Folding@Home FAQ's

[ShyguyXPC]

Agreed on the Customer Service and warranty for EVGA, as well as XFX being up there too, but as to the Co-Op Edition, EVGA was just the first to get the new single PCB boards for the 295's out, a few others also have versions of it as well, PNY being one, for a bit cheaper, Newegg.com - PNY VCGGTX295SXPB GeForce GTX 295 1792MB 896 (448 x 2)-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card - Desktop Graphics / Video Cards

but even as decent as they are, PNY is a shadow of its former self from the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Gen Geforce cards era.

[Networker4321]

Agreed on the Customer Service and warranty for EVGA, as well as XFX being up there too, but as to the Co-Op Edition, EVGA was just the first to get the new single PCB boards for the 295's out, a few others also have versions of it as well, PNY being one, for a bit cheaper, Newegg.com - PNY VCGGTX295SXPB GeForce GTX 295 1792MB 896 (448 x 2)-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card - Desktop Graphics / Video Cards

but even as decent as they are, PNY is a shadow of its former self from the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Gen Geforce cards era.

[Networker4321]

Agreed on the Customer Service and warranty for EVGA, as well as XFX being up there too, but as to the Co-Op Edition, EVGA was just the first to get the new single PCB boards for the 295's out, a few others also have versions of it as well, PNY being one, for a bit cheaper, Newegg.com - PNY VCGGTX295SXPB GeForce GTX 295 1792MB 896 (448 x 2)-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card - Desktop Graphics / Video Cards

but even as decent as they are, PNY is a shadow of its former self from the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Gen Geforce cards era.

Shy,

My Gigabyte GTX 295 ( it's anVidia card ) arrived today. Now, what steps to uninstall the card I have in there which us an nVidia midrange. Do I shut the machine down first and uninstall the program for it ( which I have not found yet ).

Then, leave alone or download a new client from the Stanford home page? I will likely still run it in the sys tray.

I'm sure there are directions in the box, haven't unpacked it all the way. I DO have a good 1000 watt Rosewill PSU so no worries there. The card looks to be an inch longer which may cause a reroute of the long sata cable from the bottom of the mobo all the way to the top slot in this monster Antec tower ( one side is partially transparent which is cool as there are seven blue LED fans spinnung with a BIG hinker on the top. The box is huge and comes with the two dongles I will need. There is a two wire S/PDIF I don't think I will need will I?

Any advice? I may PM KK, Harder or one of the "boyz" but I would bet lot's of people will hop on. I have noticed some old timers chiming in lately. I'm still a noob but since June 1 I have clawed my way up. Time to slow down Vass and Surreal's advance. Only two 1M slots to fight for!

Thanks,

[Networker4321]

For a couple more dollars you can get a EVGA Co-op card. Which EVGA has a MUCH better warranty and customer service should the worst happen. And the "co-op" version of the card runs cooler, and will overclock better. The main difference is instead of each core being on a separate PCB like "normal" 295's. Both GPU cores are on the same "board". It's newer tech.
Newegg.com - EVGA 017-P3-1295-AR CO-OP Edition GeForce GTX 295 1792MB 896 (448 x 2)-bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card - Desktop Graphics / Video Cards

Make sure you have a beefy power supply though. This card will tax it!

But from looking at your board, you have available 2x PCI 2.0 slots. So you could save a little bit of money and pick up a couple of 275's like JJ and Shy mentioned. You'd be getting about the same PPD as a single 295, and probably save ~$60 or so doing it. If you like the was that sounds then I'd suggest these:
Newegg.com - PNY VCGGTX275XPB GeForce GTX 275 896MB 448-bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card - Desktop Graphics / Video Cards

Again, make sure your PSU is up to the job. These things are THE most power hungry components in your tower.

Good luck!

Yep, got a great Rosewill 1000W PSU when I built that machine. The Gigabyte version ( it's nVidia ) of the GTX295 is what I got. Finally had time to install it last night but something is not right.

