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off topic (or maybe back onto the topic of folding) but I'm in the process of making another rig and was wondering what would be a decent budget nvidia card to fold on? I've seen quite a few charts and what not but I can't seem to find anything that isn't already a few months old..thanks
 


I don't see you active on our team. When are you going to get your machine rolling? I was going to tell cunning to cut you some slack because I thought you were folding with the team......but I don't see you on the team?

It seems like maybe you are really just trying to jack your post total? If that's the case, PLEASE don't SPAM in this thread anymore.
 


Yes. 9800 for Vista DX10 or 8800 for XP both cn be had new for ~ $100. I'd watch the newegg.com open box area. You should see them there for ~ $80 or so. Everything I've ever bought open box from newegg has been perfect, just 30% off.
 

no, my main PC is now officially STUFFED. everything just went downhill after that bios flash... RAM sometimes survives long enough to boot into memtest, to report 10000 errors in 2 seconds ^.^

RMA'd the RAM, so my comps just sitting there without RAM in it 🙁

in any case i doubt i will fold anyway, if my pc survives. theres just nothin in it to sacrifice a $138 graphics card

btw, for the person who asked about the 8800GT or 9800GT, both are DX 10 vista.... the 9800GT is literally a rebranded 8800GT. nothing different, except SOME 55nm die shrunk 9800GT's, which are generally $30 or so more expensive than the old 65nm rebranded 9800GT's, despite the fact that it costs nvidia less to make the 55nm 9800GT"s.

kthxbai :hello:
 
Thank you for correcting my error. I'm not sure what I was thinking. I must have been thinking about the 7900 Series cards. The only difference between the 2 seems to be the openGL support version; 2.0 vs 2.1. I'm not sure if that is across the board either though.


 
well the 9800GT's were supposed to have 3 way SLI support as opposed to the 8800GT's 2 way only. i think the only way to tell the 55nm dieshrinks apart is if it has "Hybrid power".
 
I was looking at the team stats this morning. We are down a bunch of active folders.

Does Tom's officially support the team any more than just providing the forum for us to post in?

What can we do to recruit more peeps?

Is the declining active membership due to the GPU client producing many more times the ppd over a cpu?
 
sounds good..maybe tom's can do something like over at occ and advertise the team or something..noticed that we only have like 10% actives

oh and has 3 way sli for the 9800gt been confirmed? i thought officially the 9800gt could only go regular 2 way
 
hm well...the smp didn't really pan out but i did get the second machine with a 9800gt up and running. again, not running either 24/7 though. does anyone have experience with different core/shader/memory frequencies and ppd output that they can share 😉 ?

just an aside but...what happened to this thread 😵
 
It's a slow thread....

What happened with the SMP? They sure are a pain to set up.

If I get a few minutes this weekend, I guess I better get it rolling on a few quad cores around here. I have serious competition from #2 on a ppd basis 😀
 
the smp was eating up my proc threads (at least on the intel/ati machine) to the point where it was either barely working or was eating into my gpu output :x
 
Hey all,

Been a long long long time... I still don't have my computer at home, but i got a PS3 now!

Does a better job that My PC ever did in half the time 😛 (not that you ever missed it)

Don't think i ever Folded something worth 1250 points before either.

anyhow, you should see a small increase of 0.1%? HAHAHA
The daily folding is much more than when i left... Back when we broke the 100th place barrier.
 


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On Nvidia cards only the shader speed matters. Memory and core speed produce heat only. This has been confirmed on all Nvidia cards in several places. Here are my results from a 9600GSO (96 shaders 768MB DDR2)

Core Shader Memory Temp Linked Stable PPD WU total points
752 1729 500 65 yes Yes 3950 480


720 1836 500 ?? no yes 3252 384

771 1782 500 63 yes yes 3129 384
771 1782 500 60 yes yes 4106 480
771 1782 500 63 yes yes 3284 384

702 1890 500 63 no yes 3385 384
702 1890 500 63 no yes 2675 511

702 1944 500 60 no NO 3420 384
602 1890 500 60 no yes 3284 384

Note my current OC is way to high to game on, but it folds just fine. Even Spore will blue screen if I don't drop it down, so I game on default settings.

Summary:core/mem/shaders
Default :580/500/1334
FAH OC :602/500/1847 @60-64C


 



Welcome back.
 
Ok, just got myself a new computer and I thought I'd try it out. What do you think is better to use, SMP client with an i7 920 CPU and Vista 64bit or GPU client on ATI HD4870 512MB on Vista 64bit? Currently I'm using the GPU client. The graphics card is very loud whilst its running. Getting about 380 iter/second.
 


Congrats on joining the best Folding Team ever!

If you haven't already decided, it is possible to run both. You just have to set the priority a little higher on the gpu client.
BTW how much of 1 core are the ATI drivers eating these days?
The only problem with the SMP client is that it's a pain in the ass to set up as a system service & there isn't a tray client. So, until the unified client comes out for windows (it's coming), you basically have to run it an open window that lives in your taskbar 24/7. No big deal for most people.

Just some outside guesses on PPD
GPU = 3600/PPD
SMP = 3500-4000/PPD (could do 7000-8000 on linux)
So, that machine could do 7k easy that would put you as #7 on our team.

To cut down on heat (and noise) from your vid card, don't overclock(or even underclock) your memory. Memory means nothing for folding, it's just unnecessary heat. If you don't have a program (AMD overdrive?) for ATI cards, I'm sure someone here would be happy to recomend one. Some even have fan controls, which help if your fan is cycling(ie set it to a constant speed).

If you have any questions, PM me. I'm always happy to help if i can.
 
Looks like both will be about equivalent but running the GPU client plus the normal CPU client will be best. I'm only running the PC at night time though otherwise it may overheat during the day. Saves a bit on power as well.

My GPU client is using about 12% CPU. Oh well, I'll see how it performs.
 
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