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Might join the horde

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rick5127

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I am considering leaving the team I am on (2CPU) and joining you guys. A couple of questions:
1. If I change teams what happens to my points from before. I know they don't transfer here but do I just lose them?
2. Do I need to get a new passkey if I change?
3. Is there anything else I need to consider to make the change or just change my number?

Thanks in advance,
Rick
 
like MIBW said all you need to do is change the team number. the points don't transfer but you also don't lose them. so if you ever decided to switch back to 2CPU it would start right back where you left off.
 
Welcome to the [H]orde! :cool:

What happened to the forum over at 2CPU.com? It seems like it has really diminished in traffic the past year or two. Nothing like it was back mid decade. I guess the team has suffered because of it.
 
Welcome aboard, and thanks for considering us as your new team! Feel free to ask any questions or just join in the daily banter around here, I'm sure you'll fit right in... :cool:
 
Welcome to the team.

Others have answerd, I just wanted to say hi :cool:
 
Welcome!

Hopefully you'll find that our team has just the right blend of helpful comradrie and competitive smack talking to keep things interesting. :p
 
Welcome! Welcome!

Welcome Aboard! Fold with some Borgs or with what you can Afford! Fold for Science, Fold with the [H]orde!

Welcome! Welcome!

Welcome Aboard!

*cheese factor +10*
 
APOLLO said:
Welcome to the [H]orde! :cool:

What happened to the forum over at 2CPU.com? It seems like it has really diminished in traffic the past year or two. Nothing like it was back mid decade. I guess the team has suffered because of it.
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Yah exactly. The forums and such are barely surviving. Used to be a nice place but it has gone downhill the last couple of years. Nice folks over there but getting to be few and far between.

Thanks for all the welcomes!

I am afraid I don't put up the points you folks do but at about 25K ppd at the moment. Course I do have an I7 system sitting here ready to be put together. That should help.
 
rick5127 said:
Yah exactly. The forums and such are barely surviving. Used to be a nice place but it has gone downhill the last couple of years. Nice folks over there but getting to be few and far between.

Thanks for all the welcomes!

I am afraid I don't put up the points you folks do but at about 25K ppd at the moment. Course I do have an I7 system sitting here ready to be put together. That should help.
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any points are points. doesn't matter how fast the science gets done, all that matters is it gets gone.
 
Welcome, Rick!

Nice to have you around here.

We are, for the most part, a bunch of nice guys and gals. ;`]
 
rick5127 said:
I am afraid I don't put up the points you folks do but at about 25K ppd at the moment. Course I do have an I7 system sitting here ready to be put together. That should help.
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You will also notice we don't care how many points you put out a day!!
Your 25K is just as important as Musky's almost 500K and my 175K.
We're all about the team here. WU's are getting done and the cure is getting closer!!
And when F@H makes that big discovery, you'll be part of it!!
If you need help setting up the i7 to fold just ask. We here to help!

Again, Welcome to the Team!!
 
Thanks all for the encouraging words!

I was #5 at 2cpu... looks like at the rate you folks fold I will have a tough time just getting to the top 100. Oh well.

One thing about the I7 machine I would like to ask. I plan on adding two 9800gtx+'s for GPU folding. Was wondering how that will affect my SMP

Oh and I made the change to 33 a minute or two ago...
 
rick5127 said:
One thing about the I7 machine I would like to ask. I plan on adding two 9800gtx+'s for GPU folding. Was wondering how that will affect my SMP
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Your SMP will take a hit, but the GPU client should make up the difference plus.

It's the GPU3 and the dual socket motherboards that really take a punishing!
 
