Why the X1950s?

So he can use the ATI GPU client.

I guessed, but why not X2900s? Or isn't there a client for those?

I don't know whether they're supported to be honest. There's no mention of them on the Folding website that I can remember...

Hang on... *searches Google*

This is interesting, it's a presentation about folding on the HD2900XT card. http://forums.legitreviews.com/about9851.html

Also, there's this...


And this on the official site...

Well I think R600 saw a big architecture change, so it may take them a while.

I have been slowly getting around my machines changing my team number, so there may still be a few machines out there folding under team number 0. I changed it on my big computer, my family computer, my work laptop and my work desktop. My work desktop folds the most stuff, with my family computer coming second. I changed my work desktop yesterday, but it crashed and I had to restart (it was at about 90% as well...) and I changed my family computer last night, so that will take effect from the next work unit. The laptop has already folded one work unit under the new team number, and my big desktop hasn't even downloaded a work unit yet.

Heh, sounds awesome, so you have 5 machines folding?

More, I have a few machines at work folding on an irregular basis.

Awesome! So how many WU/day do you fold on average?

I think, about 1 at the moment.

Ah, OK, that's pretty good, I think.

Yeah, it's not bad at all! It would be more like 2.5 a day if I left my quad core machine on... but when it sucks around 450W-ish when folding, it's not... good.

450W when folding? that's a lot!

Though if you think about it, it's probably more efficient unit/watt wise than the other stuff....

450W including the 100W for the monitor.

But you don't need the monitor on to fold, do you?

No.

I've decided against folding on my quad core machine completely. The SMP client is just awfully coded for Windows. It's made for Linux and the SMP client is a ported application.

Ah, OK, fair enough. Considered doing the 4 apps things instead?

No, that's a bad idea because the system does not know how to deal with multiple instances of the application properly.

Also, my score is higher than Si's on the stats page.. and I've only folded 7 WU's compared to Si's 30: http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/mai ... mnum=52562

You have to tell it what to do, but it does work. There are commands you have to use.

And that will be because you've folded bigger WUs.

Most of those were from the time when my system used to crash alot and sent part broken WUs back...

I've got another machine at work folding this.
I'm secretly rolling it out on to some machines using psexec.exe and it works a charm. It's great how it doesn't affect the performance of the machines at all.

Aaron you sneaky beggar!

Keep up the good work!

You should start folding some time soon!
Team 52562!

Where can i get the Folding client? I'm sure simon sent me a link to it AGES ago tbh... But he said not to bother for the time being...But id like to try starting now...

Clicky

Stable GUI client is probs your best bet.

I've started folding now, and got Pete's comps onto the right team.