Here is the link to FAHspy. Its a useful application.Quote:
Originally Posted by BlackAdder
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Here is the link to FAHspy. Its a useful application.Quote:
Originally Posted by BlackAdder
Hi guys, Since my last post on this the updated beta ATI GPU clients will show a display which you can toggle thru different modes with the "F" keys. Do not keep the display running long as it takes most of the GPU resources to run it , there is also an Nvidia client too which I hear runs pretty good, but has no display mode yet.
These new video cards smoke thru work units, but I think that just as the X19xx cards got very hot running F@H,I burned up two cards myself, the new cards will also so watch the fan speeds and temps while crunching, I have used ATI Tool for this.The overdrive section of the ATI control panel will show you temp and percent of use of the GPU but will now allow you to increase fan speed.I have completed 737 wu's with my HD3870 with dual orb coolers and so far so good, my card averages around 51c while crunching in an air conditioned bedroom.I hope all this does some good...... :)
Yes Blackadder the nVidia client is brilliant. :)
I'm gradually adding all my 8XXX and 9XXX cards to Folding. The nVidia driver is approx 70MB d/l so I put it on a USB flash drive with the GPU2 FAH client and FAHspy and just do the installs. You have to uninstall the existing nVidia Forceware drivers, re-boot, then install the new CUDA client then the FAH app and FAHspy.
My cards are running at about 65C according to Hardware Monitor and they have stock cooling fans on them. Ambient is 22-24C.
I have doubled my Folding @ Home score in 9 days.
Running on a slightly overclocked Radeon 4870 since yesterday. My scores aren't so big as the ATI client is far from optimised, but they are definitely alot bigger than on the CPU only.
same here with my 4850, not even running cpu client. hope they get optimized soon.
Anyone have one of the new ati 48XX cards and are they much faster than an ati 38XX card? I have a x1900 which i can not use anymore:( and have been thinking about getting one of the new cards to start crunching again with with a gpu and for better fps in my games:).
No replys. So guess not.
Jugraham
The two posts above yours show wavetrex and liuqyn, both have the cards you refer to.
Although they have not been on the forum since your post, if you send them a PM I am sure one of them will get a notification and reply.
I read somewhere that the 4870 gets about 2000-2500 PPD.
My nVidia Inno3D 8800GT OC gets 4000-4100 PPD. It was running at 69C so I asked my hardware guru (Doomeva) to install one of these Zalman HSFs and the temps are now 45C running 24/7
my 4850 gets about 1500-1900 ppd when I dedicate one cpu core to it, 192 ppd if I don't. I hope they'll update the app to better use the cards soon. can't compare to older cards as this is the first I have ran it on.
Thanks for the info. I think I am going to go with the 3870. I can get one at Newegg for $100 after rebate. :)
Good choice, I've had good luck with mine, as of now I've done 861 work units with it and no problems. :)
Here is what I bought and it has a copy of NeverWinter Nights 2. I bought it through the Support AMDUsers link to help support our team. :icon_razz: Maybe by this weekend I will have it up and crunching.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814125086
Whats the cpu % usage at when using the gpu for folding? Still high?
running my 4850 it will quite happily use up one entire core all for itself, leaving me the other three for other projects. phenom 9600BE by the way. if run in low priority mode, it uses very little cpu time, but doesn't get much done either.
100% of 1 core on my Q6600s running nVidia CUDA client on 8600, 2x 8800GT oc (separate boxes), 8800GTS.
If I load 4x SOB instances or let BOINC take 4 cores then Folding on the GPU gets throttled from ~4,000PPD to the low 100s.
Thx again!
As the GPU2 Beta client expires August 2nd you'll need to update. I found this
posted by 7im on the Arsians forum and it is useful information:
New v6.20 client replacements are now available.
CPU/Linux/MAC: http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Download
SMP/GPU 4 Win: http://folding.stanford.edu/English/DownloadWinOther
Change log is posted to the Stanford News page. http://folding.typepad.com/news/
Note: You MUST uninstall the v5.xx service before updating to v6.2x and installing that service, i.e. run with -configonly, and answer Yes to the question about removing the service install.
I ordered an Inno3D GTX260 oc and a Corsair 620W modular p/s today to replace my 8800GTS that keeps on giving EUE failures. Not sure what's wrong with it, tried under-clocking with Ntune but still fails. Will be interesting to see how a 260 does at Folding.
I originally ordered a Sapphire HD4850 but changed the order when I researched how appalling the ATI cards are at Folding. Shame really.
Hum ... looks like the combination of ensuring that BOINC didn't steal the CPU cycles from Core 4 on my Quads by setting the affinity in process Manager and adding a Gigabyte 9800GT (a more expensive version of the 8800GT) got me an extra 7,000 or so Points Per Day today.
Let's see what difference the humongous Inno3D GTX260 o/c card makes tomorrow. It took a bit of re-configuring the innards of my Thermaltake Soprano DX case to fit the new GPU card in. These things are huge.
Next thing is to install the drivers and Folding's GPU2 client and better check on the temps I guess.
I've read that the gpu client for ATI is now producing "science" and is out of the testing stage, the Nvidia client is working on the same test units as the ATI client worked on originally and if the results are the same it will start working on real wu's too. But the points difference is amazing...:)
I keep getting an early workunit end on my asus 4850. It looks like it may take some time to get the bugs worked out of that machine. I'm not sure its a good idea to run a GPU at 84c anyway
yea 84c is a bit hot...crank up the fan if possible
I just loaded the new windows client (6.23), and ran it with my 8800Gt. Nice. Fahmon shows 5000ppd. that can't be right...?
I have the fan cranked up (rivatuner) and it shows ~55 C. With 0% cpu usage.
Ah...did some more reading on the Folding site. The PPD is determined by which project wu's you crunch....This is sort of similar to what is happening over at GPUgrid. Different wu's return different points.
Mine are set to accept the "big" tasks :icon_mrgreen: