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Hey, I meant to post about this the other day and got distracted. We've retaken 12th place! With just a little more production, we could even put DL.TV in our sights and retake 11th!

Holding off NCIX will be a little tougher, but definitely doable as well (and at their current gain rate we've got about a year to do it).

Is it still best to fold with Nvidia gfx cards? I've got a p x4 and a 5850 and it stinks that I can't get more PPD than say something like a 9800gt. Anyway, worth it to put up my 5850?

Until they come up with a GPU3 ATI client, yes. You're better off with Nvidia cards

Best to fold with a core i7. 25k+ ppd
OR Nvidia at the moment, 12k ppd on a 470.

Fuzzhead

fuzzhead wrote:

Best to fold with a core i7. 25k+ ppd
OR Nvidia at the moment, 12k ppd on a 470.

Fuzzhead

i'll be contributing an i7-860 this weekend on if it's worth it?

DancinJack wrote:

i'll be contributing an i7-860 this weekend on if it's worth it?

Definitely worth it.

And while not anywhere near in the same league, I just added an Athlon 64 X2 4800+ last night. A co-worker gave the motherboard, CPU, and RAM to me with the caveat "it isn't stable, and keeps corrupting hard drives". Turns out one of the DIMMs was completely hosed (thousands of errors in just the first couple of minutes of Memtest86+); other than that, the hardware seems fine.

DancinJack wrote:

i'll be contributing an i7-860 this weekend on if it's worth it?

Definitely worth it: Run the SMP client with the flag '-smp 8' to use all 8 threads. Hyperthreading should be left on in the bios. Processor should be easy to overclock to 3.6-3.8Ghz.

- JP

JPinTO wrote:

DancinJack wrote:

i'll be contributing an i7-860 this weekend on if it's worth it?

Definitely worth it: Run the SMP client with the flag '-smp 8' to use all 8 threads. Hyperthreading should be left on in the bios. Processor should be easy to overclock to 3.6-3.8Ghz.

- JP

about how many ppd is that? and will folding have ANY adverse effects on my SSD if i were to install it there?

DancinJack wrote:

JPinTO wrote:

DancinJack wrote:

i'll be contributing an i7-860 this weekend on if it's worth it?

Definitely worth it: Run the SMP client with the flag '-smp 8' to use all 8 threads. Hyperthreading should be left on in the bios. Processor should be easy to overclock to 3.6-3.8Ghz.

- JP

about how many ppd is that? and will folding have ANY adverse effects on my SSD if i were to install it there?

I am reading about 13-15K ppd, may be more. The effects on your SSD will be similar to any other long running program that writes to the disk every so often (default for FAH: 15mins), of course if you have a magnetic disk drive you can put it on there. However you will need 5 gigs of RAM just for Folding, I think.

Your SSD will only be good for 130 years if you fold instead of 210...

I'm getting ~14k PPD out of 3.7GHZ under Windows -SMP 8. Memory use isn't much under windows: <500mb.

If you have Windows 64Bit with 6Gb RAM and have some interest in playing with software: Run folding Linux under VMWare. Same processor will give you ~24k PPD running -BIGADV. Notfred's image is a good starting point.

- JP

JPinTO wrote:

I'm getting ~14k PPD out of 3.7GHZ under Windows -SMP 8. Memory use isn't much under windows: <500mb.

That's not running -bigadv? Sounds good. Give me a reason to get 8 gigs on my next build.

Flying Fox wrote:

That's not running -bigadv? Sounds good. Give me a reason to get 8 gigs on my next build.

Windows client doesn't do -bigadv... yet.

JPinTO wrote:

Flying Fox wrote:

That's not running -bigadv? Sounds good. Give me a reason to get 8 gigs on my next build.

Windows client doesn't do -bigadv... yet.

Oh, I meant no need to get 8 gigs yet.

This is as good a place as any to ask this question:

I'm probably forgetting something, but, wasn't the 6.29 Linux client the original one for doing -BIGADV WU's? If so, I'm a bit lost as to why notfred's latest version won't work with -BIGADV since it now uses the 6.29 client.

Ragnar Dan wrote:

This is as good a place as any to ask this question:

I'm probably forgetting something, but, wasn't the 6.29 Linux client the original one for doing -BIGADV WU's? If so, I'm a bit lost as to why notfred's latest version won't work with -BIGADV since it now uses the 6.29 client.

I think he just did not add/complete the feature to add that switch to the command line.

Or perhaps he wants to add a free memory test to it or something... if that's all that's different, anyway.

someone give me four more Gib's of ddr3 1600 plz so i can run bigdav in vmware.

Flying Fox wrote:

Ragnar Dan wrote:

This is as good a place as any to ask this question:

I'm probably forgetting something, but, wasn't the 6.29 Linux client the original one for doing -BIGADV WU's? If so, I'm a bit lost as to why notfred's latest version won't work with -BIGADV since it now uses the 6.29 client.

I think he just did not add/complete the feature to add that switch to the command line.

Yup, just haven't added the switch to the command line yet. There are also issues with memory usage given that I use an in memory filesystem, so would need enough memory for the memory plus what the hard drive space would be.