Is the performance of F@H effected by installing the CUDA drivers?

[covert24]

If so, by how much, if not, tell me why i bought into this crap?

 

[covert24]

thats cool dont respond fellow folders. i know where i am not wanted

 

[jonesthewine]

Covert, chill a bit. You should allow time for people to read and consider your question...two and a half hours is not very much time.

The answer to your question is yes. All current nVidia drivers include the CUDA code/support/instructions. When the GPU clients was first released, late June IIRC, I installed and ran it without the CUDA drivers and the production was handicapped until installed the CUDA drivers.

Why do you think that you 'bought into crap'? What are you referring to? What card are you running, and are the drivers up to date? Is your performance below par? Do tell...

 

[covert24]

lol im just kidding i realize that when u post in this section of the forums it take sa bit longer for ppl to respond, but when they do its actually helpful...

i was under the impression that you actually had to navigate to the CUDA section of the website to download the drivers with CUDA. maybe i was wrong. im running a 8600GTS 512mb stock settings and yea my performance, more or less sucks with this card as of right now. latest drivers fresh from the CUDA section of nvidias site, and all that. now that i know all current nvidia drivers include CUDA, my question as been invalidated

 

[jonesthewine]

From experience I can say that an 8600GT is only going to complete around 1440 PPD, 3 workunits of 480 points each. Are you seeing production along those lines?

 

[Gravity]

dude, the card is aged yet will overclock with the EVGA precision tool. Google will lead you to some good settings or go to the evga forums and dig around there for settings. I have five of those cards folding and they will produce handily untill you can upgrade. Expect hear and fan noise and find a sweet spot on your overclock. The gpu client will sense unstable machine if you go to far.

Keep folding,

Gravity

 

[covert24]

hmmm i was not away of this particular tool from EVGA. downloaded it and got about a 10% overclock on the core and mem speeds. Thanks grav!

and yea thats about right jones. once the money comes rolling in for my birthday (WOOT!) ill be upgrading to either a 4870 or a gtx 260. havnet decided which one. but i do know that the gtx will destroy these WUs far better than the 4870 but i also game so idk what im going to do...

 

[jonesthewine]

Originally posted by: covert24
... once the money comes rolling in for my birthday (WOOT!) ill be upgrading to either a 4870 or a gtx 260. havnet decided which one. but i do know that the gtx will destroy these WUs far better than the 4870 but i also game so idk what im going to do...

The GTX 260 plows through a 480 point WU in just under 2 hours...so you get 12 per day, which is 5760 points if you don't pause the client to play games.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Can someone point me to where to download this EVGA precision tool? The download on EVGA's site is only for members, and I am not one, nor do I care to sign up.
(I mean the newest, 1.3.2)

 

[Keysplayr]

Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
Can someone point me to where to download this EVGA precision tool? The download on EVGA's site is only for members, and I am not one, nor do I care to sign up.
(I mean the newest, 1.3.2)

1.3.2 evga precision tool

 

[petrusbroder]

Thanks from me too, keysplayr2003!

 

[Keysplayr]

:beer:

 

[Denithor]

Definitely go for the GTX 260, maybe the 216 core version, as it will crank many many more ppd than the 4870 (they haven't optimized the GPU client to fully utilize the stream processors available on ATi hardware so it underperforms nVidia pretty badly).

 

[Gravity]

I got the 260 gtx, 216 core. It cranks a frame in just under a minute. Using the latest cuda drivers, not sure on the PPD. who can keep track?


Keep folding,

Gravity