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Core14 Performance Increase with Certain Applications

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http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=9168

Interesting thread there. This seems to happen when you're running something that involves the CPU such as playing a song in WinAmp or WMP. PPD go up by as much as 6000! However, according to the latest post by ihaque, this behaviour is not right and I complete agree with him.
ihaque wrote:I suspect that this behavior is related to the similar behavior seen with v1.24 of core 14 under the 185.20 drivers. I've released an updated core that should fix the 185.20 problem; please let me know if it changes this Winamp behavior as well. Under conditions of PPD "doubling", the core is essentially skipping out on some calculations that it ought to be doing, which makes the whole thing complete faster (at the cost of incomplete data).

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So people are giving an uncomplete WU to standford just to get bonus points? That's messed up!
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this core is just Bull****, i bet i've been losing mad points just because of the apps i've had open, look at my d@mn ppd!
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Oh, so that is the problem... Any way to fix it now? I will get the chance to install drivers tomorrow, and have to have it done by thursday or I won't get it done.
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vicaphit wrote:So people are giving an uncomplete WU to standford just to get bonus points? That's messed up!
Well it seems that they fixed it now with the new core version 1.25

@skier. What's wrong with your 9600GSOs? All the WU I've had using Core14, as well as my friend's GPUs, are fine. In fact, I like these more than the normal cores because they cause less 2D lag (firefox, MSN, etc.)
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geokilla wrote: @skier. What's wrong with your 9600GSOs? All the WU I've had using Core14, as well as my friend's GPUs, are fine. In fact, I like these more than the normal cores because they cause less 2D lag (firefox, MSN, etc.)
like i said, it must be the programs i use day-to-day because look at my ppd, im using SMP now, and i used to get 7-9k PPD, now i struggle to get 4K!!!!!!!!
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geokilla wrote:http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=9168

Interesting thread there. This seems to happen when you're running something that involves the CPU such as playing a song in WinAmp or WMP. PPD go up by as much as 6000! However, according to the latest post by ihaque, this behaviour is not right and I complete agree with him.
ihaque wrote:I suspect that this behavior is related to the similar behavior seen with v1.24 of core 14 under the 185.20 drivers. I've released an updated core that should fix the 185.20 problem; please let me know if it changes this Winamp behavior as well. Under conditions of PPD "doubling", the core is essentially skipping out on some calculations that it ought to be doing, which makes the whole thing complete faster (at the cost of incomplete data).

http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f ... 893#p90893
this is called pingboosting. if you run a game server, adn run WMP at the saem time your servers FPS can go up by hundreds
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