Other clients
High Performance clients. In addition to the clients that run in the background on typical computers, we also offer high performance clients, such as the GPU and SMP clients. These clients use more system resources, but are also much more productive. Please consider the use of these clients carefully. See the respective GPU, GPU2, SMP, and PS3 FAQs for more information.
Beta clients. We often release clients early for donors to beta test. These beta versions likely have some rough edges, but we expect that they should work reasonably well for all donors. See the respective installation instructions for more details of known bugs for each of the beta versions.
As in the use of any beta software, please make sure to back up your hard drive before installing. DO NOT not run a beta client if you or your machines cannot tolerate even the slightest instability or problems. Beta clients and servers performance may vary significantly from standard FAH clients during the development process, including but not limited to work unit shortages, server downtime for upgrades, short notice for client upgrades, and Points Per Day that differs a little or a lot from the developmental benchmark level.
Finally, note that while the points per day for these clients are higher than the classic client, they can require a lot more maintenance due to their experimental or beta nature. If you would prefer to have a client which runs as smoothly as possible, we suggest you run our main client, not a high performance client. If you run a high performance client, expect a much more complex experience and much more work to keep the client running (which is compensated by extra points per day).
High Performance Clients
There are several types of high performance clients. SMP refers to multi-core CPUs. GPU3 refers to the latest generation Folding@home GPU client. Currently, GPU3 is only available for NVIDIA GPUs, but we are working on a GPU3 release for ATI. For NVIDIA GPUs, we recommend GPU3. For ATI, we suggest GPU2 until GPU3 has passed through its QA testing in V7. Finally, the V7 Folding@home client (currently in open beta testing) has these functions (SMP and GPU) built in and will not require a special client.
| Operating system | Version # | Click to download | Installation instructions | License info (legal stuff) | MD5-sum |
| Windows XP/2003/Vista/7 GPU3 (required for Fermi) System tray client with special viewer for NVIDIA GPU's (installer msi). | 6.41 | 
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| 690e91725987500817aa61f3b631e824 Released: 2011-01-26 |
| Windows XP/2003/Vista/7 GPU3 (required for Fermi) no-nonsense console client. | 6.41 |
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| 9ebca50f5ac714ce8fda5355a637027b Released: 2011-04-25 |
| Windows: V6 GPU2 (ATI 2xxx - 5xxx; nVidia) clients | |||||
| Windows XP/2003/Vista/7 GPU2 System tray client (installer msi) | 6.23 |
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| 0aaf8a8dfdeebbedd37ae2b896c965f5 Released: 2008-11-26 |
| Windows XP/2003/Vista/7 GPU2 System tray client with special viewer for NVIDIA GPU's (installer msi) | 6.23 |
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| b95e7a9d8806f82967553cdafa0db354 Released: 2008-11-26 |
| Windows XP/2003 GPU2 Console client. