Folding@home setup guide

Stalker_26 · 2 Jun 2014 at 18:41

hi all, started folding again - apologies for the long absence.
Have had a ram increase and GPU upgrade since last folding session so hopefully going to get more out of it

Stalker_26 · 2 Jun 2014 at 18:44

quick question tho - i've set it to full but it only seems to be my CPU working? have i missed something? is it normal?

**edit - ignore that.
Installed latest version and GPU is starting to move

Not been running long and CPU is chewing it up

Stalker_26 · 2 Jun 2014 at 21:13

if i look on the advanced control window it shows:
Expected PPD on GPU of 107956
Expected PPD on CPU of 21028

Stalker_26 · 21 Jun 2014 at 20:24

evening all,
When folding - what determines whether the gpu or cpu is used more?

Tohrazer · 15 Jul 2014 at 20:07

hi, i've set this up but im getting 0 PPD from either cpu or gpu

Akagi · 16 Jul 2014 at 10:20

Have you waited for the work units to download?

Tohrazer · 19 Jul 2014 at 21:44

hm, how large are they?

deano-5 · 12 Mar 2015 at 05:19

can a crap pc be any use?

MGP · 12 Mar 2015 at 08:04

Yes and No

It will come down to the power consumption cost versus the points you return. Only the person paying the bill can decide if that is worth it.

Modern hardware will be more powerful and thus do more work for a certain energy cost. Older hardware may not be able to access the more strenuous workunits to return them in a timely fashion and thus the returns may be small.

Although distributed computing was marketed on the basis that your computer was not being fully used so you could make use of the spare processing power, in fact using that spare cpu capacity means the pc uses more energy. If your crap PC has to be on for other things, you might think the extra juice being used is justified, you might not.

deano-5 · 12 Mar 2015 at 21:34

It may not be worth dedicating a whole crap pc?

andy_taximan · 14 Mar 2015 at 01:22

define crap? if its amd say nomore lol jokin...

mt50 · 14 Mar 2015 at 21:00

Hi, Just joined in myself used to do this years ago on the ps3, but forgot all about it.
So just downloaded it and joined the team not got the fastest of setups but should add a few points.

deano-5 · 15 Mar 2015 at 00:25

andy_taximan said:
define crap? if its amd say nomore lol jokin...

http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-c00785237

andy_taximan · 15 Mar 2015 at 08:27

mt50 said:
Hi, Just joined in myself used to do this years ago on the ps3, but forgot all about it.
So just downloaded it and joined the team not got the fastest of setups but should add a few points.

Welcome, what project you running?

andy_taximan · 15 Mar 2015 at 08:31

deano-5 said:
http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-c00785237

Do you really want to run it at max for long?

mt50 · 15 Mar 2015 at 10:43

andy_taximan said:
Welcome, what project you running?

Thanks, it says I'm contributing to Project 9007. is that the one?

I've not really looked at it apart from installing it yet.

andy_taximan · 15 Mar 2015 at 18:55

mt50 said:
Thanks, it says I'm contributing to Project 9007. is that the one?

I've not really looked at it apart from installing it yet.

Folding? theres a mt50 on team hexus

mt50 · 15 Mar 2015 at 20:16

andy_taximan said:
Folding? theres a mt50 on team hexus

that's probably me from years ago, i registered as waynec now(forgot to put that in my post)

edit: yep just looked and that was me from 8 years ago.

Trunkey · 21 May 2015 at 23:11

With regards to an R9 290x, would an 8gb card score better at Folding than a 4gb one?

Thanks.

Urbanfreestyle · 11 Jul 2015 at 15:34

Just Joined! :-)

estimated PPD of 15 :-)

...... that's bad isn't it?

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