Day 4 stats!

Challenge: Great Internet Fermat Prime Search
App: 16 (GFN-21)
Fast DC tasks are NOT included.
(As of 2022-12-11 05:36:30 UTC)

7962 tasks have been sent out. [CPU/GPU/anonymous_platform: 3411 (43%) / 4544 (57%) / 7 (0%)]

Of those tasks that have been sent out:

985 (12%) were aborted. [768 (10%) / 217 (3%) / 0 (0%)]
2049 (26%) came back with some kind of an error. [75 (1%) / 1974 (25%) / 0 (0%)]
1876 (24%) have returned a successful result. [217 (3%) / 1652 (21%) / 7 (0%)]
3052 (38%) are still in progress. [2351 (30%) / 701 (9%) / 0 (0%)]

Of the tasks that have been returned successfully:

503 (27%) are pending validation. [78 (4%) / 418 (22%) / 7 (0%)]
1373 (73%) have been successfully validated. [139 (7%) / 1234 (66%) / 0 (0%)]
3 (0%) were invalid. [0 (0%) / 3 (0%) / 0 (0%)]
0 (0%) are inconclusive. [0 (0%) / 0 (0%) / 0 (0%)]

The current leading edge (i.e., latest work unit for which work has actually been sent out to a host) is b=885266. The leading edge was at b=862958 at the beginning of the challenge. Since the challenge started, the leading edge has advanced 2.59% as much as it had prior to the challenge!

Challenge: Great Internet Fermat Prime Search
App: 17 (GFN-22)
Fast DC tasks are NOT included.
(As of 2022-12-11 05:36:30 UTC)

3014 tasks have been sent out. [CPU/GPU/anonymous_platform: 1134 (38%) / 1879 (62%) / 1 (0%)]

Of those tasks that have been sent out:

177 (6%) were aborted. [120 (4%) / 57 (2%) / 0 (0%)]
720 (24%) came back with some kind of an error. [179 (6%) / 541 (18%) / 0 (0%)]
429 (14%) have returned a successful result. [169 (6%) / 260 (9%) / 0 (0%)]
1688 (56%) are still in progress. [666 (22%) / 1021 (34%) / 1 (0%)]

Of the tasks that have been returned successfully:

236 (55%) are pending validation. [96 (22%) / 140 (33%) / 0 (0%)]
193 (45%) have been successfully validated. [73 (17%) / 120 (28%) / 0 (0%)]
0 (0%) were invalid. [0 (0%) / 0 (0%) / 0 (0%)]
0 (0%) are inconclusive. [0 (0%) / 0 (0%) / 0 (0%)]

The current leading edge (i.e., latest work unit for which work has actually been sent out to a host) is b=258972. The leading edge was at b=250700 at the beginning of the challenge. Since the challenge started, the leading edge has advanced 3.30% as much as it had prior to the challenge!

Challenge: Great Internet Fermat Prime Search
App: 31 (DYFL)
Fast DC tasks are NOT included.
(As of 2022-12-11 05:36:30 UTC)

3166 tasks have been sent out. [CPU/GPU/anonymous_platform: 0 (0%) / 2961 (94%) / 205 (6%)]

Of those tasks that have been sent out:

241 (8%) were aborted. [0 (0%) / 236 (7%) / 5 (0%)]
659 (21%) came back with some kind of an error. [0 (0%) / 659 (21%) / 0 (0%)]
1009 (32%) have returned a successful result. [0 (0%) / 1009 (32%) / 0 (0%)]
1257 (40%) are still in progress. [0 (0%) / 1057 (33%) / 200 (6%)]

Of the tasks that have been returned successfully:

109 (11%) are pending validation. [0 (0%) / 109 (11%) / 0 (0%)]
899 (89%) have been successfully validated. [0 (0%) / 899 (89%) / 0 (0%)]
0 (0%) were invalid. [0 (0%) / 0 (0%) / 0 (0%)]
1 (0%) are inconclusive. [0 (0%) / 1 (0%) / 0 (0%)]

The current leading edge (i.e., latest work unit for which work has actually been sent out to a host) is b=1001788. The leading edge was at b=991608 at the beginning of the challenge. Since the challenge started, the leading edge has advanced 7.01% as much as it had prior to the challenge!

It looks like I am getting the EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 FTW3 ULTRA HYDRO COPPER GAMING, 10G-P5-3899-KL, 10GB GDDR6X, ARGB LED, Metal Backplate, LHR in place of my 2080 Ti HC Card

I am in for at least the next few years now.
Also I am now playing around with a PS5

bill1024
Good deal Bill, nice upgrade. Good luck with the new card.
I know you don't mine but the newest drivers from Nvidia unlocked all the 30xx LHR cards.
Guess they figured that they don't need it anymore. Not sure if it matters for other data processing.
Supposedly not, but I never tested it, never mined.

I am running 527.56-desktop-win10-win11-64bit-international-nsd-dch-whql on all my rigs now.
 
Not sure about LHR
https://gamingdope.com/how-to-unlock-and-mine-on-nvidia-lhr-v2-rtx-30-series-gpus/
I do not mine so I should be OK.

ty_ger07

bcavnaugh
The RMA 2080 Ti Card I got back last week is running Great.
The other card is on the way back to EVGA.

Isn't your warranty void? EVGA is honoring it anyway?

Why would it be voided?
 

bill1024
Just a few hours to go and holding on to 9th place.
Some boxes are done and can't do another task in time. I'm moving them over to WCG.

bcavnaugh

ty_ger07

bcavnaugh
The RMA 2080 Ti Card I got back last week is running Great.
The other card is on the way back to EVGA.

Isn't your warranty void? EVGA is honoring it anyway?

Why would it be voided?
 

Well I bet he is thinking this part of the warranty section will void our warranties because we fold and do BOINC research.
This is from their warranty section.

What is not covered by this Limited Warranty

This Limited Warranty applies only to Products used in accordance with this Limited Warranty and EVGA's published documentation, and does not cover:

• Any damages to the components, hardware and/or assembly of the Products including but not limited to damages caused as a result of neglect, abuse, accidents, misuse, or unusual physical, electrical or electromechanical stress (including due to uninterrupted use of the Products, or use of the Products for blockchain processing, cryptocurrency mining, or similar purposes).

See it does not say folding, rendering or BOINC, I believe that is for a reason, EVGA supports scientific research. 
They had the folding buck program and they give the teams web space on their forums.
If they wanted to exclude folding, rendering and BOINC they would of said so.
Folding and BOINC is nothing like mining coin,blockchain at all. One is greed and one if giving forward scientific research. 
And even mining does not VOID a warranty read what it says closely. Any damage done because of mining or blockchain will void the warranty.
Here is a post from an EVGA employee directly concerning this very issue.
 

EVGATech_DanielM

talon951
 
4) EVGA specifically says mining voids your warranty, so calling them up and complaining about high mem temps from mining seems a little counter productive.

Mining does not void the warranty. Damage that happens from doing so would. A pretty distinct thing we need to understand.

Post 19 this thread
https://forums.evga.com/EVGA-3080TI-FTW3-Ultra-Bad-Thermal-Pads-m3505335.aspx
 
And on top of all that, EVGA gave you a RMA and another GPU, so don't worry about it, I'm not.
 

And we're done! Here are the end-of-challenge stats. Cleanup tasks will be available soon. Thanks for a great final challenge of 2022!

Challenge: Great Internet Fermat Prime Search
App: 16 (GFN-21)
Fast DC tasks are NOT included.
(As of 2022-12-17 05:36:09 UTC)

19581 tasks have been sent out. [CPU/GPU/anonymous_platform: 7699 (39%) / 11875 (61%) / 7 (0%)]

Of those tasks that have been sent out:

8104 (41%) were aborted. [5256 (27%) / 2848 (15%) / 0 (0%)]
3483 (18%) came back with some kind of an error. [617 (3%) / 2866 (15%) / 0 (0%)]
5983 (31%) have returned a successful result. [1026 (5%) / 4950 (25%) / 7 (0%)]
1957 (10%) are still in progress. [797 (4%) / 1160 (6%) / 0 (0%)]

Of the tasks that have been returned successfully:

747 (12%) are pending validation. [125 (2%) / 622 (10%) / 0 (0%)]
5236 (88%) have been successfully validated. [901 (15%) / 4328 (72%) / 7 (0%)]
4 (0%) were invalid. [1 (0%) / 3 (0%) / 0 (0%)]
0 (0%) are inconclusive. [0 (0%) / 0 (0%) / 0 (0%)]

The current leading edge (i.e., latest work unit for which work has actually been sent out to a host) is b=903726. The leading edge was at b=862958 at the beginning of the challenge. Since the challenge started, the leading edge has advanced 4.72% as much as it had prior to the challenge!

Challenge: Great Internet Fermat Prime Search
App: 17 (GFN-22)
Fast DC tasks are NOT included.
(As of 2022-12-17 05:36:10 UTC)

5334 tasks have been sent out. [CPU/GPU/anonymous_platform: 1968 (37%) / 3365 (63%) / 1 (0%)]

Of those tasks that have been sent out:

1529 (29%) were aborted. [728 (14%) / 801 (15%) / 0 (0%)]
1342 (25%) came back with some kind of an error. [213 (4%) / 1129 (21%) / 0 (0%)]
1644 (31%) have returned a successful result. [850 (16%) / 794 (15%) / 0 (0%)]
814 (15%) are still in progress. [175 (3%) / 638 (12%) / 1 (0%)]

Of the tasks that have been returned successfully:

532 (32%) are pending validation. [316 (19%) / 216 (13%) / 0 (0%)]
1112 (68%) have been successfully validated. [534 (32%) / 578 (35%) / 0 (0%)]
0 (0%) were invalid. [0 (0%) / 0 (0%) / 0 (0%)]
0 (0%) are inconclusive. [0 (0%) / 0 (0%) / 0 (0%)]

The current leading edge (i.e., latest work unit for which work has actually been sent out to a host) is b=263440. The leading edge was at b=250700 at the beginning of the challenge. Since the challenge started, the leading edge has advanced 5.08% as much as it had prior to the challenge!

