Joined the folding team :)

R5GTT

R5GTT

R5GTT

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Hi all,

Well in the past I had a play with folding and I used to use SETI a bit back in the day as well but havn't done either for a long time.
Just started folding again a few days ago and added a couple more clients the other day.

Currently folding 24/7 on a couple of work machines that never need to be turned off anyway.
I have a dual quad core xeon cpu'd mac pro server behind me and my i7 975 that I use daily. I've also recently set up the gpu client on my PC's Quadro FX 3800.


The mac is using a command line client and seems to work well but I'm using GUI clients on my PC.
Would I see a big performance increase switching to command line clients on my PC??? The GPU currently does a 15000 WU in about 80 minutes
but I have no idea how that compares to a gaming card.


Any general tips on improving my ppd would be appreciated too :)
 
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Firstly what clients are you running on the i7 and mac pro machine.

Im guessing by using systray your on the uniprocessor clients.

Those you want to switch over to the SMP clients to make use of the 4 cores+HT of your i7 and 8 cores of your mac pro.

The quadro fx3800 will produce a nice amount of points due to effectively being a GTX260
 
Thanks for the advice. I'm Already using the SMP client on the mac but now switched to the SMP windows client too and it seems a lot faster.
 
Welcome to the team :)

The command line clients used to be faster but now there is no real difference, just use whatever you prefer.
 
Cheers for the welcomes :p

I think the only reason the SMP seemed faster is because it's using 100% of my CPU where as the systray one by default only used 15/20% (I did try setting smp to 75% cpu but it made no difference? )

Only prob now is if I notice much slow down which tbh so far isn't too bad.
I could do with another dedicated machine really since I will have to disable both CPU and GPU clients if I have to do any 3D work :( only the mac can currently run 24/7 in that case.
 
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