Dave what ATI card are you running ??
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Dave what ATI card are you running ??
My first wu just got posted at F@H and I got 330 points for a day's work. :)
Interesting.... However it does raise some questions/issues. I would imagine of course that in the overall scheme of things that they will get more work done. On the other hand though it may end up discouraging people that are running the older iron in that they work for ever and don't get anywhere in the points thing while John Fat Cat with the big pockets gets the latest and greatest and just walks away with more points in a week than the other person gets in several months. The point? Well I would imagine that you will see some people leaving that have beenw ith the project for a long time as they just get discouraged. So what's the answer? I don't really know, but with car races the handicapping sets up different classes. Oh well.... it gets a little too deep to spend much time pondering things like that....... :dontknow:Quote:
Originally Posted by drezha
yep I've noticed the delays in mouse movements, etc, while running this. I'm on a OC'd conroe running at 3.5ghz. Are you saying that you can still finish one of these gpu wu's in a hour, or only the first one? If thats the case then I'm doing something wrong, cause it looks like another full day to process this next wu I'm running now. I'm at 37% and its been running for about 8 hours already.
Thats a problem there having to cope with. Some of the older folders are getting a bit disenchanted. They might change the points at some point, they may not. We'll see what happens.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brucifer
well I think that, if in fact the GPU folding is more efficent and powerful than cpu folding it should be awarded more points. I wouldnt expect to receive more points running a slow cpu in comparision to someone running a faster cpu, I would expect to offset the faster cpu's gain with a greater # of slowing cpu's, or just to upgrade.
Dave, It took my xp3200 and ATI X1600 Pro mildly overclocked at 529 for the core (500 stock) and 436 for the memory (405 stock)...about 23 hours to complete the first WU. The screensaver says the next one will take one day and 8 hours to complete (estimate)....and I got 330 points for 23 hours of work on the first WU.....I do agree with Brucifer about the points situation but I also see Vijay's point of awarding more points for these WU's because we are using both the CPU at 100% and the GPU probably at 100% too, since we are giving more of our computer resources then we should be rewarded appropriately....
Oh this may be splitting hairs but should we all not exclude these clients we use for DC work from being scanned by the Anti-virus programs ??? It should help some with resources shouldn't it ??
Yep, we'll see! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by drezha
@mitchellds -- Don't get me wrong as I'm not saying points should not be related to hardware capability. I am saying that there's going to be some people leaving. The reality of this game is that to play in it and wrack up the big points you spend bucks for a healthy sistem, big bucks for a healthy video card that sucks up *much* more electricity, and at this point in time also requires windows which is more bucks. the old way allowed linux (free), no graphics, etc. Much less investment. Technology moves really fast and people's financial pockets don't refill as fast as the tech changes. So they will lose people as they fade off to something else that isn't catering to the latest and greatest. How many? Who knows. It's also going to be a really expensive game for farmers. I don't have the bucks for it. But there will be a changing of the guard in this, and from what Drezha mentioned on some other forums, it's already in the wind. So you can bet other projects will be watching it too. But change is the constant here, and time marches on. I used to think that my jeeping &4x4 activities were expensive, but in reality it's just a drop in the bucket to what my computing costs are as they have been climbing. Granted the horsepower of crunching increases, but costs are beginning to put a damper on things. I sure won't have a farm of windows systems w/hi-cost GPUs, etc. Maybe I'll just end up turning it all off and sitting in the park with the rest of the old farts watching the hotties jog by for a new hobby. :)
Hi Blackadder, I have a 1900 running at 650/594. Yes I turn off AV stuff as well. I'm not sure that I can tell a difference though. I've been running the console version instead of the graphics version along with one boinc instance on a dual core. seems to run ok.
Brucifer, yep this is getting to be a expensive hobby I agree. Your right, this def. sucks up the resources. I like your new hobby idea of the park and hotties. I've been doing that this myself this past summer on the beach and on the water. Cheers !