I just replaced my wife’s old computer (Baldric) with a new Intel Core 2. Baldric had started to break down and was a bit slow on large graphics jobs. The replacement motherboard/cpu I got her is nothing special, but the graphics card is.
I got her an NVIDIA GeForce GTX-275 graphics card (she is a graphics designer) and installed the DNET CUDA client on her system to crack RC5 keys while the screen saver is running.
Here is a line from the CUDA client log on Timmay, the new computer:
[Jul 10 08:20:58 UTC] RC5-72: Completed CC:28BE14C2:00000000 (62.00 stats units)
0.00:12:50.84 – [345,449,886 keys/s]
This one graphics card is faster than many peoples entire herd output!
I found that if you use the DNET screen saver feature to activate the CUDA client, and let the normal CPU client run as a service, the user does not notice any slowdown of the computer or video.
I will change Samovar’s settings to use a screen saver today, and replace the clunky batch files I am using to turn CUDA on and off.
Happy Saturday!
Kevin G. McCoy