1650 ppd on a 3850 - does this seem right?

KansaKilla · **Posted:** Tue Apr 28, 2009 11:41 am

Q6600 with a 3850. Core priority on the console SMP client is set to idle. Core priority on the systray version of the GPU client is set to "slightly higher."

1650 ppd from the 3850.

2300 ppd from the cpu.

Is this about right?

BTW--I bit the bullet and assigned 100% to the cpu client instead of previous 90% per Aristide. Pandora will have to stutter.

haysdb · **Posted:** Wed Apr 29, 2009 6:34 am

I wonder if you could do anything with priorities? FAH should be running at a priority just above the idle process, but that would be worth verifying. Pandora is a browser app so there isn't a lot you can do about that, except try bumping the priority of your browser by one step to see if it helps with the stuttering.

aristide1 · **Posted:** Wed Apr 29, 2009 1:12 pm

I use Bill2's Process Manager. GPU is 1 setting above average, and SMP is dead last, ie only when there's nothing else to do.

Does my video seem a little slow when scrolling in 2D? Yes. Video and other stuff works just fine.

Bill2s PM can be had over at MajorGeeks, and it remembers settings so you don't have to reprogram it every time you give your system DAS BOOT.

I think KKs PPD are about right. If you're running Windows, any version except 7, then you would gain points running that affinity program and 2 iterations of SMP. Stanford doesn't like it but it's worth 1000PPD on average. Problem is Windows doesn't distribute the work efficiently, and the last core doesn't do all that much (another reason not worry about cpu allocation). Win 7 resolves this. Not a problem with Linux, they always got more PPD in SMP with identical hardware.

KansaKilla · **Posted:** Wed Apr 29, 2009 4:09 pm

Do you prefer Bill2's process manager over Process Lasso or affinity changer?

aristide1 · **Posted:** Wed Apr 29, 2009 6:28 pm

I have zip experience with the others, and Bills worked for an newb like me.

KansaKilla · **Posted:** Thu Apr 30, 2009 6:25 pm

aristide1 wrote:

I think KKs PPD are about right. If you're running Windows, any version except 7, then you would gain points running that affinity program and 2 iterations of SMP.

Can you run two iterations of SMP with a GPU folding at the same time? And it's an ATI card, not an Nvidia with that low CPU usage with the most recent drivers.

aristide1 · **Posted:** Thu Apr 30, 2009 7:53 pm

Whats your CPU usage look like? If its like 50% (1 cpu full load) then forget it.

KansaKilla · **Posted:** Fri May 01, 2009 6:14 am

it's full usage. i've assigned the systray version of the gpu client to "slightly higher" and the console version to "idle."

1650 ppd on a 3850 - does this seem right?

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