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[Sliced Cheese]

Haha well I'm a noob at this so.... how do i check my ppd? and, how do i fold with my card?

EDIT: Also, why doesn't it use 100% of my cpu?

[DeanZ]

Haha well I'm a noob at this so.... how do i check my ppd? and, how do i fold with my card?

EDIT: Also, why doesn't it use 100% of my cpu?

alright for the ppd use Fahmon or Fahspy...they are fairly similar

for your card http://folding.stanford.edu/English/DownloadWinOther then download the one that corresponds to your card...if you use vista click the 4th one down

100% of cpu depends on a few things...did u make sure it was the SMP one?...if not it is on the same page as that download

also i noticed that sometimes the first run will not be at 100% but afterwards it will be

[Sliced Cheese]

Ok, well a gpu temp of 88 tells me that i have indeed got the gpu folding going.

The monitoring confuses me though, I'm not sure how to get it working.... I don't suppose there's a guide on something so simple anywhere? lol

EDIT: got it workin 5600 ppd on my card, 950 on my cpu, only 70% usage though...

[Sparky]

What OS you running?

You can use rivatuner to adjust the fan on your graphics card. I suggest doing that to bump the fan speed up some to cool the card down a little

[coo-coo-clocker]

+1
Yes, if you don't cool that puppy down, it will error out on you.
Use Rivatuner or EVGA Precision tuner to jack your fan speed up.

[Sliced Cheese]

Haha, don't worry I cracked out Rivatuner right away and cranked the fan, got er down to a cool 72 at max load.

[[XC] 2long4u]

What happened to the smp client? I don't see it on the download page.

[MikeB12]

What happened to the smp client? I don't see it on the download page.

http://folding.stanford.edu/English/DownloadWinOther

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=199283

[[XC] 2long4u]

Got it.
Now lets see if I can get it working right.

[[XC] 2long4u]

It is only using 25%

[[XC] 2long4u]

I installed the second client and it jumped up to 50%.
I have been having this problem since they changed the client months ago.
I had the problem since they started asking about the affinity lock in the smp install.

[MikeB12]

look at that walkthru http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=199283

sounds like you are running a single core wu, which means your -smp flag isn't working...

-stop the client, delete the work folder and queue.dat file.
-then make sure you have the flags in the shortcut like the linked walkthru... the old 5.9x clients didn't need a smp flag, but the 6.2x clients do, because they are the single core and smp core client in the same pkg. if you dont flag it to run in smp mode, then it defaults to single core client (which would be 25% cpu on a quad).

-if you're on a intel quad follow that guide I posted for installing and running dual smp on a intel quad, and it'll get you hooked up for about 3-4K ppd depending on the cpu you're on. the walkthru is short, so you might just want to delete everything you have and start over. it's only like 6 steps, and you'll be good to go on dual smp's.

[OldChap]

If you put -smp in your config then let it run it doesn't work. That's why people say run config only. However if you stop it and delete the work folder then re-start it should load an SMP and fold on.

If you are running a quad you can run two smp's

Edit: Mike beat me to it

[[XC] 2long4u]

So when you are setting it up what do you do with the affinity lock?
Also right now I set one core to big projects and the other to normal and the normal is busting through each project in about 3 minutes.
I'm at work right now so I'll have to mess with it tomorrow.

[MikeB12]

there are no smp units that finish that fast... plus big/normal means nothing in smp, all smp units are all big, the setting does nothing. smp unit's take a minuimum of 12 hrs to finish.. my Q6600 takes about a day per wu running dual smp at 3.3ghz in vista..

only reason you need affinity lock is for xp when running smp/gpu combo. and I believe the new nvidia driver removes that need. (though I couldn't say, since I'm all vista). one of the xp guys needs to confirm..

post tomorrow with more info on what hardware and what os... and we can help more. it's pretty easy once we know those 2 things.
I'm not sure what setup you're running now with 3 minute wu's.. that sounds weird, that's like 2 second frames...

so tomorrow, post the hardware and os you want to fold on, and we can give you the setup for it.

[[XC] 2long4u]

It is a Q6600 clocked at 3GHZ. I had it at 3.2 but I was getting errors in the folding results. I guess the stock cooler can only get you so far.
I want to run the gpu client but I don't want to buy a nvidia card. The reason: I have an intel chipset that will allow me to run crossfire, and ATI is a better buy right now.

[MikeB12]

ati has a client, just use the dl link posted above systray ati http://folding.stanford.edu/English/DownloadWinOther (also fah has guides linked next to the dl's now)
ati may have some issues, but there are guys on here folding with ati. also IIRC crossfire is not supported for the ati client, so you have t run 2 clients for 2 cards.
start a new thread when you get rolling if you have issues and post complete troubleshoot info.. you're posting in a "who wants to fold, welcome thread". not everyone reads this thread. (44pgs).

[forsaken575]

hey guys, new here and just started reading up on folding. seems like a great cause and would like to help.. how much stress does folding put on a machine? it might be in one of the posts above, but there are several threads that i'm reading through, but is there a way to minimize/maximize the stress on the system?

[INFRNL]

Welcome and yes you can adjust the amount of stress. there is a setting, but i always run @ 100%

[GTSRboy]

it depends on what stress is, i dont think it does any harm at all to a CPU is you run it at 100% 24/7, even thought it seems hard on it

if you have a graphics card that is a 8-series or above, id recommend folding with that. GPU's fold way faster than CPU's and a busy GPU wont slow down your computer when your using it like a busy CPU can

[Wishmaker]

Count me in. My ATI CARDS won't do any good but will try my best .

[HuffPCair]

Count me in. My ATI CARDS won't do any good but will try my best .

Every little bit counts.

[Wishmaker]

I am running it for more than 1 hour but funny thing is ... I have no data around the thingiemabob spinning around. Tis black around it .

[Sparky]

On the viewer? Not sure how good the viewer is... I leave it closed as it decreases performance. Use FAHmon to monitor the status instead

[Wishmaker]

Cheers for the reply. I will do as instructed .