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Best setting for Folding with 1080FTW

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scott@bjorn3d
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2016/06/25 06:25:17 (permalink)
I have been playing around with it for 3 days and come out with best performance not overclocking, setting fan to aggressive and power to 120%.  This is giving me a boast clock of 1930 when Folding and 2160 gaming.  Temps with a 980TI sitting in the slot under it are 69C for the card with those settings.
 
 
Overclocking actually seemed to hurt Folding performance while helping gaming by 5-10 fps.  So leaving it at the settings above for best of both worlds.
 
You can see my increases here: http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=129259
post edited by scott@bjorn3d - 2016/06/25 06:27:40


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    Re: Best setting for Folding with 1080FTW 2016/06/28 19:18:53 (permalink)
    Interesting that overclocking hurt your numbers. I just started, but I think overclocking helped for me. I also have it set to leave 2 CPU threads free (Configure > Slots > [Select your CPU slot] > Edit > Top section). This is supposed to keep one thread free to assist the GPU (I keep another thread free for background processes / web browsing) and it definitely improved things vs. the default setting.
     
    I also compared 2 free threads to completely stopping the CPU and there was such a small difference that I don't think it matters.


     
     
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    Re: Best setting for Folding with 1080FTW 2016/06/28 20:36:02 (permalink)
    I am not letting my CPU fold, I have the FTW and a 980TI Folding in the same machine.  I could probably overclock it but I have the heat of the 980TI climbing into the intake fans of the FTW.  I just get more PPD without overclocking it with all the playing around I have done.  Now If I wanted to listen to some high speed fans running all the time I am sure I could set the aggressive fan profile and overclock it and might get a few more FPS in games and a tad more PPD.  But why do that when I am doing pretty dang good with these settings.
     
    FYI ran the Heaven Bench with 1440 rez, 4xAA and extreme testallation and got 2085 score and my GPU core was running 2100 on the screen during the benchmark run. FPS was 82.8 as the end score on those.
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