I downloaded the current nVidia drivers, uninstalled the ATI software from the 4850 that I had in there. Went to Standford and first pulled down the GPU client but it started running in the CMD window. It had a WU that s 2,500,000 steos and it completed in 3 hours.

But I wanted the SMP sys tray icon so I could check stats, pause work, etc so wiped the GPU and pulled down the 6.23 SMP client. It is not running fast as all. Working fine. Finishing jobs and starting new ones immediately.

The card seated flawlessly and I had an eight and a six pin plug from the former setup.

It's just slow and I go back to some URL's Aaron had supplied with update addresses and stanford URL for clients. Tried to set up Two GPU clients as he instructed with seoarate machine ID's and -gpu o & -gpu 1 in each config block but that an error in the one client thst esd working.

So, I am stuck and there are only two spaces available in the top 20 for Millionaires. Vass has probably passed me by now so we'll see how it ends up.

Any instruction appreciated.

Thanks,,,

[andy71480]

WOW , that is amazing, an super cool!

[Networker4321]

WOW , that is amazing, an super cool!

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Andy,

Go back to the first post in this thread and learn how to get started folding.

Anybody else noticed the stats? No_1Vern and Engracio are very close on scores.

Thanks,

[Networker4321]

Agreed on the Customer Service and warranty for EVGA, as well as XFX being up there too, but as to the Co-Op Edition, EVGA was just the first to get the new single PCB boards for the 295's out, a few others also have versions of it as well, PNY being one, for a bit cheaper, Newegg.com - PNY VCGGTX295SXPB GeForce GTX 295 1792MB 896 (448 x 2)-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card - Desktop Graphics / Video Cards

but even as decent as they are, PNY is a shadow of its former self from the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Gen Geforce cards era.

Shy,

The 295's are still in the Antec full size Mobo a gigabyte ED-X58-EP3. 4 GB matched Ozr mem, 3.93Mhx Intel at 7500.

For whatever reason I clicked on device manager and it shows (2) 295's installed, properties reveals that both devices are working correctly. Should i disable one? I am ashamed to say that FURmark showed the card running 3312. i AM ASHAMED THAT i POSTED IT. The GTS 250 in this machine benchmarked at 1112 !! What am I doing wrong ? I am going into the Nvidia Control panel and set it to Perforformannce instead of the Saver mode.

Help?

[ShyguyXPC]

OK, um, first your quoting a post from 5 months ago, 2nd, you said you 295's

Which would indicate to me Plural, meaning more than one, so whats the problem then, if its showing 2 295's?

as to Furmark... 3312, doesn't tell me much unless I knew what settings you had Furmark set for, options, resolution, etc.

as to running the cards separately, does Furmark support Quad SLI right now? if it does, it might not be scaling well.

so yes, disable one, or turn off SLI in control panel and test it, should test it at Dual SLI since thats native for the 295.





Might even be beneficial to start a new thread on this, rather than jacking the FAQ's thread for F@H...

[ShyguyXPC]

LOL, I read their post, and had to scroll back through the posts to see who's they copied, and it was one of your first replies in this Thread LOL...

oh well, at least you had the privilege of reporting them, if not for Spam, then possibly Plagiarism or Copyright infringements LOL.

I've been fortunate to do the same with Threads of Mine I started that people have spammed, although its irritating to see someone spam your thread, it is satisfying to report them LOL.

[Aaron_8015]

Figured I may as well bump this and add that the SMP client is much simpler to setup now... Will send KK a message and see if he can edit it.

[Nude_Lewd_Man]

Also, now it is bumped...it doesn't matter what reponse you give to the "WU size" prompt in the config, as it now only ever does the 'big' option...

It seems to be left in as an outdated option from the old versions, but hasn't been removed as most people will just drop the new EXE file to overwrite the previous one...without going through the configuration - and they don't want it to FUBAR due to the responses after that that will be in the config...

