Ok i'll keep monitoring it for any change over the next couple hours. The clients will be running most of the time, I just say not 24/7 since I do game a bit and would have to pause them. But as mentioned I wont be doing much of that till around mid december. I'll definitely be leaving them on overnight, correct about the free electricity. Good thing about living in an apartment, I even have a small grow-op (few varieties of chili peppers) during the winter in my bedroom as well with a power bar filled up with a bunch of CFL's. Room looks incredibly bright through the window, wouldn't be surprised if the cops came knocking on my door one day.
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Ok i'll keep monitoring it for any change over the next couple hours. The clients will be running most of the time, I just say not 24/7 since I do game a bit and would have to pause them. But as mentioned I wont be doing much of that till around mid december. I'll definitely be leaving them on overnight, correct about the free electricity. Good thing about living in an apartment, I even have a small grow-op (few varieties of chili peppers) during the winter in my bedroom as well with a power bar filled up with a bunch of CFL's. Room looks incredibly bright through the window, wouldn't be surprised if the cops came knocking on my door one day.
depending on the CPU and memory bandwidth, leaving a core open for the OS is almost desired if you are going to try and use the machine while folding.
(windows Needs almost a full CPU to run sometimes, throw on email, antivirus, GPU clients, and you might need more CPUs)
My matched GTS250's and quad core Q6600 throw up about 11000 points a day. ( on a system I used about 10 hours a day)
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Thanks for the welcome.
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With the advmethods units back up (the 912 and 925 pointers) and running you will probably see around 12-15K on each 460. The tracker has a built in game pause feature but I have never actually tried it so if you do let us know how it works
Thanks for the welcome.
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With the advmethods units back up (the 912 and 925 pointers) and running you will probably see around 12-15K on each 460. The tracker has a built in game pause feature but I have never actually tried it so if you do let us know how it works
Right now the GPU running the 925 point credit is listed as 15.3k ppd, while the 912 credit one is 14k ppd. It's been changing a bit (every little thing in firefox seems to cause a drop in gpu usage), but they have both been around 14.7k. I saw that game pause feature, I'll give it a try right now and report back how it goes.
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Thats pretty good. What are your clocks at on the 460s?
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yeah web browsing will do that.. its not just firefox specifically.. any flash app, and java app.. will cause the gpu usage to drop.. run dual displays causes it to drop as well.. my pimary card runs at 96% usage constant because of windows aero and running dual displays.. java app or flash will cause it to drop to 90% with hardware accel on with it off it drops to 95%..
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Welcome to the dark side
That, or an angry landlord that got pissed off because you ran up his electric bill
Heh that too
both are at 880/1760, can do 850 on stock voltage, have to bump it up 2 notches for 880, and cant go much farther at 1087mv
maybe i'll turn off my second monitor while I am sleeping then to help
Also, just tested that game feature. Stopped as soon as the game window launched, resumed as fast as restarting the clients can.
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Welcome to the dark side
While I thank you all for the warm welcome but for full disclosure I fold for evga. But I do try to help people with folding whenever and wherever I am. As I have only used jedi's tracker to fold I thought I could impart some stuff I learned while using it bc I think if people want to fold they shouldnt have to try to jump threw hoops to get it going and while some might say im helping the enemy I really dont care bc I just want people to fold. I hope there is no hard feelings that I dont fold for [H]
Don't worry as Parja folds for you guys as well, and we still love him. Parja used to fold for us from what I understand before he was seduced. Sharing knowledge I think is just as important as this rivalry between our teams. After all, the learning curve is a bit steep for your average computer user, and it is awesome that Jedi came up with this to help people out. In future versions, I would like to recommend that he set the default team to #33 though.
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Lol im sure for the first few days the team id will catch a lot of people lol. And I agree with you that folding takes time to learn. While I have used the tracker from the beginning of my folding (about a month) I have learned a lot since then and have screwed around with the actual clients and have just determined if the tracker works there really isnt a reason to use anything else. And I didnt know parja used to fold over here hes helped me out a few times
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Thank you very much for the information sir!
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I can't get my 4870x2 to push the GPU client on both cores. It only works on one core and thats it. Otherwise pretty great client
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I had to manually configure my second GTX460 - tracker did not set up the config right.
