Well I have 2 of them. No sli mobo though.
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Well I have 2 of them. No sli mobo though.
I have a semi-faulty 8800 - might give that a go - from what I've been told, the problem with the card is likely to be memory related, and folding really doesn't use the video ram so much so I might be able to get away with it.
The bank manager growled at me when I thought about buying that GT440 lol
And a big TBCS welcome to the team for..... *drum roll*
Drumthumper - who made a nice 500+ point splash with his first Work Unit....
FYI, that puts us at 8207, up from 8806 when the article was written - that's almost 600 places in just a few days with a handful of members....
I promise that when i get my folding working ill add 2 i5 mobilechips, my quad core, a dual core athlon, an 8800 gt and a 6850 or a 560
With the current clients, you'll get hugely higher points from the 560 than the 6850 - the clients are much better optomised for nVidia chips at the moment
gpu client doesn't even work on my 4870x2
yea... but there's $250 between the 560 and me right now. lolQuote:
Originally Posted by slaveofconvention
Those PPD numbers look pretty optimistic. Maybe a maximum? No two projects are the same anyway so don't expect to see the same numbers consistently. I've seen my 1090t as high as 14k (once) running all 6 cores but I usually keep it on 5 which nets 6-9k. And my 6870 is usually running around 3-6k...so around 9-15k total.
I suspect an i7 would actually tear up any AMD like nVidia tears up ATI/AMD at this. Someone here with an i7 and nVidia needs to post some actual PPD numbers.
Congrats all - as of this morning we're in the 7000's (barely heh - 7964) but it's one little milestone down.
I also decided to ignore the wife and bank managers growls (mainly because a customer of mine turned up at the door with some money he owed me) and went out and bought a second GPU mainly FOR folding - I was toying with either a GT420 or GT440 but with this little extra cash, I went for a GTS450 - I've read they're good for in the region of 12,000ppd so hopefully, we'll get a nice jump in production...
I have two AMD PCs at work running a single core CPU client 24/7 although they aren't powerful machines, one a dual core 2.1 and the other a single core 1.8. My main pc has been running SMP on a Q6700 and GPU2 on a 4870 - so far since I started keeping track, about 4 days, I've produced a total of 7309 points - I can't believe this one GPU is likely to do that much in about 7 hours heh - fingers crossed :D
EDIT:
Yeah it's official (well as official as anything I say ever gets anyway) - when it comes to folding, Nvidia kicks AMD/ATI's ass - according to this comparison over at toms hardware LINKY - my Radeon 4870 is better in 38/41 tests (and two of those are noise level) than the new GTS250 even with the Nvidia card having double the RAM - but the folding side tells a different story - in the image below, GPU0 is the Nvidia, and GPU1 is the 4870 - the Nvidia is doing well over 4x what the Radeon is....
it doesn't support my 6870, oh well :D
I've got it running on my CPU, but at most it's only using 30%, is that normal?
if you use that software I'm using, above, then in settings you can tell it to treat is as something else and it'll work - i THINK the ATI R700 is the setting you need
As for the CPU thing - it runs as a background thing so will only max out when you arent doing anything - course if you're multi-core and only using the single core client - that'll have an effect too - you can try the SMP client if you're multicore - much higher results
I downloaded the FAH tracker, and set it to ATi R800 as suggested, and it's now maxing out my Q6600 @ 100% on all 4, and my 6870 is anywhere between 60% and 90% according to CCCQuote:
Originally Posted by slaveofconvention
Well that should churn out a good few thousand points - maybe more - welcome to the addiction heh
By the way, I've also read that the GPU client makes use of the CPU as well - you might want to consider locking the SMP client into 3 cores only - it may help push the GPU results higher - more so than you'll lose on the CPU
well my GPU is at 26% right now, with PPD at 3294. I OC'd my card from 900/1050 to 975/1135 as well. Stock speed it was sitting at ~2900PPD, so the OC gave it a nice bump. The CPU is still at 1%, but hasn't given a PPD for it yet.
On the plus side, my CPU has been going for some time now at 100%, and my corsair H50 (with push-pull setup) hasn't let it get over 44ºC on any cores. The 4 range from 39º to 44º :D My 6870 OC'd is running between 70% and 90% load, hasn't gone over 72ºC and 31% (quiet) fan speed :D If I manually set the fan to 50% (LOUD) it keeps the GPU around 65ºC, but it's too loud seeing how I'm also doing schoolwork on my computer as well lol
Actually, you might consider downloading the seperate CPU client - idn why but I had much better results with it running standalone than with it being run by the GPU thing....
