Post your PPD rates !!

[shadowwind]

I said the gts 250 are really not that far behind in points so im wanting to push the shader and try a volt mod out and see if i can cut the gap some.
i should of said that in the first place but im sipping on some walker and feeling good sorry.

[GTSRboy]

so ive been SMP folding on my Q9300 for weeks now, temp is fine and no errors. How much of an increase would i see if i added a second SMP? i hear people run multiple SMP's

[OldChap]

If memory serves my increase was about 25%-33%

Most of what I did was before christmas (on XP) have a look at this http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...ghlight=WinAFC

[GTSRboy]

uuhhggg this all went over my head...i read that thread, opened winAMP, did some googling and have no idea at all how to run two SMP's...lol the explinations are all i tech lingo

[shadowwind]

there is a good smp how to here its in plain english and it works well its is the
sticky how to fold smp im not that sharp when it comes to soft ware.
but that one guide was easy.

[shaolin95]

Noob alert...how can I find out my PPD rate?

[shadowwind]

google xstremesystems.org individual user list team 36362 should get you there
thats the PPD and tracks all the team also try xstreme cpus they also got a good chart on PPD.

[OldChap]

Noob alert...how can I find out my PPD rate?

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.c...hp?s=&u=451622

[shaolin95]

Thanks guys!

[OldChap]

For ppd an your computer... http://fahmon.net/ if you don't have this already

[GTSRboy]

getting about about 6900 PPD on the OCed GTX285...thought it was be more than that considering a 9800 gets about 5500

[INFRNL]

^^^ Try bumping up your shaders more, and it depends on WU's. Are you comparing to a wu that you have run on your 9800?

[GTSRboy]

im not sure which work units their getting, but PPD is PPD. Ill crank up it up and see what i get. Right now the Q9300/PS3/285 is about 9,500/day

[INFRNL]

^^^ I thought maybe you were monitoring from fahmon. all my stats I post are from fahmon. ppd is ppd only if they are true. fahmon says what my ppd are but it fluctuates on fahmon. I monitor daily ppd and it doesnt match what the extreme systems monitor is claiming.

I had one day that I produced 37k of actual points and the XS system only showed 30-31k when F @ H showed the 37k for a 24hr period.

Basically if you are monitoring actual points then it doesnt matter what the wu's are, but if you are going off fahmon then it does cause its not accurate. I have 3 fahmon's on 3 different systems and for the same gpu; I can get 3 different ratings, lol

Thats why I asked. seems low for a GTX 285, but if you are running at stock oc clocks it may be correct and if you dont mind bumping shaders up, then I think you will see a bigger gain!

[PoppaGeek]

Anyone want to suggest how many GTS 250s a Corsair 750 can handle ok, not pushing it. It has 4 6 pins and 60a on 12v. My guess is 3.

I looked thru a few threads and peoples sigs and could not really find anything. Was thinking about 260s spread out in different machines but this GD70 has 4 slots and the 250s are not that far behind a 260 in ppd. It would be easier for me to do what I want to do buying a 250 each month for 3 - 4 months. Several of you have them or 9800GTX and seem happy with them.

I think too much.

[INFRNL]

I would say 2 safely, possibly 3. I cant recall. I think the gts 250 requires a minumum of 500w, but I could have my info incorrect. From what I gather a gts 250 gets on avg approx 5500-5800 ppd. a gts 260 (216) will yield approx 1k ppd more for now about $50 or less in cost compared to a gts 250. Its a tough call. I originally started with a gts 250 cause I got it for $110 while the gtx 260s were still 180-200, but I stepped it up to a gtx 275. now you can get the gtx 260's for $150 ish I believe, so it could possibly be worth the extr dough; your call. I think the gts 250 will save you some on electricity compared to a gtx 260, but not sure by how much.

I was in the same delima as you. Started off with 1 gts 250 and a 9800gt. now I am running 3 gtx 275's 1 more coming in tomorrow and GTX 260 192 going out next week to be replaced with yet another gtx 275.

I can however tell you that the gts 250 get approx 1k ppd more than a 9800gt, and gtx 260 get approx 1k more ppd than the 250. basically from my findings, each step up in a card yields approx 1kppd. hope this helps

EDIT: looks like my 9800gt gets approx 4700 ppd, gts 250 got avg 5700 ppd, my gtx 260 192 sucks and gets avg of approx 6200 ppd, and my gtx 275 are getting avg of 8800 or more ppd. This is according to fahmon. I have hand calculated close to 40k ppd in a 24 hour period with my 3 gtx 275's, gtx 160 192, and 9800gt.

My 9800gt gets 2-300 less ppd on my old amd system compared to my q9550 according to fahmon.

[PoppaGeek]

I think you are right INFRNL. Have been playing around with Corsairs PSU Finder and eXtreme Power Supply Calculator. Corsair obviously recommends a much heavy supply than eXtremes does since they are selling them and eXtreme isn't. I might get by with 3 250s, the new 55nm ones but could not OC anything. Corsair says I need a 1000 for 2 260s and I know that is not correct as many are using 750s for sli. Nvidia cards always required more PSU than comparable ATIs which I find interesting.

EVGA says the 512 meg 250 requires 24a and 450w supply. The 55nm 260 216 was 36a and 500w.

eXtreme Calc says 473 watts with 2 260 216s, a Phenom 810 no OC and the rest of what I have in it. A 750 at 80% is 600 watts. But with 60a is it enough?

Still thinking.....

[HuffPCair]

I have been running into a weird problem I had to lower my clocks on ym gpu cause I started getting errors but yet all my games and even furmark still show no problem and I have been folding with these clocks since I started folding
So got me some splainin todo.

