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WHere are you guys getting the more "detailed" information about FAH stats / production?
I would like to see if the things I am doing are really helping on a performance/power level. or if I need to wait untill i can afford more GPU = does it make sense to bring any CPU boxes on line if I dont have any GPU other than the onboard ----
 
So from those figures we could guesstimate that the 290 (non X) would do around 130-170k ppd?

Currently trading on eBay in UK 280x - £150 / 290 - £230 / 290X - £360

Seems 2x 280X would be the way to go for points per pound, although I wonder what the power costs would be with the 2 older tech cards over the one newer card?

Seems the 280X consumes a lot less than the 7970 while doing just about the same job.
 
Maybe the perceived difference between 7970 and 280X is that the 7970 numbers are based on older drivers?


Well there's HFM.NET that monitors production and gives more accurate numbers than the F@H client. And EOC to see graphs, statistics etc.
 
I have read reviews that claim somehow the 280X does use less power than the 7970 and that the 7970 has slightly better gaming benchmark results.

What about this gpu throttling on the reference 290/290X ? That must effect F@H, putting me off a factory card.
 
Had my eye on a reference 290X but read a review that it runs at 93C under gaming bench marks and sounds like a small jet taking off in your living room, what ever would 24/7 Folding do to it, gonna have to be aftermarket.

How's that 280X coming along painkilla?
 


Folding quite nicely, makes a bad noise when the fans spin down. Might look into that and RMA if needed. Havent had a chance to check the power usage yet.

The person I bought the card off says the 290 at full he can hear anywhere in his house. Would hate to hear the 290X.

 
Just get a real (OEM) 1U or 2U server, particularly one such as this old Sun Sparc I pulled off scrap to play with. It will make everything else seem quiet. Just plugging it in turns on the PSU fan, and I think that tiny fan moves more air than any other fan in the house. And there are two power supplies. And then you turn it on, and three more fans spin up that are identical but bigger. I think I've heard quieter jet engines.
 
^ Looks like someone finally figured out how to properly cool that beast. It runs at about the same temps as my 560Ti's.

I am hoping to put together some cash for an upgrade by the end of the year. It will be nice to move to a single card that produces more for less power/heat.

If the 750Ti is any indication the next NVidia generation may have a very nice PPD/watt improvement.
 
2 280X are still a non-trivial cool. I have my 7970s well spaced out and the MSI Twin Frozr can just barely keep up. And this is with a bunch of fans blowing into the area. There are a lot better coolers than the Twin Frozr though (shoot, I'm happier with the 7970 stock cooler).
 
Yeah, at this point the 7970 has been out of production (renamed) for so long I think its price is going back up (as stock runs out). So 280x would definitely be the way to go. I just was talking about 7970s as that is what I have. Now that I think of it - I actually don't have any of the new naming scheme cards (R9). I guess that was because soon after mining drove the market nuts and I haven't bought an AMD graphics card since then.
 
Woohoo, I'm in the top 10 producers! :bounce:

Don't know who Varmit57 is, but I feel kind of sorry for him. He'd been catching up to me for a while, and finally managed to pass me 1½ weeks ago. That was right before my GPU points started flooding in, and now he's being left in the dust.
 
And now my internet connection died. Because of Easter, I get to wait until the 24th for them to send a technician to look at it. And I was looking forward to the Wildstar beta weekend... dont think my phone will be much good there. Or at folding for that matter.
 
Eventually, the days of required water cooling will happen to video cards... Anybody know any modern air cooled car engines?

Anyway, I'm just here to say that the Folding thread is lost beyond recovery somewhere deep in Toms Hardware. I had been visiting often by not logging in, and searching 'folding' at the search bar instead. Now I can't find the thread in that way. In fact, I tried some links in other threads and they seemed to die somhow and lead to the Tom's Forum homepage. The only solution I found was to log in (after a loooong absence) and search my followed threads.

Make whatever you want about it, but I think its a problem.
 
I always have the most up to date page stored in my favourites bar.

I have mentioned this many a time but eventually just gave up,.

Just put a Folding this way tag on the Forums page but then apparently it opens up the flood gates for everyone wanting a link directly to something they think is important, you look at a majority of other Forums though and they make it quite clear where the Team Folding section is on the home page, I guess that's because they are appreciated though :sarcastic:
 
You see... searching 40051 gives me nothin'
And really, we ourselves probably have no problem, because as beano has said, browser favorites work flawlessly. Just a problem with growth, or new members, or involvement of less enthusiastic members and such. But then again, its not a catastrophic issue, and there's nothing that we can do unless Tom's Hardware itself (Or just the Forums) actively decides to endorse the folding team. And that's not happening anytime soon.
 
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