Best Setup?

[PROJECT2501]

Hello chaps!

After having had my PC down for about 7 weeks recently I've finally got my act together and got it working again. As part of the repairs I've fitted a HD4870 and realise that I can get the GPU2 client running from it.

I'm currently running a Q6600 o/c to 3.3GHz with the SMP client. I'm not sure what my PPD is but according to my stats on kakaostats it's about 2000 a day.

I was going to run the GPU2 client AND the SMP client simultaneously but on the F@H website it said not to run both at the same time because you'd suffer massive slowdown. I'm sure there's a way though and I think that it involves this affinity stuff that people keep talking about.

Could someone please tell me: a) Is it possible to run both together? and b) how to do this?

If there's a link you can just point me at it and I'll be on my way.

Oh, and Salazaar, we are neck and neck. But for how much longer? Can't beat a bit of friendly competition!

[PeterStoba]

It is possible to run both at once, I know people who do. I'll find a guide now

[Salazaar]

Damnit! I think you've just past me, you're folding as SammyD1986 right?

It's finally time to buy that quad core methinks...

[PROJECT2501]

I've managed to answer my own question by using Task Manager so now all is good I've got cores 0, 1 and 2 handling the FahCore_a1.exe processes and core 3 taking care of fah.exe for the GPU2 client.

FahMon shows that I'm now getting 3381 PPD total which - to be honest - is a little disappointing. I thought that the 4870 would be doing a much better job than 1853 PPD... Are we likely to see any improvement in these figures with subsequent releases of Catalyst and GPU Clients?

Yeah, I'm folding under SammyD1986. We must unite as friendly adversaries in order to save mankind from the evil of Protein! Or something...

[G4Z]

1800ppd from the GPU is more than I get from my quad!

My X1900XT only did 300ppd so I would say your getting pretty damn good performance there. I am planning on getting a 4870 at the end of the month and finally moving to vista x64 myself

[PROJECT2501]

I hear that some people are producing some extremely good returns with Nvidia cards... Anyone rocking one of those? How does it shape up?