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Yellowbillycat said:

cine_chris said:

@kmiller922 From what I read on the EVGA forum you don't go less than a 4x PCIE slot and they talk about running i3s with Linux.

Interesting.  I have a 1x PCIe riser on the way ($6) to get an idle P106-90 running.  I'll have to compare it to the other P106 that's in an 8x slot right now.  4x risers are cheap, but out of China, so sloooow delivery.
Currently running:
R7 1700 + RTX 2070 Ubuntu 18.04
i5-6600K + GTX 1070 + P106-90 Ubuntu 18.04
i5-2400 + GTX 1650 (when it itsn't running Zwift) Windows 10
Core2Duo + GT 1030 Ubuntu 20.04
P71 Laptop i7-7700HQ + Quadro M620 Windows 10

@Yellowbillycat
The info above about running FAH on pcie 4x Nvidia GPU was out-of-date.  Apparently, about a yr-ago, Nvidia killed running on pcie 4x connections (also M2 feeds).  I suspect these connections were not able to handle the GPUs power needs & frying systems.  So that scrapped my plan to use a Supermicro server mobo with to 2-8x & 2-4x.  The 8x slots worked great, but the 4x had zero GPU compute capability.  Lesson learned.

cine_chris said:

@Yellowbillycat
The info above about running FAH on pcie 4x Nvidia GPU was out-of-date.  Apparently, about a yr-ago, Nvidia killed running on pcie 4x connections (also M2 feeds).  I suspect these connections were not able to handle the GPUs power needs & frying systems.  So that scrapped my plan to use a Supermicro server mobo with to 2-8x & 2-4x.  The 8x slots worked great, but the 4x had zero GPU compute capability.  Lesson learned.

@cine_chris
Good to know.  I only tried the 1x PCIE riser.  It did work, and if there was any slowdown, it was inside the normal run-to-run variation in PPD.  I had 2 P106-90's, one in an 8x slot and one using the 1x riser.

I notice some of the entrants in the July folding giveaway (thanks, Ryau!) have done appreciable work but the fine print in the screenshots say "0 go to MicrocenterOfficials's total of ….". Is this a misconfiguration or just something that sometimes happens even after you join a team?

24 hours in after switching teams and making some good progress, putting all that microcenter merch to work on the down time
2080ti xc hydro / 3900x
5700xt (asus refrence on water block) / 3950x
5700 (asus refrence on water block) / 3600x
2060 ko ultra / 1600x
typically produces 3 - 6 million a day depending on which systems are folding and how efficiently Folding@home feeds me work units.  

MightyMayfield said:
Yeah, the FAH network stability seems a bit wavy these days. Can make anything from 18-33m PPD depending on how it feels 

I noticed several of the MC donors were low #`s today.  I`m not folding on any CPUs currently & my #`s were up ~400k.  That`s despite having to replace a dead mobo & losing a couple of WUs in the process.   I guess Forrest Gumpisms apply to folding too,  WUs are like a box of chocloates  

teamtempest said:

I notice some of the entrants in the July folding giveaway (thanks, Ryau!) have done appreciable work but the fine print in the screenshots say "0 go to MicrocenterOfficials's total of ….". Is this a misconfiguration or just something that sometimes happens even after you join a team?

@teamtempest As a note, your team points don`t follow you, they stay with the team at the time they were accumulated.  Reading in the docs yesterday,  you can even assign slots to different teams with advanced config features.  Kinda makes sense as allegiances change & competitions at any level can make people do funny things.  

I was stupid. I let M$oft update do its thing. It installed a new browser and promptly broke a whole lot of things that were working perfectly fine. Among them the FAH client, which just kept causing the screen to "blink" every few seconds without doing anything else. I used a system restore in hopes it would get rid of the "new, improved, super duper browser!". No joy; it's still the newest piece of junk. I downloaded and installed the latest client. It worked once, but I left it on minimum power because I planned to turn it up later. But now, while I'm sure it's running, the client refuses to talk to me. It just spins its little cursor thing, and after a while it shows a little menu of other things I might try, none of which actually do anything useful.  Is there something else I might try to get control back?

teamtempest said:

I was stupid. I let M$oft update do its thing. It installed a new browser and promptly broke a whole lot of things that were working perfectly fine. Among them the FAH client, which just kept causing the screen to "blink" every few seconds without doing anything else. I used a system restore in hopes it would get rid of the "new, improved, super duper browser!". No joy; it's still the newest piece of junk. I downloaded and installed the latest client. It worked once, but I left it on minimum power because I planned to turn it up later. But now, while I'm sure it's running, the client refuses to talk to me. It just spins its little cursor thing, and after a while it shows a little menu of other things I might try, none of which actually do anything useful.  Is there something else I might try to get control back?

My little motivational Folding goal for this month is a July Hat Trick... (3`s) Top3k, 300M PPD, 3k WU.  Just something to help keep the fire lit & noticing the 3`s commonality, 3 goals with 3s.  For my first setup, it was to reach 5M/5days.

Trying some new settings configurations today. So far seems promising.

Kirito said:

If someone finds abetter answer than mine please post it.  I'm not a computer science major and I only have one Windows machine running this. It was easy for me to go to the nuclear option.  There may very well be a better answer out there.

Kirito

What I do, FWIW..
 1) sometimes the windows network mode can get set to Public, set it  Private. 
2) setting fixed IP addresses rather than DHCP random seemed to also help, especially for the remote access/control which also requires a restart of both systems. to connect
3) & most weird to fix windows strangeness is defragging with a real defrag util, although it`s no longer supported, I still use myDeFrag, Auslogics is another I`ve used.  (pause or shutdown other apps while running)
4) Temporarily disable Windows Firewall to test if it`s the hang.
5) I also set the DNS servers to Google in the NIC manual settings, 8.8.4.4 8.8.8.8 
6) for virus scan I like Malwarebytes, not that it fixes anything, but it often blocks malware sites.  
also, I seldom do CPU folding & only with later-faster CPUs when I do.  Try pausing CPU folding to see if it affects anything.
HTH

ChrisHarshman said:

Anyone have tips on running multiple GPU cards in the same box?

I have 3 tower closed boxes... two of them are Antec 300 cases.  All 3 have a 120mm Cooler Master Sickleflow 60cfm fan side-mounted pumping room air directly into the GPUs.  I still power cap to keep them in the mid60Cs temp range as req`d.   One of the reasons I run Windows is to get the MSI Afterburner S/W for monitoring & tuning.  I even have the GPU fans tuned to minimize temp fluctuations during the F@H checkpoints.  Note the negligible temp drop during the checkpoint spike.  This system is a GTX1050Ti running at 59C at 90% power, it`s relatively quiet.