Why are my points dropping?

**batmeat** · April 20th, 2009, 10:53 AM

I just upgraded my cpu to a core 2 quad at 3.2Ghz. My vid card is still a GTX260. My points have been steadily dropping to where the last update showed 1900ppd. What gives? before the upgrade I was pushing just over 6k.

**KarmaKiller** · April 20th, 2009, 11:06 AM

Different WU's?
Stanford varies them quite a lot lately it seems. I saw the same thing before I started shutting down my clients. (only have 1 GPU going now, and the PPD have been slashed in half on it.)
IDK if they are trying to make the GPU and CPU more equal as far as PPD, or what. But your not the only one, I can say that.

**sharder8** · April 20th, 2009, 01:43 PM

My points have dropped a lot . . . but that's because I've been donating to Sarah for the past 3 weekends and this is the 4th and last weekend I'll be donating for a while.

My goal was hopefully to give her 140K . . . and it looks like that's about what it will end up being.

I'm running Butch's card in one of my machines and I've been thinking that it's not getting the points it should be . . . been meaning to check into that . . . but haven't had the time.

Harder

**2monsters** · April 20th, 2009, 01:49 PM

Originally Posted by sharder8

My points have dropped a lot . . . but that's because I've been donating to Sarah for the past 3 weekends and this is the 4th and last weekend I'll be donating for a while.

My goal was hopefully to give her 140K . . . and it looks like that's about what it will end up being.

I'm running Butch's card in one of my machines and I've been thinking that it's not getting the points it should be . . . been meaning to check into that . . . but haven't had the time.

Harder

I dont think Butch is running any clients of his own and if thats the case he is about average. That card gets 3000-4000ppd with the right overclock. Last i looked he was at like 3600ppd for 24 hrs.

@ batmeat: what drivers you got going there?

I went through this about a week or 2 ago. I mean I seriously that my points were getting stolen. I think it depends on alot on the wu's. The 1888pt wu's are killer because they take so long. Then if your like me shutting down your clients for a couple hours to game, that really screws with your ppd total.

**Sky King** · April 22nd, 2009, 01:39 PM

I have 3x linux SMPs running in VMs... two of them recently downloaded the brutal 5102 WUs, which takes me from 1800 PPD per VM, that complete in one day... down to 700 PPD per VM, and they take 5 days to complete. A quick 10,000+ point loss.

I don't mean to sound like a point wh***, I am not... but the whole idea of the point system is to tap into people's natural desire to measure, to excel, to compete... And once you decide that points don't need to be a measure of contribution, but can just be arbitrarily doled out--you are unwittingly undermining the genius of the system.

I guess it comes down to this... Stanford places a very high point premium on WUs that they need back very quickly--like same day or next day... And when they don't have enough of a queue of those to keep us power-folders busy, they have to dole us out less urgent units. The problem with these less-urgent units is they are HUGE, so instead of having you work lower point units for a day, you end up stuck with that unit for several days, almost a week. A few hours later, when urgent units are available again, you are out of the running for them, stuck running the lower-point monsters.

I would love to see these huge, multi-day units pointed up at a premium, not unlike short-deadline work.