Since this is brand new, it needs a brand new guide 
What you need
This is fairly straight forward, the default path of this install is C:\Program Files\Folding@home\Folding@home-gpu, but the application data (i.e. the WU data) is stored in either:
* C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Folding@home-gpu for Windows XP,
* C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Roaming\Folding@home-gpu\ for Windows Vista.
This will be useful for FaHMon later
Once the client starts (it auto starts on logon as well) the configure screen appears:
The two important parts to this are the username and the team. Choose your username (or someone else's if you're folding with them) and remember that we are TEAM 10! 
The second tab provides you with proxy settings, along with allowing big work units. If you have a card that has 512Mb on you should be fine with this turned on
The last tab provides advanced settings for CPU prioritisation and usage, and also for checkpoints timings. Since the current GPU units are fairly small I would recommend setting this to the highest setting of 30 minutes.
Updating the drivers
The Pande Group strongly recommend that you install the latest drivers - which at this point is 177.35. However, these are only configured for the new GTX series (280 and 260). There is a way of using the modified INF file above and the following explanation by Mattus:
Most of you use FaHMon anyway, there is an excellent guide in the main sticky thread, this explains how to setup just the GPU client.
This is very simple: Add a new client and set the path to be C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Folding@home-gpu\ .
Remember to set the path to this "Folding@home-gpu" folder and not the "work" folder. The log file it looks at is not in the work folder
Setting Process Priorities (for use with other folding clients)
This is quite important to do, since without the priorities being set correctly the GPU client may not get enough CPU. You should be able to use the task manager to set the priority to higher than the other folding clients, however the process explorer does give you more information if you require it
In order to guarentee enough CPU for the GPU client, set the process priority to "Low" and the CPU clients to "idle". This should allow you to get the most points out of your machine
Monitoring GPU Temps
There is a very good step-by-step guide for monitoring GPU temps using rivatuner here: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=81852
Feel free to make further comments/suggestions to improving this guide - I can add pictures if it helps. Hopefully this will give you enough information to get the GPU client going on your machine
What you need
- The Beta Client - currently found in this thread: http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=3186
- The Latest Drivers - 177.35 from here http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=70056&st=0 .
- The INF file if you aren't running GTX280 or 260 - either try in the above link or here: http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?showforum=94
- OPTIONAL AND RECOMMENDED FaHMon - http://fahmon.net/
- OPTIONAL Process Explorer - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx
- OPTIONAL RivaTuner - http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=163 This will help with checking GPU temperatures, fan speed and overclocking. More information can be found here: http://www.guru3d.com/index.php?page=rivatuner
This is fairly straight forward, the default path of this install is C:\Program Files\Folding@home\Folding@home-gpu, but the application data (i.e. the WU data) is stored in either:
* C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Folding@home-gpu for Windows XP,
* C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Roaming\Folding@home-gpu\ for Windows Vista.
This will be useful for FaHMon later
Once the client starts (it auto starts on logon as well) the configure screen appears:
The two important parts to this are the username and the team. Choose your username (or someone else's if you're folding with them
) and remember that we are TEAM 10! The second tab provides you with proxy settings, along with allowing big work units. If you have a card that has 512Mb on you should be fine with this turned on
The last tab provides advanced settings for CPU prioritisation and usage, and also for checkpoints timings. Since the current GPU units are fairly small I would recommend setting this to the highest setting of 30 minutes.
Updating the drivers
The Pande Group strongly recommend that you install the latest drivers - which at this point is 177.35. However, these are only configured for the new GTX series (280 and 260). There is a way of using the modified INF file above and the following explanation by Mattus:
Setting up FaHMon
Most of you use FaHMon anyway, there is an excellent guide in the main sticky thread, this explains how to setup just the GPU client.
This is very simple: Add a new client and set the path to be C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Folding@home-gpu\ .
Remember to set the path to this "Folding@home-gpu" folder and not the "work" folder. The log file it looks at is not in the work folder
Setting Process Priorities (for use with other folding clients)
This is quite important to do, since without the priorities being set correctly the GPU client may not get enough CPU. You should be able to use the task manager to set the priority to higher than the other folding clients, however the process explorer does give you more information if you require it
In order to guarentee enough CPU for the GPU client, set the process priority to "Low" and the CPU clients to "idle". This should allow you to get the most points out of your machine
Monitoring GPU Temps
There is a very good step-by-step guide for monitoring GPU temps using rivatuner here: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=81852
Feel free to make further comments/suggestions to improving this guide - I can add pictures if it helps. Hopefully this will give you enough information to get the GPU client going on your machine
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