Ati 7.3 drivers support F@H GPU
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Ati 7.3 drivers support F@H GPU
For those who want to fold something on ATI GPU's, the new ATI Catalyst drivers version 7.3 do support folding@home.
http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html
http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html
It runs fine with me, no problems whatsoever. ( C2D E6600, ASUS EAX 1950PRO), win XP.
But most of the time I am not running folding@home. With the gpu client running the entire system is reacting somewhat slowly, so that it is irritating when you are working with it.
And the FAH GPU client uses a lot of cpu power also to get the gpu working.( is uses 1 core). (but, it is still 20-30x faster than the cpu clients )
To save power the standby function is also beautiful, especially when I am not behind my desk. I only tried folding@home to see if it did work, and when I am running FAH my system is heating up, and making more noise.
I also tried the SMP client (windows) but that one wasn't able to send the results back .
But most of the time I am not running folding@home. With the gpu client running the entire system is reacting somewhat slowly, so that it is irritating when you are working with it.
And the FAH GPU client uses a lot of cpu power also to get the gpu working.( is uses 1 core). (but, it is still 20-30x faster than the cpu clients )
To save power the standby function is also beautiful, especially when I am not behind my desk. I only tried folding@home to see if it did work, and when I am running FAH my system is heating up, and making more noise.
I also tried the SMP client (windows) but that one wasn't able to send the results back .
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Any idea how much of the cpu is used?sjoukew wrote:And the FAH GPU client uses a lot of cpu power also to get the gpu working.( is uses 1 core). (but, it is still 20-30x faster than the cpu clients )
Did you ever find out why it couldn't send the results?sjoukew wrote:To save power the standby function is also beautiful, especially when I am not behind my desk. I only tried folding@home to see if it did work, and when I am running FAH my system is heating up, and making more noise. I also tried the SMP client (windows) but that one wasn't able to send the results back .
1 thread running full speed, that is 1 cpu core. It polls the vga card to see if it has finished it's work, and delivering new work( I thought )aristide1 wrote:Any idea how much of the cpu is used?sjoukew wrote:And the FAH GPU client uses a lot of cpu power also to get the gpu working.( is uses 1 core). (but, it is still 20-30x faster than the cpu clients )
No, I didn't bother either anymore. Because it was a beta client it had a tight schedule, and the work unit was far beyond the due date, so I just thought -> I stick to the gpu client, that works well.aristide1 wrote:Did you ever find out why it couldn't send the results?sjoukew wrote:To save power the standby function is also beautiful, especially when I am not behind my desk. I only tried folding@home to see if it did work, and when I am running FAH my system is heating up, and making more noise. I also tried the SMP client (windows) but that one wasn't able to send the results back .