Official TBCS Folding Team

[slaveofconvention]

You need a different client - which GPU do you have?

[diluzio91]

You need a different client - which GPU do you have?

At the moment, I'm running a 6850, with a Phenom 955. But in a few weeks I will be stepping up to a better Nvidia Card. I'm thinking of the 560.

Also, when I get back to school I'll fire up my alienware lappy as well. the i5 and the 335m in that should throw out some nice ppd...

[slaveofconvention]

Ok so I'm not going to keep checking THIS frequently but.... 8407 now guys.... Keep it up

[Oneslowz28]

I wonder what my dual 5870s will do

[slaveofconvention]

You might be unpleasantly surprised - apparently (as I can kinda confirm) Nvidia cards are leagues ahead of ATI's when it comes to folding - my lone 4870 is barely breaking 2000ppd - so probably around 4000 per card - which is great, but peanuts compared to what an equivalent Nvidia card will push out - its not a hardware issue, more a f@h software one but we're kinda stuck with it...

Much as I hate linking to THAT site - here's a breakdown of what most current GPU's are folding at...

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/gra...-for-folding/3

Course, an extra 8000ppd would still be VERY welcome....

[Oneslowz28]

Even with the ATI client? That kinda sucks.

[x88x]

Interesting. The client is probably optimized for nVidia processing methods, and the ATi client hasn't been optimized as well. Actually, come to think of it, it also depends a bit on the type of calculations being done...but it wouldn't be that big a difference if they were equally optimized.

It's focused on hash-generation (and machine-translated..), but here's a good paper explaining the differences in their processing techniques.
http://translate.google.com/translat...hl=ru&ie=UTF-8

Oh, and btw, sometime this weekend I should be adding ~24,599ppd.

Hmm, and I'll have to talk to PLAR...see about adding his ~46,924 possible ppd.

[slaveofconvention]

I'm toying with picking up a nice cheap DDR3 GT440 to throw into an old 775 P4 3.0 board I have lying around - have a dedicated folding machine as a starting block - ironically, with that cheap - 2 or 3 from the bottom GPU, I should get easily double what the 4870 is getting!

And last thing before bed (I start work in 6 hours *sob*) - we're now at 8352 - I'm really looking forward to us breaking the 6k purely because that other stats page gives you a much better idea how you're doing and a realistic idea of how long till you pass the next team above you etc - keeps it interesting

[Oneslowz28]

ANy numbers on what an 8800 GTS will pull?

[Technochicken]

According to this thread, about 2.5K ppd:

http://www.w7forums.com/ppd-database-t7947.html