Is this GPU too weak to bother with?

[codysluder]

The NVidia 8000 series are too weak. The Pande Group announced plans to discontinue that type of hardware and projects that will run on them are very rare or nonexistent. I upgraded to a 750 Ti, skipping several generations, and I am very happy.

[Joe_H]

In addition to the older Core_11 work having gone end of life, it was never supported for folding on Linux.

[fusilli]

Hello,
I have a similar GeForce card - GeForce 8600 GTS - that I just installed on a LinuX Mint AMD64 system. I installed the nvidia-cuda-toolkit meta package and the proprietary NVIDIA driver (version 331.38). After adding a GPU slot FAHControl shows the core READY but it fails to get a WU with "Empty work server assignment", and I'm wondering if this is actually true or indicative of some other issue. The pertinent log bits are below:

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*********************** Log Started 2014-10-28T19:32:29Z ***********************
19:32:29:************************* Folding@home Client *************************
19:32:29:    Website: http://folding.stanford.edu/
19:32:29:  Copyright: (c) 2009-2014 Stanford University
19:32:29:     Author: Joseph Coffland <joseph@cauldrondevelopment.com>
19:32:29:       Args: --child --lifeline 2476 /etc/fahclient/config.xml --run-as
19:32:29:             fahclient --pid-file=/var/run/fahclient.pid --daemon
19:32:29:     Config: /etc/fahclient/config.xml
19:32:29:******************************** Build ********************************
19:32:29:    Version: 7.4.4
19:32:29:       Date: Mar 4 2014
19:32:29:       Time: 12:02:38
19:32:29:    SVN Rev: 4130
19:32:29:     Branch: fah/trunk/client
19:32:29:   Compiler: GNU 4.4.7
19:32:29:    Options: -std=gnu++98 -O3 -funroll-loops -mfpmath=sse -ffast-math
19:32:29:             -fno-unsafe-math-optimizations -msse2
19:32:29:   Platform: linux2 3.2.0-1-amd64
19:32:29:       Bits: 64
19:32:29:       Mode: Release
19:32:29:******************************* System ********************************
19:32:29:        CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU G840 @ 2.80GHz
19:32:29:     CPU ID: GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7
19:32:29:       CPUs: 2
19:32:29:     Memory: 3.56GiB
19:32:29:Free Memory: 2.68GiB
19:32:29:    Threads: POSIX_THREADS
19:32:29: OS Version: 3.13
19:32:29:Has Battery: false
19:32:29: On Battery: false
19:32:29: UTC Offset: -7
19:32:29:        PID: 2478
19:32:29:        CWD: /var/lib/fahclient
19:32:29:         OS: Linux 3.13.0-37-generic x86_64
19:32:29:    OS Arch: AMD64
19:32:29:       GPUs: 1
19:32:29:      GPU 0: NVIDIA:1 G84 [GeForce 8600 GTS]
19:32:29:       CUDA: 1.1
19:32:29:CUDA Driver: 6000
19:32:29:***********************************************************************
19:32:29:<config>
19:32:29:  <!-- Client Control -->
19:32:29:  <fold-anon v='true'/>
19:32:29:
19:32:29:  <!-- Folding Slot Configuration -->
19:32:29:  <gpu v='false'/>
19:32:29:
19:32:29:  <!-- Network -->
19:32:29:  <proxy v=':8080'/>
19:32:29:
19:32:29:  <!-- User Information -->
19:32:29:  <passkey v='********************************'/>
19:32:29:  <team v='45104'/>
19:32:29:  <user v='fusilli'/>
19:32:29:
19:32:29:  <!-- Folding Slots -->
19:32:29:  <slot id='0' type='CPU'>
19:32:29:    <cpus v='2'/>
19:32:29:  </slot>
19:32:29:  <slot id='1' type='GPU'>
19:32:29:    <cuda-index v='0'/>
19:32:29:    <opencl-index v='0'/>
19:32:29:  </slot>
19:32:29:</config>
19:32:29:Switching to user fahclient
19:32:29:Trying to access database...
19:32:33:Successfully acquired database lock
19:32:33:Enabled folding slot 00: READY cpu:2
19:32:33:Enabled folding slot 01: READY gpu:0:G84 [GeForce 8600 GTS]
...
19:32:34:WARNING:WU00:FS01:Failed to get assignment from '171.67.108.200:80': Empty work server assignment
19:32:34:WU00:FS01:Connecting to 171.67.108.204:80
19:32:35:WARNING:WU00:FS01:Failed to get assignment from '171.67.108.204:80': Empty work server assignment
19:32:35:ERROR:WU00:FS01:Exception: Could not get an assignment
...

[7im]

Similar card, similar answer. Sorry. As Joe said, this mature hardware was not supported in Linux, only Windows. But has since gone End Of Life in Windows as well. Maybe a GPU upgrade is in your future?