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Folding@Home January TeAm record run 2026
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I (alias xii5ku) am running three RTX 4090 right now (board power capped at 360 W, although actual power consumption rarely goes near that when running Folding@Home) and one Xeon E5-2699 v4.
The latter warrants some explanation: Folding on CPUs gets one much lower points-per-day and much lower points-per-Joule than folding on GPUs. (Decent discrete GPUs, that is, not iGPUs which I guess are hardly better than CPUs.) And worse than CPUs are *old* CPUs like this Xeon. I am using it anyway due to three circumstances:
– I can tolerate its heat output currently.
– A while ago, my previous "daily driver" computer died and this Xeon based computer was the next best thing which I had on hand as a quick replacement.
– Last time I read about this subject, the Folding@Home consortium conducts projects on CPUs which do not overlap with their projects on GPUs. That is, volunteers' CPUs are giving them results which stand on their own. Even if poorly credited.
– A while ago, my previous "daily driver" computer died and this Xeon based computer was the next best thing which I had on hand as a quick replacement.
– Last time I read about this subject, the Folding@Home consortium conducts projects on CPUs which do not overlap with their projects on GPUs. That is, volunteers' CPUs are giving them results which stand on their own. Even if poorly credited.
Me, basically only during January. Throughout all year I am running BOINC based projects though. I have an unreliable Internet connection at home, and most of the BOINC based projects enable me to buffer work for arbitrary lengths of time, in contrast to Folding@Home which supports only very minimal buffering. I hate it if an unsupervised always-on computer goes idle due to empty work buffer. Furthermore, I lean a little more towards supporting physics/ geoscience/ astro projects, relative to bio/ medical projects.
Also, a while ago I experienced a degradation of my Internet connection which caused result file uploads to stall or ultimately fail quite often. This was a particular problem with all projects which (a) have large result files and (b) have an ocean located between me and the upload server. Both is true with Folding@Home. I have since found out how to fix this problem, by means of better IP packet queuing control locally on my computers, and can therefore participate at upload-heavy projects again, to the modest extent of the bandwidth of my Internet link. Right now I have Internet over TV cable, but soon™ I shall get FTTH with hopefully better stability and better upload bandwidth (depending on where the service provider's price gouging on the one hand and my stinginess on the other hand are going to meet). Ducts for FTTH have been buried in the street recently, but fiber has yet to be threaded in the street and installed in the house.
Apropos. My real points-per-day (PPD) are quite a bit lower than the estimated PPD which FAHControl is showing to me. I am guessing the main reason for this is that FAHControl does not take the time in account which it takes me to upload result files. But workunit turnaround times include the time needed for file transfers besides the actual computation time. Therefore slow transfers cut into the quick return credit bonus which F@H assigns to results.
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I think you will find everyone has a different story. Some of us have gotten very competitive and have over the years collected a unusual assortment of equipment. You can see a couple shown in another thread on this forum.
https://forums.thefpsreview.com/threads/dc-hardware-pictures-thread.18961/
I’m mostly at one end of the spectrum since I am GPU heavy, which limits me on the CPU projects.
I don’t use my main computer, an Apple Mac Mini, to crunch. My other rigs are mostly naked (without cases) and run the linux os.
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Well I'm currently not running F@H. Haven't decided if I'm going to this month or not.
I do run BOINC nearly 24/7 year around with a slow down during the hot months.
Hardware is mostly EPYC setups with a bunch of 30-series GPUs. Still got a bunch of Nvidia P100s, but I uninstalled them a while back. Got tired of the noise and the main project they were really good at (Milkyway@home) no longer has GPU work for them to do. They're decent at other projects, but not really worth it. Been debating just selling them for cheap to whoever wants to play with them.
I also have a bunch of servers and in datacenters, but none of them run BOINC. They just run various services and what not.