Hey guys. i want to start folding. I have the standard client installed at the moment but it is kind of hopeless. I want to fold with my 2500K and 275GTX. Can i use both at once? What clients do I install? Sorry if these questions sound completely stupid (I'm sure after a while i will be able to advise people on these sort of things). Is there a thread already dedicate to this? I thought there would be a sticky. Niall.
Hi, and welcome. This is a good place to be for folding and info of all sorts. You can use both at once, and should the GPU should not have a great impact on you CPUs folding. Use the following clients: CPU - SMP2 follow all instruction, you will need a pass key, and for the it run ten times before you get the big adv points. Thats an awesome CPU and will give you some good results. GPU - 6.23, as you have not got a Fermi card, so these work best. http://folding.stanford.edu/English/DownloadWinOther To monitor both use HMF: http://code.google.com/p/hfm-net/ Instruction on setting up, are everywhere, but I found here good and simple to under stand for SMP: http://fahwiki.net/index.php/How_do_I_install_the_SMP_Console_client_in_Windows_7? I'm guessing your GPU is working fine. Again welcome, and I'm sure others will be along to say hi and give their own take on it all.
Welcome to the team, I hope you have lots of fun. As paddi70 says there are lots of instructions available including those on the other clients download page linked in his post. If you have specific issues help is at hand here.
Your right, my bad, sorry Murrynt, I didn't realize they were 4 core, even with your OC it would struggle to make the correct TPF and in turn miss deadline. Be worth seeing what it produces mind. Cheers cdb
Bigadv needs 8 threads to even work afaik. I found that smp was still very good on my 2600k. After the 1st 10 WUs you will start getting the hiigher bonus points. Goodluck and welcome to the team. http://www.overclock.net/folding-home-guides-tutorials/682249-windows-7-setting-up-smp-client.html This guide helped me.
Now I know nothing about Sandybridge CPUs, but doesn't a 2500k have four cores, so no BigAdv. But a 2600k has four cores with HT so it will do BigAdv.
No, the passkey is uniquely linked to your account. You have to request it from Stanford. See this page.
Ah yes that explains it. I'm going to run the standard SMP client now. One or two more questions. I have my SMP client in my documents and my GPU one in downloads. Should i move both to the same folder? I'm using a passkey for my SMP client should i be using one for my GPU aswell? I am saving the finished data every 4min, is this ok? And finally if i wanted to run my GPU and 95% just to give it some headroom do i have to create a shortcut for the GPU client and add -configure or can i just add in on after the .exe program. Thanks guys. Last edit: My CPU is at 4.3ghz and the 275GTx at stock (Hopefully i will bring this 2500k up above the 4.6ghz mark) It's getting a PPD of a tad over 20000,is this respectable?
Only other thing you might wanna do is put your folding stats in your sig. Check out the sticky in the folding forum. I reckon a 2500k @ 4.3 would do about 20k a day and the 275 around 7 or 8k? Dont know what hit folding on the gfx card will have on your cpu ppd tho.
Try folding on just the cpu first. I use HFM to monitor my ppd. Also have you returned 10 WUs yet? You then start getting the bonus points.
