Message boards :
Number crunching :
CPU or GPU
Message board moderation
Author | Message |
---|---|
![]() Send message Joined: 31 Jul 02 Posts: 1 Credit: 199,505 RAC: 0 ![]() |
Hello Folks, OK I got a new Notebook computer (Asus G75VW, Intel quad core I7 2.3gh processor with 12 gigs of ram, Nvidea Gforce 660 GPU. Should I use my processor or GPU for seti @home? Thank you and take care, Eddie |
Ianab Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 11 Jun 08 Posts: 700 Credit: 19,295,963 RAC: 199 ![]() |
Both, as long as your laptop's cooling is up to the task. The GPU will probably produce more work (not sure on the 660 specs), but running GPU only will have your CPU sitting idle for 95% of the time, when it could be doing extra work. Ian |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 29 Jun 99 Posts: 7345 Credit: 17,702,277 RAC: 13,303 ![]() ![]() |
IMO, use both CPU and GPU. |
castor Send message Joined: 2 Jan 02 Posts: 13 Credit: 17,217,261 RAC: 1,331 ![]() |
Probably best to try out all combinations. If it overheats running both, you may get as good a result by just running one or the other (and maybe longer life time for the hw). |
![]() Send message Joined: 29 Nov 10 Posts: 112 Credit: 37,989 RAC: 0 ![]() |
I run on an HP laptop at the moment and use both. Seems to do ok for a laptop, just dont expect much. **Check out my wifes cupcakes** ![]() |
![]() Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 1 Jun 09 Posts: 43 Credit: 21,868,869 RAC: 185 ![]() |
Both are enabled by default. You don't really have to do anything. ![]() |
©2018 University of California
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.