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Kougar
10-01-2006, 12:05 AM
Well, Standford is just a handful of days away from releasing a beta client to enable folding on ATI GPUs. The date is currently set for October 2nd.

They will first release a console only client, and it will only work on x1900/x1950 model ATI cards. Later will come a GUI version and support for x1800 model cards.

So Mirrim, since you have a shiny new x1900XTX... :twisted: A Core 2 Duo gets somewhere around 25Glfops. According to Stanford, best case scenario a x1900 class card can attain 375Gflops. Worst case is about 100Glfops, which is about 4x that of the fastest processor out there. :wink:

For the rest of us, Stanford has unfortunately confirmed that support for current nVidia GPU's won't happen, because it just doesn't work on nVidia cores.

Current and upcoming info regarding folding@home on ATI hardware can be found here: http://folding.stanford.edu/FAQ-ATI.html (http://folding.stanford.edu/FAQ-ATI.html)

Latest News article on this:http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/09/29/folding_at_home_to_use_gpus/ (http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/09/29/folding_at_home_to_use_gpus/)
XJnine
10-01-2006, 12:17 AM
I wonder if Crossfire will ever be supported? Maybe you could just run 2 instances of the console client like you do currently with multi-core or hyperthreaded systems.
Mirrim
10-01-2006, 12:33 AM
Eeeeyow! I'll definitely need to test that out. Uber folding, here I come!
Kougar
10-01-2006, 02:33 AM
I would be extremely surprised if Crossfire is NOT supported. It might take them a few program revisions as they've admitted it will before they can get fully up and running, but I would be shocked if they did not.

Mirrim, you didn't have crossfire did you? And I forgot, someone else was or had ordered some x1900s as well... With Crossfire you could probably outfold Das Capitolin. :lol:
werty316
10-01-2006, 03:12 AM
Damn talk about calulating stats :shock: Damn wish I had a X1900 now,... wait never mind I like my 7900GT :twisted:
Mirrim
10-01-2006, 07:31 AM
I just have the one card, the x1950xtx. No crossfire mb or stretching the credit card for another. Anxious to give it a go, however. It is very exciting.
vfrex
10-01-2006, 01:01 PM
Still trying to wait for DX10. It is difficult.