Just started folding, am I doing it right? - Page 9

With that and your clock in mind, straight SMP is what I suggest. BA you wanna be close to 24/7 and preferable at least 4.5G.


Folding on the CPU alone will use much less electricity, I have a 2700K@1.48V which draws about 250W from the wall, though I have a very low end GPU (HD5450) so you can probably add around 30W to that figure, you're currently at a much lower OC and voltage than me too.


I get about 5C (maybe a little more) deg drop between OCCT and folding.


SMP folding utilization is controlled by how many threads you'll allow the program to use. A 2600K with 4 threads available to FAH will result in ~50% usage. The ways to do this is a little different depending on which version you choose. Whatever you do, avoid folding on either 7 or 5 threads as some WU will fail.


No BA for you.

Just as a hypothetical scenario, if I've got a TPF on a 6904 (the biggest and baddest BA) of 63min, ETA=4.38, and just run it with no interruptions I'd get 87k PPD/379K total. Let's say I stop the folding 4h/day (best case as according to you) that's 17.52h, PPD drops to 68k and total credit is down to 351k. If this wasn't bad enough I'm much closer to the deadline too, which gives me very little leeway for unforeseen business. Being close to deadlines isn't in it self a bad thing, but will give you a possibility of not completing the unit in time which is bad both you (points wise) and Stanford (research wise). And you're not gonna be fast enough (at 4G) even running 24/7 I'd reckon.

My feeling is that BA shouldn't be done on anything less than a 24/7 rig, but that's just me.

Should be a little bump upwards.

I see no reason not to use client v7 (guide linked in my sig under "FOLDING"), it can fold on the CPU and both GPUs in one simple client.

A 430 will probably actually hold back a 480 in the majority of PhysX titles but you can test yourself and see if it helps you or not. You can't SLI a 480 and a 430, and wouldn't want to even if you could,.

No the CPU folding still just does the CPUs work unit and the GPU still just does the GPU WU. As for how it compares to running 3 individual clients it's pretty much the same, just a little easier to install and it will show you info like PPD from all the clients in one place.

If you want you can just go ahead and install the client v7 and start folding again now, you won't have to start over when you get the 480, you'd just have to add another 'slot' in the v7 client for the new card once you get it.

yep, just one client per piece of hardware, so one for CPU and one for each GPU.