Will the below-described hardware run V7 ?

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Will the below-described hardware run V7 ?

Post by barebear »

I have recently been given a Compaq Presario laptop model CQ50-115NR running 32 bit Vista Home Premium

Its processor is an AMD Turion Dual-Core RM-70 2.00 Ghz and it has 3 GB ram

The GPU is a NVIDIA GEForce 8200M G w/ 256 MB ram.

Should I run 7.1.52 , or am I better off staying w/ 6.23 ?

If I can run 7.1.52, should I just stay w/ SMP ? , or can I run SMP + GPU ?

Thanks in advance for feedback/advice !
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Re: Will the below-described hardware run V7 ?

Post by jts5009 »

Feel free to run 7.1.52. I’ve got an older (circa 2003) desktop still running XP folding on 7.1.52, in addition to a newer (circa 2010) quadcore i5 laptop running Windows 7. Version 7.1.52 automatically configures your system based on what’s best, so the uniprocessor mode runs on my desktop (producing ~100 ppd running smaller projects with longer deadlines), and the SMP mode runs on my laptop (producing ~3000 ppd running larger projects with shorter deadlines).
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Re: Will the below-described hardware run V7 ?

Post by Nathan_P »

Not sure that the mobile gpu has the power to do any really useful work, if you want to run SMP then i would go with v7.1.52 running SMP only. Keep an eye on your laptop temps though as they do tend to get warm.
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16 Gb ram
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Re: Will the below-described hardware run V7 ?

Post by barebear »

Thank you! -- I'll report back w/ results as soon as I've run 7.1.52 long enough to get an idea of what's going on.
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Re: Will the below-described hardware run V7 ?

Post by bruce »

If it runs SMP on V6, it will run SMP on V7 and vice versa.

Both clients will use the same FahCore to process the same WU.
barebear
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Re: Will the below-described hardware run V7 ?

Post by barebear »

Bruce,

The V6 I've always used has been the console client and all I've ever done with that is enter my name, team number, and passkey during setup.
Then I've made a shortcut to the executable on my desktop and put in Start> All Programs> Startup so that it will start when Windows starts.
If it runs SMP on V6,
..... is there a way to configure the 6.23 console client to run Uniprocessor or SMP ?

I currently am running 6.23 on the machine and as soon as it finishes the current job I'll delete the 6.23 and try 7.1.52 SMP --will report back w/ developments as soon as I can see how that works.
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Re: Will the below-described hardware run V7 ?

Post by bruce »

barebear wrote:The V6 I've always used has been the console client and all I've ever done with that is enter my name, team number, and passkey during setup.
Then I've made a shortcut to the executable on my desktop and put in Start> All Programs> Startup so that it will start when Windows starts.
If it runs SMP on V6,
..... is there a way to configure the 6.23 console client to run Uniprocessor or SMP ?
When the V6 client was developed, it was based on the uniprocessor client and it still contains it. Download a V6 SMP client if you don't already have one. In the shortcut, add any one of the following command-line parameters to the Target:
[existing character-string that's in Target] (With no added parameters, it runs the uniprocessor client)
[existing character-string that's in Target] -smp (runs the SMP client using all of your cores)
[existing character-string that's in Target] -smp N (runs the SMP client using less than all of your cores)
(where N is greater than 1 and less than the number of CPU-cores that you have.

It's easier to make those same choices in V7.
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