Contagion

Ok, i just decided to man up, and use my overly-priced computer for some good.
So imma start folding.
Now, I have to use a flag in the shortcut name of the FaH exe to get it to work on my 5870, and I get ~800 iter/sec.
Is that good?
Also, I see people talking about PPD or something, what is that.
Im sure these questions have been asked several times but... sry..

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typoknig

800 iter/sec is good for one GPU. PPD = Points Per Day, with the right clients (SMP and GPU) set up correctly on your machine I bet you could get 25K PPD. If you got another GPU you could get even more.

Contagion

Thnx. Now, I know enough about folding to know that NV gets uber performance over ATI when it comes to folding so my next q is,
what NV card would 25K PPD be comparable to?

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typoknig

I get 26K PPD using 3 of the 4 GPU's of my GTX 295's in SLI. I get 42K PPD with 2 SMP clients and 4 GPU clients all running at the same time. I am working on getting more SMP clients going at the same time to get even more PPD. My iter/sec per GPU (remember that ONE GTX 295 has TWO GPU's) is around 750 when my cards are mildly overclocked, so I think you are doing pretty good.

jshay

I thought ATI cards don't fold well?

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Contagion

Cool.
Maybe the new ATI cards are better at folding that you would think.
hm.
Anyways, right now I just have the GPU client, not really sure how to set it up or how to use the SMP clients or anything that you said.
I wanna get into this loop!
lol

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manolith

you will not get 25kppd with that setup.. the best card for folding will have to be a gtx295 but they are expensive. a single gtx 275 gets an avg of 8.5 to 10k ppd. and two of them in sli will get very close to 20k with a vm smp client you should be able to get another 6k and that could get you at 25k ppd.

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Contagion

Oh I'm not getting a folding card, I'm just gunna try to get the most out of what I got.
Can you run the normal FaH client to use the cpu, and the gpu client together? To hopefully get better PPD?

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manolith

to get decent ppd out of your cpu you will need to setup a vm client. vmware.

couple of guides
use this vm client because it will let you enable all cpu cores while letting enough memory and resources for good gpu folding..
http://www.overclock.net/overclock-n...re-player.html

and here are pretty good step by step instructions.. remember use the client from the link above and then do the little 4 core mod.
http://evga.tachedout.com/wiki/index...VMWare_folding

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typoknig

I figured he could run 2 SPM clients in VM's and that would give him about 6K PPD for each client. He is probably getting about 9K - 10K PPD right now if his iter/sec are steady at 800. That means he would be around 22K PPD. That is not the 25K PPD I said eariler, but it is close.