I bought an ASUS EAH4350 Silent video card, but I was disappointed, the video on the motherboard worked almost as well for Folding or video. Running the GPU version also caused video problems. I was thinking I might dedicate one of the GPU’s to folding and the other to video, but I didn’t have much luck setting that up and when I saw the GPU version wasn’t getting very many points, I quit trying.
As I mentioned the GPU was getting maybe 300 points per day, where the SMP was getting about 1000 per day with 4 cores. Trying anything other than the SMP version didn’t seem worthwhile.
Is there an advantage to having separate folders for each of the SMP cores? You can tell the setup program how many cores to use, and it will run separate instances of Folding on each of the cores, all from a single directory. That is how I have it running now.
OK, I see now, you are proposing to use the standard cores, not the SMP version, hence the separate folders. That should be easy enough, I do wonder about point production, though. I’ll have to experiment a bit more on the GPU situation, I suppose.
If you have SMP working then let it fold with all 4 cores. I have never had a good install with the SMP core.
My thought was to run consoles and then dedicate a core to the GPU.
If you still have the ASUS card then you should be good for over 1,000 ppd. The card has 80 streaming processors, not terrific, but more than fast enough to run F@H GPU.