Folding@Home News - Attention Single-Machine Crunchers
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Associate
I find it amazing how high outputs have grown in the year or so I've been away. I think I was getting 60ppd at one point.
Does it use more leccy running on a GPU, than a CPU, if you disregard the ppd aspect? I suppose you have to look at the power consumption of a graphics card at full use, compared to the CPU flat out.
Does it use more leccy running on a GPU, than a CPU, if you disregard the ppd aspect? I suppose you have to look at the power consumption of a graphics card at full use, compared to the CPU flat out.
Soldato
Around 6-8K PPD for an overclocked 275 and around 7-8K PPD for the i7 if it's running two Linux SMPs under Virtual Machines/native Linux etc.
You would get more PPD for your money running a GPU for folding, something like a 8800GS, 9600GSO etc.
Soldato
I have only been folding for a short while and I once got ranked in the top 60 and I think I was at something like 58 but then I saw people who had been folding for half an hour suddenly overtake me in minutes and I kind of knew that I will never get that much.
I still do it but only cos of habit.
Its a shame cos I own 13 PCs and all are dual or Quad core, and with their GPUs I would be folding with... Hang on, let me do some math ( 5 Quad Core, 6 Dual and 2 Single core, so tahts 34 CPU cores in total, plus 3 SLI systems, and 10 single GPU so thats 16 GPU cores...
Hmm... Maybe just run them one cores to see what my scores jump to?
Sod it, it costs too much electricity.
I still do it but only cos of habit.
Its a shame cos I own 13 PCs and all are dual or Quad core, and with their GPUs I would be folding with... Hang on, let me do some math ( 5 Quad Core, 6 Dual and 2 Single core, so tahts 34 CPU cores in total, plus 3 SLI systems, and 10 single GPU so thats 16 GPU cores...
Hmm... Maybe just run them one cores to see what my scores jump to?
Sod it, it costs too much electricity.
Associate
Wow if i had that little lot at my disposal i would be trying to squeeze every single PPD out of them.
Although i think i would aslo need shares in one of the uk energy companies as well.
Soldato
Many would, but Im already paying out £35+ a week on the electricity as it is!
I might put a Quad Core CPU into my Server, and have that running 4 cores.
But other than that, I dont think so, no!
I might put a Quad Core CPU into my Server, and have that running 4 cores.
But other than that, I dont think so, no!
Don
Installed the client program as we speak. Will be interested in what all this is about!
One question, if I load up a game with this running should it affect ingame performace at all?
One question, if I load up a game with this running should it affect ingame performace at all?
Soldato
No you wont notice a single bit of slowdown.
Associate
Unless it just crashes, of course!
I've known that to happen!!!
I've known that to happen!!!
Soldato
Unless what crashes?
The Game or the Folding Client?
Well, yes, but thats a little obvious that it will slow down if it crashes dont you think? Slows-down to the the point of stopping I recon. LOL
Seriously though, FAH does hang far too often, I have this last 2 weeks alone had to restart my clients 5 or 6 times and its started from 0% again even though its been some way through folding somehting.
But I find that leaving it to its stuff, is sometimes the best thing you can do and eventually it will sort itself out, but never have I found it slowing a PC down to the point of you being able to notice it.
The Game or the Folding Client?
Well, yes, but thats a little obvious that it will slow down if it crashes dont you think? Slows-down to the the point of stopping I recon. LOL
Seriously though, FAH does hang far too often, I have this last 2 weeks alone had to restart my clients 5 or 6 times and its started from 0% again even though its been some way through folding somehting.
But I find that leaving it to its stuff, is sometimes the best thing you can do and eventually it will sort itself out, but never have I found it slowing a PC down to the point of you being able to notice it.
Associate
I'm back Folding 
It's been around 2 years i think, i'm currently at 190 in the OcUK rankings, that is now gonna change !!!!1!!!
It's been around 2 years i think, i'm currently at 190 in the OcUK rankings, that is now gonna change !!!!1!!!