Notes on the FaH GPU

[Jason1478963]

I have been running 3 GPU's for a while without much trouble. I don't dedicate a core to the graphics card as folding@home is a secondary project. this may help keep the temps on the GPU down a bit.

AMDave
I couldn't confirm the ATI driver 6.4 works well with the GPU client. I was looking at this site link http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=75 I don't have any of these GPU's in my main machine. I think I had your lag problem in the earlier ATI driver. I couldn't find any newer drivers for your windows 2000. Does the lag get better if you run other projects on both cores? Maybe this would free up the GPU enough to reduce your lag??

Good luck

[sentient_life]

Do you need at least a dual-core CPU to run the GPU F@H client? I've got a x1650 on my A64 3400+ computer.

[Frederic Brillouet]

It wouldnt recognise my HD3870's. suckers.

[Dee]

Yikes! I wish I'd seen this lot before I said I'd join this one! Sounds too difficult for me!

[Frederic Brillouet]

Yikes! I wish I'd seen this lot before I said I'd join this one! Sounds too difficult for me!

Dont worry, its only graphics cards clients were talking about

[BlackAdder]

The GPU client doesn't seem to make your machine studder if you have the 512 ram version of the video card, this is especially true of the X1600 and X1650 cards. I'm running a X1950 pro 256 meg AGP in a spare machine with the GPU client and you wouldn't know it's running.I have run both the X1600 and X1650 cards and I didn't have any real problems...the client burns out cards because of all the extra heat they make while running the client, one solution it to run ATITOOL and use that to speed up the video cards fan to keep the temp (in my opinion) under 65c, 60 c is even better and I have done that too with the fan control.The client uses the cpu at 100% but the work is all done on the video card,the cpu drain is caused by DX9 and is a polling process, kinda like .... do you still need me....do you still need me...from DX9 to the video card drivers, again it is a polling thing and the cpu is not really doing any work. The drain on the cpu and the system is again not as pronounced with video cards with 512 of memory for some reason...with my 1600 and 1650 I was completing WU's in 2 and 1.5 days respectively...hope this helps

[Dee]

Thanks drezha..I've done that...so now I'm trying to set it up...my user name is 0dee...but what is the team number?

[Brucifer]

13129 unless that has changed since I crunched it.