7970 folding?

Voicon · 27 Mar 2013 at 23:21

I have but did I do it right, I set:-

Name Value
client-type beta
next-unit-percentage 100

Hasn't changed a lot yet but we'll see.

andy_mk3 · 27 Mar 2013 at 23:37

I get about 9k PPD from my 6950 (unlocked to 6970), I was expecting more really!

Biffa · 28 Mar 2013 at 01:31

And what were you getting before?

Voicon · 28 Mar 2013 at 06:56

Nothing in mine it was default.

nuzik · 4 Apr 2013 at 10:26

i just got a trust message to come here. What the heck is folding!!!

ozaudio · 4 Apr 2013 at 10:29

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18204220

nuzik · 4 Apr 2013 at 10:33

ah similar to the old project that the PS3 ran

ozaudio · 4 Apr 2013 at 11:14

its exactly the same

just ps3 stopped doing it, everybody with amd cards are well better of now though. people with 7970 are getting around 40'000 - 45'000 points per day, i think a ps3 got around 1000 ppd ! so like having 40 to 45 ps3 running to get the same as one amd 7970!

HankScorpio · 4 Apr 2013 at 18:15

Yeah, I don't think you can even fold anymore on your PS3 right?

Biffa · 4 Apr 2013 at 18:47

No they removed it in one of the Sony updates.

ozaudio · 7 Apr 2013 at 13:47

what would

2 x 7700 do or a 7950?

Biffa · 7 Apr 2013 at 17:46

7950 is the sweet spot I think, prolly around 40K stock

HankScorpio · 12 Apr 2013 at 05:21

Wooo look at it fly!

robj20 · 12 Apr 2013 at 09:59

That cant be right surely, 390k PPD? If so i want a 7990 now.

Biffa · 12 Apr 2013 at 10:27

At 28.5s per frame that would be about right, but the numbers seem an order of magnitude out really

HankScorpio · 12 Apr 2013 at 15:48

Think the calculator got a bit confused or something. Leveled out after about 5 mins back to normal.... Was thinking improved WUs or something

HankScorpio · 12 Apr 2013 at 20:36

anyone else get choppy/sluggish performance after a few hours folding on these cards? If I'm watching a video/stream my whole system will start lagging every few seconds. I pause the gpu and after a little bit it goes back to normal. temps are around 65c.

Biffa · 12 Apr 2013 at 21:38

MAke sure you turn off hardware accelleration for any browser or flash player or video player. Are you doing anything on the the CPU at the same time? There is some pretty fast IO switching going on due to the speed at which they crunch through the WU's but you might do well to dedicate one HT or Core to the folding process and leave the rest open to the system.

HankScorpio · 12 Apr 2013 at 21:59

I fold 4 cores smp and gpu while using my system for everything else!

might be that hardware acceleration thing you mentioned as it only goes all sluggish when I'm watching video after a few hours gpu crunching. SMP folding is just fine, even game with it on and don't notice anything.

Biffa · 12 Apr 2013 at 22:15

I usually only have troubles with my 7970 machine when the kids or wife has been watching youtube or playing clubpenguin or something flash related. I recently turned off all hardware acceleration in IE and Firefox and Opera just in case, and also whenever you update flash it turns hardware acceleration back on again it seems. Also if you use any specialist video players they can also have shader support.

But I'm not surprised that with 7907 OpenCL folding AND the CPU cracking on the 4 cores that you might get some lag when trying to watch HD video :eek: