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If anyone is using Chrome as their browser try apending --disable-gpu to the shortcut. It makes the the browser much less laggy while folding.

See: http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=22808 for different PPD's for different cards. Personally I'd look to Ebay or the like for used with return rights.

It generally shouldn't take more than 5-6 frames to get an accurate PPD as long as it is in continious operation (pausing or stopping will initially mess up the calcs but they should self correct within 30 minutes). The prefer maximum performance disabled is the forcing the driver to determine...

DD, Check your Nvidia control panel and make sure that you have 3D settings->Power management mode set to prefer maximum performance. Your cards could be running at a very low power-saving clock rate.

That 275K Total PPD is a good solid number but I was expecting much more: Like 900K PPD peak. Your previous 16500 credit number with one slot would be a little less than 100K PPD. Your computer has 4 GPU slots each running a different WU. I do not know if that 275K PPD is coming from a...

P8057's are the only WU's that are testing the new GPU bonus points. 16520 in 4 hours is no better than a single GTX 460's. I would have expected more than 2x that. P.S. The PPD (lower left) is probably better for comparison purposes than credit column

It seems that it is not as efficient as Fermi's but Kepler's do seem to work. At least some have reported results.

Now if we can convince Dave to run his 2x690's that could add another 900,000 PPD

The beta server VPS12 has been having fits recently and has been regularly going down. When that is happening the transfer to the normal work servers has not been smooth. It has been issuing GPU2 WU's that cannot be completed by Nvidia GPU's. The symptom is that the client gets stuck...

I'm willing to upgrade my 5x folding video cards from GTX 460's but they need to be quite inexpensive for me to justify it.

You can use 2.25 on Fermi's but its performance is significantly worse than 2.22 (a good 30%+ slower). Keplers have to use 2.25.

Others seem to be getting them, but not me. I do not know why. All I've been getting are p8018's ever since the server that gives them went down last. It came back up, but it does not seem to like me any more.

I don't know. The literature specifies a quad is as high as SLI goes, but I do not know if that is 4 cards or 4 GPU's. That being said, folding does not care about the SLI status.

The server offering these WU's went down yesterday morning. At the minimum, no more till it comes back up. PPD has dropped, Sorry

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Check the core version in the log. It will look something like this: 05:59:50:WU01:FS00:0x15:Folding@Home GPU Core 05:59:50:WU01:FS00:0x15:Version 2.22 (Thu Dec 8 17:08:05 PST 2011) 05:59:50:WU01:FS00:0x15:Build host SimbiosNvdWin7 05:59:50:WU01:FS00:0x15:Board Type...

The P5-133XL secret sauce for getting these WU's: http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=22808&start=45#p227355

Since you have not been previously GPU folding you will probably need to revert to an old core v2.22 too. A new install will auto DL the new core version and as far as I can tell the only people getting these WU's are using an old core v2.22. That means you will need this link to get the old...

Just read the post looking for the client-type value. Technically, I'm not allowed to tell others but if you get it from somewhere else...

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By the way, I'm not even sure that Kepler's are getting them at all. So far, all the reports in the forums that I've seen have been for Fermi's and even more specificly FAHCore_15 v2.22. The v2.25 of the core is required for Keplers...

It can be done without joining the Beta team. The beta team forums are readable by anyone so all the information is there to access. Download the latest client and install. adjust FAHControl to expert mode. Configure the client with your username, team, and passkey. Go to the expert tab...

Yes and no. Assuming a continuous 6 hour non-folding block then For any WU's that start and end inside that 18 hour block, you will get the maximum bonus. Those outside, will get less than the maximum. The bonus point system is exponential with no limit so any time not folding will decrease...

Currently, the new system is Nvidia only and even under the old system ATI video cards suck for folding (personal opinion). You can configure an idle schedule script. I have not done that but others have. It tends not to be as simple as you'd think. Perhaps this will help...

This is the very first day these WU's and the new benchmarking system have been released. Everything is still in closed beta. However, the forums are read-only to non beta-team members, so if you do some research and fiddling you can possibly figure out how do make it work. You are not...

Kelper's currently have issues. They require a new core that still has problems and is still in closed-beta. Currently, Fermi's are much more reliable. I'm sure that will eventually change but when I cannot predict. That is not to say you can't fold on them but I wouldn't invest large...

With a little luck, you should see my PPD go sky high with no change in HW: http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=22808&start=15#p227210 A preliminary estimate indicates a change from ~70K PPD to ~450K PPD with the new WU's and new GPU benchmarking system.

Just as a longevity report. I just got the machine back from my niece. Over the year, the DVD faceplate had broke off; one of the battery sliders broke off and is still rattling around inside the case; and the reason she returned it to me was that it no longer powers up. Luckily, there is a...

I'm sure some people here won't like it, but it is the way it will be! Announcement Discussion

Big drop in bigadv PPD Thought you folks might like to know ...

You have insulted me with your insults. Shame on you! You have pissed me off enough that I would be ignoring you, if I wasn't a moderator. So just ignore us, find some SAS experts elsewhere. Perhaps the people at StorageReview (or somewhere else) can be of more use. It should be very easy...

I recently got 2 Seagate 1.5TB drives at a real bargin. My local Best Buy had an open box 5900RPM 1.5TB drive for $80. I took it home, and it was bad (Didn't surprise me at all considering open-box). I returned it to the store, and they were willing to exchange it rather than return money...

It seems to me that 1.5b is Intel getting off really cheap. Either AMD must be desperate or that cross-licensing agreement is very valuable and/or necessary for AMD's future survival: I find it hard to believe that Intel is getting as much as AMD from the cross-licensing.

Are you sure you don't mean a really expensive crappy camera?

Also, there have been plastic washers. I too would think that grounding points would be very reasonable, and I suspect that they are used as such. Don't forget, that even if you use the washers, the brass standoffs still touch the back of the board and can be used as grounding points. Perhaps...

No, those washers have been in existence for as long as I can remember. At one time they used rubber, then they went to a very stiff almost ceramic washer and now they are all paper. For the most part, except for the most obsessive builders, they are not used and I can't say that I've seen a...

Any online retailer that ran 1M transactions per second would quickly run out of customers! Then there's also network bandwidth; CPU resources; and would undoubtably need more storage capacity than SSD's could currently produce with any current technologies.

Those washers are there to protect the motherboard from shorts caused by the mounting screws accidentally touching an electricly active part of the motherboard..

Have you tried scanning from the disk manager (Computer->manage->storage->disk management). There is an action that specificlly rescans your disk drives and I've found that I can hot-swap without rebooting from there.

You might look into Windows 7 XP mode as the least in-obtrusive sandbox. I haven't played with it, but as I understand it, you get to run the XP apps (within the VM) from within Windows 7 using just a regular shortcut.

I did send the MB back and Gigabyte sent me a new one that seems to work fine. That of course destroyed my inertia so when it got back, I replaced my 9 small HD's with two 1.5's; then I reinstalled everything from scratch and the system seems to be totally stable.

Retail fans are fine. One can usually do better but it certainly isn't necessary unless you are OC'ing.

Yes, I was notified that this was reported.

Ouch, The first one, was not a very big deal. This one, may be though.

I really like the ITX concept and find that for machines that are relatively low-end the compromises are well worth the limitations.

If you can go to the web site, and scroll a bit, then you may be able to get to the new posts page. From there make a favorite that goes there automatically and start StorageForum from that page.

Your OK, is significantly different than my OK. Fair enough.

Just because marketing forces PS's to have high ISO settings does not mean that any photograph taken at those speeds are acceptable. To get acceptable high ISO photographs requires a larger sensor than PS's have which currently means SLR.

If you want low-light, then you are almost stuck with an SLR as opposed to a point and shoot. The PS's just plain don't have the sensor size needed regardless of how they advertise them: A noisy ISO 400 is what they offer, at best.

Parallel port modes? It's been years since I needed to deal with those. All the newer printers are USB. Now, boot order: theres something setup needs...