Stupid question time!

[booyaka]

Right here goes.

Been folding for about 3 weeks now with 2 standard clients running on my E4300. one each core.

Been hearing/reading about SMP client.

Now - a few questions.

My machine is mainly gaming/general use but over this weekend is likely to be on 72hours straight or so.

Getting a bit bored of the 200pointers taking a full day for about 600ppd.

Should i switch to the SMP client?
Also do i need to install linux? cause i know bugger all about it!
With the standard client - i can just play games etc and not bother shutting the services' down for folding, would i need to if i installed the SMP client?
Is the SMP client still loaded via windows??

Any ideas?

 

[booyaka]

The advantage of the 'native' clients (both single core and SMP) is that they automatically release CPU cycles on demand so they don't get in the way of gaming, rendering or whatever. VMware runs as an application with Linux under it so has to be manually throttled as WoZZeR describes. I've had very little trouble with the Windows SMP client, the only real one has been its habit of dropping out if the PC loses network connectivity. I've even run it as a service successfully which the docs say you shouldn't.

hmmm- tempting to look into it - going to dump another 850 points over night so ticking along well this week - will see what happens. will have another read at the sticky!!

could be a few parps on the way!!