kingdingeling Posted November 16, 2008 Posted November 16, 2008 I just had a look at my stats over at EOC and compared them to what I got back in the day with my Q6600. With the Q6600 clocked at 3502MHz, I got a PPD of about 4023, which was equal to about 120,000 points a month (give or take a couple of WUs for gaming and/or other stuff using CPU cycles ). Now I'm running a single 8800GT clocked at 700/1750MHz and it's over 5,500 PPD, which has gotten me over 85k this month already! There is about half a month left, so make that roughly 160,000 points a month... I'm seriously amazed by the difference! I mean, we are comparing a high-end processor of it's time with a mid-range graphics card of the current time and the mid-range card wins in terms of PPD. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
road-runner Posted November 16, 2008 Posted November 16, 2008 They do good until you get the dreaded 5748 WU then points drop to around 3,000 a day, because its a bigger WU for the GPU2. Windows just plain sucks at folding, in straight up ubuntu I get 3,000 ppd each smp client on a Q6600 @ 3.2Ghz which gives me 6,000 ppd total with the A2 WUs. On my Q9650 @ 4Ghz I get 8,000 total with 2-smps and A2s. I will be glad when they get the GPU2 client working for Linux. Some people have it working in wine but I am not a linux guru... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingdingeling Posted November 16, 2008 Posted November 16, 2008 I do agree with you on the straight up Linux bit, but as you said, there's no GPU client for Linux. Is there a possibility to run a virtualization program like VMWare in Linux? So running straight up Linux for SMP and then running the GPU2 client in Windows as a virtual machine? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
road-runner Posted November 17, 2008 Posted November 17, 2008 I do agree with you on the straight up Linux bit, but as you said, there's no GPU client for Linux. Is there a possibility to run a virtualization program like VMWare in Linux? So running straight up Linux for SMP and then running the GPU2 client in Windows as a virtual machine? The guys that have the GPU running in wine are reporting same PPD as windows. I have not had the time to mess with trying to get it going. AFAIK and have read some people run windows in vmware inside of linux so yes I guess you could do that... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingdingeling Posted November 17, 2008 Posted November 17, 2008 Interesting, interesting... I might have to check that out when I get back home Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy_Nate Posted November 17, 2008 Posted November 17, 2008 They're monsters. I fold just on my GTS...it's at 756 core / shader linked / 1000 memory. FAHmon pins me at around 6300 PPD, but that only happens once in a blue moon (down time from uploading / waiting to upload / getting new WU's or just me gaming ) I just crank the fan up to 100% and it's never broken 65C. I get slightly higher folding number in Vista X64 over XP X32. Maybe it has to do with the fah core using 50% CPU in XP, and ~10% in Vista. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingdingeling Posted November 17, 2008 Posted November 17, 2008 Yea, I read about that as well. Maybe I have to switch the OS on my folding rig to Vista? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy_Nate Posted November 17, 2008 Posted November 17, 2008 Ah, yeah, I dunno. I'm at liberty to because my university has MSDN:AA. I'm not sure about how well the SMP side runs with Vista...it's just got some better CPU management or something just runs better (?) - with GPU2. You've got me. All I know is what the task manager (and coretemp) tells me. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingdingeling Posted November 17, 2008 Posted November 17, 2008 I don't care why, I only care that it is that way I guess it's Linux SMP in VMWare in Vista with dual GPU2 clients then Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy_Nate Posted November 17, 2008 Posted November 17, 2008 Zing! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingdingeling Posted November 17, 2008 Posted November 17, 2008 DANG! And this is Vista 64-bit? Is it the same in 32-bit, cause I have a 32-bit license at home (unused one from my laptop)? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy_Nate Posted November 17, 2008 Posted November 17, 2008 Yeah, Vista X64 Business. I haven't tried 32-bit. The CD-keys should be the same for like versions (Home / Business / Ultimate), however, that's only what I've heard. FahMon can be a little optimistic at times. I think the most points I've ever gotten on a day was ~6500, it seems to often depend on when units are finished...weekly averages seem to work out better. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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