F@H and VM

demonstag · 30 Jan 2012 at 19:30

Hi Guys,

Is it better to run F@H within Windows or VM? Would there be a big difference in PPD between the two methods? Also how difficult would it be to set up?

Sorry for all the questions :confused:

Biffa · 31 Jan 2012 at 00:51

Depends on the cpu you are running it on. The only benefit of running in a linux VM is to do big-bigadv (6903 and 6904) that are for running on 8 threads or more.

demonstag · 2 Feb 2012 at 14:15

I have a i7-2700k

Snapshot · 2 Feb 2012 at 21:32

I find SMP WUs in a Linux VM are less affected by GPU folding as the VM has a higher priority than native Windows folding. The same SMP WU is also a bit faster in a VM than native Windows. I've found this on both an i7 860 and 2600K.