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New? Old? CPU core A7
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PPD has gone nuts with the last 2 generations of cards, there is no reason why CPU's should not get some love, especially as A7 is AVX enabled
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The only Opteron CPU's that can use the new core are 62xx and 63xx.
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Is the Windows client pulling a7 cores, or is this Linux only?
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I would think it would be for both but I'm currently doing CPU folding on my 4P in Linux, so I don't know.
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This is a quote from Overclock.net
"It appears I've got one as well. Core AX7 with the SIMD as avx_256. I'm running the "client type - beta" flag on Windows with a 6600K."
So Windows is in on the fun too!!
I am using the "advanced" flag and that is receiving the A7 core as well.
Interesting that the AVX instructions first showed up in 2011 and it took until 2016 to implement them in FAH.
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My Xeon W3570 3.2ghz just picked up an A7 core and has doubled its points from 16k to 33k ppd. That CPU doesn't have AVX....interesting.
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Not true, all cpu's can use the new core - they just won't get the benefit of AVX
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Finally pulled an A7 WU -- its 38% done and showing 61k PPD thus far.
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The KRAKEN encased a4 core but not a7 when I ran it today. Perhaps some change needs to be made to update the Kraken?
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Yeah Kraken doesn't work with A7, and i'm not sure if it will be or needs to be updated, Tear - the author of the Kraken, has retired and I'm not sure if he can be coaxed back or not. The other thing is, I don't know if it actually needs updated or if the core has load balancing built in.