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How did you manually configure it?
Edit : Yea it won't work regardless of how I've set it up , I think the 4870x2 right now is broken for using both GPUs.
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I can't get my 4870x2 to push the GPU client on both cores. It only works on one core and thats it. Otherwise pretty great client
4870x2 you need a dummy plug to get the second gpu going i believe but honestly isnt worth it.. card might get 6k PPD total with both GPU's.. while a mild overclocked 8800GTS can do over 6k PPD.. the current ATI clients junk..
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Its a secondary system so I just want to get it running if I can. My main system is GTX 480 SLI which of course is much faster.
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Yeah, I believe you have it right. That also explains how it is able to set -oneunit without a client restart, it defaults to -oneclient, and gets another when done.
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That is correct
This is an amazing little program from the looks of it, I may try it on a borged system I have that's been giving me issues. Just wanted to say thanks for putting it together and letting the community know what you've done, and sharing your work for the benefit of all.
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@ Jedi: I have another bug to report. Tracker defaults to EVGA. j/k
Strong work, thanks.
j/kStrong work, thanks.
The client will not start folding on my 5870. It does, however, work like a charm on my 260 and CPU. Been messing with it since I saw it the other day here on [H]. I have the GPU3 checked and ATI R700 checked. Anyone else having probs with ATI cards? Or maybe it is because I have both an ATI and a Nvidia card? Anyways, awesome job on making this, totally simple to use, so, thanks.
Anyone see an advantage with this tool if all your systems and clients are already configured and running? I'd like to try this out but I'm used to manually setting things up and don't have time, to fiddle with an app if it won't garner any additional benefits other than easily setting up a newly built system.
that seem like all it was for me, you unzip it and it downloads all the current clients, from there you tell it what to install. the tool is open whenever the clients are running. no real need, basically there are only a few at most you would have to manually go get. either gpu2 or 3 (3 works for everyone so no real need for 2) and a single processor client or smp multi processor client if you went that way as well. from my understanding a gpu and a smp client both running is counter productive as generally one or the other will perform better
No. This tool is great for newbies but not for me.
That is what it has done. Is there anyway I can manually set the switch "-gpu 0" on one of the clients? I haven't done any folding for a while, so I re-downloaded the client, set the switches, and my 5870 was folding no problem. For some reason though, it is not setting the flags to specify which gpu to use and it is defaulting to "-gpu 1" or it is setting them as "-gpu 1".
yes you can. by doing pretty much what you just said you did. Switching the flag on one client to -gpu 0 and the other to -gpu 1 is the best way to do it (i'm not sure where the tracker program puts it, since i dont use it. Maybe a glitch/bug in the program. May want to ask the maker
If you want to change the -gpu x flag for the individual GPU clients then you can edit client.cfg and change it manually. You can find client.cfg in the GPU client subfolders. The part you are looking for is "extra_params=-gpu x"
Also, if you do get it working would you mind posting your system configuration? I don't have the hardware to test a mixed Nvidia + ATI folding setup and it would be helpful to know how to make it work.
Also, if you do get it working would you mind posting your system configuration? I don't have the hardware to test a mixed Nvidia + ATI folding setup and it would be helpful to know how to make it work.
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If you want I can get you an ATI GPU to test with. That would be no problem. Be glad to support your efforts.
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Hmmmm, I'm eyeing this app. The cold season is coming. Might be time to jump into folding again soon to keep the house warm and mow some people down in the process (for a good cause of course ).
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Working on that nVidia graphics card story huh? Out of curiosity, any word on when you guys might actually start getting ATI 6000 series graphics cards to play with?
Yes and yes. But if I told you, I would have to kill you.
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I left team 111065 and came here because 33 is just so much faster to set up on multiple clients.
Yeah man. When a Texan with a lifted Hummer who has a love for guns tells you that, you probably shouldn't doubt him
This suspense about the ATI 6000 series is just driving me crazy though. Normally by now the rumor mill should be converging towards a similar set of leaked stats, but the rumor mill is still all over the place. Look at how accurately the rumor mill pinned all the details when the Fermis launched.