Re-joining the Fold again

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tkam

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Joining the fold again after taking about a 5-month break. Should have all the following folding for the [H] by the end of the day:

2 x q6600
1 x dual E5345s
2 x q9650
2 x 9800gt
1 x 9800gtx
1 x gtx295
1 x dual E5420s
 
Dont forget to check out the excellent guides stickied above so you get the most out of your folding gear.
 
those things haven't changed all that much in 5 months ;). running the latest gpu client on all the nvidia cards and linux smp client on the intel cpus
 
Yea, your right not much has really changed. The only thing that might be Important is the best set of nvidia drivers to use. Cant remember what set is the sweet spot however, sorry.
 
Nice to see you back in the fold....ummm, no pun intended. ;) Looks like a nice assortment of hardware you've got to play with there,

EDIT: Oh BTW - I see you! :D
 
Welcome back. Been a while since I had seen you post.
 
I just got back into FAH after a couple months off. I just have a Q6600 (WinSMP as I can't get VMs to work with my wireless networking) and a GTX 275 running GPU2. I'll probably have a double 8800GT box up and running before too long.
 
Good to see ya round here again.
I know you said you were running SMP on the cpu's

Capreppy made a guide that increases your D substantially.
 
nitrobass24 said:
Good to see ya round here again.
I know you said you were running SMP on the cpu's

Capreppy made a guide that increases your D substantially.
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Only if you where not running linux to begin with ;)
 
regarding the linux smp client, if I recall correctly ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10 had issues were the f@h client wouldn't max out all available cores it would use something like 75%-80% of the cpu's. this appears to still be an issue in the stock version of 9.04 as well. i did some testing though and by installing the 2.6.30 kernel in 9.04 f@h is now maxing out all available cpu's. so for this particular box (dual E5420's) ppd went from 7700 up to 9100.
 
tkam said:
regarding the linux smp client, if I recall correctly ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10 had issues were the f@h client wouldn't max out all available cores it would use something like 75%-80% of the cpu's. this appears to still be an issue in the stock version of 9.04 as well. i did some testing though and by installing the 2.6.30 kernel in 9.04 f@h is now maxing out all available cpu's. so for this particular box (dual E5420's) ppd went from 7700 up to 9100.
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I don't think 8.04 has the problem. I believe capreppy uses it for his VMs.
 
Welcome back :)

Don't use 8.10, use 8.04 or 9.04 for the VM OS.
 
damn, dual CPU rig, must post pics ya know, gotta give us something to drool over
 
Vaulter98c said:
damn, dual CPU rig, must post pics ya know, gotta give us something to drool over
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I'll take some pics tonight, it's actually my main file server @ home so it also has 8 x 1TB drives.

FYI made some changes to the folding rigs over the weekend and this morning. I couldn't take the fan noise of the gtx295 in my main pc so I now have a gtx275 in my main box and have the gtx295 in a pc at work in the server room. Don't even notice the added noise in there ;).
 
tkam said:
I'll take some pics tonight, it's actually my main file server @ home so it also has 8 x 1TB drives.

FYI made some changes to the folding rigs over the weekend and this morning. I couldn't take the fan noise of the gtx295 in my main pc so I now have a gtx275 in my main box and have the gtx295 in a pc at work in the server room. Don't even notice the added noise in there ;).
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Yay for pics!

Don't forget to update your sig ;)
 
Wyodiver said:
Just started Folding for Team 33 a couple of days ago. I have only completed 1 WU, but hey, I'm doing my part! Been a lurker on HardOCP for years, thought I would try to give something back.

Question: Should I bother with a different install of the app?

System:
C2D 6420 2.13 Ghz, 4 MB L2
2 GB RAM
nVidia 8600 GTS 256MB
Windows 7 x64 Build 7229

As you can see, it's not exactly a beast. I'm folding right now, one core is at 15%, the other is at 93%. I kind of like this, as I'm able to easily use the computer for other things while folding. But, as my computer is often running while I'm not doing anything with it, I'd like to use the other core as well. And I'm guessing my GPU would be pretty much useless for folding, right?

Any help would be appreciated. I will Fold until I can't Fold no mo'.
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To take the most advantage of your CPU, you'll need to run one of the SMP clients. You can run the Windows SMP client, or you can go one step further and set up a Linux virtual machine running the Linux SMP client which is more efficient and will give you more points output. Setting up a VM is a little more complicated than running the plain Windows SMP client, but IMO it's worth a little extra effort considering how much better the Linux client is.

As for your GPU, I believe that you can get at least a few hundred points per day out of it if not around 1000, so I think it would be worth giving it a shot at least, to see exactly how well it does.
 
Welcome back brother tkam:p Welcome to a group of peeps doin' their best to help medical science find some cures We can all certainly appreciate an dividual like you contributing mucho DCing pernts to the mighty [H]orde team 33 :)
 
Better late than never, a few pics of my dual e5420 rig:

dual-e5420a.JPG


dual-e5420b.JPG


dual-e5420c.JPG
 
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