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drfish wrote:What I'm really liking about the client is that just like with CPU folding the GPU client gives up cycles as needed. I can leave it running, playing TF2 for a couple hours, and when I'm done still have gotten a WU nearly completed with no slow down in TF2... Might have something to do with having vsync always on, that way I'l not wasting power rendering extra frames...?
CB5000 wrote:ReAp3r-G wrote:edit: tried installing the 177.35 CUDA-drivers and it seems that my system setup (see sig) doesn't quite like it...just gives a message saying that no drivers are to be found and setup will now exit
you have to install the 174.55 version. The 177.35 only works with 8800GTX cards AFAIK.
Download here... http://www.nvidia.com/object/get_cuda2_beta.html
CB5000 wrote:My CPU usage for FaH went down from 60% down to 3-9%.
Forge wrote:CB5000 wrote:My CPU usage for FaH went down from 60% down to 3-9%.
That typically shouldn't happen. F@H expects to burn a single CPU core just monitoring the GPU and talking to it on occasion. If CPU usage is low, then either the GPU is super-saturated or something is broken.
liquidsquid wrote:The two 9600GTs are on different machines:
Machine 1:
9600 GT, AMD X2 4200+
Machine 2:
9600GT, Intel Quad-core Q6600 @ 2.4G, this is the one that didn't like the beta drivers.
Lockheed_Tvr wrote:Hahaha! Just for fun I tried it out on my 8400GS:) It worked fine and didn't crash but only turns in about 450 PPD. It is in a box running an AMD X23800 (stock at 2.0) that itself gets about 515 PPD With the SMP Client!
If I had a single core PCIe box sitting around I would put it in there but for now I'm just going back to the SMP Client. Nice to know that it worked, though!
mongoosesRawesome wrote:Lockheed_Tvr wrote:Hahaha! Just for fun I tried it out on my 8400GS:) It worked fine and didn't crash but only turns in about 450 PPD. It is in a box running an AMD X23800 (stock at 2.0) that itself gets about 515 PPD With the SMP Client!
If I had a single core PCIe box sitting around I would put it in there but for now I'm just going back to the SMP Client. Nice to know that it worked, though!
with which version of the CUDA drivers?
Lockheed_Tvr wrote:mongoosesRawesome wrote:Lockheed_Tvr wrote:Hahaha! Just for fun I tried it out on my 8400GS:) It worked fine and didn't crash but only turns in about 450 PPD. It is in a box running an AMD X23800 (stock at 2.0) that itself gets about 515 PPD With the SMP Client!
If I had a single core PCIe box sitting around I would put it in there but for now I'm just going back to the SMP Client. Nice to know that it worked, though!
with which version of the CUDA drivers?
Version 175.19 running on XP SP2
Lockheed_Tvr wrote:Ok! 177 drivers on an 8400GS:
Big improvement! Jumped from around 450PPD to about 560PPD both on the 98 point WUs. Good enough to scrap SMP, add a console client on one core and get a nice bump in points!
Flying Fox wrote:Lockheed_Tvr wrote:Ok! 177 drivers on an 8400GS:
Big improvement! Jumped from around 450PPD to about 560PPD both on the 98 point WUs. Good enough to scrap SMP, add a console client on one core and get a nice bump in points!
You mean your dual core CPU is doing less than 500ppd? My "lowly" S939 3800+ @2.4GHz is doing 800. So to me it's not quite good enough?
mongoosesRawesome wrote:Is there an option where you allow large work units on the SMP client? Maybe Lockheed_Tvr has that disabled, and that's why he only gets 500 PPD with the SMP client.
The lower clock speed should only account for 20% difference. The difference that FF shows is MUCH higher.
How are you measuring the PPD? Using FAHmon?
Flying Fox wrote:A few things we need to sort out first:
- I have to admit, I'm using the X2's "magical" 64-bit VM on 32-bit host support and is running the Linux SMP client based on notfred's diskless folding stuff. The Linux SMP client is known to do more ppd than the Windows version
- I don't play a lot of games so the cycles are mostly used for Folding, except when some bad Flash ad decides to eat up a whole core
- My ppd number was obtained on arguably the most generous WU, the 2605's. Strange is that that Linux VM never gets 2665's while my Pentium E2160 gets 2665's now all the time.
We are not exactly comparing the same thing (GHz difference aside), unless we can get some common 2605 numbers.
Aside: the X2 3800+ is supposed to be 2GHz at stock, if it was not stable why didn't you RMA it before?
Mr.Lif wrote:Not quite sure yet, but how about a $30 Sempr0n? May not be fast enough though.Yea lets see, 50$ for an el cheapo athlon 64 at 2.4ghz
Mr.Lif wrote:Do we know if we really need 2 gigs of RAM?50 bucks for 2gb of ram
Mr.Lif wrote:How about $50 ($40 AR) for a motherboard?say 100 for a motherboard
Mr.Lif wrote:50$ for an efficient PSU to supply the folding beast, mount it all on a plank of wood and spend the rest on your graphics card. Lets say... 9800gtx. Oh yea, and the windows operating system volume license from a guy you know down the street in redmond WA.
round 550, 600 including tax for a 4000ppd machine?