Which would get me the most points fastest?

[Perineum]

Originally Posted by Airshehan

Okay, so your saying that I should change the priority of the vmware client to low and the GPU client to above? Are you sure there will be point gains and no slow downs?

That's what I've found....

[Airshehan]

Okay, cool! Thanks for all the info guys!

@geokilla, I don't think I'm gonna downclock or overclock anything right now. But, thanks! BTW, my gaming rig won't be running 24/7.

[chrisk]

The consensus is you set the vmware clients to low and the gpu to above. The main thing to ensure is that the vmware clients are a few notches below the gpu client, as the vmware client will starve the gpu client for cpu cycles.

[Airshehan]

On the "Boost Your PPD with VMWare" guide, the author says that in the vmware SMP client settings, he chose 2 cores per SMP instead of 4 (he has a quad-core). And, he is running two instances of this. Would it be better to do what he is doing or run one smp client using all 4 cores?

[Arinoth]

No... you want to run 2 cores per instance, just is more optimal and you get more PDD this way. You run 2 instances to use all of your 4 cores

[Airshehan]

Okay, Thanks!

[Airshehan]

Hey guys, I have a bit of a problem. The IP Adress the client gives me, doesn't work! Does anyone know why?

[Arinoth]

Do you have hamatchi or some kind of vpn running? If you do you need to disable the adapter because vmware isn't smart and tries to use that "ip address"

[Airshehan]

Thanks Arinoth, I tried all possible solutions and it didn't work. I have decided that I am going to run 4 instances of the normal CPU tray client. What priority should I set the CPU client as? Thanks guys!

[Perineum]

Put the cpu to low...

Case in point:

I was looking at my FAHlog at a machine I had set up.... it was getting a little over 2000PPD on each VM instance for the CPU, but the 8800GT on it was getting a little over 1000PPD. It's been running for months, restarted because of an update, and I guess I forgot to set prifinitty to load with Windows.

After I loaded up Prifinitty it set the GPU clients to "above" and the cpu clients to "low" and now I'm getting 2000PPD on each VM instance (same as before) and I'm getting just about 5000PPD (vs ~1000PPD) on the GPU client.

In most systems the GPU client is the one that is going to give you the most PPD.... so let the CPU starve as long as the GPU is happy.