Folding @ Home on an ATI graphics card

[drezha]

Yes, eventually.

But nVidia works a bit different to ATI and thus is slower. (like Intel and AMD really is a comparison)

[daddygeek]

Little Bugy

Will run agin in a day or too

[mitchellds]

I just got a ATI 1900 also and plugged it up and discovered my 430 watt PS wasnt enough. I need more juice. Gotta wait until next week now to fold space. bummer.

Got any good suggestion on running this new client DaddyGeek? I have to read up on the folding faq, since I'll be new to that.

[daddygeek]

No, it's pretty straight forward.

But, the ATI software is crashing my system. When I have time i will find out why. I wish the http://forum.folding-community.org/ was on line to give me some info on running it in Vista.

[drezha]

Supposdely catalyst 6.10 is a bit buggy. Use 6.05 for best results so far.

[Big Whiskey]

WATER! I NEED WATER!!!
looks like I'll need to add water cooling to run Folding off the GPU
my new Sapphire X1900 XT 512mb is goin' melt
GPU temp at 75C:shock:
good thing i switched cases and PSU the other day

150,000 steps out 25,000,000 in 5 mins
I wonder how it compares to the other cores

hopefully the rig doesn't catch fire before it's finished its first unit:smile:

[Keith75]

From what I read it sounds like they don't plan on supporting any current nVidia cards. Say they aren't very good at it because of the way they are designed. Maybe the G80s will be supported when they come out.

Keith

[gamer007]

Just another month and we'll see.

The specs seem very impressive so far. I wonder what ATI will do.
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=4442
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=4441

[Brucifer]

Okay, I'll be the one that bites here.... Being basically in the dark with the whole gpu thing, what is the purpose of doing the gpu over the cpu? The cpu is designed to handle the cooling situation better. So what is being gained here other than just something being "neat" or "sweet"?????? Or is this just a drill in getting ready for the graphics on the PS3?

[NeoGen]

I think nowadays gpu's are RISC processors, and as such they have incredible raw power at what they do. At some point someone thought of using that raw power for more than just pretty graphics, so now gpu's are starting to be used for processing functions much like cpu's.
With a little of engineering the Stanford devs ported their application to be able to run on the limited instructions of the ATI gpu.
(I wonder if the gpu's can be programmed to show graphics at the same time that they're crunching...)

But anyways, gpu crunching is the new rage, because those sweet RISC processors pack an incredible power that is being wasted 99% of the time. (How much of a gpu's power do you think it's being used when you're browsing our team's forums? )

And... word has it that they even beat cpu's at their own game (crunching). :D
(I still need to see some stats comparisons on that...)