Folding Forum

if you're running the gpu client, the desktop is sluggish unless you enable aero. I know it sounds counter productive to enable a os feature that requires more resource, but try it and you'll see. aero takes the sluggishness out of the desktop when the gpu client is running. it has something to do ...

I, too, say to use Vista. It improves GPU folding. I had no reason to drop Windows XP except for going 64-bit and perhaps for having DirectX 10. I was hoping I could skip Vista, just like I skipped Windows ME and 2000, but with the GPU client using less resources I switched to Vista. I am running V...

Well, nVidia clients can't help here, as it's an ATI card I'll be running, and the ATI client is totally different when it comes to power consumption, afaik. It doesn't matter if the CPU can't handle SMP, I don't care about that as of now. I don't even have the hardware yet. I'm asking if I should r...

I can not speak for the ATI gpu but have tried this with an X2 6000+ and an Nvidia 8800GT. Running any cpu folding on the same core that is feeding the gpu client kills the gpu folding performance. I've tried running smp and it cuts the gpu ppd in half or more. Switching to the uni folding client, ...

toTOW wrote:I don't think you'll have enough free CPU to be able to run SMP on this CPU ... you might have to use an uniprocessor client instead.

Seeing how my E7200@stock could handle SMP on one core with a lot of headroom, I think a core of a 3GHz AMD should do about the same.

I'm going to set up another (almost) dedicated folder soon, but I'm a bit unsure on the OS. The specs: AMD Ahtlon X2 4800+ clocked at around 3GHz HD3870 512MB GDDR4, might OC to around 800/2500, depending on if Vista likes RivaTuner. 3GB DDR667 CL5 nForce 570 SLI mobo From my experience, the ATI GPU...

Trolls. Deal with it.

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