New Members Welcome & Advice Thread

[Sparky]

The way I see it, anything that is P3 and above is worth putting F@H on Actually what you could do with several of those boxes is put both F@H and dimes on, that would help out two projects Reason is dimes uses only the occasional clock cycle and a little memory, making it a friendly project to run in tandem with a CPU intensive project.

[Sir_Loin]

looks like ive got everything up and running and for the first time ive got my processor running 100% haha quad cores are evil. seems to be taking a while to complete each project like, i started last night and its still going this afternoon, so far each core is 34% 34% 35% and 54% for each project according to fahmon. im not used to this so i dont really know the average time it takes to complete a project does it usually take about a day and a half?

You've got a nice rig there. However, you'll help you team much more by running the smp client. Right now, it looks like you're running one regular instance of f@h per core, right? I recommend you temporarily stop those 4 instances (use ctrl c for each), and then add the -oneunit flag to each before restarting them. This way each instance will quit upon completion. Then you can install the smp version, which can utilize up to 4 cores...perfect! and much better point production

[kmon]

Thanks for the advice, I just reformatted several of the p3 machines and should have a couple of them folding by the end of next week. Dimes looks interesting as well, I'll play around with it soon as I can get some time set aside.

[Datektrader]

I have gotten alot of information from this site in the past few months, joining this is the least i can do to repay that debt.

[Sparky]

Hey there Datektrader! Glad you decided to join up. F@H is definitely a worthy project, you won't even realize it is running most of the time Well, aside from a little more heat output, but this is a good thing in the winter

[The_Beast]

hi everybody (i haven't said hi yet)

[v0dka]

Hello.

I want to fold on my overclocked 1950XTX and see how that goes. Add some points for the team.

Now I never ran f@h before, so should I just download the GPU client? And what version? (Vista Ult x64)

Also, catalyst control centre wont install on my system for some weird reason. I keep getting application failed errors upon install. Would this be a problem? The graphic driver itself is installed ofcourse (7.8).

[Sparky]

Hi guys

@v0dka, Yes, just download the GPU client and set it up. My sig has install guides to get the most out of the client, in there is one for the GPU console. Console is always best because it doesn't waste resources generating pretty graphics
I assume it will work OK on vista 64, I know it does in 32. If you have problems do let us know and we'll see what solutions we can come up with.

Oh, and don't worry about CCC, it isn't needed.

[v0dka]

It looks like it needs one CPU core too. IMy intention was to not cut down on WCG.

And does it really take till wednesday october 10 to complete this WU? I thought GPU folding was supposed to be fast?!?

[Sparky]

Yes it takes a CPU core unfortunately. Just the way that directX has to talk to the GPU drivers and such.

No it won't take that long to complete, that is just its due date. At 2D clocks each WU will finish in about 13-ish hours. 3D clocks this is down to 11 something, OC'd 3D can be as low as 10 hours depending on the OC. BTW, memory speed doesn't affect it much, it is the core speed that affects it.

[v0dka]

Thanks for the information.

So all WU's take relatively long. But is a GPU faster than a CPU?

[Sparky]

A GPU work unit is much faster than any of the others out there. 10-12 hours or so vs 24 hours and more for the other clients.

As far as points go, the SMP client on a faster dual core and the quad cores are better. But like if you had a X2 3800 at 2.4GHz for example I'd run the GPU client and a standard CPU client to get the most out of the system. 2.7GHz X2 with 512kb cache is a tradeoff between SMP and GPU+CPU, 2.7 X2 with 1MB cache leans more towards the SMP.

Quad cores (intel or the AMD quad FX or quad K10) should run SMP no doubt.

Remember, SMP client has its own set of WUs, GPU has its own set, and standard CPU has its own set. They all server a purpose, so they are all worthwhile to crunch

[josty2]

hi all!

After recieving my quad core a few weeks ago, i thought i might aswell use 2 of the cores for a good cause, because i won't be using all 4 anyway all the time!
So i started up 2 instances of F@H, but the problem remains that i'm not certain if it is really working twice as fast as with 1 instance.
The reason i think this is because one of the 2 processes keeps disappearing and reappearing in the task manager and that it uses only 10MB's of memory, while the constantly running one is using 120MB's...

Anyone know if it is doing it's work?

TIA

[Sparky]

Hi josty2

Which CPU clients are you using, the console or the GUI client? If you are using the console, did you make sure to have two separate copies on your hard drive (such as C:\FAH1 and C:\FAH2) and set them with separate CPU ID's?

[josty2]

Thanks for the help, i managed to solve it by changing the machine ID for each core. It's running 4 cores now I hope to see some results soon

[Sparky]

Glad it is working now

[Sir_Loin]

Hello.

I want to fold on my overclocked 1950XTX and see how that goes. Add some points for the team.

Now I never ran f@h before, so should I just download the GPU client? And what version? (Vista Ult x64)

Also, catalyst control centre wont install on my system for some weird reason. I keep getting application failed errors upon install. Would this be a problem? The graphic driver itself is installed ofcourse (7.8).

My question is what is your OC on the gpu and what is the host processor? I ran a 1950xtx with a 2.66 celeron and did about 800ppd with the gpu OCd to 702 core/927 mem (make sure to override the fan controls with ATItool). I'd complete 2-3 WUs per day (@330 pts each). I also had my best ppd with driver version 7.2

josty2, are you running the smp client or the standard client?

[leo_bsb]

I just moved from team 33 to team 36362. There is much more usefull information here so my CPU cycles will count for another team now
I changed my nick so I'm just a ZERO folding so I need a new quad. Nice excuse to buy hardware

[Sparky]

I just moved from team 33 to team 36362. There is much more usefull information here so my CPU cycles will count for another team now
I changed my nick so I'm just a ZERO folding so I need a new quad. Nice excuse to buy hardware

Glad to have you with us. And I like your reasoning for acquiring hardware

[v0dka]

My question is what is your OC on the gpu and what is the host processor? I ran a 1950xtx with a 2.66 celeron and did about 800ppd with the gpu OCd to 702 core/927 mem (make sure to override the fan controls with ATItool). I'd complete 2-3 WUs per day (@330 pts each). I also had my best ppd with driver version 7.2

715 / 1150

fan control wont be an issue as it's on water.

But the problem is, that I can't force 3d mode because Vista x64 refuses to work with Atitool. I had it running at some point (well sort of), but now it wont even start anymore due to driver signing. It sucks as there's much more headroom above the current OC that I can't reach because I have to run stock volts.

[JVguest]

Hello guys,

Now folding for xtremesystems.org with a Core 2 duo 2M @ 3 GHz. Probably will be running at least 16 hrs day. Thinking about adding another core 2 quad or core 2 duo 4 meg later.

[Sparky]

Bit of a quiet group here but don't let that fool you, we can get a bit loud at times if we get ourselves into a little squabble with another team now and then

[sc00p]

Great to see more people at the team from the same time zone

JVguest

[JVguest]

Great to see more people at the team from the same time zone

JVguest

Thank you for the warm welcome. I just put in an order for a new mobo and Q6600 to do evn more folding.

[Sparky]

Thank you for the warm welcome. I just put in an order for a new mobo and Q6600 to do evn more folding.

Awesome

Though with that I may have to watch out for you, might find you sneaking up behind me... That or just all-out running me over as you blow past