New client for GPU

[vaughan]

... progress can be checked with FahSpy

Here is the link to FAHspy. Its a useful application.

[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......

[vaughan]

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.

[wavetrex]

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.

[liuqyn]

same here with my 4850, not even running cpu client. hope they get optimized soon.

[jugraham]

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.

[jugraham]

No replys. So guess not.

[AMDave]

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.

[vaughan]

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

[liuqyn]

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.