F14R – Fold one for Redline.
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sheroo
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Alot of people seem to be moving away from SMP (CPU) folding in favour of GPU folding, and given the numbers you can see why. You don't have to fold on everything. As a general rule of thumb for each GPU you fold with, you need to leave 1 core of the CPU free. So once the CPU has finished folding its current WU, you could try and leave it off altogether & it may actually boost your PPD on the GPU.
barnsley
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Ah right, I currently have 7 cores on my cpu folding and I was wondering why it was saying 7 not 8.
sheroo
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Did you set the advanced flag for your GPU? Having done a bit of research you should be getting nearer 60K PPD with a 7870 if you set the advanced flag and get Core 17 WU's (8900's).
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barnsley
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Did you set the advanced flag for your GPU? Having done a bit of research you should be getting nearer 60K PPD with a 7870 if you set the advanced flag and get Core 17 WU's (8900's).
It didn't like that at all, it crashed :l. I think I'm going to need an idiot's guide in order to enable core 17s.
-edit- Don't bother, core 17 shows up in my task manager, it seems to not effect the ppd though :l.
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mihapiha
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Forget the GPUs. With those CPUs and linux your in my PPD range (660k PPD) if you let it fold for a short while. But you need Linux!
My bad on this post:blush: the top one hundred is @ 1,125,000 points, I was looking at project rank
Also would the new contributer to F14R like to identify themselves as there is now 11 WUs completed:lol:
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sheroo
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Those 11 are the ones I've populated, but hopefully there'll be some other contributers soon.
barnsley
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Ah great, well I can't OC my 'card properly due to it being the poo single fan xfx cooler. I had an OC at one point but it would run hot if it was on 100% for more than 3 hours. My current fan profiling enables it to run nice and cool at stock for as long as needs be. When I get a new 'card I'll put the 7870 with my i3 550 and change a few bits so it should put out some good numbers. Currently the gts 450 in my other system has to run at 100% fan speed to stay coolish so it's not worth the hassle. I'm also currently sorting out my spare i7 950 with a motherboard and bits n pieces so hopefully I should be able to put more PPD in more regularly.
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Why has this not been more popular! Ill be putting the OC3D monster rig to this while testing I think..... 
sheroo
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Would it be worth mentioning it on a vid or facebook?Why has this not been more popular! Ill be putting the OC3D monster rig to this while testing I think.....
Only if you are prepared to help everyone asking a million questions without reading any threads..........
