Folding@Home News 2nd - 9th February

[WobblerJW]

Thanks for the news

not sure but i might show up as running 2 pcs but its only one just did a SDD upgrade

 

[hanluc]

8101's killing my ppd, down to about 180k on these things

Points have been increased for these, don't know if that makes them desirable now though, also points for the 6900/1 have been increased too.
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[Biffa]

For reference, you can extrapolate if you use your own stats as a frame of reference:

4P 6174 current PPD:

6901 - 303,118.67 PPD
6903 - 488,575.32 PPD
6904 - 476,341.85 PPD
8101 - 140,396.43 PPD

4P 6174 revised PPD:
6901 - 363,750.87 PPD
6903 - 488,575.32 PPD
6904 - 476,341.85 PPD
8101 - 322,916.07 PPD

6900/1 are going away, so they're irrelevant.
6903/4 unchanged - for now.
8101 roughly equal to 6901, 68% of 6904 and 66% of 6903

Right now my 4Ps get @475K because most assigns are 6903/4. If 8101 is released with no further changes, I'll get 33% LESS folding them.

And what happens when 6903/4 are converted to bigadv-16 projects?

If there are no further changes to 8101, and 6903/4 are brought in line with it, my 4P PPD drops 33%. Period.

 

[Consilium]

Hi guys, i've just started folding and joined up on the forums (I have been a long time reader but never registered!).

At the moment I am just experimenting with the basic uniprocessor client on my desktop. But i have a spare Shuttle pc that i cobbled together recently and it's collecting dust at the moment. It has a Q6700 @ stock and an ATI 5670. Would i be better off going for a multicore client or a gpu2 client for it?

Cheers

 

[CaptainUnlikely]

Hi guys, i've just started folding and joined up on the forums (I have been a long time reader but never registered!).

At the moment I am just experimenting with the basic uniprocessor client on my desktop. But i have a spare Shuttle pc that i cobbled together recently and it's collecting dust at the moment. It has a Q6700 @ stock and an ATI 5670. Would i be better off going for a multicore client or a gpu2 client for it?

Cheers

I wouldn't bother with the GPU client, it doesn't do too well on ATI cards unfortunately and it eats a lot of CPU time too. I'd just fold SMP (multicore) on that PC, if it's overclockable at all then do so as it'll really help. At stock you'd be looking at around 3K PPD from it if I remember rightly.

Oh, and welcome to the team and forum!

 

[Consilium]

Ok thanks! Doubt it would overclock much, if at all, as the temps would go through the roof in its little case!