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mark128 · 16 Sep 2014 at 12:38

I've been folding off and on for around 10 years although I never really managed to climb very high in the rankings. This all changed when I upgraded my old Q6600 machine with 2 x ATI 280X GPU's. I've now managed to skyrocket into the top 10 in OcUK. Looking like breaking 40,000,000 points by the end of the day. Can't get over how powerful these beasts are. Hopefully it's made a decent contribution to the science.

Biffa · 17 Sep 2014 at 09:41

Well done s'ah, great contribution and effort!

davev8app · 17 Sep 2014 at 17:41

spot on

Jumper118 · 17 Sep 2014 at 21:46

good work sir. these amd gpu's are so much more efficient at folding than they were 18 months ago.

mark128 · 2 Oct 2014 at 08:57

Cheers. Yeah I was looking into AMD GPU's for mining but decided to run folding@home on them due to the huge PPD. In 9th now, just stomped Voicon. Already got my eyes on 6th position in the next few weeks.

diogenese · 10 Oct 2014 at 22:40

Looks like I've been dumped back to 12th

Serves me right for going for No.1 in GPUGRID for NZ I suppose.
Maybe there will be a return to folding when I move on my 660ti's and get something new that's red instead of green.
I don't think it will be as powerful as your's Mark but I'll try to catch up!

miniyazz · 11 Oct 2014 at 09:21

Are nvidia cards still better than AMD?

Biffa · 11 Oct 2014 at 10:46

miniyazz said:
Are nvidia cards still better than AMD?

Swings and roundabouts.

miniyazz · 11 Oct 2014 at 23:16

Biffa said:
Swings and roundabouts.

How so? Does it help if I narrow it down to folding?

ozaudio · 11 Oct 2014 at 23:57

miniyazz said:
How so? Does it help if I narrow it down to folding?

when the 970s are working correctly then huge gains are to be had. but you can pick up 7950 / 7970 or the r9 280x for around £100

at present the new NVidia cards are currently for people who are using them as part of standfords beta team , I think lol

Biffa · 11 Oct 2014 at 23:58

At the top end (290X/780ti) they are pretty neck and neck pulling between 180-200K PPD on the right work units.

Maxwell *was* doing even better but then Stanford scuppered them by moving some unsupported calls off the gpu back to the cpu in the core. So a GTX 970 that should do 250K PPD now does 70K PPD.

e.g. my R9 270X does 77K and my GTX 970 does 70K PPD

ozaudio said:
when the 970s are working correctly then huge gains are to be had. but you can pick up 7950 / 7970 or the r9 280x for around £100

Which will pull between 90-120K plus if overclocked I think

Jumper118 · 12 Oct 2014 at 01:09

Biffa said:
At the top end (290X/780ti) they are pretty neck and neck pulling between 180-200K PPD on the right work units.

Maxwell *was* doing even better but then Stanford scuppered them by moving some unsupported calls off the gpu back to the cpu in the core. So a GTX 970 that should do 250K PPD now does 70K PPD.

e.g. my R9 270X does 77K and my GTX 970 does 70K PPD

Which will pull between 90-120K plus if overclocked I think

my 7970 lightning does 150-180k ppd

that is at 1150mhz on the core.

Biffa · 12 Oct 2014 at 01:14

That'll be the "plus if overclocked I think" caveat then you reckon?

miniyazz · 12 Oct 2014 at 16:24

So the last generation NVIDIA cards aren't particularly better than the 7970 etc (given similar performance cards, obviously)?

Clearly there are some issues around Maxwell