darussian12

troy8d
11/17/2015

• The live drawing for prizes will be held soon after all teams have completed the 2015 Time Zone Challenge! 
• If you have not submitted your prize picks before the drawing, it will be impossible for us to give you a prize.  (Punchy's mind-reader tool is still in development )

 
At the moment its looking like ETZ will finish up on Thursday, what time of day (please use Eastern Time) would work best for people who want to watch the drawing process?  Per my schedule it would be anytime after 3 PM.

if the drawing process results in my getting the 970, i say 3:01 pm EST. If not rigged for me to be a winner, then i assume will eventually get emails about choices or options about what to do?

I don't understand this. If you don't win the 970, you'll be waiting for PM's? Have you done the prize picker tool yet?

Ah okay. That's what I was hoping and I shouldn't make posts before the 2nd cup of coffee. Thanks again Punchy for all you do.

I'm still plodding along here hanging in until the end. Whoever said "Slow and steady wins the race" didn't know what they were talking about.

I'm going to upgrade my watercooling loop, relax for a few days, and hope I don't have another heart attack when my next electric bill arives.

bcavnaugh

troy8d

Mekhed

bcavnaugh
Once MOP reaches 200 Million I will be stopping to Fold for awhile.

If Stanford cannot correct the Problem with Core 21 P96xx and some P97xx Projects or Core 21 in General then I must pull out as I cannot afford the cost of wasted Electricity.

Sorry Team but Money is Money.

I don't blame you bcav.... for me it's been 2 weeks of total frustration and I'm maybe doing half of what you're doing. I'd like to thank you for pulling out all the stops and leading this MOP team by example.

 
I certainly understand your frustration and give you guys a lot of credit for sticking it out to the end.  I'm curious of either of you have lowered the P2 Memory speed using Nvidia Inspector as suggested by Grandpa in this thread here: http://forums.evga.com/35560-Last-Stable-Driver-m2411736-p2.aspx#2414485
 
I don't have the luxury of owning new enough hardware to try this out on but am very curious about the issue.

Yes for the last week.

 
One fix causes another failure and Core 21 (UNKNOWN_ENUM) just have to many issues.
 
Downclocking seems to only fix P9704 from what I am seeing BUT I still see "Bad State detected... attempting to resume from last good checkpoint" on P97xx Projects. This also re-starts the Project so it can take 3 times longer to complete and it still can fail at 100%.
 
And I also changed the PhysX to CPU and still no real help.

Yes I also used Nvidia Inspector to drop memory speeds a little over a week ago. I saw those other threads and gave it a try. Was running 6000mhz memory and stock core speed and was still losing wu's on my 980ti  and dropped my 970s down to 5400mhz memory and stock core and still had issues with "bad states and bad work units" but wasn't losing as many.
 
The first 3 days of the challenge was what I expected as far as performance. On day 4 is when the trouble started and for 11 days much frustration with bad states and bad work units. On day 15 things went back to somewhat normal, production wise, for me. 
 
My theory is Stanford's servers were getting low on wu's and on Nov 4th they released a bunch of core 21 wu's that were not quite ready for prime time and we all got to do some testing for them. Older hardware seemed to handle these wu's ok but newer (970, 980 and 980ti) had issues. I've noticed when I get problem wu's my gpus run up to 10c hotter and pull over 100% TDP power consumption. I just got a Core 21 9205 project right now ( I've had problems with these) on my 980ti with memory running at P2 state 6600mhz, the core was at 75c and power consumption was 107% TDP and my desktop became very sluggish. I paused the wu and dropped memory speed to 6000mhz and restarted it. Temp now is at 70c and p c is at 93% TDP and desktop seems normal.
 
I've had issues with core 21 projects 9205, 9206, 9633, 9643, 9637 and 9628, there may be more but these I've noticed. Projects 9704, 9626 and 10495 have run pretty well on both of my machines.
 
Make no mistake, Stanford has their own agenda here and we all are just pawns in this. When folding is good, I fold. When folding is not so good, I shut down and wait a couple weeks and try again, it usually gets better. This isn't the first or last time we'll see bad projects. The big picture is we are helping to cure some nasty health issues and it is a great thing that we participate.
 

Mekhed

bcavnaugh

troy8d

Mekhed

bcavnaugh
Once MOP reaches 200 Million I will be stopping to Fold for awhile.

If Stanford cannot correct the Problem with Core 21 P96xx and some P97xx Projects or Core 21 in General then I must pull out as I cannot afford the cost of wasted Electricity.

Sorry Team but Money is Money.

I don't blame you bcav.... for me it's been 2 weeks of total frustration and I'm maybe doing half of what you're doing. I'd like to thank you for pulling out all the stops and leading this MOP team by example.

