewhere that they calculated and tes...

Will Nvidia's attempt to stop crypto mining by crippling the cards at the software level have any effect on Folding@home software? While we aren't as prolific in buying cards for compute tasks as say cryptominers, as a community we do buy a lot of hardware that probably never gets used for gaming. N...

Slightly Offtopic for this thread, but does anyone know if you can use the Compute HAT on a Pi to create a cluster that FAH could use? Has anyone tried?

If you could create a 16 core cluster and have FAH use all 16 cores, i would be interested in seeing some numbers, assuming its even possible.

The CPU is a stop gap measure. I have an i7 7700K on an Asus RoG motherboard, waiting for me at a relatives house. But I cant pick it up presently due to lockdown. My original CPU was an i3 6100 and I replaced that with a cheap 6500. Eventually this board and cpu will end up in my secondary gaming r...

Unless you are deploying a pure eco folding system, using 100% renewable energy, that is not grid tied in any way shape or form. Basically a fire and forget folding solution that generates its own power and doesnt generate any waste besides maybe heat (and even that could be recycled on some level)...

Could anyone give me an opinion for settings for the following Asus Dual GTX 2080 Ti MSI Z170A SLI Intel i5 6500. Corsair RM850 Running Windows not Linux (and won't be running Linux because it is primarily a Windows Gaming system). Currently running MSI Afterburner with the following settings. 80% P...

I think on board graphics are on the ARM, but I figured it has plenty of CUDA and Tensor cores so maybe they have something that'll work with this. Mainly because the wattage is so low if you could get some good results it would be worth running 24/7 FAH favors faster hardware. Considering the cost...

Have any of you replaced two GPUs with a single one with increased total FAH throughput? If so, then you, too, have contributed to the fall-off of users without a fall-off in PPD. (though there was no actual loss in the number of donors) Everytime I look on Hardware it seems more like people are re...

High point workunits come and go occasionally. Its just part of folding. But also be aware that the opposite will occaasionally happen to balance the scales.

Yeah thinking about it, it probably no longer works. Back in the days of Pandegroup when you went to your stats page you could have your teamlogo display on your stats page. But looking at the current stats page, no logos display anymore, so maybe it is a deprecated feature that someone removed to s...

If you can get a 1050ti to run in it, it will give you a decent number of points. You could probably get a couple more with a 3GB 1060. Power usage isnt too high for either. You may even get away with a 1650, but i dont follow the whole bottleneck threads anymore. A 1050 is doable though for sure. I...

(or install the server version of Linux) Maybe, but technically their isnt any difference between the desktop and server versions, besides less software and whether you install X or not. httpd, php, mariadb, etc are the same across both versions. It generally comes down to the experience of the use...