Folding@home [V9] all your WU's are belong to us...

[nForcer]

...But the peace and quiet, lack of neighbors, and safety pretty much makes up for it...

All the best, RBD

[j3pflynn]

Good luck, Red!

[powerarmour]

Still plodding along here, just noticed that the new 190.xx drivers give a nice little boost to folding thanks to Cuda 2.3 :-



Still happy with the GTX285 as a folding card, it's been running 24/7 for months now and it hasn't skipped a beat, impressive stuff.

[powerarmour]

Quick update...

Boo, one of my 8800GT's died today due to excessive folding I reckon... , but the good news is I have a spare 9600GT to take it's place, which isn't that much slower anyway (well under current 579x WU's the 8800GT was doing ~4100 PPD, and the 9600GT is doing ~3600 PPD) so I should still be good for 20k+ PPD overall.

How is everyone else getting along...?, looking forward to the cooler weather...?, end of the credit crunch in sight etc, etc...

[Slapnut]

DAM - its been ages since I've posted here.

Hey Powerarmour,
Plodding along ok here. Our winter is about to end soon - so soaring temps won't be long off.
Still have my 8800gts and part time 4870 running. The output of the 4870 is a bit crap though and am thinking of getting a secondhand 8800gtx perhaps - better return for my power bill.
Will be moving house in a week or two aswell - so may be some downtime untill I'm sorted out at my new place.

Hey a tech question - my main rig has the 4870 in it with a Q6600. Should I be running a cpu client aswell as the gpu ?

[powerarmour]

Hey a tech question - my main rig has the 4870 in it with a Q6600. Should I be running a cpu client aswell as the gpu ?

Personally I probably wouldn't bother, you'll only get ~1600 PPD running that Q6600 with the Windows SMP client, and the downside is that it'll slow down your 4870 folding, as I don't think the GPU client on the ATi cards is still quite as light in regards to CPU usage required compared to Nvidia. Plus with both the GPU and the CPU folding it really ramps up your heat/power usage, for not that much benefit really.

If you wanted to go down the Linux route then you'll get more performance out of running them both together, as the SMP client is much faster (~4000 PPD) and you can still run the GPU client via Wine, but recently the newer WU's have been slightly unstable on Linux/Wine and you get freezing often, so it's not ideal either.

I only tend to just run the GPU clients now myself, and I don't run any CPU clients anymore, I find it's much more usable (not to mention cooler/quieter) leaving the CPU free and raising the priority on the GPU clients so that they get the maximum CPU time.

Good to see you still around Slapnut...

[j3pflynn]

Still plodding along here, just noticed that the new 190.xx drivers give a nice little boost to folding thanks to Cuda 2.3 :-

Still happy with the GTX285 as a folding card, it's been running 24/7 for months now and it hasn't skipped a beat, impressive stuff.

Depressing that with that one graphics card, you put out ten times as much as all 11 of my decrepit old rigs!

[powerarmour]

Folding@home: ATI Radeon HD 5870 is as slow as 4870 :-

http://brightsideofnews.com/news/2009/1 ... 4870!.aspx

To be fair it does need a new client, then I'm sure it'll take advantage of it. Until then though, Nvidia is still obviously the king of F@h.

[pinky]

Was lurking by, and thought I'd say hi Good to see peeps are still folding...looks like it's turned into a gpu match now.

[powerarmour]

Hi Pinky, yep it's definitely a GPU dominated science now in regards to pure PPD, I don't think I run any CPU clients anymore, simply because it's more effective just having the cycles spare and running the GPU at 100%.