 
I certainly understand your frustration and give you guys a lot of credit for sticking it out to the end.  I'm curious of either of you have lowered the P2 Memory speed using Nvidia Inspector as suggested by Grandpa in this thread here: http://forums.evga.com/35560-Last-Stable-Driver-m2411736-p2.aspx#2414485
 
I don't have the luxury of owning new enough hardware to try this out on but am very curious about the issue.

Yes for the last week.

 
One fix causes another failure and Core 21 (UNKNOWN_ENUM) just have to many issues.
 
Downclocking seems to only fix P9704 from what I am seeing BUT I still see "Bad State detected... attempting to resume from last good checkpoint" on P97xx Projects. This also re-starts the Project so it can take 3 times longer to complete and it still can fail at 100%.
 
And I also changed the PhysX to CPU and still no real help.

Yes I also used Nvidia Inspector to drop memory speeds a little over a week ago. I saw those other threads and gave it a try. Was running 6000mhz memory and stock core speed and was still losing wu's on my 980ti  and dropped my 970s down to 5400mhz memory and stock core and still had issues with "bad states and bad work units" but wasn't losing as many.
 
The first 3 days of the challenge was what I expected as far as performance. On day 4 is when the trouble started and for 11 days much frustration with bad states and bad work units. On day 15 things went back to somewhat normal, production wise, for me. 
 
My theory is Stanford's servers were getting low on wu's and on Nov 4th they released a bunch of core 21 wu's that were not quite ready for prime time and we all got to do some testing for them. Older hardware seemed to handle these wu's ok but newer (970, 980 and 980ti) had issues. I've noticed when I get problem wu's my gpus run up to 10c hotter and pull over 100% TDP power consumption. I just got a Core 21 9205 project right now ( I've had problems with these) on my 980ti with memory running at P2 state 6600mhz, the core was at 75c and power consumption was 107% TDP and my desktop became very sluggish. I paused the wu and dropped memory speed to 6000mhz and restarted it. Temp now is at 70c and p c is at 93% TDP and desktop seems normal.
 
I've had issues with core 21 projects 9205, 9206, 9633, 9643, 9637 and 9628, there may be more but these I've noticed. Projects 9704, 9626 and 10495 have run pretty well on both of my machines.
 
Make no mistake, Stanford has their own agenda here and we all are just pawns in this. When folding is good, I fold. When folding is not so good, I shut down and wait a couple weeks and try again, it usually gets better. This isn't the first or last time we'll see bad projects. The big picture is we are helping to cure some nasty health issues and it is a great thing that we participate.
 

You would think that Stanford would support their number One Folding Team, do you not think so a well?
If not for Extreme Overclocking we would not really know and also KakaoStats too.
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=111065
http://kakaostats.alexbueno.me/members?team=111065
 

I don't mind the problems so much, it's the "it's not our problem" thing I keep hearing about that frustrates me, but then again, all that is second hand, perhaps I should check and see what they are saying directly.

Zuhl3156

z999z3mystorys
I don't mind the problems so much, it's the "it's not our problem" thing I keep hearing about that frustrates me, but then again, all that is second hand, perhaps I should check and see what they are saying directly.

What makes you think they'll even give you the time of day? Stanford doesn't care about anyone but Stanford and only provide the minimum support necessary to keep us folding for them.

I won't have to ask them anything, just see whats already been said, I know many here on the EVGA forums have very low expectations of standford, but I felt it best to see for myself, as it's quite doable for me to check there forums.

I have looked through their forums a few times. I find it offensive whenever someone asks a question that might imply that it is Stanford's servers causing the problems and they get snooty and rude. I have witnessed these responses on more than one occasion while browsing their threads. I refuse to get involved at their forums as I can find more detailed efforts and solutions at other forums like here and Guru3D to name a few. I especially dislike it when they are rude and obnoxious to my friends that have asked for help at their forums too.

Zuhl3156
I have looked through their forums a few times. I find it offensive whenever someone asks a question that might imply that it is Stanford's servers causing the problems and they get snooty and rude. I have witnessed these responses on more than one occasion while browsing their threads. I refuse to get involved at their forums as I can find more detailed efforts and solutions at other forums like here and Guru3D to name a few. I especially dislike it when they are rude and obnoxious to my friends that have asked for help at their forums too.

I have to agree with you on their forums. If someone asks a question for the millionth time they should just reference a link and move on. Instead there are some jokers that make it a point to belittle the person honestly looking for help.

Was hoping to watch the cross over for the finish..

537k left at the midnight dump. Maybe we will cross at the 1am slot? I will probably be asleep before we know for sure.

HK-Steve
50k to go Eastern, push hard to the finish line..

Couldn't reach my power button if I had to... ;-) lol

Congrats Eastern.   We all should be proud that we toughed it out through this difficult challenge. 

Whew! Done deal.

Scarlet-Tech
Woo, finally.

Got 'er done!