AMD/ATI owners Rejoice!

[Tattysnuc]

... you can now run multiple clients per card, which appears to increase their output (with the .7 beta client) to near NVidia levels!

See http://forums.extremeoverclocking.co...d.php?t=360415

[Rob_B]

~1000ppd increase, nothing massive but useful and it's such a shame people need to go to these lengths

[Tattysnuc]

~1000ppd increase, nothing massive but useful and it's such a shame people need to go to these lengths

It's a gain, and one that doesn't appear to be at too great a cost, heat wise anyway. It does go to show that the problem with the AMD setup is entirely software, as everyone suspected, so that gives me hope that one day they'll be on an even footing. SOMEHOW.

[doyll49]

Even footing would be nice, but I'm not holding my breath.

[Queelis]

The comments seem to say it's coming at the expense of 100% CPU load. That's horrible PPW(att).

[Tattysnuc]

The comments seem to say it's coming at the expense of 100% CPU load. That's horrible PPW(att).

Oh well, so much for that for a game of soldiers. The initial reports did look very promising when I read it, but it seems like the reality is somewhat less sensational. Doh!

[watercooled]

I gave up on f@h a while back after the apparent lack of effort going into the software, especially on the AMD side of things. For the amount of people folding + spending money on both hardware and electricity I'd expect a lot more from their side...

[Tattysnuc]

I gave up on f@h a while back after the apparent lack of effort going into the software, especially on the AMD side of things. For the amount of people folding + spending money on both hardware and electricity I'd expect a lot more from their side...

Couldn't agree with you more. I must admit, I'm thinking with my next pc upgrade, I'll probably go AMD and then start looking at bitcoin

[Golden Dragoon]

I really want to go to ATi cards again, at least with my htpc, the video quality of the GT240 that is in there is ok, but simply isn't as good as the video quality of even the ATi integrated on the motherboard, but I can't run both as the nVidia drivers disable cuda when an running with an ati card in the system, and although I can change that with some hacks, running dvi and sound cables to my tv isn't as good as just using hdmi.

[Domestic_Ginger]

the 7k series has better gpucpu capability but I think that will not run mining very well as the 5 shader arrangement did some things exceptionally well.

I think ATI's insistance on using blowers in thier ref. cards is putting some people due to the noise.

[Tattysnuc]

the 7k series has better gpucpu capability but I think that will not run mining very well as the 5 shader arrangement did some things exceptionally well.

I think ATI's insistance on using blowers in thier ref. cards is putting some people due to the noise.

Interesting comment about the blowers - Bit-tech's review has them commended for their quietness (on the 7970).

[Domestic_Ginger]

Maybe they are getting better then; I just read the performance summaries!

[watercooled]

Nvidia stock coolers are also centrifugal blowers, but that in itself doesn't mean it will be more or less noisy than an axial fan (bear in mind laptop coolers are nearly always centrifugal); unless you use a triple-slot cooler or something, an axial fan will have to work harder to move the same amount of air through the cooling fins as the air flow has to be turned through 90 degrees. Graphics cards aren't an ideal shape for cooling, considering they often produce more heat than the CPU in a PC, but they do have the advantage of being able to exhaust out of the back of the case.