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Now things have settled and I've got the client past 10 WUs complete I seem to be getting around 16000 PPD crunching through 4 WUs in a 24 hour period. There might be a token slacking for an hour or two when I'm gaming, but most of the time the PC has only been crunching. This seems a bit low to me?

There is no GPU client running. I'm running the SMP 6.34 console client using a shortcut (dunno why but the service mode wouldn't run in SMP), with 8 cores (includes hyperthreading). No apparent crashes.

I suspect I can push the clock higher in due course. Temps are only hovering in the 61-64 deg range under load. But I'll worry about that later if I can squeeze a bit more from the folding in the first place.
 
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Check out my link (in sig) - shows what the 2600k's are capable off.

Basically, you should be looking for around 40k to 45k ppd on normal bigadv's and upto 85k on big-bigadv's (dependent on oc).
 
How come you've thieved the name of my laptop, Poseidon, and nicked my Office's server, Zeus, for good measure. I'll congratulate you too for squeezing that performance from my boss's laptop, Hades. :eek: Your ability to borg stuff is clearly superior to mine :p

But on a serious note, your suggested PPD indicates I have something fundamentally wrong :(
 
MGP said:
Now things have settled and I've got the client past 10 WUs complete I seem to be getting around 16000 PPD crunching through 4 WUs in a 24 hour period. There might be a token slacking for an hour or two when I'm gaming, but most of the time the PC has only been crunching. This seems a bit low to me?

There is no GPU client running. I'm running the SMP 6.23 console client using a shortcut (dunno why but the service mode wouldn't run in SMP), with 8 cores (includes hyperthreading). No apparent crashes.

I suspect I can push the clock higher in due course. Temps are only hovering in the 61-64 deg range under load. But I'll worry about that later if I can squeeze a bit more from the folding in the first place.
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Does seem low, have you checked what PPD a monitoring program like HFM says?


loudbob said:
Check out my link (in sig) - shows what the 2600k's are capable off.

Basically, you should be looking for around 40k to 45k ppd on normal bigadv's and upto 85k on big-bigadv's (dependent on oc).
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That's a lot of PPD you're sporting there, Four GPUs in one rig! are you able to game with them all at the same time in SLI?

Also I've added a HFM stats sig to my posts which I must thank you for, I'd never heard of dropbox until I saw your sig.
 
hanluc said:
Does seem low, have you checked what PPD a monitoring program like HFM says?




That's a lot of PPD you're sporting there, Four GPUs in one rig! are you able to game with them all at the same time in SLI?

Also I've added a HFM stats sig to my posts which I must thank you for, I'd never heard of dropbox until I saw your sig.
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The four GPU's are tri-sli (3 x 560Ti - Zotac 448 cores) & physx (560Ti) - although I've not gamed with it yet.....
 
All I can think of is if you're not telling the server you have at least 2 gig of ram free, I fell foul of this when trying to grab super big advs (2.8 gig needed for those)
 
hummmm i have 16gb of ram with 6gb allocated to the VM. im going to have another go over the weekend with centos.
 
All three of my rigs run Ubuntu, and for months they've all pick up bigadvs unless I've told them not to. If you use -smp -bigadv flags, and have bigpackets=big in your client.cfg I can't see why you're not getting them in linux.
 
Perhaps there is a linux shortage then, thinking about it most of my bigadvs have been the large 6903/4s though when they're not available I do get standard bigadvs, I'm doing one now.
 
Well I really don't get this at all. I'm now trying the v7 beta client. The PPD on it's first WU has dropped to around 10,000 according to the FAHClient thingy. Certainly it's taking over 12 hours, with the PC largely otherwise idle, to do a WU worth only about 5500 points :( All 8 SMP cores are at 100%. There is no GPU folding. I have 8GB of RAM and have (I believe) set the advanced and bigadv flags for the smp core.

One thing I have noted in the logs is it is describing the CPU as an i7 at 3400 Ghz. Yet I'm overclocked to 4600. Is that just how the fah client works or is it an indicator of where my problem might lie?
 
ive just picked up a 10124 something or other and the TPF is 7:32 instead of my normal 2:21.

Its worth 11,900 points tho :D
 
Thought I might have found a problem last night as something to do with Intel Raid seemed to be hogging one of the cores. But the PPD doesn't seem to be rising.
 
Interesting, I've put it back to stock and the PPD estimate is leaping upwards towards 30,000. Suggests that I haven't got a clue how to overclock, or that folding objected to it.
 
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