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[Scorpion.sting]

Yeah, finally got the right drivers. Had to go to the Mobile to go place and got the right driver and inf mod for Vista 64 and FX570. Have 2 clients running now getting about 5-6 hour units worth 492 points. That is actually better than I expected out of a 256 Meg graphics card. Seems weird though as my 2 ATI 3850 with 1 gig of memory each do 193 point wu in about half that time so I would say the Nvidia is definitely getting more points versus wu's. Well any way Go Team!!!
Thanks again Scorp for all the assistance and the link for the beta 7 client!!

Plazz

No problem. We are doing this for science and also to kick some ass as a team. Also, 256mg card will do alright right now until they get some much bigger wu then you will want a 512 or larger in the future. Happy folding

 

[Scorpion.sting]

Well I overclocked my 8600GT and now Im pulling down 1700 ppd just from my video card. Also with an SMP going Fahmon says together im averaging 3584ppd on 1 rig.

 

[Plazzman]

Sweeeeet... We should be moving a few more steps toward the top then.:up

 

[Scorpion.sting]

Plazzman, So is all your folding power at your home? Just wondered. All mine are at my home except 1. My daughter has a quad and she runs an SMP under my name. Other than that I have all mine under my roof using a KVM to switch between all them. Also noticed their is a lot of folding power coming out of Indiana. You out of Avon and me out of Logansport. I think the team is doing real good. Lets keep up fighting for the cures that we may need ourselves in the future. Go Team!!!!:clap

 

[Plazzman]

No actually most of my folding power is at work which is a bummer because they are used between 8-5 or later so that limits there productivity. I do have the new AMD quad, ATI dual at home plus one other older dual quad AMD at home in Avon. I'm a Network Admin for a small engineering firm in Indy and luckily talked my boss into allowing me to run all the desktops. Plus I have a friend in Greenwood that runs his PlayStation 3 occasionally under my credentials. Yes I agree on fighting for the cures that I'm sure will benefit myself and the rest of the world. Go Team!!!:up

 

[Foxbat]

Also noticed their is a lot of folding power coming out of Indiana. You out of Avon and me out of Logansport. I think the team is doing real good. Lets keep up fighting for the cures that we may need ourselves in the future. Go Team!!!!:clap

Yep, I 'm Folding up here near Notre Dame, IN.

I was reading everyone's comments about the GPU Beta. Is the new beta geared more towards the NVIDIA GPUs or the ATI/AMD GPUs? What should I look for in the GPU? More shaders? Memory bandwidth? GPU clock speed?

 

[SatinKzo]

I'm not too far from you Foxbat, I thought you were over by Fort Wayne more. I'm up in Kalamazoo, MI.

Also, I hope to bring another SMP client online today at work.

 

[Plazzman]

Yep, I 'm Folding up here near Notre Dame, IN.

I was reading everyone's comments about the GPU Beta. Is the new beta geared more towards the NVIDIA GPUs or the ATI/AMD GPUs? What should I look for in the GPU? More shaders? Memory bandwidth? GPU clock speed?

Welcome from Notre Dame!!
Foxbat The new beta client for NVIDIA cards is more geared to NVIDIA at this point as NVIDIA went for performance instead of stability. ATI went the other way and went for stability instead of performance. I would imagine ATI will be catching up on performance soon but at this time it appears the Nvidia cards are outperforming at least Point wise the ATI cards. Here is the link for the forums for the new Nvidia beta.
Folding Forum • View forum - Beta testing the GPU2 Win client (nVidia GPUs)

I do find it helpful at least that the new beta works for both realms (ATI & NVIDIA)

Go Team..!!!

 

[Scorpion.sting]

Yep, I 'm Folding up here near Notre Dame, IN.

I was reading everyone's comments about the GPU Beta. Is the new beta geared more towards the NVIDIA GPUs or the ATI/AMD GPUs? What should I look for in the GPU? More shaders? Memory bandwidth? GPU clock speed?

I didnt realize you were in Indiana also Foxbat. When it comes to the GPU's for Nvidia, you need to use at least an 8400 card or better. I have an 8600GT right now. As for Shaders, Memory and such right now the better the shaders (or stream processors) the better performance. You can use a 256mg card right now but Pande has said that it wont be long til you will have to have a 512mg card. My 8600GT has 32 shaders.

Hope this helps on your quest for a card to fold with. :up

 

[Scorpion.sting]

From the way it looks, Duggan75 is running a video card client. His points have incresed a great deal. Welcome to the fold Duggan.:up

 

[hdtvtechno]

I think we shouldn't be looking for who has more points

Its how many WU's Completed that counts..

 

[Scorpion.sting]

I think we shouldn't be looking for who has more points

Its how many WU's Completed that counts..

Thats true, the video card client completes work unit faster therefore more work units get done. The major point increase just happens to be a byproduct of that work. Besides, thats why Stanford set it up this way in hopes that their would be a little competition that would persuade more people to fold. Theres nothing wrong with that.:

:Have a wonderful 4th of July.:

Fold on team :up

 

[jgantert]

I'm not sure I buy that WU thing. If that were true, you could stockpile up on those 15pt WUs! Since I've switched to the SMP client (from the PS3 client) my WUs have dropped, but my points have gone up a little.

I could never get the ATI client to run very well for some reason on my card, so I don't know about that one. I don't do games, so I'm not really a candidate for the video clients anyways.

-John

 

[Scorpion.sting]

Two million club baby!!!!!!!!!!!!! I would like some company in this club.....hmmm feels kinda lonely lol

Fold on team :up

 

[gbjbany]

i keep getting 2665 wu's they are very slow (relatively speaking) and they also kept hanging.

Found out i had set my network card to use dhcp and it keep sgettinmg renewed each night whic messes the smp client up, must have happened when i swapped my mobo, cos since i changed it to static, the hang has gone away.

Btw dont know if you guys looked at this guy http://kakaostats.com/usum.php?u=1306831
he's doing 200k-250k a day ! got about 200 clients running.

 

[Foxbat]

Two million club baby!!!!!!!!!!!!! I would like some company in this club.....hmmm feels kinda lonely lol

WOW!!! 2 Megapoints! Congrats, Scorpy. :up:up:up

Fold on team :up

Fold on, you crazy diamond...

 

[Plazzman]

Two million club baby!!!!!!!!!!!!! I would like some company in this club.....hmmm feels kinda lonely lol

Fold on team :up

Congrats Scorp!! Great Mile stone.
Sorry been on vacation!
Now could you help me get off the IBX in water as it is killing my productivity?
Speaking of which could you score some points for the team as well as WU's??
Just kidding... Congrats.. :up
Stanford is making it rough on us I think ??

Go Team..!!!

 

[Scorpion.sting]

WOW!!! 2 Megapoints! Congrats, Scorpy. :up:up:up
Fold on, you crazy diamond...

Pink Floyd fan I see

 

[Foxbat]

Pink Floyd fan I see

Guilty as charged...

 

[Scorpion.sting]

I thought I'd post why my production has gone up lately. I have a new video card running the Nvidia client. It is the GeForce 8800GT AKIMBO 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card. It produces at a minimum of 31k per week by itself. This is in addition to the Geforce 8600GT I am running which produces 11900 per week. I have shut down the PS3 which produced 6300 per week. I launched the new card on June 25th. I am running the new card on my Dell XPS 400 which is a dual core P935. It produces 4400 ppd not overclocked.