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The EVGA 660Ti SC uses 117 W to produce the above. 157ppd/watt

In comparison, a 560 Ti (448):
p8010
TPF:3:58
PPD: 20934
Watts: 122
PPD/Watt: 165

Overclocked to 900 MHz the 560 Ti:
TPF:3:22
PPD: 24602
Watts: 200
PPD/Watt: 123

EVGA 660 T1 SC
p8018
TPF: 4:29
PPD: 18,491

Slightly less than A 560 Ti SC.

It comes from the weight given to the WUs and can be seen in serverstatus. IIRC, p8101 has a weight of 10, while the p690x series has a weight of 1, hence the 10:1 ratio.

I strongly disagree that p8101 should be increased. THe p690x series marginalizes all other forms of folding, and the "effort" is trivial compared to what it takes to make the same ppd folding regular SMP and GPU on SP machines.

Edit:
Bruce needs to remind us about staying on topic.

The incentive to cheat could be eliminated quite easily by realigning the value of the p690x series to produce the same ppd as p8101. It leads one to believe that it is no big deal to PG or that the happiness of donors running steady streams of p690x outweighs the unhappiness of those stuck running ...

On a 2P E5-2620 rig (12C/24T) running BA under v6.34 of the client. A moderator has kindly pointed out that I'm wrong about being succesful in avoiding p8101. My first 4 WUs weren't p8101, but my last truned in while on vacation was. Apparently there is no way to completely avoid them by non cheatin...

As far as my recent experimentation in MP folding goes, I was able to completey avoid p8101 without cheating in any way. I used flags.

Of more concern than the ppd increase with the new cpu is the power consumption to produce relatively little ppd. Running smp on the dual core. you might make 1000 ppd and burn 7.2Kwh doing so ($.86 here in Georgia). Relative to other machines, the dual core pentium D points per Kwh is very poor. It...

I've not seen a difference of more than 1% in the various Ubuntu flavors, when comparing frame times on the same WU, and I have had up to 20 Ubuntu instances of various versions going at one time. If you like the Unity desktop then 11.04 and later will work fine. If you don't like Unity (want a more...

With a full Ubuntu install and the average WU, 800 MB is usually enough. On a machine with 6 or 8 GB of ram, I'd give the VM 1GB, so as not to get caught out by some future WU that uses a lot of ram.

If folding in a VM, be sure to set its ungrabbed priority to idle in order to minimize the effect on games. Also set the VM memory allocation to the lowest amount possible and still avoid swapping, unless you have a lot of ram.

If you game two hours per day and folding performance is reduced by 50%, you lose 1 hour per day of production. If you turn FAH off while you game you lose 2 hours per day of production.

Grandpa_01 wrote:... which by the way are only overvalued if you are folding them on a MP rig.

If that were true there would be no reason to use a core spoof to get p6903 and p6904, would there? In fact they provide a 157% increase in production over the average smp WU on a 2600K.

p6903 and p6904 were anomalies and PG has said as much.

k1wi, your quest is noble. I appreciate seeing a new idea and understand where you're coming from. I just don't think it's doable without causing a huge disruption at each "normalization" and in the end, you just measure the relative performance on a different scale. As for deflation, as I...