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ScOuT said:
I did get it working...I started 2 runs of SMP...I have to go to bed right now. Thanks for the help...I have been wanting to do this for a month or so.

I'll fire up 2 x SMP on my Quad, GPU and CPU client on my daughter's Pentium D 845 tomorrow. I'll let everything run for about 14 hours and see what happens:D

(Folding for eVGA...that's a shame:P This is a great time for Computerforum right now...making some huge gains:D Team rank 338! And we are down 19 active users:()

Just in case you want to see what it is like on the front Line:D
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=44358
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Unless your running vmware(because vmware player can only use 2 threads), SMP uses all 4 threads of your cpu, so running two smp clients would hinder performance.
 
Really...I did not know that. In overclock.net some guy told me to run 2 SMP clients to get the most from my quad.

Maybe that is why it took almost an hour to complete 1% of a work unit:o I uninstalled them anyway and just run a basic CPU client like before.

The SMP client makes me set a password for my Admin account...when I restart the computer it keeps crashing with a "password does not match error" it locks up. I had to hard restart it about 5 times just to get into Windows and delete Admin password. I tried that a couple times...same thing.

Maybe tomorrow I'll mess with it again...:cool:
 
ha...got everything working now:D You were right Bomberboy...just one SMP client at a time:good: Everything is running good now. It bumped my PPD up nicely;) The highest I ever saw my PPD was about 8,000...now I can pull over 10,000:D

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Temps are good also...it is almost 30c here today...almost hot for Germany in the summer. Processor is running a little hotter than normal. I expected that since all 4 cores are wide open for almost 6 hours so far.

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I found a trick with the graphics Folding...I gave it a slight voltage increase and the PPD jumped over 500 points without changing the clocks at all.:eek: Going to keep going higher and see what it will do:D
 
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looks like i'm not going to have any real competition until spot number 6(scOut that's you :P) if i get enough money, i'm totally going to get an enermax 1050, and a second gtx 285
 
just a noob said:
looks like i'm not going to have any real competition until spot number 6(scOut that's you :P) if i get enough money, i'm totally going to get an enermax 1050, and a second gtx 285
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Bring it on!:P

You will crush me Folding. I have just a single GTX 260 and SMP on my Quad. Right now I am averaging about 10,000 PPD. The only problem is my computer can not run 24 hours:( It's way too loud with the Ultra Kaze fans:D
 
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i also just now started using the gpu client...i am jimmy on the list btw, is there any way to change my name and keep my stats?
 
ScOuT said:
Bring it on!:P

You will crush me Folding. I have just a single GTX 260 and SMP on my Quad. Right now I am averaging about 10,000 PPD. The only problem is my computer can not run 24 hours:( It's way too loud with the Ultra Kaze fans:D
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right now i'm thinking of dumping my maximus 2 and soundcard for around 200 dollars lol, if i do i'm going to buy a micro atx of some kind and get a 9800gx2(that's like 14k ppd :P) then another gtx 285 to go with my current one, good thing electricity is cheap around here :D
 
just a noob said:
right now i'm thinking of dumping my maximus 2 and soundcard for around 200 dollars lol, if i do i'm going to buy a micro atx of some kind and get a 9800gx2(that's like 14k ppd :P) then another gtx 285 to go with my current one, good thing electricity is cheap around here :D
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Here is a database Overclock.net has made, it shows all the cards and their PPD. This has been refined and tested for a long time. It is actually very accurate and I have seen members of the F@H forum refer to it.

14,000 PPD with a GX2...good luck:P They can barley break 10,000 on a really good WU;) One guy has his on water and clocked to the max...he can only get a little over 12,000 with a 420 point WU.

http://www.overclock.net/overclock-...475163-folding-home-gpu-ppd-database-now.html

You might want to figure something out....I got mine tuned in now after some hard crashes:o It's running like a dream:D With all that impressive hardware you have...I'm going to leave you in the dust pal!

If you actually get a GX2 and a pair of GTX 285 and two SMP CPU clients running at the same time....you'll could be pulling 30,000 to 40,000 PPD if you get everything dialed in right:eek:

Here is what I am pulling right now...I only wish I could run 24/7:o
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You know...you could dump that maximus 2 and sound card off on me...consider it a donation to Folding:D I can clock my Q9300 higher and improve my SMP score:good:
 
maybe that's a gtx 295 i'm thinking of, but anyway i think i might have found a match for my current gtx 285(1st revision cards are a bitch to find) and its a decent price at $300 :D
 
just a noob said:
i think i might have found a match for my current gtx 285(1st revision cards are a bitch to find) and its a decent price at $300 :D
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Nice...you are right. It's hard to find a 65nm GTX 260 like mine. everywhere you look it's all newer versions. I feel your pain.

Do you have SMP client running with that i7?
 
ScottALot said:
Doesn't the point system, etc... take away from the processing speed the University needs?
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Not really sure what you mean...but ya...the University uses your computer and does research on it. It uses your processor and graphics card.

You get points based on work units your computer completes.
 
ScOuT said:
Nice...you are right. It's hard to find a 65nm GTX 260 like mine. everywhere you look it's all newer versions. I feel your pain.

Do you have SMP client running with that i7?
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its coming soon, so no :P hopefully i'll have the setup by december, assuming i don't find something else that i want more/ is better
 
I'm quitting folding for a while (not totally, but taking the biggest contributor off), feels like I'm just pissing into the wind at the moment, it needs a team effort :mad:
 
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