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[yeshuas]

Darn, got another pair of 511s! Gonna be a bad day today. Oh well, the sooner we can get the 511 projects done the sooner we can move on with using better and faster projects.

I have gotten almost all 511's today working on another one right now myself. How long are they taking you to crunch through, it is taking my machine like 2 hr and 9 min

[kd1966 Profile YIM]

ya'll are kicking my hind end.................. I'm still going over how to work the x64 SMP client. Definately don't want to kill any of my multicore systems......

[yeshuas]

ya'll are kicking my hind end.................. I'm still going over how to work the x64 SMP client. Definately don't want to kill any of my multicore systems......

GPU folding is the way to go for me, at least. I don't play games on my computer so it doen't affect what I do, which is work and the work I do isn't video intense sooooooooooooo

[augie]

Darn, got another pair of 511s! Gonna be a bad day today. Oh well, the sooner we can get the 511 projects done the sooner we can move on with using better and faster projects.

I have gotten almost all 511's today working on another one right now myself. How long are they taking you to crunch through, it is taking my machine like 2 hr and 9 min

Takes me 3.5 hours per GPU @3,5K PPD on my OC'd cards so that looks right. I did a test last night by bringing one card back to default speeds to see what happens and it went down to 3K PPD on the 511 so this one doesn't improve much from an OC as opposed to the 353s and 384s which go from about 3.5K to 5K and 4.5K respectively on an OC'd card.

[kd1966 Profile YIM]

Yeah, my plan is to run the GPU while I'm at work and kill it on evenings when I want to play CODx, I suppose same strategy with the SMP multicore. From what I can tell I need 2 clients; the GPU and the multicore??

[augie]

ya'll are kicking my hind end.................. I'm still going over how to work the x64 SMP client. Definately don't want to kill any of my multicore systems......

LOL@kill systems. Just watch your temps is all, you can always dial down the resources used if you need them. BTW, yesterday's PPD was very nice to see @ 3K PPD. My rig is loaded up with needing about %50 CPU and 1.2GB RAM with virtual SMP. The GPU's only need some %3 CPU per card. You'll be fine.

[augie]

Yeah, my plan is to run the GPU while I'm at work and kill it on evenings when I want to play CODx, I suppose same strategy with the SMP multicore. From what I can tell I need 2 clients; the GPU and the multicore??

Ya, and that would be running SMP in a virtual Ubuntu setup like I have. I have a preliminary guide of how to do that in the staff lounge but it's not ready for beginner users yet, hmm maybe I'll clean it up and post it openly for those adventurous types. I don't know what kind of CPU your game requires but of course suspend the GPU folding while playing. You'll have to find your particular 'sweet spot' as to CPU/memory use as rebooting the VMWare/Ubuntu does take a while.

EDIT: I just noticed the pause button on VMWare, I'll check right now to see what happens. BBIAB

[kd1966 Profile YIM]

So you don't run the GPU client and the multi core client simultaneously on the Windows system you are booted to?

[yeshuas]

So you don't run the GPU client and the multi core client simultaneously on the Windows system you are booted to?

I don't, I am just running the GPU sys tray client

[augie]

So you don't run the GPU client and the multi core client simultaneously on the Windows system you are booted to?

Nope, the best PPD is in virtual from what I've seen though you could try running both in Win, I'm not sure at this point.

BTW, to answer my above edit, VMWare takes about 1 min. to suspend and about 10 secs to bring back up if you need the CPU cycles for the game. It's about %12 to %17 for me with a 300MB reduction of memory. Mind you I'm on Vista.