So... on my other box a Q9550 and two GTX460's running GPU3's... should I change the priority back to idle? Or wouldn't it help because of the GPU3 program?
 
leave them on idle. the current gpu3 WU's dont really use that much of the cpu. now if you had those 2 gtx 460's in your i7 all you would have to do is set the smp client to -smp 7 which gives 1 core to the gpu clients. you dont lose PPD on the SMP client nor do you lose PPD due to the gpu clients being choked by the smp client. but i've honestly not seen any time the gpu clients been effected by the smp client. windows does a pretty good job at giving cpu cycles to programs when they are requested.
 
actually you gain performance instead of lose performance because of the way hyperthreading works.the physical core isn't having to split resources between 2 threads. instead the physical core is getting 99% of the resources instead of 50% of the resources. physical cores/threads are better then logical cores/threads. the cut off is -smp 6 smp 5 and lower you start seeing a loss in performance on the smp client but even then the difference isn't very much.

a good example is take a look at 10e's quad socket 1.9Ghz 12 core magny-cour vs MIBW's 4.3Ghz duel hex core(12 physical 12 logical core) system :D

R-Type said:
It would prevent you from running bigadv, thats a big downside.
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nope it doesn't. the client detects the processor as having 8 cores/threads even though its set to only use 7 of those cores/threads.

it detects the processor before it detects the arguments used.
 
sirmonkey, what are your TPF times on your i7 with WU 6900 and what is your O/C at?
What TPF do you see with smp-7 and smp-8?
 
well atleast to my knowledge, monkey is a die hard AMD fan ... and has the 940 in his sig ;)
 
sirmonkey1985 said:
actually you gain performance instead of lose performance because of the way hyperthreading works.the physical core isn't having to split resources between 2 threads. instead the physical core is getting 99% of the resources instead of 50% of the resources. physical cores/threads are better then logical cores/threads. the cut off is -smp 6 smp 5 and lower you start seeing a loss in performance on the smp client but even then the difference isn't very much.

a good example is take a look at 10e's quad socket 1.9Ghz 12 core magny-cour vs MIBW's 4.3Ghz duel hex core(12 physical 12 logical core) system :D



nope it doesn't. the client detects the processor as having 8 cores/threads even though its set to only use 7 of those cores/threads.

it detects the processor before it detects the arguments used.
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Very interesting, I will have to see if this makes running my two 470's while the 2600k runs bigadv a practical option. Any idea how to apply these arguments if I'm using FAH GPU tracker?
 
sirmonkey1985 said:
actually you gain performance instead of lose performance because of the way hyperthreading works.the physical core isn't having to split resources between 2 threads. instead the physical core is getting 99% of the resources instead of 50% of the resources. physical cores/threads are better then logical cores/threads. the cut off is -smp 6 smp 5 and lower you start seeing a loss in performance on the smp client but even then the difference isn't very much.

a good example is take a look at 10e's quad socket 1.9Ghz 12 core magny-cour vs MIBW's 4.3Ghz duel hex core(12 physical 12 logical core) system :D



nope it doesn't. the client detects the processor as having 8 cores/threads even though its set to only use 7 of those cores/threads.

it detects the processor before it detects the arguments used.
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so where would the cut off be for my Hex cored 970?
 
I'm down to -smp 10

On standard SMP WU P6025 (483 point) I'm down from 2:45 a frame to 2:25 a frame. Quite an improvement for free and without overclocking further.



SMP 9 yielded no improvement. However at 2:25 frames, that's around 23KPPD. Not to shabby for a non-bigadv client.
 
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gkanakis said:
sirmonkey, what are your TPF times on your i7 with WU 6900 and what is your O/C at?
What TPF do you see with smp-7 and smp-8?
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obviously wfeather answered most of your questions. but most of my information is based on some testing we did last night in the irc channel and some one else on the team that did some testing(forgot who it was) a while back running various SMP X settings and with HT on and off running the smp client.
 
Welcome rick, I think you will fit right in with us here at the [H]orde. Also, any points is good points, we are more about the science behind the folding.
 
rick5127 said:
Yah exactly. The forums and such are barely surviving. Used to be a nice place but it has gone downhill the last couple of years. Nice folks over there but getting to be few and far between..
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thats a shame, 2CPU was always a great resource... I made/read many posts over there over the years
 
Yah I loved that place. But alas it has gotten so you cant even get into the forums half the time. So I think people will be leaving like I did. Had a great run there though. Nice folks too.

Putting in the points, 14k the first half day. In 4531 place and climbing...
 
rick5127 said:
Yah I loved that place. But alas it has gotten so you cant even get into the forums half the time. So I think people will be leaving like I did. Had a great run there though. Nice folks too.

Putting in the points, 14k the first half day. In 4531 place and climbing...
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Your blades are sharp, mow on!
 
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