Folding Forum

I've been watching all the chatter for months regards upcoming clients for ATI cards- and I would truly like a simple answer to a simple question without all the references to this link and that link- will the upcoming GPU client work on ATI 3870X2 cards- yes or no please. I am a loyal folder runnin...

ok you guru's- given the new gpu client will be an ATI thing- will it support Crossfire? or just one gpu at a time?

thanks ivoshiee- so it's ATI- that's ok- I am on Nvidia now but, if they won't do the right thing and support folding then I've got some good cards available for a good price. I don't study the ATI cards- is the new 3870 the best they have now? are they planning any higher end cards in the near futu...

thanks toTOW, I am running Nvidia in SLI currently (2x7900GT overclocked) but, best I can tell folding doesn't support these cards, so I am running folding in my dual core CPU, I'd like to add a GPU that will fold to the mix as I understand the performance of GPU's with regard to folding is excellen...

Any news on a new GPU client? I want to purchase a GPU to fold as well but, can't determine what to get, I hear there is a new client on the way, is that the case? if so, will it be weeks or months or longer? I am currently running a 2core AMD, a core duo, a pentium m and two PS3's and now I'd like ...

7up1n3; so is two instances of the single core code running in a dual core cpu better than running the smp code in a dual core cpu? i'm running the smp in my AMD oced 4800+, seems to run well, but, the chatter back and forth here leads me to believe I should reconsider. advice please.

well guys, it's great going back and forth with you all- i'm rethinking some things- I was just going to buy another PS3 or two but, now that I am hearing about the performance possibilities of the new ATI cards I might just hold a bit until the new GPU client comes out- any guess, is it weeks or mo...

alancabler- thanks much for the additional info. I am running the SMP client on my AMD X2, deleted it and was going to go with one instance of the 5.x client and a GPU as well but, it seems the folding guys don't run a GPU client for NVIDIA cards and I'm running SLI with 2x7900GT's. So I will probab...

so there you go, in the near term the answer seem to be for me to buy as many PS3's as I can afford and run them as folding machines. If at some point as PC or PC with a better DAMMIT GPU would be a better investment then I can go that way, honestly the form factor of the PS3 is better for me and it...

ac- here's another set of ideas- given a fixed budget- given gpu's cost 200 to 300ish, given a PS3 costs 399- my, unfounded on fact, feel is that buying PS3's to run as folding machines is probably the cheapest alternative as well as probably at least hightly productive for folding; given you seem t...

alancabler- you are just what I was looking for- perfect- thanks for the technically founded information which I will turn into advice- so what I take from your input is this: I am going to buy another PS3 because they crank- I will do this right away. But, what you seem to indicate is the ATI gpu's...

I am running the SMP client but it still doesn't seem to load my dual cores. Also, i'm not concerned with power consumption- i'm trying to determine if a PS3 or quad core or multiple GPU machine produces more output for Folding. If it's that tight of a conversation hell i'll just buy 5 or 10 PS3's a...

see, now we are getting somewhere- that's a great possibility- do I pull together a PC running multiple GPU's and would that out work a PS3 or a Quad Core from chipzilla? interesting idea, so it wouldn't take a quad core to service a dual GPU PC would it? I run SLI now with my AMD dual core but, I g...

ah- nice- you guys are great with your feedback. Yes, I would go with Linux if I went with the quad core. I could probably buy 2 or 3 PS3's for the price of one credible quad core- would that produce more computational results than one quad core from chipzilla?

great to see replies so far! So, let's not consider power, and let's not consider credit- which machine, a PS3 cell processor or a Quad can execute more computational results for folding? Also, I don't care about the dual use thing, I've got a PS3 for use as a PS3 and I've got PC's for PC's- i'm tyi...