If you leave it on overnight, you'll get even better PPD overall purely because there won't be any other apps taking up cycles heh
This GTS450 is tearing along - now I'm trying to figure out how to afford another one lol - but don't tell the wife :P
back at college, however, i just disocvered that i was folding for team 151093, dont ask how i got there... but they got less than a point... so i think its okay. desktop is gonna be rolling in 5503 per day or so
edit, laptop started running with the 335m, bump me up to 9000 per day or so
At the rate we're going, I seriously think we'll hit that first 6000 target within 3-4days - even sooner if we get a few more people on board - let's face it - we have some serious hardware spread around the members of this forum...
Got it on my Kubuntu-based laptop, folding without a hitch, and with a warmer lap.
as of right now my computer says 4983 PPD. 1724 CPU/3258 GPU. CPU holding steady at 40-16ºC, GPU steady at 72ºC :D
added another 460 to our list, ~8000 ppd?
idn about the 460 - my 450 is getting 13k but Nvidia's numbering system is such a mess I have no clue whats better than what lol.
EDIT: just did a quick google and it looks like you're in for about 20% more than my GTS250 so if you go with GPU3 Fermi work units, you might well see 16k....
lol. also add in a 560 ti and an 8800gt that i recruted. pooooooochooter and jpmeyer038
im on a college campus... recruiting is easy here. lol
I just switch my imac from running the SMP client on OS X to the SMP client on W7, and went from 290 PPD on OS X to 1360 in Windows. Take that, Apple!
Just migrated to the performance client - I just kept the simple CPU client running in the background, but now we're going for gold!
thats right. im folding...
OK. Time to make a folding rigs and specs thread.
1*Celery 1.6GHz.
1*P4 3GHz.
We're flying guys - just a quick summary for now
Position
8806 - Article Published to front page on 16th
8207 - When Drumthumper joined the team with his first 500 pointer on 19th
7964 - We broke the 8000 mark early on the 20th
7060 - Last check - a few seconds ago....
Right now we have a total of 327660 points, if we take away the 225785 Trace already had sitting in the team account, that means we've already produced over 100,000 points since we started this, less than 5 days ago.
The current target, to get into 6000th or better position so we can get access to lots of kinda useful stats on the extreme overclocking page, requires a bit of a push - we may have gone up almost 2000 places in 5 days by producing 100,000 points BUT, the team currently in 6000th place has a total of 413,504 points which as of the time of writing, is a mere 85,844 points away - I reckon we can do that in LESS than 24 hours - opinions?
EDIT: ok in the interest of accuracy lol - having had a look at the stats on extreme overclocking, it seems that about 4-5 teams fall off of the bottom of the rankings every day, so amended target is the team at 5995 for arguments sake - Da Bears - current score of 413,865 - they're only averaging 100 points a day so I figure it's them we actually have to overtake to guarantee our place in the top 6000 - after that - well we can set new targets, or just see how it goes.... I for one am in favour of the targets just so we have something to look forward to heh....
nice! I'll have mine on all day while I'm @ work, but it'll be off @ night, or when gaming. sitting @ 5716PPD now, 1779.6 CPU/3396.2 GPU.
I OC'd my CPU from stock (2.4GHz) to 3.0GHz, and it bumped the CPU up a few points as well.
Nothing like a goal.
I need to get home and set up that quad quad setup.
little do you all know, you are really just adding to the skynet network. it should become self aware soon. MUAHAHAHAHAHA!
And when it does - it WILL remember it's creators, and smite those who did not help..... :P
crap!
+rep for the concise response lol - ooh I gave you a whole extra green box
woo... just checked team stats. im at number 4 now... im comin after you SOC! lol
Bring it on heh
I'll be the lone forum member that'll never have more than 1k points due to being unable to afford and owning the right equipment.
Dang it GeForce 4, why can't you double your number???!?
hey, every point counts and who knows what you'll be able to do in the future anyway :)
I'm sat with 6 4Ghz cores maxed out 24/7, and 2 6950s coming this week. Watch this space!
Are you running the SMP client? If you are you should go get a passkey for bonus points (up to 50%) if you havent already
