i7 folding ppd

MikeTimbers · 16 Sep 2009 at 20:58

can anyone with an i7 post their ppd count? And is anyone trying to do the big units?

considering upgrading from a Q6600 but want to know the folding benefits.

Senture · 16 Sep 2009 at 21:04

Looked at this a while ago on the folding forum. Seems like with 4 virtual machines running Linux and HT on, a Core i7 clocked at 4ghz nets about 11-12k PPD. People with similar clocked i7's running Linux natively have been able to complete the giant 25k point WUs in the deadline time. Keep in mind each core can use 500-750mb RAM.

picnic · 17 Sep 2009 at 09:21

Still very green at all this, do you get more credit for crunching using Linux in a VM under Windows than the native clients?

Biffa · 17 Sep 2009 at 11:04

Linux gets work units with higher returns than Windows