Im back to fold.

[breman1972]

Ok its been a while and ive decided to start folding again, just need a few pointers on which clients will give me the best ppd output?.

I have a quad core with 8gb of ram running vista 64 ultimate, the graphics card is a nvidia 260.

I currently just started the gpu console client, should i start a smp client as well?

Thanks.

 

[vertica]

The SMP client will give you more ppd than several single thread clients.


However the windows client is not very efficient and is still technically a beta client (but then so is the GPU2 client so meh!)
To maximise your ppd, assuming you are on a windows OS, you'd run a gpu client on your 260, and two linux smp clients in virtual machines.
Either following the guide here and running two full linux VM's in vmware server (though i've yet to get this to work, many in team 10 do)
Or the more simple approach - running two notfred images (folding specific linux varient) in vmware player.
To give you an idea you should get over 2x the ppd in two linux based consoles than with one SMP client in windows, as the linux client is far more efficent, has a more advanced core and is not a beta.

But it is more hassle than just running the SMP client, so its personal preference.

 

[Happy]

As vertica said the best way to score PPD for CPUs, is to get them to fold under Linux. Since many of us like Windows too much to make the direct switch overover we run VMs. I'm currently running two notfred VMs, since they are more efficient than an Ubuntu VM, which means I can also get away with assigning each VM less ram

Edit:- Parp for yesterday breman1972

 

[A.N.Other]

For ultimate efficiency, VMs are the way forward, but I personally can't be bothered with the hastle. A GPU client and an SMP client does me nicely under XP.