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didgemaster

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Am I correct in saying these are for quad core processors only?

Or can dual core processors handle them and will a GPU client run along side them?
 
You can do SMP with a dual core too - the GPU probably depends what OS and what card it is as CPU usage can vary dramatically.

So yes both are possible - if you give some more detail we should be able to work out what your best bet is :)
 
Under XP the GPU client hogs a complete core so you can't really run an SMP client as well. Run the 6.22 SMP client without the -smp switch to use it as a standard console client.
 
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Not so. I have an E6600 rig at 3.15GHz. It runs XP and its 8800GT eats a core and does 5000ppd. It also runs a Ubuntu VM under VMWare Server which is allocated two cores so the OS believes it has access to two cpus. I use task manager to set the affinity of the vmware process so that it only uses cpu #0 while the gpu client automatically fixes affinity to cpu #1.

The Ubuntu VM is running the Linux client with the -smp switch and achieving >1000ppd. The non-smp client wouldn't get anywhere near that.
 
Linux SMP client can crunch much faster than the Windows SMP client. I think you'll struggle with the deadlines on XP with a GPU with the Windows SMP client.

It will also depend a lot on the speed and efficiency of the processor of course.
 
My laptops T9500 2.6Ghz chip completed one Windows SMP WU within a few hours of the deadline using one core. Hope that helps
 
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