OK loaded client joined team now how long till something gets finished? Total noob at this but ran Seti for a long time. Got 1 comp running this have 6 more. What runs it best? Got 5 radeons and 1 8800gt all on C2D mainly Gigabyte boards.
Mr. nVidia will be your friend. Sorry to say this to ATi (only partially) but nVidia crushes them here. However, ATi cards are still very capable folders in their own right, and will show you a boost over a CPU client. Get the high performance console clients (the ones that just like DOS command prompts) as they do the most work for your energy consumption. Also, look at installing the SMP CPU client to provide additional points, and if your rig is running anyways, might as well.
As for when you can expect to see results, it varies. However if you download FahMon (just google that and you should find it) and point it to your installation directory of your F@H clients (after installing it) it will tell you all sorts of nifty information and give an E.T.A. on work unit completion. Check the two sticky posts in this sub forum for the GPU and SMP client setup procedures.
Past that, there are several places where you can see your status compared to the rest of the team / folding community. I personally use
this one, but a quick search will find you more. As a note, most of these website based stats pages are refreshed on a 3 hour basis, and provide a countdown timer until their next refresh.
Also, welcome aboard.
