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Just wait about 6 hours and you will show up. It takes a little time for your stats to start showing up on Stanford's site and then get picked up by hardfolding.com. If has already been more than 6 hours since you turned in a WU, then let us know.
Did you get a passkey and put it in during client config?
Did you get a passkey and put it in during client config?
Yep
Make sure you are using the SMP client when you can. Way better points per day.
http://hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=1035598955&postcount=1
Yeah. Just put in the same user name, passkey, and Team 33 in each config and you should be fine. Most of the folks around here use HFM.NET to monitor their folding machine.
http://code.google.com/p/hfm-net/
http://code.google.com/p/hfm-net/
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That's only needed if there are multiple clients on the same PC...5 different PCs can all have Machine ID #1
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Welcome to the [H]orde Stoly - Glad to have you on the team!!!
may i be worthy
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Welcome! I am a newbie too, and I have found the team here to be extremely helpful, and every team member valued, no matter what their contribution.
I'm going to hijack this thread as I have another newbie question. Currently i'm running a PS3 client and a Q6600+ at 3.4Ghz on the cpu client and a 4870 on a GPU client. I hear the 4800 series is pretty brutal folding but I'm still not even pulling in over 4k ppd with both of these machines. Do these numbers look right or is something horribly wrong? I started using the SMP client as I'm keeping the machine on 24/7 now so i expect this will improve but it seems like i should be doing a lot better than I am.
When speaking purely in PPD terms, all Ati cards are relatively poor in folding compared to nVidia for their level of gaming performance capabilities. I am not current with the Ati client or how much production the 4000-series should make, but don't expect a huge amount from any Ati card, unfortunately. Nvidia is the only GPU manufacturer I'd fold on when everything including power consumption is taken into consideration.
If Ati is all you have and don't want to make a switch, you are still better off folding on a card than not folding providing you don't also run the SMP client. Reason being that the Ati client also consumes far more CPU cycles rendering the SMP client much less productive compared to nVidia+SMP. So, there are several compelling reasons why Ati is not looked favorably upon in the DC forum.
Do not run F@H on ATI video cards. They don't do crap for PPD and the little they do do takes up a lot of CPU cycles. The PPD for the SMP client will probably go a lot higher once you kill the GPU client. The SMP client on the Q6600@3.4 should be doing probably 4000PPD with some of the worst work units and up to 7500PPD with some of the better work units. This is taking into account nothing else using the CPU of course.
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dont forget that those SMP estimations are factoring in the bonus. You need to have a passkey and have completed 10 SMP work units before you can start collecting the bonus. So, for the first few days your PPD online will be much lower than what HFM.net will tell you because HFM accounts for the bonus. Once you hit your 10 units you'll be getting better PPD, inline with what HFM reports.
1k for the PS3 and about 5k average for the Q66 sounds about right, maybe a tad higher if you get a string of really good units on the Q66
1k for the PS3 and about 5k average for the Q66 sounds about right, maybe a tad higher if you get a string of really good units on the Q66
Ok, i'm going to try shutting down the GPU client and see how it goes. With the SMP and GPU clients on right now the GPU is running around 92-95%. If i turn off the SMP it goes a little higher so I'm still not sure if I might be doing a little better with the gpu than without. I'm trying to hit 4k/day to clear the 90k for september and i'm sitting pretty close right now. Sadly both my desktop and laptop are running ATI cards in them so it's pretty sad production. I might try the SMP client on my laptop but it's a mere i3 330M in there. I don't know if it will be able to complete SMP WUs or if heat will be an issue. Right now running the CPU and GPU on it i'm just barely within the tj max of the CPU when the heat hits its abosolute max.
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Wow- thank you for the info- I have been folding ATI/SMP forever, and didn't ever stumble across that nugget- I will kill the GPU folding ASAP!
Welcome to all the newcomers in here
Either use an aftermarket laptop cooler or kill gpu folding on your laptop, If you still have heat issues switch from smp to classic clients - no point killing a new laptop
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I turned off ATI and am just going SMP on my AMD720- frame times are about 9 minutes. I can't even guess how many percent improvement that is, let's just call it over twice as fast. Thank you!