Best F@H Setup - 2700k/580

DAnDan

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Got my new rig up and running now, and will be looking at getting it folding sometime soon.

What setup do you suggest;

2700k @4.5GHz (Will up this sometime soon, currently more than a little toasty though)
GTX580
8GB RAM

There were changes to -bagadv recently weren't there? Is SMP the standard way now? Is it best to run the CPU folding on all 8 threads, or run it on 7, keeping one "spare" for the GPU?
 
bigadv changes haven't kicked in yet. But will limit to 16 thread machines after the change.

Currently you can pull probably 60-70K PPD on the 2700K if you want to try running big-bigadv in a vm with a hack, or 30-40K on normal bigadv

580GTX is good for about 20-21K

With the latest drivers you won't need to dedicate a core to the GPU, but you wouldn't want to use the computer for anything else because of the desktop lag.
 
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I have a similarish rig - 2600K @ 4.4GHz + 560Ti. I'm running SMP under Linux/VMware (should be bigadv but it just won't pick them up these days and the SMP WUs under SMP seem better than the SMP WUs it picks up under bigadv???) plus the GPU console client on W7. It's currently claiming around 44K PPD so you should get a good bit more.
 
Yes, it is. Don't know why it won't pick up bigadv WUs any more but it's a right PITA. I'm using the VMWare-FAH-1.6.1 Linux VMWare appliance which had worked perfectly with bigadv WUs since August.
 
Biffa said:
bigadv changes haven't kicked in yet. But will limit to 16 thread machines after the change.

Currently you can pull probably 60-70K PPD on the 2700K if you want to try running big-bigadv in a vm with a hack, or 30-40K on normal bigadv

580GTX is good for about 20-21K

With the latest drivers you won't need to dedicate a core to the GPU, but you wouldn't want to use the computer for anything else because of the desktop lag.
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At the moment I'm just using the F@H GPU Tracker V2 while I set up the OC and whatnot.

How do I make sure I get BIGADV units? I've ticked the option in the setup setting, however I've picked up a 552 point 6970 unit on the CPU, which is apparently going to only give a little over 6k PPD. :(
 
It should all be documented in the stickies but....

Make sure you have a passcode entered in your F@H CPU config. After you've successfully completed ten WUs you'll start getting early completion bonuses and those 552-point WUs will earn 5000 or more.
 
Right, doing some more folding playing today.

Using the new V7 beta client, quite like it actually and it seems to work okay.

GPU client is running fine, hovering around 18k PPD which seems okay. However the SMP client is giving me an estimated PPD of around 15K (2700k at 4.6GHz). This is on a 7905 unit that it picked up before I'd set it up to do -bigadvs. Currently getting a TPF of around 3m 17. Does this sound about right for this unit, I'm guessing the PPD will increase nicely when it picks up a proper bigavd?

Thanks guys!
 
I use the V7 client and use the flags client-type advanced and max-packet-size big, it seems to increase the PPD

let me know if you need help on where to put them
 
lopkinfop said:
I use the V7 client and use the flags client-type advanced and max-packet-size big, it seems to increase the PPD

let me know if you need help on where to put them
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Yeah I've got those set up, just need to wait for this WU to finish, and see what the next one picks up :).
 
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