Challenge: Great Internet Fermat Prime Search
App: 31 (DYFL)
Fast DC tasks are NOT included.
(As of 2022-12-17 05:36:10 UTC)

8004 tasks have been sent out. [CPU/GPU/anonymous_platform: 0 (0%) / 7799 (97%) / 205 (3%)]

Of those tasks that have been sent out:

2556 (32%) were aborted. [0 (0%) / 2551 (32%) / 5 (0%)]
1300 (16%) came back with some kind of an error. [0 (0%) / 1300 (16%) / 0 (0%)]
3508 (44%) have returned a successful result. [0 (0%) / 3473 (43%) / 35 (0%)]
640 (8%) are still in progress. [0 (0%) / 475 (6%) / 165 (2%)]

Of the tasks that have been returned successfully:

242 (7%) are pending validation. [0 (0%) / 233 (7%) / 9 (0%)]
3266 (93%) have been successfully validated. [0 (0%) / 3240 (92%) / 26 (1%)]
2 (0%) were invalid. [0 (0%) / 2 (0%) / 0 (0%)]
0 (0%) are inconclusive. [0 (0%) / 0 (0%) / 0 (0%)]

The current leading edge (i.e., latest work unit for which work has actually been sent out to a host) is b=1011650. The leading edge was at b=991608 at the beginning of the challenge. Since the challenge started, the leading edge has advanced 13.80% as much as it had prior to the challenge!

bill1024

• Any damages to the components, hardware and/or assembly of the Products including but not limited to damages caused as a result of neglect, abuse, accidents, misuse, or unusual physical, electrical or electromechanical stress (including due to uninterrupted use of the Products, or use of the Products for blockchain processing, cryptocurrency mining, or similar purposes).

....

EVGATech_DanielM
Mining does not void the warranty. Damage that happens from doing so would. A pretty distinct thing we need to understand.

Very interesting.

The EVGA employee's statement is in direct contradiction to the words in their written warranty.

It does not need to specify BOINC or FAH or anything specific. The terms say that abnormal uninterrupted use voids the warranty. It states that mining is an example, but logically is not the only example. FAH or BOINC would logically also be examples.

Good for us if they honor what they have no reason to honor. If EVGA continues to struggle financially, I would expect their actions to change and more closely follow the minimum terms written. My interpretation is that if you buy an EVGA card after May 2018 (or whatever it says, don't remember exactly), if you mine with it, fold with it, BOINC with it, crunch with it, run Furmark stress test 24/7, whatever/anything 24/7 "abnormal", EVGA has the right to deny warranty, and good luck taking them to court over it. Since EVGA changed those warranty terms and killed off so many community aspects and associated rewards, I am honestly surprised that they honored the warranty claim for a card damaged after folding/crunching/whatever.

An employee's current statement on the matter only indicates their current handling of the subject. Their current or past statement doesn't make it wrong to believe that what you did voided the warranty. They deliberately altered the warranty terms in order to make your actions something which is defined as warranty voiding. By following through and modifying the warranty terms, they showed a deliberate intent of making that a warranty voiding action, and they can use that against you whenever they want.

Without a doubt, folding and crunching voids the video card's warranty. I guess the only question is whether EVGA will hold it against you.




I have posted this here before? Care to remind me?

People don't game 24/7, and games rarely are so straightforward and uniform that they can be so optimized to consume as much power. The "abnormal" 24/7 load stipulation is based on the idea that gaming is not as taxing.
On the other hand, I think the warranty stipulation is short-sighted as it does not recognize that thermal cycles are usually the killer.
As far as "waste" is concerned, I think crunching uses much more energy; both as an instantaneous measurement, and as an hours-per-day measurement, regardless of anyone's opinion of perceived worth.

'Damage caused by uninterrupted use of products'. When a product fails, it is damaged. When the failure happened during uninterrupted use, that is damage caused by uninterrupted use.

It is very clear and obvious. The only thing that isn't obvious is how EVGA will handle it.

I don't want to go off on a tangent. We can agree to disagree, but I just want to reiterate that "uninterrupted" use, according to the warranty, can cause the damage to occur. 'Happening during' and 'caused by' are the same thing according to the terms, in my interpretation.
If it died during crunching 24/7 for 2 years, what else "caused" it?

 T5K, task MEGA Prime Search
Found as part of my Clean up of GPU Task running

I found out tonight that I cannot run two rigs with 3080 and 3090 in one of my rooms, it is pulling to much power.
I did not have any issues with one 2080 and one 1080.