TPU's F@H Team

[mstenholm]

Awesome, that's quite the setup! I love my GTS450

You should be able to get ~55k PPD on good bigadv WUs @ ~4ghz on the CPU alone

I don't mix GPU3 and -bigadv. I have a 9800 GTX+ in my i7 rig. It's running SMP now and is doing 27k PPD @ 3.6 GHz so I'm confident that it will do at least the 55k PPD once I get it tuned in

 

[[Ion]]

Oh, so just SMP on the i7 then? How come? bigadv would still get better PPD

 

[Solaris17]

can someone tell me the tags i need to add to my shortcut properties to get bigdev and GPU3? all i have are the

-GPU x tags so i can run multi card.

 

[[Ion]]

There's a separate client for GPU3, google it, it's the 1st link IIRC. For bigadv, make sure your SMP client says '-smp -bigadv'

 

[mstenholm]

Oh, so just SMP on the i7 then? How come? bigadv would still get better PPD

So true but my luck ran out - all I get is the slow ones now. I still have to learn how to OC this thing. Even the GB tailored OC preset crashes.

 

[[Ion]]

But even the slowest ones should be able to finish by the preferred deadlines easily...and give better PPD than SMP

 

[mstenholm]

But even the slowest ones should be able to finish by the preferred deadlines easily...and give better PPD than SMP

The slow ones I'm talking about is the 6xxx series, ordinary SMP's. The 26xx's are hidding atm.

 

[Jstn7477]

Well, my Radeon 3850 AGP has been folding away in my other computer for the last week or so, raising my PPD to around 3500 when combined with the much more efficient GeForce GT 220. The client also eats up about 60% of a 2.2GHz AMD Athlon X2 4400+ 939 processor. Glad I'm running somewhat closer to the days when I had 9800 GTs before they died. Glad I don't have a power bill anymore as my room gets very hot and the A/C is on max.

Side note: What kind of PPD would I expect from a 950MHz 5770 (it's the main card in my rig with the 220)? Is it worth running occasionally? (I am usually gaming throughout the day). Would I use GPU3 for that?

 

[[Ion]]

Yep, GPU3, it gives the same PPD on ATI cards, but works better. I'd say around 2.5k PPD

 

[theonedub]

752/1504 now @ 1.0v on my GTX 470, HFM predicts 14,800PPD. Only tested with a little less than an hour OCCT, so I will see how it holds up overnight. Apparently you need to get to 1580 shader to get 15k out this card, so close

 

[thebluebumblebee]

The client also eats up about 60% of a 2.2GHz AMD Athlon X2 4400+ 939 processor.

Sounds like you need to enter the Environmental Variables. Setting up GPU2 on ATI cards! If you can't figure out where, read down to post #24. That was for GPU2, I have not heard if anything is different for GPU3, although I don't think that it is. What's the PPD with that card?

 

[NastyHabits]

The client also eats up about 60% of a 2.2GHz AMD Athlon X2 4400+ 939 processor.

Follow the instructions in the ATI link thebluebumblebee refered to. It cut my CPU usage down to less than 3%, and made the PC a WHOLE bunch more stable.

Side note: What kind of PPD would I expect from a 950MHz 5770 (it's the main card in my rig with the 220)? Is it worth running occasionally? (I am usually gaming throughout the day). Would I use GPU3 for that?

You should get around 3500 PPD with that card. (That's my estimate for GPU2). I haven't tried GPU3 with my ATI card yet.

 

[[Ion]]

752/1504 now @ 1.0v on my GTX 470, HFM predicts 14,800PPD. Only tested with a little less than an hour OCCT, so I will see how it holds up overnight. Apparently you need to get to 1580 shader to get 15k out this card, so close

Wow, nice

I just test my cards with FAH, if they're stable enough for that, I don't care if they can pass OCCT or Furmark

 

[theonedub]

Everyone has their own standards for stability testing. One downside to not stress testing is the possibility that you throw a couple EUEs when you are not at the computer and the client shuts down on you

 

[[Ion]]

It's done 75+ hours of folding on these clocks with a variety of WUs, which is good enough for me.

 

[theonedub]

Id say its good* to go as well

 

[johnspack]

Well, since I can't get help, thought I'd put up a clock until I get my folding rig back up. By the way, I have to press CC very hard, because my keyboard is fd. I need a new soundccccard and keyboard right away. New psu for folding rig in 6 weeks and ccounting. Arrg. I will get my 5 mil......

 

[[Ion]]

That you certainly will, good luck

 

[Chicken Patty]

Wish I can help you, how far off from 5 mil are you?

 

[Solaris17]

Hey I figured id ask here but feel free to del if need be. Does anyone have a folding card I can buy for cheap? I need to get my mainframe up for networking reasons but Id like it to fold full time at the same time.

 

[[Ion]]

How much you looking to spend? I might have a GTS250 to sell

 

[Solaris17]

idk i suppose i dont really care as long as its as cheap as possible. money might be tight this week.

 

[[Ion]]

I paid $75 shipped for it, most used ones are going for ~$65 shipped ATM, so I'd really like to get about that. Otherwise I'd just keep it for folding

 

[hat]

Hey I figured id ask here but feel free to del if need be. Does anyone have a folding card I can buy for cheap? I need to get my mainframe up for networking reasons but Id like it to fold full time at the same time.

http://techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=132354

Ask Buck if it's not too late to get you entered into his giveaway.

 

[mstenholm]

My i7-920 is getting cold. It has been at around 60 C since it was unboxed back in March and yesterday it was brutally taken out of its nest. Should I put it into a GA-X58-UD5 together with some Mushkin Redline and one of my spare GPU's? The SSD is still unwraped and it is eager to join the party. My laptop can not heat our guest room on its own so I better press buy and save it from a cold

Edit: OK, done