Morning all, Anyone have any idea how many ppd I could expect from a Phenom II 1090T @stock (3.2GHz)? It's been a few years since I'd considered an AMD rig, but six cores and decent PPD could persuade
You can run bigadv on a x6. Just need to use VMware and have a linux image running, tell the image to provide it with 8 cores and you need around 0.5Gb of ram free per core. So 4Gb plus enough to run the linux image plus enough to run XP/7 or whatever the host is. It is cheating, and not supposed to be done. But it does work.
Hopefully going to try this with my i5 2500k tonight if I have time, interested to see if it can complete the WU's in time. Should do at 4.8Ghz
It is possible, you need to setup a VM image of linux (ubuntu) and force it to use 4 cores, then when in Linux you need to use Wine to run the normal 6.34 FAH.exe. You can then create a custom config file for wine to force it to run the emulation with 8 cores rather than 4/6 You will need a pretty high OC with an x6 to complete them, probably 3.6-3.8Ghz...
Where have you seen this done out of interest, any links? People with a 6 core CPU's still need to set the VM to use 4 cores, or 6? I didn't think this worked so I am intrigued now
No links, did it myself last night lol. Initially I used my dual boot with Ubuntu LTS (10.04i think..) and used Wine to run the standard windows 6.34 client. You need to make a few modifications to make wine tell the program you have more cores. What I ended up doing was booting Win7, creating a Ubuntu VM with all 4 cores used, then used Wine to run the Windows6.34 FAH.exe file with a wee modification. I had a colleague that used to have to do something similar to this with an old server side program that required you had 8 cores, he only had a 4 core machine but it was quick so he managed to spoof it to run and it worked fine. Same principal here. Will grab the code and step by step stuff when home tonight if you are interested. You will need a pretty heavy OC with an x6 to do this, same with an i5 2500k. Probably 3.6Ghz-3.6Ghz for the x6 and 4.5Ghz for the i5 I recon.
For anyone who's interested, there's a full guide over... http://www.overclock.net/folding-home-guides-tutorials/817550-windows-7-setting-up-bigadv-amd.html They updated the title recently to include the 2500K, so it's still current. I'm on a 970 and 2600K so no need