might have to change that tomorrow when I’m in the other office 
Have they also sorted multiple GPU installations?
I believe so. The client now automatically detects how many cores your processor has and how many GPUs and sets up client instances accordingly. My current processor has 6 cores with hyperthreading, so the client set up a 12-core SMP equivalent and also set up my GPU without me doing anything other than installing the program. I haven’t had a multi GPU setup for a while, but I would imagine it would just add an instance for every detected GPU.
P.S. You don’t have to jump right back into FAH. Feel free to wait another… oh… five months or so. :devil:
wow - well they’ve done a sterling job with that !!
just my home machine running for now - the 4 gtx460 cards in the cupboard may need to find a board with enough slots …
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P.S. You don’t have to jump right back into FAH. Feel free to wait another… oh… five months or so. :devil:[/QUOTE]
you may find that is about 6.5months no already :devil:
Yeah, I saw that. 9.1 months now. Mulda is the next on my list to overtake now. :sigh: I guess my only solace is the knowledge that you’ll eventually tire and my “tortoise” impersonation will once again close the gap on your “hare” performance. 
this darn new tech, need to run more of them to heat the room properly
Folding has a thermal limit for their GPUs I noticed. It will throttle back if the GPU hits 110C. There’s a log entry with every GPU WU I get now that notes the thermal protection is disabled:
17:58:22:WU02:FS00:0x17:Temperature control disabled. Requirements: single Nvidia GPU, tmax must be < 110 and twait >= 900
It seems I’ve been folding without a passkey since I upgraded to Win 8.1. I have to put in 10 good WUs with the passkey before I’ll start getting the full bonus points per WU. The difference is a WU that would earn 20,000 points with a passkey only gets the “Base” 6000 points if you don’t use the passkey.
this darn new tech, need to run more of them to heat the room properly
Look at the bright side, you can probably run them in the Summer without frying something.
turned it off last night as, dunno, was just using the machine and turned off as normal without thinking. This morning that room was colder, so perhaps it stays on more now 
You’re dropping off again DT. Redirected the machine or did you suffer a casualty?
had trouble sleeping so turned if off to help - as it’s now 1am, it’s not helping :lol:
Don’t look now, but it’s getting pretty close to a double-:stomp:. Only 0.1 months separate when I pass both you and Mulda. (Personally, I think Mulda is laying low and when I’m about to pass him, he fires up some huge array of GPUs - leaving me choking on his dust.)
I’m now running the 7.4.2 beta version of the client. One of the changes is that the client will de-rate the SMP slot by a thread or two if it detects that GPU folding is also being conducted. This is to ensure that the GPU slot has a CPU thread when it’s needed without impacting the SMP slot. They say the loss of the thread in the SMP slot is made-up for by the lack of interruption by the GPU. In my case, I had a 12-thread SMP slot before. Pulling one would mean an 11-thread SMP and apparently the SMPs have problems with Prime numbers of threads. So the client de-rated my SMP by 2 - down to a 10-thread SMP slot.
I get Mulda now before you get me
If I can keep hidden that the home machine is simply folding and not something else
I know. And if I can keep it hidden that it’s just my home machine that’s not overclocked at all, and that folding gets set to “Idle” while I play Skyrim or Fallout - New Vegas, then people can believe I’m using some huge array putting out these numbers.
down to just me and you now Fadamor 
Once everybody shifted to BOINC, the handwriting was on the wall. :shrug: I’m used to it, though. There were weeks at a time where I was the only one contributing for TPR.
I will blame consoles, in particular the PS3.
Overclocking looked like a less rewarding experience so I stopped upgrading, in the everyday Email/Browsing rig I’m still running a motherboard I bought at Mojos, forgot who from.
I just fired up the PS3 and let it get on with folding, right up to the point PS3 support was pulled for Folding.
It wasnt a rocket ship but it plodded along, so did the second PS3, the third one would be as well now if it could.
So apart from a few low speed quad core servers (40 cores in total) I have nothing worth pointing at a DC project.
What I wanted to do was build a tiny Linux VM with boinc in it and fire up a herd of them when I didnt need to do anything on the hardware.
I ran out of arsed when it required more than configuring a client and copying the VM, Boinc manager seems entirley overkill, so earning money is taking up all my free time.
Get them to bring back the PS3 client and Ill plod
I like where they’ve gone with the F@H client. The setup is much easier than it used to be and running F@H now impacts my computer much less than it used to. I still need to pause Folding if I’m playing something like Fallout: New Vegas or The Witcher, but playing videos doesn’t require any changes anymore. I can leave Folding at the Full setting and my videos are not interrupted. True I’ve upgraded my computer, but with only a GPU slot and a SMP slot running I’ve increased my output by about a factor of 4 over last year. With the output where it is now I don’t feel the need to create a farm of mobos for folding.
I suppose the challenge is, will my stack of 40 cores out run your single box ?
I paid about 300 GBP for the lot, without using GPU crunching could they compete ?
My 6-core CPU (10 of 12 threads assigned) takes 12 hours to complete a WU that produces 12,343 points (Project 8572). How that translates to a 40-core array I am not sure. I doubt it’s a linear progression for every pair of cores you add. It might be more efficient points-wise to run five 8-core clients instead of one 40-core client. I’d be interested in the results if you tried it.
As for competing, my CPU/GPU combo has only topped 60,000 points/day two or three times since I upgraded. Most days are in the 40,000 & 50,000’s if I’m not gaming, and less if I am gaming. If your combined array hits 60,000/day or better on a regular basis, you’re going to be steadily closing in on my position.
If you try it, make sure you set a passkey even though the installer says it’s optional. You won’t get full points (base points + bonus points) until you’ve submitted 10 successful WUs under the passkey. Start monitoring the daily scores after your array (or bank of arrays) have submitted 10 WU’s. If you went with five 8-CPU slots in the client, then you’d only need to submit two WU’s from each slot to meet the requirement.