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#1 2008-02-28 3:40 pm
- Nefarious
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New Windows user for ATI GPU client
Anybody doing this one ?
If yes, could you post the instructions ? This is for a fellow forum member who drops in once in a while.
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#2 2008-03-29 1:57 pm
- tigerwolf7
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Re: New Windows user for ATI GPU client
I haven't done it because I don't have any compatible hardware, but I think it would be pretty straight forward with the instructions on the download page.
I think you may have to have certain drivers-might not work with any revision, but I'm not sure. Then I think it pretty much just runs similarly to the regular command line client.
One catch is it needs a CPU for itself (though I'd assume a quad core CPU could handle an SMP client and a GPU client at the same time, or a dual core CPU could handle a GPU client and a regular single threaded client at the same time).
For now it only runs on Radeon x1xx0 hardware. There's a closed beta that supports x2xx0 and x3xx0 hardware, but right now the client you can download from the page only supports like the x1900, x1800, x1600-that generation. (Unfortunately Nvidia hardware isn't supported yet 
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I Fold for this team, but the guys over on the Dell Forums in Team XPS are REALLY helpful and I know some of them are running the GPU client. I could find a link if you want.
I'd LOVE to have a client that runs on Nvidia hardware, then load up an 8-core Penryn based Mac Pro with two SMP clients, two 8800GTX cards (or 9800GTX...) and two GPU clients 
Wouldn't cost much over $3000, and it would be an absolute MONSTER. Heck, my 2x2.8GHz Pentium 4 handles an SMP unit in around 50 hours...think what 4x2.8GHz Penryns would do...
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