FAH V7.1.43 Beta 5

[great_big_abyss]

The forum itself

public beta 5 build 7.1.43

Installed it on both my machines. Allowed my previous clients to finish their WU's. Uninstalled them, including HFM.net. Installed this new client which installs clients for both GPU and SMP, as well as a monitoring software.

Have seen my PPD just about triple so far, oddly enough. But I'm not complaining.

PPD on my Xeon was originally less than 1000. Now it's indicating 8200. Not bad.

Update:

So, on my main gaming machine, I've been folding V7 for 24hrs now. My 965 (smp) is folding at about 3000ppd (compared to 1800 on the old client).

The biggest change is with my GPU. My 5830 is now folding at about 6500ppd. Under the old gpu client it would fold at about 1000ppd. this is quite the improvement. Apparently this new client is optimized for opencl 1.2 as well as Cuda. I changed the client-type to Advanced, so hopefully the next WU it picks up will be an experimental x16. Should give another decent boost to ppd. I'll let you know how I fare.

The Xeon is folding at about 8500ppd now (it picked up a 9500point WU). This is compared to about 2500ppd under the old smp client.

[frontier204]

My PPD between v6 and v7 was about the same, although I just dropped the V7 client for VMWare folding, and there was no point to keep the GPU on v7 because it was easier to see all my production on HFM.NET.

Is it the client (FAHControl) telling you the PPD is very high or did you notice it in the stats? If you pause the folding a lot or restart your computer the PPD counter goes haywire. IIRC the only thing V7 has over V6 for actual crunching is the new work units for AMD cards.

[great_big_abyss]

Well, I've only had it for a day now, so I haven't noticed anthing with the stats. I also very rarely pause or restart my compys, so...should be no issue there.

Yikes, okay, so it's not 3x as good. My original smp client would do 1000 - 1500. This new one is currently doing 2330.

Mind you, that could have something to do with the fact that I came home and started gaming, so...extra CPU usage there.

[great_big_abyss]

bump...see update above.

[SugarJ]

While the upgrade for AMD GPU folding is no surprise (Stanford says all AMD users should use version 7), I am surprised by your SMP results. Enough that I am going to change my clients tonight and test it out.

[great_big_abyss]

It might just be that I haven't been folding long enough under the new client to get accurate PPD numbers yet. That being said, BOTH of my processors seem to have experienced PPD jumps.

[chrisk]

Interesting results. I have not been using v7 for months so keep us updated.

[SugarJ]

Well, after 24 hours using the v7 client on my machine my PPD is exactly the same. SMP folding on my i7 920, and GPU on my 580.

[lowfat]

I tried the client out today and there was definitely a slight decrease in PPD over using the linuxrouter VM. Forgot to test the HD7970 though, guess I'll have to get on that.

[great_big_abyss]

I suppose that my old clients were ill-suited to my machine. I've definately noticed an increase on both the gpu and the cpu side.