Folding effects on hardware
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Again. Np problem. Any time!
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He needed an upgrade. He was running an opteron (A64 x2) and his backup was an Athlon 2500+. The worst thing about was how long it took to boot up. A mixture of a slow hard drive and the crap he had installed on there.
Managed to scrape him away from Windows XP as well. Never thought that would happen.
He still uses PS/2 keyboard and mouse though
Again. Np problem. Any time!
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He needed an upgrade. He was running an opteron (A64 x2) and his backup was an Athlon 2500+. The worst thing about was how long it took to boot up. A mixture of a slow hard drive and the crap he had installed on there.
Managed to scrape him away from Windows XP as well. Never thought that would happen.
He still uses PS/2 keyboard and mouse though
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Started folding with the 8600GT on my folding fig and am really impressed with the performance and temperatures. SO far I am getting between 4 and 6k ppd for the GPU and my temps are in the mid 50's. The system is now very quite while folding. I have an aftermarket heat sink on the card, ZALMAN VF900 - CU, and am using a fan speed reducer to lower the fan speed.
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Thats similar PPD to a 8800GT
It got at high as 6500. Best part is how cool and quite it is while running at 100% cpu and gpu.
Update: Turns out I may have been reading this wrong. Noob! The ppd for the GPU is unknown and has not finished a WU yet. The ppd for the cpu is around 6000. I will get this F@H thing figured out sooner or later.
Update #2: turned off the GPU and my PPD went up. Is it possible to get negative effects from a poor performing GPU?
After the GPU finished a WU i do not think I got any points from it. The log does not show I received any thing.
Yes folding on the GPU can take away from the CPU. So you have to find what is the best balance for your hardware.
As for not getting any points. It doesn't matter what the client says, the important part is what's recieved at the server. Just keep checking your extremeoverclocking folding stats page and you will see your points appear on there.
Note: The folding stats update every 3 hours and sometimes work units you have completed don't show at the first update to the stats after the work unit has been submitted.
As for not getting any points. It doesn't matter what the client says, the important part is what's recieved at the server. Just keep checking your extremeoverclocking folding stats page and you will see your points appear on there.
Note: The folding stats update every 3 hours and sometimes work units you have completed don't show at the first update to the stats after the work unit has been submitted.
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Thanks, does folding on two machines at the same time cause problems? I'd does not seen to be recording all of the points earned.
No, you can fold on as many machines as you want.
Just double check that your name + passkey + team number is entered correctly on both machines / clients
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Thanks, I will double check.
Your stats page http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=610610 says you have submitted 14 work units.
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Most of the nVidia cards perform better alongside a CPU Client. Something like a GTX 460 or 560 would be a perfect partner. Or if you're on a budget, a 2xx series (260 55nm or a 270) or slightly lower again, a G92 based 98xx or 88xx based card (9800GT/GTX/GTX+ or 8800GTS 512MB).
Thank you for the card recomendations on the GTX 460 kup, Got the card the other day and started folding with it yesterday. It has been performing awsome.
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