[ShyguyXPC]

Any word lately on GPU3 and its Radeon Support? Any Improvements to Radeon PPD ratings, or are they still beating around the bush with getting that taken care of and still catering to Nvidia?

Reason I ask, is I'm about to Jump on a new Video card, and still debating whether GTX 470 or Radeon 6870 (or 5870 if I get a good deal on it).

6870 Looks to be best deal for price range, regardless of F@H performance, as far as Gaming goes looks to be a good option, but have seen some New, Open Box and Recertified 470's for $240 or less in last month or two.

[Aaron_8015]

There is still poor performance from radeon cards with the new GPU3 (it only benifits fermi from what I have seen).

Im waiting for the GTX560 to drop which should be soon (specs look good over the GTX460).

[ShyguyXPC]

Yeah, I'd consider the 460, solely for the DX11 Tesselation stuff, but the rest of the performance from the benches I've seen isn't enough over the GTX 285 I have now, to warrant dropping nearly $200 on it.

I'm sure it folds a bit better, but right now, Folding is just an extra bonus, my main purpose/priority is for the games right now.

if the 560 performs better, and much closer to the 470 than the current 460/465 models, then I might consider it, but I'm really wanting to spend the bucks sometime this week if I can, before they disappear again on me.




At least down the road here, in the next couple weeks I'll have an Older Socket 939 System that I could install the 285 in for solely folding, along with the GT 220.

I sold one of the 9600GSO's to a friend, and holding on to the other for them till the spring/summer, when they plan on buying that and doing SLI (he's buying the SLI 980a Chipset AMD board this week, and doing a new Budget Gaming system build.

games he plays right now, the GSO is more than enough, Down the road he could use the 2nd GSO for SLI...

or who knows, if he has enough cash I'd even be willing to sell the 285 then sometime...

but the 9800GTX went out to another friend, along with a CPU cooler and case fan, and with $60 from them, plus the old parts (Socket 939 above) I'm getting back in trade.

so even if I did go Crossfire with the main system I should have something to fall back on to run the 285 and/or GT 220 and the 2nd GSO until whatever happens in regards to the GPU's being sold etc.

[Aaron_8015]

Well from what ive read the 560 is going to drop very soon.... It should be on par (or close) to the 470, hoping for better things after an overclock.

Nvidia's new mid-range card has 384 Stream Processors and runs at 820MHz for the GPU, 1640MHz for shaders and 4000MHz for 1024MB of GDDR5 memory paired up with a 256-bit memory interface. The GTX 560 name isn't carved in stone and although partners are internaly refering to it as the GTX 560, Nvidia didn't officially announce the name and the card could easily become the GTX 570 SE for that matter.

[ShyguyXPC]

Wish there was a definitive date set for these releases, but lately Stealthy launches of these cards seem to be all the rage.

Radeon 6800's, 6900's, GTX 500 series. All have had tentative estimated release date ranges, but they've all also been released with out much Hype and "hoopla".

Either way, gaming wise, as far as single card performance goes, either of the 3 should be in the same ranges, so can't go wrong that way.

Its just a matter of Deciding Crossfire down the road, or PPD ratings for F@H... chances are Crossfire will win out in the end.

but really not sure.


At least now though I know that GPU3 is still crap for Radeon cards.

Would be nice if they could step on it for those, and get the support there, but I wonder if Nvidia Isn't behind it in some way, "pointing them" in a direction with F@H client to gear it mainly to their cards and less so than Radeons...

Unless its just really taking them that long to support them.

If it were me I would of focused on ATI/AMD support first and foremost considering the already huge Lead Nvidia Cards have over Radeons for F@H. AND considering AMD released the 5 Series before Fermi Was out...

Should of been enough to get their priorities straightened, as it was bad enough 3 and 4 series Radeons were already behind.

but as usual Nvidia Takes priority and Radeon owners are left behind when it comes to F@H.