Is it time to move to v7?

Lupine

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Firing up a few cylinders for the first time in about forever, and noticed that the v6 client was still installed on that particular box. Is there any reason to go with v7? Old fart in me never really liked the v7 front-end.

edit: be interesting to know what box is putting out 58ppd lol. Talk about a blast from the past.
 
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Yes, I've set a calendar alarm for the year 2533. Assuming the de-freeze process goes properly, I should be able to celebrate passing your point total.
 
Lupine said:
Firing up a few cylinders for the first time in about forever, and noticed that the v6 client was still installed on that particular box. Is there any reason to go with v7? Old fart in me never really liked the v7 front-end.

edit: be interesting to know what box is putting out 58ppd lol. Talk about a blast from the past.
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I don't think it matters much right now but the focus is on the new v7 client and there are projects that need this (v7) version of the client (I think it's just GPU projects right now though).

For me, the v7 client is much easier to use because of the GUI interface, you can manage multiple slots in the single instance and you can easily setup CPU and GPU folding on the same box without having to configure multiple installs of the v6 client.

So I guess if you are wanting to start folding again I would have to say now is a good time to make the switch to the v7 client.
 
Agreed the 7.3.6 client seems to be pretty stable. I think you'll enjoy it.

I'm looking forward to the day they release the new gpu cores..Looking at the benchmark results AMD cards should be pretty much on par with Nvidia cards at each price point.
 
Running V7 on test server - looks pretty slick.

Be interesting to see if there is any PPD difference vs v6. Any flags to be aware of? V6 PPD was pretty disappointing, vs what I was able to earn before (~8k PPD vs ~30k PPD). Aging hardware, I know (dual quad xeon E5440 @ 2.83GHz).

A little embarrassing to be listed as a v7 client tester, when I only helped out in the very early stages. :o
 
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I know I read somewhere where some wu's will fail if using the default cpu -1 flag results in smp 7 or some other prime numbers..but I see Dave is using it. * shrug* On my daughter's comp it gives smp 5 but on the 1055T and such it's supposed to be ok. If I find the link I'll post it.
 
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Nice to see you back in the red 7up1n3! Time for you to overtake caveman jim's dormant ass :p :D

btw what happened to hotwired?
 
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