Just started folding, making sure everything is working right..

[Pabl0]

Hi guys,

I've got a 3750k @4.5 and a 7970. It all water cooled so temps aren't a problem. I'm using the windows v7 client and I have seen there are two projects or whatever they are called folding atm.

Is that everything i need to do, I've got my user Id and set it up for team 10. The gpu in after burner is at 50% and the cpu is at 100% and using all four cores.

It seems to be taking an age and front running from last night till this morning got about 50% of the way through on each and earnt ~13000 points..(I think, ppd seems to fluctuate around this)

Any tips etc?

 

[Pabl0]

Yeah, I was thinking it might not be worth using the 7970 as it's seems pretty crap for folding and is taking an age to do anything where as the cpu is much quicker and earns more points.

I'm around 16000ppd with the both but will sack off the 7970, plus it's coil whine is the only noticeable thing in my room with the PC on and folding.

 

[Pabl0]

Only stop folding with your gpu if you have an nvidia card to fold with. My 5770 is getting me an extra 1500 points over just my 1090T. Or is this just an intel thing?

With my 3750k and my 7970 i'll get 13-16,000 PPD, with just the 3750k i'll get 20,000PPD..

Don't really want to be getting a nvidia card aswell as having the 7970..would there not be driver conflicts?

 

[Pabl0]

Thing is I game, the 7970 is great for this and I run two monitors one @ 1440p and one @ 1080p so I'd need the best nvidia card plus my 7970 is in my water cooled loop so I'd be looking at £500 to go nvdia minus the sale of the 7970..

Just don't think it's worth it, I mean I might make an extra few points a day but I'd rather upgrade to a 3770k surely I'd see a better improvement on that compared with a gpu..

Or maybe I should swap to a 2700k if one came up cheap enough, overclocks well and has hyper threading..