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GPU2's impact on gaming

Written by dekard
Tuesday, 22 July 2008
Here's a quick post with some results I'm seeing and get comments on your results. For reference, I've got a 8600 GTS installed in a Athlon x2 based system running Vista 32b. (thanks John ) Driver version is 177.35 with the modd'd inf . This system is worth about 1,900 ppd running the GPU2 client (6.12 beta 8) only and is used for gaming. I wanted to gauge the impact of F@H on the GPU while gaming so I tested using 3dMark06 while folding and without folding. Here's the results: While Folding: 3,334 3dMark06 score Without Folding: 5,630 Results from ORB indicate normal scores are 5,400 for this setup so you can see a 2,100 point drop from ORB and a specific drop of 2,300 while folding on this system. Ouch. So, based on this particular system it certainly would be a good idea to pause the GPU2 client before doing any gaming. Are you seeing anything different in your testing? Also, should we be looking to see client improvements that detect gaming and automatically pause folding until its over? Or, am I missing something. Hit up the comments link and post your thoughts. Comment (2)

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