Official TBCS Folding Team

[Oneslowz28]

Well I have 2 of them. No sli mobo though.

[slaveofconvention]

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

[slaveofconvention]

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....

[diluzio91]

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

[slaveofconvention]

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

[dr.walrus]

gpu client doesn't even work on my 4870x2

[diluzio91]

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

yea... but there's $250 between the 560 and me right now. lol

[mDust]

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.

[slaveofconvention]

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

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....

[SXRguyinMA]

it doesn't support my 6870, oh well