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itsrickjames

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Which client is currently faster? I am trying to assemble a couple more machines for folding and was just wondering if one was better. If I am reading things right the Linux version does not support GPU use? I know I have a lot of n00b questions, but I am trying to learn.
 
what hardware are you using? and I'll be the second to welcome you to the [H]orde :)
 
Welcome to the [H]orde! :cool:

The consensus says Windows is faster. The difference isn't very large from what I have seen and I still have one Linux client running, which will be shut down this week. If you're intending to run -bigadv then you'll have to stick with Windows. Linux doesn't support GPU directly but you can get it running via Wine if you want to undergo the extra work.
 
Windows is faster. The one box I switched from Linux to Windows went from about 1500PPD to about 2000PPD on the SMP client; I don't know what the difference would be with better hardware, but it's probably enough to make it worth using Windows if you have enough licenses for it.
 
For my hardware the effective difference per frame amounts to at most 10-15 seconds with the majority of WUs, but that's my hardware. Admittedly, the faster ie. newer the hardware, the more the effective advantage is compounded, and therefore Windows will become significantly faster due to the exponential scale of the bonus system. With older hardware it's not as noticeable, in my case negligible.
 
Before the A3 core work units, the Linux client was faster. There was no doubt about this because of the A2 work units and even the A1 work units were more efficient on the Linux client. Since the A3s came out, Windows is a good bit faster. I don't have a clue what the difference is between the two, but the Windows client is a hell of a lot more efficient than the Linux client with the A3s. My server runs Linux and I always had the Linux client running and it would do around 6200PPD with a Q6600@3.6. Once the A3s came out, it was doing 6k PPD at the very best and usually closer to 5500PPD with the Linux client. Since I already had a Windows XP VM running on that machine for something else, I loaded up the Windows client on that and my PPD on A3 work units went up to between 6500-7700PPD depending on the work unit. Some of the later work units suck ass but they seem to do that no matter what platform they are run on.

I've never actually tried GPU folding under Linux but you do need to have it running through Wine which I'm pretty sure has some type of performance penalty although I don't think it's a very large penalty anymore.

 
SmokeRngs said:
Before the A3 core work units, the Linux client was faster. There was no doubt about this because of the A2 work units and even the A1 work units were more efficient on the Linux client. Since the A3s came out, Windows is a good bit faster. I don't have a clue what the difference is between the two, but the Windows client is a hell of a lot more efficient than the Linux client with the A3s. My server runs Linux and I always had the Linux client running and it would do around 6200PPD with a Q6600@3.6. Once the A3s came out, it was doing 6k PPD at the very best and usually closer to 5500PPD with the Linux client. Since I already had a Windows XP VM running on that machine for something else, I loaded up the Windows client on that and my PPD on A3 work units went up to between 6500-7700PPD depending on the work unit. Some of the later work units suck ass but they seem to do that no matter what platform they are run on.
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As usual, I'm the odd man out it seems; it's either that or my Linux distro is exceptionally efficient (doubt it). I honestly saw only a fraction of a minute faster frame times in Windows except perhaps with the P670x but rarely ever received them. I didn't bother to switch to Windows on this system until tonight, and only did it due to the fact that I need MS to run -bigadv. I want to see if this system can finish a WU before the bonus deadline. Otherwise, I'd probably would have left it alone.
 
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Well for hardware currently I have a Athlon II X4 635 4GB DDR3 1600MHz (stock clocks :( for now) on Windows (Hoping to put my website back up with all my hardware), Working on a getting a Athlon X2 4200+ (I think) system back up and going and no OS. I have a Pentium E 2160 @ 2.7GHz with 4GB DDR2 (forgot memory speed somewhere around 815MHz) on Windows. A crappy Pentium D 2.8 GHz on Windows XP x64. I have a 8800GTS 320MB that I just pulled from my quadcore system (RMA'd 5770 came back).

I think I might leave the systems with Windows on Windows, and move the others to Linux for now.

Mostly older stuff :( but it works (sometimes).
 
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