Thread: TeamPlayerGaming Folding Team

Originally Posted by bust331

I may use my PS3 if I can figure out how.

Its built into the Life With Playstation app in the network menu. There is also a guide on the F@H website

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Originally Posted by Toad

Just in case anyone missed it earlier, NVIDIA GPUs are fantastic at folding and will do 10x better or more than even multiple CPUs working together. ATI GPUs are also much better than CPUs at folding, but are way behind NVIDIA GPUs. Playstation3s are strong and very low power (100W-200W) folding devices.

Basically, a GPU or Playstation 3 is going to kick the crap out of your processor's ability to fold. If you have heat issues, just use the GPU.

Yea, my system gets HOT when folding! Don't get me wrong, I have an excellent water cooling loop, so the temps stay safe, but my case radiates heat like a bitch! The room gets so hot that I have to crank the fan and leave the door wide open for the temp to be tolerable for me to be in the office when running my GPUs and CPU at 100%.

The heat isn't as bad when just running the GPUs, so I agree with Toad that the GPUs are the way to go... especially if you have a decent nVIDIA card.

Originally Posted by CivilWars

I need some people with shitty systems to join, so I can feel better about myself.

Every little bit helps. At least you are participating and contributing to the cause.

Stickied.

I had a productive night and processed about 12 WUs. My office is pretty warm, so I shut down my current WUs so I can cool things down again before work.

If you are using a GPU and cranking out work units within 4-8 hours, I would recommend that you always check the "Get bigger work units" box if you are using one of the system tray or console clients. If you are using the FAH Version 7 all-in-one client then I think it automatically has you doing the bigger work units. I think you get a higher score for bigger work units, especially when you can finish them pretty quickly (i.e. leave the GPU folding for awhile).

Here is a GPU folding power assessment current as of August 2010:

What is the best graphics card for folding? | bit-tech.net

The NVIDIA 460 GTX 768 MB version is pretty power-efficient, scores 8500 or so per day and is $125 with rebate at newegg. The 480 GTX is still over $300.

Edit: They made the same assessment for 2011! I was looking at that old site yesterday and bookmarked it, but apparently the new one came out today. What a convenient coincidence.

What is the Best Graphics Card for Folding 2011? | bit-tech.net

it seems like the NVIDIA GTX 560 Ti is about $240 and does 13000 points per day, but also uses about as much power as the 460 GTX so is more power efficient (if you have to pay your electric bill). They noted that you should make sure that the 3rd party manufacturer put a good cooler on the NVIDIA hardware to keep it cool.

I'm putting this here in case someone reads this thread while wanting to make a bargain PC Gaming PC... not bad to have a nice graphics card that runs efficiently, isn't too expensive and will fold like a champ.

summer is coming. Time to separate the men from the boys. Good thing Uncle Sam pays my electric bill
I am adding another GPU folder as soon as HeavyG sells me a new PSU

Welcome to the team Super BadAce.

NVIDIA GTX 560 Ti on Newegg.com - SPARKLE SX560T1024D5MH GeForce GTX 560 Ti (Fermi) 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card = $229, and has a $25 rebate on newegg to bring it to $204. Powerful gaming graphics card and it's super at folding! I'm tempted to upgrade my PC...

Originally Posted by Toad

NVIDIA GTX 560 Ti on Newegg.com - SPARKLE SX560T1024D5MH GeForce GTX 560 Ti (Fermi) 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card = $229, and has a $25 rebate on newegg to bring it to $204. Powerful gaming graphics card and it's super at folding! I'm tempted to upgrade my PC...

I was looking at that as well. I am also considering two GTX 460s as it looks like I can get two of them for around $300.

For my 2nd rig, of course. The GTX 570s really crank out some numbers. I think yesterday I cranked out 25k points.