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01-02-2011, 09:16 AM
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Holy cow, been a while since I've looked at the F@H stuff... Rebuilt some new boxes for home last year and never got around to installing clients.
So I have an i7-860 running, do I go with the SMP2 client? Or just multiple instances of the classic one? Who's doing what? Thx,
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01-02-2011, 10:22 AM
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From what I understand, you should be running a SMP client with a quad core. Dual cores can go either way.
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01-03-2011, 11:32 AM
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If you request a passkey from Folding@Home and run the smp client, you'll get bonus points after 10 completed units. With the i7 860, I'd definitely run the smp client.
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01-03-2011, 01:50 PM
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what video board do you have? you could run the GPU client concurrently W/ SMP
to squeeze out some more PPD. NewEgg has a good deal on EVGA GTx460 SE going. |
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01-03-2011, 11:25 PM
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Hey DSCHIEF. Did I see it was your B-day recently? Cheers!
I have a single Radeon 5770 running. Haven't looked into GPU client at all yet. Any worries running it? |
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01-04-2011, 10:07 AM
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Thanks, I celebrated by cracking the seal on a bottle of 18 Yr. old single Malt.
enjoyed a Wee Dram along with a Pipe on the back deck, we had a rare sunny day for our neck off the woods. The only down side of GPU folding is the Electric Bill! I have 5 9800GTX+'s & 2 GTX275's. The Boxes that have Quads run SMP & GPU; the Dual core boxes only run GPU. |
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01-04-2011, 05:18 PM
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So no worries on the heat harming the GPU? Is what I have a points-producer?
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01-04-2011, 09:36 PM
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I'm not real familiar with the ATI cards; The only ones I've used are EVGA with
Nvidia Chipsets. Have only lost one card, that started throwing artifacts after about 18 months of folding . as far as PPD I believe that Nvidia cards still have the edge in working with the stanford code. |
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01-04-2011, 11:25 PM
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Yeah Nvidias are the folders although anything is better than nothing.
I just got this GTX 460 up and running in my server and I seem to be getting about 9000 PPD doing project 6806. Not sure if that's about right for this card or not yet, I'll have to look around and see but it seems pretty good. And I'm doing bigadvs on my i7 860 @ 3.5GHz.
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