Theo Valich does a 20 card F@H comparison

[randomizer]

Not many numbers, it's basically just a ranking of the 20 cards he tested and it's not something we really didn't know already. It is pretty funny that the 9600GSO can out-fold cards 10x it's price. He didn't really answer the question (which is really a statement) of "Why ATI sucks at folding?" either.

Nvidia’s $50 card destroys ATI’s $500 one or “Why ATI sucks in Folding?” The Bright Side Of IT

[brentpresley]

All that, and the numb-nuts left off the BEST folding card EVER: 9800GX2.





You just can't fix stupid.

[TSIMonster]

did you see his reply to your comment brent?

Sounds like he's not to bright, honestly.

We could do an article like that and do a much better job of it. Shoot, I can give the PPD for at least 7 different cards (currently 8800GTS320, GTX260, 8800GT, 8600GT, 4870, 3850, 3870)

[Afrodisiac]

I said that he should have included some overclocking info, like how much gains one should expect from overclocking. I commented as AFROWUT.

[randomizer]

Why is my sig being automatically turned into a comment?

[logain]

Yea I commented about the gx2 also. He definitely is not the sharpest tool in the shed.

[randomizer]

Somebody shoot Lionhardt for treason!

[Lionhardt]

Somebody shoot Lionhardt for treason!

Lol, advertisement rather! =]

Guys. Or rather Brent. We should try and get some of the ****ty teams in the top 100 to merge into our folding squad. Would they do that?

[brentpresley]

TheoValich - User Summary - EXTREME Overclocking Folding @ Home Stats


I'm not convinced he actually folded on those cards himself, but simply gleaned some info from various sites for the blog post.

His FAH name+team only shows him folding for about 2 days now.

[Afrodisiac]

TheoValich - User Summary - EXTREME Overclocking Folding @ Home Stats


I'm not convinced he actually folded on those cards himself, but simply gleaned some info from various sites for the blog post.

His FAH name+team only shows him folding for about 2 days now.

Question:

Does F@H run differently at all in different condition PCs?

For example:
****ty, aircooled AMD Single core rig with 256MB DDR RAM and a 9800GTX+

and

An awesome, sleek, well-optimized QX9650 water-cooled system with a beefy PSU, 4GB of good ram, etc etc, and the same 9800GTX+ at the same clocks.


Any difference in PPD?

[brentpresley]

Question:

Does F@H run differently at all in different condition PCs?

For example:
****ty, aircooled AMD Single core rig with 256MB DDR RAM and a 9800GTX+

and

An awesome, sleek, well-optimized QX9650 water-cooled system with a beefy PSU, 4GB of good ram, etc etc, and the same 9800GTX+ at the same clocks.


Any difference in PPD?

Minimal difference for the GPU client in the above mentioned scenarios b/c over 99% of the code is executed exclusively on the GPU and stored within the GPU RAM. There are not a lot of calls to the CPU (w/ ATI folding, this is less true, but in general still holds true).

[randomizer]

TheoValich - User Summary - EXTREME Overclocking Folding @ Home Stats


I'm not convinced he actually folded on those cards himself, but simply gleaned some info from various sites for the blog post.

His FAH name+team only shows him folding for about 2 days now.

It could be an NVIDIA paid ad After all, the only way I found out about the post was thanks to an email from NVIDIA.

[TSIMonster]

Afro, so far I haven't noticed a difference when switching my cards around. None of the PCs have been extremely bad, but for AMD X2s, e21X0, to wolfdale, to Kenstfield, the cards achieve within 1% of the same PPD.

There is, however a big difference between vista and XP. Both the GPU and SMP clients gain a good PPD with vista.

With ATi folding, there is like a 2-3% difference between the slower stock clocked allendale and the super fast wolfdale (I haven't tried the quad with an ATi card)

[Afrodisiac]

Thanks guys.

[1Tanker]

Still...one of Theo's more "useful" articles....at least that i've seen. Real pity that he didn't list the PPD's. I think there's been some question WRT how the workstation cards Fold.... looks like the Quadro does well....though PPD/$ would be disgusting.

[randomizer]

.though PPD/$ would be disgusting.

Stanford doesn't care about how much you pay

[lostandwandering]

Stanford doesn't care about how much you pay

Yes, funny how the $1400 card gets out folded by the $200 card

[Leganfuh]

Lol, advertisement rather! =]

Guys. Or rather Brent. We should try and get some of the ****ty teams in the top 100 to merge into our folding squad. Would they do that?

Thats a no-no.