Stanford's Mike Houston on F@H GPU client

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    Mike, the spot for a graphical client beta means we'll get one of those today too? (he asked hopefully).
     
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    Yes, absolutely its a requirement!
     
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    I think you're fibbing! Your sig's turned green!
     
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    There is a small packaging problem with the "fancy" client. This is the demo that was run on Friday. You need to move everything but the exe into /data_ati for the render to work.

    Good luck and please report issues to the folding-forums as that is where the FAH folks look first!
     
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    Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, no x64 support for the 6.10 beta's...
     
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    As per the updated FAQ, you can also run Cat 6.5. Cat 6.6/6.7 have a performance regression of ~25%, and 6.8/6.9 are borked. 6.10+ should work as we are supposed to be included in tests before drivers ship.
     
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    Sigh I might look into the 6.7's if Terry doesn't work some of his magic, but I really want to run at full speed! :cry:
     
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    Front paged.
     
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    i'm running that thing and the fan doesn't speed up. It seems it doesn't tax the gpu much at all.
     
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    It's using the 2d clocks. :sad: Tho I imagine that will help with temps. Running at 71c here at the moment on the fancy.

    I assume the bit about not running the fancy long term is meant as a screen saver. I usually leave screen saver at None but then can enjoy the client from time to time by clicking on it in the taskbar. That doesn't have performance impact, right? Better not, as I've been doing it that way for years.
     
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    Oh yes, and ignore ATI's shameless plug for their team id in favor of our shameless plug for our team id instead. Beyond3D's team # is 32377. :cool:
     
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    how can i be sure that it works properly? My GPU Temp really isn't going up 1°Celsius

    ah think it's good now had to restart after dx update
     
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    I tried with x64 Cat 6.9 and it seems to work. I've seen my GPU temp go as high as 59C, but it flat out at 53c most of the time.

    Couldn't get the "fancy" version to work.
     
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    Does anyone know how much faster the X1950 range card is compared to its regular X1900 counterpart at folding?
     
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    The core clocks on both are basically the same, so essentially no difference.

    The X1950's cooler will run quieter/cooler at the same workload. Though it seems that GPU-F@H (even if you can get it running at 3D clocks instead of 2D clocks) is not going to work the card as hard as Oblivion or 3DMk.

    Jawed
     
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    I wonder if CTM will alleviate some of the fairly high CPU load that people are seeing.

    I guess some of the CPU load is the Windows driver watching over the progress of GPU-F@H. But in theory there's a substantial amount of work for the CPU anyway, for the parts of WU calculation that are not suited to GPU, as well as sending work to the GPU and reading it back...

    Jawed
     
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    So the large memory bandwidth increase is not advantageous for folding?
     
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