okay guys got a few spare parts i've had for a while now and i've decided to put them into my old case and create a folding rig this machine will be on 24/7 dedicated to folding, but because of the cpu (phenom 9650) i dont wanna spend the earth on a graphics card that'll be far too powerful for it. i was looking at either gts250 or the radeon 5600 series of cards. any advice which card would be best suited to folding (nvidia i heard has a better ppd???)
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which card for a folding rig
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From what I recall, HD5000 series cannot run folding at all, so I guess you are pretty much stucked with Nvidia options.
Just to give you a heads up, there might be some ATI fanboys who will try to claim folding is pointless, just because the HD5000 series cards can't run it.
Just to give you a heads up, there might be some ATI fanboys who will try to claim folding is pointless, just because the HD5000 series cards can't run it.
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well i kinda lie it's not gonna be 100% folding all of the time, its also gonna be a pc my gf can use for her work. either way though i need a graphics card as i dont have onboard.
To help make research in certain projects, say research into cancer cells and how to cure them.
hey adwol48
You would get a slightly more positive reply if posted in the distributed computing section of the forum
, not everyone understands why people fold
GTS250 would be miles better than the radeon, folding on ati still produces a lot less PPD, although hopefully that will change in the future.
You would get a slightly more positive reply if posted in the distributed computing section of the forum
, not everyone understands why people foldGTS250 would be miles better than the radeon, folding on ati still produces a lot less PPD, although hopefully that will change in the future.
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Are there any reviews that actually said HD5000 series card can run folding? I know HD4000 series cards can run folding, despite being considerably than Nvidia's cards, but the reviews I saw on Custom PC mag/bit-tech clearly stating folding won't run in their reviews.
Why bother.
Stanford folding@home said:
http://folding.stanford.edu/English/WinGPUGuide
So it should work according to Stanford, but Custom PC know their stuff when it comes to folding so I would be surprised if they got that wrong (unless it was an older article and any issues have now been resolved)
even if a million computers did this, it's still a fraction of what can be achieved in laboratory conditions funded by research grants etc.
i've never seen the point in this or 'seti @ home'.
all this says to me is that you all want to cure cancer and other such illnesses and make the human genome perfect and then get the Combine to come and enslave us.
teriffic.
i've never seen the point in this or 'seti @ home'.
all this says to me is that you all want to cure cancer and other such illnesses and make the human genome perfect and then get the Combine to come and enslave us.
teriffic.
Millions of people fold at home for different reasons:
By folding you are donating your computers processing power to help research into diseases such as Alzheimer's, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease and Cancer. This types of research requires vast amounts of computing power and there are limited computer labs that can achieve this. Many people have been personally affected by these diseases and want to help others.
There is a competitive element with teams fighting for places in the rankings and ad hoc competitions.
Computer enthusiasts like to get the best hardware and optimise their machines for folding, there is a challenge in this.
There is a great community of like minded individuals.
I enjoy getting new hardware and building new PCs, if I didn't do folding most likely I could achieve all of my computing tasks with a laptop. Folding gives me a reason to build hi spec machines, and actually use them to there full potential. How many people on here have an i7 that they use for browsing the internet and the occasional game of L4D?
i've got an old asus m3a to use, as for client, it'll probably be the newer GPU3 system tray client.
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basically folding@home was built around nvidia cards (or something to that description), so its naturally optimised on nvidia cards. Last i heard they did keep promising to work on the ati drivers more, but it seems they haven't bothered yet. A 5800 has much more raw power than a gts250, yet the 250 will still produce far more ppd.
If you're using nVidia, you can actually put virtually any card you like in. The CPU power needed for Folding on nV cards is practically nil. It depends on your budget of course, but a GTS250 would be good, a GTX460 would be better
a) The combined power of all the systems folding is quite a lot more than that of the fastest supercomputer.
b) Stop trashing the thread
a) The combined power of all the systems folding is quite a lot more than that of the fastest supercomputer.
b) Stop trashing the thread
At 5 series cards can fold, you just need to use a certain flag for it, iv used my 5770 for folding, but hated the fan noise so kept to cpu folding only.
At the moment if u want to fold on GPU's then nvida is the only way to go really, for better production and points.
So i would say the best card for this without breaking the bank would be the GTS 250, or if u can find a 2nd hand GTX 260 then get one of them, but realisticly a 250.
At the moment if u want to fold on GPU's then nvida is the only way to go really, for better production and points.
So i would say the best card for this without breaking the bank would be the GTS 250, or if u can find a 2nd hand GTX 260 then get one of them, but realisticly a 250.