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Well, I officially tried running a 5070Ti on a 4.0 x4 slot, and it lost about 4-5m ppd. I suspect it has more to do with going through the PCH than the actual pcie lanes, though.

Ah, the 580 drivers + v7 FAH client do not play nice together for me. The box in question was W11 Pro, though, not W10. In any case, it's a non-issue for me now.

muziqaz wrote: ↑Sat Aug 16, 2025 11:45 am This is because of some evil sorcery happening with server constraints, which is being investigated

No, there is some dark magic happening with server constraints. Are you on linux by any chance. That seems to reduce the chance to get any work further with 7 or less threads :/ This particular box is on Windows 11. You say 7 or less threads, so if I got a 5600GT and set it to 8 threads, it might h...

I decided to try out a 5090 on Windows. I set the power level as low as I could, which was 66%, so it runs around 400W. Seems to consistently get WU's, but sometimes the PPD will say 40-45M, where other times it's more like 20-25M, depending on the WU. I guess that's where Linux could come in handy ...

Well, for whatever reason the 3000G is no longer consistently getting WU's, despite having it set to 3 threads. It's idle more often than not now. If I move to a 5600G/GT and set it to 6 threads, is that likely to make a difference in reliably getting WU's?

Yes, maybe. I have 580.88 on all my Windows systems and they are all folding fine. :) CaptainHalon> did you reboot after installing the drivers ? It works on the 8.4.9 client, that's not a problem. Are you saying yours folds fine on Windows on 580.88 with the 7.6.21 client? Because that's what wasn...

I got it working in Windows with the 8.4.9 client. Shame because I liked the standalone app with the 7.6.21, and not having to deal with a web interface. Also, 7.6.21 had a finish option, which seems to be missing in 8.4.9.

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Getting this in the log after going from Nvidia 576.88 to 580.88/93. Rolling back to 576 fixes it, but there are other issues non-folding related that I was hoping newer drivers would fix, so I don't want to be stuck on older drivers just to get folding to work. Anyone else getting this issue with N...

Use V8 and you won't have that issue. Or better, go to the BIOS and disable that iGPU, which will also free a bit of thermal headroom for your CPU :) Disabling in BIOS is a lot of work. I'd have to haul a monitor and keyboard to that room and hook it up. Seems too much like a Greek Odyssey in my mi...

Your conventional nVidia drivers won't work with SXM5, I believe. You probably need some sort of pro drivers or something. Not sure how Nvidia separates them Yeah, someone who knows a lot more about it than me I'm sure would have better luck. I sank about 2 hours into trying to get it configured, e...

muziqaz wrote: ↑Wed Aug 13, 2025 10:15 am 2x 4080 is safer bet since you will have better utilisation wth majority of projects.

Makes sense. Probably safer for the 12VHPR too.

Since it wasn't mentioned, I'm also curious how PCH vs. direct CPU lanes might affect folding. Pretty much every modern motherboard with a secondary/tertiary slot listed as x4 will go through the PCH. It's hard to do an apples to apples comparison unless you've got a board that can trifurcate the cp...