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Poor folding performance

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FireBean

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I'm not trying to beat the pants of anyone here, but I just want to do my part for the [H]orde. But, from what I've read from others, I'm getting some real shitty PPD.

My sig has my hardware
CPU: ~1000PPD (smp)
5870: ~3000PPD
8800GTX: ~4000PPD

I'm using FAH Tacker V2 to automate everything. What should be the best settings? Hell, my 5870 isn't even being used completely. It hovers around 70-80% usage.

I Also have my PS3 folding as well. What the usual PPD on one of those?
 
FireBean said:
I'm not trying to beat the pants of anyone here, but I just want to do my part for the [H]orde. But, from what I've read from others, I'm getting some real shitty PPD.

My sig has my hardware
CPU: ~1000PPD (smp)
5870: ~3000PPD
8800GTX: ~4000PPD

I'm using FAH Tacker V2 to automate everything. What should be the best settings? Hell, my 5870 isn't even being used completely. It hovers around 70-80% usage.

I Also have my PS3 folding as well. What the usual PPD on one of those?
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First off, I'd take it down to the simplest thing. Find out what CPU will do on it's own. Once you have done that, I would run the cpu at 3 cores, and allow one core to run for the 8800GTX. With most of the intel machines, you will find that losing 1 core to run an AMD GPU hurts your ppd more then running without it.

I'm currently getting 1937ppd on a Dual AMD Opteron 265's non-overclocked system.
 
Syran said:
First off, I'd take it down to the simplest thing. Find out what CPU will do on it's own. Once you have done that, I would run the cpu at 3 cores, and allow one core to run for the 8800GTX. With most of the intel machines, you will find that losing 1 core to run an AMD GPU hurts your ppd more then running without it.

I'm currently getting 1937ppd on a Dual AMD Opteron 265's non-overclocked system.
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you should be able to allow the 8800GTX and the cpu to just share resources, i do as i have never seen an appreciable difference.

PPD for the GTX looks about right based on what mine used to do, but possibly a little low depending on the wu.
 
If you would run the PII955 just by itself on the SMP client, you should consistently get 5-7k ppd by itself. If you havn't downloaded the new V7 client yet, give it a try as that will allow you to run the new GPU3 ATI client. That will significantly boost production from your 5870 as it should boost production to at least 9k ppd.
 
The CPU PPD certainly looks low to me but that could partly be because the ATI client is stealing a ton of cycles to run. Someone with more Phenom 2 experience would have to comment.
 
if he is using the tracker he is using the old ati core not the new one... need to go try the V7 openbeta client
 
Stop folding on your ATI GPU. The increase in CPU PPD should more than make up for what you lose, and you'll benefit overall from lower power consumption.
 
FireBean said:
I'm not trying to beat the pants of anyone here, but I just want to do my part for the [H]orde. But, from what I've read from others, I'm getting some real shitty PPD.

My sig has my hardware
CPU: ~1000PPD (smp)
5870: ~3000PPD
8800GTX: ~4000PPD

I'm using FAH Tacker V2 to automate everything. What should be the best settings? Hell, my 5870 isn't even being used completely. It hovers around 70-80% usage.

I Also have my PS3 folding as well. What the usual PPD on one of those?
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if you want to fold on the ATI card you need to use the new FAH v7 open-beta client and setup the new ATI flags to use the openCL client/WU's. those will give you a significant boost in PPD on the 5870(~5-6k PPD stock clocks). it will still use a portion of the processor, around 15% of one of the cores. so it will cost you some PPD on the SMP client but you should still do around 4k PPD on the smp client with it running. just experiment with it and see what you like best.
 
WEll, no one else has asked but, do you have 10 work units done for SMP ? That would explain your low PPD for the CPU, other two are right for the older clients, try the v7 for GPU at the least.
 
W.Feather said:
WEll, no one else has asked but, do you have 10 work units done for SMP ? That would explain your low PPD for the CPU, other two are right for the older clients, try the v7 for GPU at the least.
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He's talking about PPD reported by GPU Tracker, which always assumes the bonus is active.
 
W.Feather said:
ahh, did not know that, never used that program
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Neither have I, but it's the only logical way to report PPD. GPU Tracker doesn't have any way of knowing whether or not a particular user name qualifies for the bonus. HFM is the same way.
 
Thanks for all the help you guys. After turning just letting the CPU fold, I'm getting about ~8000ppd now. With the 5870, it drops to ~1000ppd. Why the hell does the radeon eat so many freaking cycles? Also, my 8800 got a small boost and it's putting out ~4400ppd now. I'm still using GPU Tracker for a few reasons. First, it would not report anything about ppd, so I don't know how much the radeon was doing. Also, the 8800GTX would not fold. It failed every single test. Weird.
 
FireBean said:
Thanks for all the help you guys. After turning just letting the CPU fold, I'm getting about ~8000ppd now. With the 5870, it drops to ~1000ppd. Why the hell does the radeon eat so many freaking cycles? Also, my 8800 got a small boost and it's putting out ~4400ppd now. I'm still using GPU Tracker for a few reasons. First, it would not report anything about ppd, so I don't know how much the radeon was doing. Also, the 8800GTX would not fold. It failed every single test. Weird.
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#1 gpu2 core has a bug in it...there is a work around to take cpu usage down to nvidian levels....

#2 gpu2 OpenCL driver is multithreaded so it using 15% cpu is half expected.... that client will get you 8300ppd or so...
 
FireBean said:
Thanks for all the help you guys. After turning just letting the CPU fold, I'm getting about ~8000ppd now. With the 5870, it drops to ~1000ppd. Why the hell does the radeon eat so many freaking cycles? Also, my 8800 got a small boost and it's putting out ~4400ppd now. I'm still using GPU Tracker for a few reasons. First, it would not report anything about ppd, so I don't know how much the radeon was doing. Also, the 8800GTX would not fold. It failed every single test. Weird.
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as far as the 8800GTX goes in the v7 client i believe you have to force the G80 flag to make it run gpu2 WU's since the 8800GTX can not run gpu3 non fermi WU's. or you can just run the gpu2 client on its own outside of the v7 client.
 
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