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Heyo,
I thought I'd give the GPU folding a go. So far I've turned in my first WU (a nice 192 points to start the day) and am working on my second.
Now then, the questions I have:
I'm using FAHmon to watch the progress of it. I quite like the display that you can look at. Does this slow the folding down at all?
Secondly, the Display is very jerky, is it meant to do this? I know on the PS3 it is a smooth movement, is it different on the GPUs?
Thirdly, the numbers that the display gives is variable. Sometimes the performance and time left numbers will dissapear. Just before it does that, the time left jumps up from an OK looking (and tallying with FAHMon) 2 hours to 4+ hours. Is the display still a work in progress?
Otherwise, it's good to be back and folding fairly competitively (1600PPD if I fold 24/7!)
Disclaimer: Any advice I provide is only applicable in my reality and may need altering to fit yours There is no place like 127.0.0.1
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the bad news FS is that purely in GPU folding terms (not game play) you've bought the wrong card.
folding 24/7 you can expect the following ppd from initial results at stanford.8400GS 600PPD
8600 gt 1700-2500
8600GTS 2000
8800GT 4500-5300
8800GTS 3300-4800
8800GTX 3300-4700
8800ULTRA 5300
9600GT 3500-4000
9800GX2 4700
9800GTX 5500-6000
gtx280 6500-7700 Where there is a range is usually a result of the GPU clock speed.
an interesting result is the differing performance of xp and Vista in that xp ties up a core per graphics card
and vista uses less than 10% of a cpu core per Card which can have a marked difference on SMP points production the following is an interesting quote from the results thread
unless its an 260 or 280 on the nvidia cards thay seem to be Maxed out (CPU use is less then 10% per GPU) on the 280/260 not got one but quite sure its CPU limited then not been able to feed data fast enough any thing up from an 3850 on ATI is cpu limited due to the cida same problem as the 260/280 cards
Cheers, Keith.
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Well CUDA has been hacked to run on ATI cards, so hopefully they will soon benefit from that (as it appears to be less CPU hungry).
The 4870 could be a lot better PPD wise, but at the moment not all 800SPs are being used. A later release may solve this issue.
Does anyone know if the GPU client folds for a little while and then pauses? If i watch the display, it will crunch through some iterations and then give me a smooth orbit of the molecule and then back to crunching numbers.
Heavens, no. I'm not basing my GPU purchase strictly on folding  If I did that, I'd have to pay at least double what I already have!
Disclaimer: Any advice I provide is only applicable in my reality and may need altering to fit yours There is no place like 127.0.0.1
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