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interesting.. would try it but dont want to screw with my setup..

nice work Jedi95 (if you happen to lurk around [H])..

 

I use it and recommend it.

The best thing about it is being able to change mid-unit to -oneunit without disrupting anything.

 

Interesting. Maybe I'll give it a whirl.

 

Very nice, I'll have to mention this to my brother as he can't seem to keep his...or even get his stuff working.

 

wow, this is incredibly easy. I just set it up on my laptop for a test, I was up and folding in less then 5 minutes.

*there is a version 3.15 out now btw*

 

I saw this on the evga forum, definitely simple. Might be just what we need to gain more of an edge on evga. Kudos to jedi95 for developing this

 

Funny Stanford hasnt hired this guy yet...

 

I thought that the thingy defaulted to EVGA?

 

Yep. Everybody don't forget to set it up for team 33!

 

lol ..it's a dirty twick!!

seriously though ..nice work man

 

Nice... I'll give it a try on my new boxen once it's setup. I like the gaming mode feature.

 

Yep... As stated above just remember to put your 33 in place of the 111065...

 

I seriously wonder why Stanford hasnt tossed a few dollars his way and made this the standard client. One download by the user, everything else is automated, too easy

 

They have traditionally been reluctant to receive outside assistance, at least that's what I've been informed.

 

Hi,

It's nice to know that my work is appreciated. Also, even though I fold for EVGA, (which is why the team number defaults to 111065) my goal with the Tracker has always been to help the entire folding community.

I also wonder why Stanford hasn't designed something like this instead of their current clients. My best guess is that cross-platform compatibility is much easier with a simple console application rather than a complicated GUI like this.

 

Even for us experts this beats all the cutting and pasting needed to set up a multi-GPU box. I'll definitely try it on my boxen.

 

That's correct, I never heard them receiving assistance from a outside people for coding about anything. The farthest they can allow is to let them post in the Folding Forum as a 3rd party application. When it come to the client itself, they are very closed.

 

you dont have to use the forcegpu nvidia_fermi flag with the gpu3 client.. the client should automatically detect that they are fermi cards.. but you should still be able to use the flag.. also if your using the 258.xx drivers you may need to disable SLI.. the 260 beta drivers are bugged all to hell and cuda doesnt work correctly on them..

 

that's a pretty badass folding rig you have there kyle. would be great to have your contribution of roughly 50k ppd!

this is a slick app. Nice job Jedi.

 

So it took a fancy 3rd party app to get you folding on that new monster rig of yours? Haha, nice to have you back man!

Are you going to crank up the SMP cpu client for that Gulftown as well?

 

they are already technically receiving free time and energy from us why shouldn't they want to spend a bit more time to make it easier for them to get more data? you've done an awesome thing that has brought me back to folding just due to sheer ease.

 

Remove the GPU clients if you're running them. You will likely see the same or similar production from the CPU alone running -bigadv SMP. Other with similar setups (I don't have one) can guide you to the best config. Running only the SMP client will reduce power draw and heat output immensely.

 

Hey Kyle, this is probably not applicable in your situation, but here's what I did to combine folding and office comfort

I bought one of these http://www.monoprice.com/products/p...=10425&cs_id=1042505&p_id=6625&seq=1&format=2
Then ran DVI cables and a USB hub through the wall. So, my rig rests behind the wall in an unfinished portion while my office stays much cooler and quieter.

Just throwing out an idea.

 

with that much GPU power the trade off won't quite be equal.

However a 4ghz 980x running bigadv will produce between 30k and 50k ppd by itself.

edit what nitro said

 

I have somewhat reduced production on my Gulftown rig now that I'm not folding with the 480s. But my electric bill will thank me and the heat in my office went down a bunch. Good trade off if you ask me.

 

I realize the production output of dual 480s, but the heat output and power consumption is the main issue and it's better to fold on one client than not to fold due to the adverse effects.

 

Basically what everyone is saying, you could just run the SMP CPU client with the -bigadv flag enabled. It is still going to be good for 25k ppd to 45k ppd just by itself depending on whether you are pulling a regular work unit or a bigadv. Still good to have you back man.

If your main box gets used heavily, you may even want to drop the -bigadv flag and just run regular work units since those will be completed extremely quickly, although for a lot fewer points.

 

While the advmethods WUs for the Fermis were out it was pretty nice from the heat/noise/ppd aspect. Now that I'm getting only 10632s only I'm considering not GPU folding again.

 

Thanks. You finally dumbed it down enough for me. I'm back.

 

only a couple months left then you can use that box as a space heater for your house instead of using your central air heating..