2400+

entropy

what settings should these have? disabled highly optimized code? what about any flags? sry, i know ZIP about amd systems, let alone how they fold...and i couldn't find any posts dealing with it....

leishi85

i believe same settings as your intel machine.

dragonV8

Good question. If it is the same for our new XP2500+, i'll be following this with interest.

Jon A.

shwaip

don't change any of the advanced settings...other than those for your connection, if necessary.

if you're running the console, the shortcut should look like this:

"x:\dir\fah4console.exe" -ForceSSE

if you're running the graphical:

"x:\dir\winfah.exe" -ForceSSE

The xp's have SSE, and this will help performance if you get a gromac unit. However, AMD cpus have good output on tinkers as well as gromacs, so that's why you should leave off "-advmethods".

KingFish

The latest 1.65 version of the gromacs core autodetects whether or not sse is available. It is no longer necessary for the -forcesse flag. I have them taken off on all my farm nodes. I currently have five (soon to be expanding to six) nodes all of which are amd 2400+'s. Two are thornton cores and the rest are t'bred's. They run sse just fine even without the flag present. If you are running the prog as a service, use the -service flag and -verbosity 9. That's the only two I run. If you are running the winfah version I'd recommend using only the -verbosity 9 flag.

KF