Newbie wanting to run F@H...

[jupiter33458]

Hello, my name is Kevin
I found out about Folding@Home at the EVGA website.
I built a PC gaming system for Christmas, and I was woundering what F@H software I should run to bring the most benifet to F@H, based on the following specs...

OS: Vista Ultimate 64-bit
MB: EVGA 790i
CPU: Intel Core2 QUAD Q9550 Yorkfield (2.83Ghz)
RAM: 8GB OCZ Gold (DDR3 1333)
GPU1:EVGA GTX280 SSC 1GB (DDR3)
GPU2:EVGA GTX280 SC 1GB (DDR3)
GPU3:EVGA GTX280 SC 1GB (DDR3)

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you very much for your time,
Kevin

<I do hope this is the right forum for this post.>

[kiore]

Hi, nice system, what you do folding wise will depend on what else and how much of it you do. As a dedicated folding system or a background or just overnight.
Dedicated system would be an SMP client (multi core) and multi GPU clients.
Parttime system, 2 cpu clients (run in background at idle) and as many gpu's as don't interfer with your gaming..
kiore.

[mexpedip]

my recommendation would be as follows:

run two instances of notfreds vm smp clients. 1 client for 2 cores. That should give you approx 5.5k-5k ppd. I have two sons who love to mess up my computer (well, I usually blame them for it) and notfred's seems to be the best at recovery. smp clients are notorious for having issues if you just run it as a straight smp client vs using one of the linux based virtual clients like notfreds or error10's.
http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=599272

Then run a gpu client for each graphics card. something to remember, you have to disable sli if you are going to do this.
3 x gtx280 should generate 18k-21k ppd. here is a multi-gpu install guide.
http://www.overclock.net/overclock-net- ... lding.html


here is an "everything you need to know" link that I found to be very helpful. good luck.
http://www.overclock.net/overclock-net- ... reads.html

[John Naylor]

I use a system for gaming that has 4 CPU clients (running in the background as services) and 1 GPU client, which I disable when gaming... I haven't noticed any performance drop when gaming, but then I don't use the latest games so I wouldn't CPU clients as services and 3 GPU clients is probably the easiest setup, but it won't produce the most points. (The setup with 2 SMP clients and 3 GPU clients will produce the most points) Guides for most setups suggested have either already been linked or can be found on the "Guides" tab of the folding@home website.