[shadowwind]

I think you are right INFRNL. Have been playing around with Corsairs PSU Finder and eXtreme Power Supply Calculator. Corsair obviously recommends a much heavy supply than eXtremes does since they are selling them and eXtreme isn't. I might get by with 3 250s, the new 55nm ones but could not OC anything. Corsair says I need a 1000 for 2 260s and I know that is not correct as many are using 750s for sli. Nvidia cards always required more PSU than comparable ATIs which I find interesting.

EVGA says the 512 meg 250 requires 24a and 450w supply. The 55nm 260 216 was 36a and 500w.

eXtreme Calc says 473 watts with 2 260 216s, a Phenom 810 no OC and the rest of what I have in it. A 750 at 80% is 600 watts. But with 60a is it enough?

Still thinking.....

poppa im using a mushkin 800 watt psu and it been doing well pushing 3 evga gts 250s with no problems and for the price its one good psu so far.

[HuffPCair]

Ok I didnt want to make a new thread for this soooo.

For my F@h gpu client all of a sudden I am getting errors so they are not completing. I am kind of confused because my clocks have been the same since I started folding. So is this a sign of my card maybe dying???? It plays games and everything else works but when I got to fold it will either fail right away and say unstable system or it has even made it to like 70% and then claimed a fail.

I am at a loss right now so if anyone could give me some tips here would be nice.

I am on Win7 using the win7 64 bit driver. My clocks are what are in my sig, well currently I am at stock and waiting to get work so I do not know if it will work on stock even, but I dont get why every game including Crysis even works with out a problem. The gpu client even made my driver crash a few times. I have reinstalled it and everything.

I really hope my card isnt dying cause I am broke right now since I keep getting laid off lol. So I have the budget of a typical college student.

Thanks for any help Ill be gone for a bit because I got class for a while but any advice is greatly appreciated.

[shadowwind]

have you tried running it at stock speeds you got a nice oced card i thinking
what ever work unit your running doesnt like it much you can all ways boost
it up again for playing your games. i think you will be all right at stock once you get a work unit. i should read all before i post

[OldChap]

@Poppageek if you consider the connections then the slot is rated 75watts and the 6pin is rated 75watts so that card has to use less than 150 watts...*3 =450watts for your cards plus your rig ???I would say No problem running 3 probably 4 if cpu is stock

Add to this I have a 1k-sr from pc p&c with 66amps on 12v rail and have run 5 cards (2*gx2+98gtx) + cpu @3.5 for months at a time where my maximum load according to my Kill-a-Watt clone is circa 850watts. The downside is that most PSU's are at their most efficient in the 50-60% loaded range.

@Huff..This last week on my main rig I have had to drop my shader overclock by 1 notch.....I'm not yet sure of the reason...rising ambients or different WU's but whichever the problem was not eue's rather computer lock-up without bsod or anything like that. Try a notch lower and watch the results

[HuffPCair]

@Poppageek if you consider the connections then the slot is rated 75watts and the 6pin is rated 75watts so that card has to use less than 150 watts...*3 =450watts for your cards plus your rig ???I would say No problem running 3 probably 4 if cpu is stock

Add to this I have a 1k-sr from pc p&c with 66amps on 12v rail and have run 5 cards (2*gx2+98gtx) + cpu @3.5 for months at a time where my maximum load according to my Kill-a-Watt clone is circa 850watts. The downside is that most PSU's are at their most efficient in the 50-60% loaded range.

@Huff..This last week on my main rig I have had to drop my shader overclock by 1 notch.....I'm not yet sure of the reason...rising ambients or different WU's but whichever the problem was not eue's rather computer lock-up without bsod or anything like that. Try a notch lower and watch the results

Thanks OC that is what I did before I left for class and it has worked and I am for some reason getting better PPD lol I am usually below 5700 and right now FAHMON is showing above 6000. So who knows, but I am back in action. THanks again for the response pal.

[PoppaGeek]

have you tried running it at stock speeds you got a nice oced card i thinking
what ever work unit your running doesnt like it much you can all ways boost
it up again for playing your games. i think you will be all right at stock once you get a work unit. i should read all before i post

Huff I agree with Shadow. Maybe not a good comparison but my 4850 is doing one or 2 WUs ok the erroring out, then 1 or 2 goods one and erroring out. While I am confident my card is not 100% ok I also think there is a good possibility it is the WUs they are sending. THey can be so different in the percentage of GPU they use, the heat they generate their size, who knows. I dropped the clocks on my card and am hoping things will get better.

[PoppaGeek]

@Poppageek if you consider the connections then the slot is rated 75watts and the 6pin is rated 75watts so that card has to use less than 150 watts...*3 =450watts for your cards plus your rig ???I would say No problem running 3 probably 4 if cpu is stock

Add to this I have a 1k-sr from pc p&c with 66amps on 12v rail and have run 5 cards (2*gx2+98gtx) + cpu @3.5 for months at a time where my maximum load according to my Kill-a-Watt clone is circa 850watts. The downside is that most PSU's are at their most efficient in the 50-60% loaded range.

@Huff..This last week on my main rig I have had to drop my shader overclock by 1 notch.....I'm not yet sure of the reason...rising ambients or different WU's but whichever the problem was not eue's rather computer lock-up without bsod or anything like that. Try a notch lower and watch the results

Thanks OC this is what I was looking for. EVGA gives the amps required, like 24a for a GTS 250. So for 2 cards is that 48a? I guess not as I finally found the recommendation for a 9800GTX+ was 24a for 1 30a for 2.

Anyway I think I am getting a good feel for this. Thanks!