Using your video card to run Folding@Home

[CPonder14]

Ignore the NewEgg negative comments. If you read through them, you will see that the posters have no friggin' idea how a GFX card works, or what is supposed to do. One guy was griping about the fan making noise... HELLO! it has to cool it somehow!

Thanks for the tips.
I should have researched more about folding before i bought my NVidia card
Not that i dont like the card, just doesnt support folding. Hopefully i will purchase that ATi Card sometime this week. Also already purchased the ACF7P, and 2 new LED case fans. I told myself i wouldnt be upgrading for at least a year after building my first pc(2 weeks ago). So much for that

 

[TuNiX]

whats all the hype about this folding stuff ichec the folding@home website but i still dont understand, so are we just dedicating our unused CPU and GPU space to a scientific cost? if so whats in it for us?

 

[veg1992]

not everything has a reward... this is just to use your computer for the good of others....

 

[TuNiX]

yeah i know and i don't expect one im just saying alot of you seem to be doing it so i didn't know if there was some big thing behind the rave.

 

[veg1992]

nah... also this is a way we benchmark systems like this... and also check differences in overclocks or to see if its stable or not

 

[Ethereal_Dragon]

if so whats in it for us?

Bragging rights is about it.... B1gApl holds the crown there.... at least till I get my money trouble solved and the folding farm off the ground...

 

[TuNiX]

i downloaded the 6.0 beta client, now how do i get a username?

 

[TuNiX]

ok it asked for a user name so i just put in tunix then it asked for team number so i put in your team number then is asked for a pass code so i just hit enter and i checked ALT-CTRL-DLT and the processes says its using 106,820K is that normal? and the console says completed 0 out of 250000 steps <0>

 

[b1gapl]

Looks like it's working fine to me. What graphic card are you folding with, Tunix?

 

[TuNiX]

im actually not folding with a graphics card i couldn't get the thing to work but i have a radion X1300, and im folding with my normal CPU.


is this a good deal?
ATI Radeon X1950 PRO AGP 8X 512MB X1950PRO HDCP - NEW - (eBay item 320162362501 end time Oct-01-07 15:15:00 PDT)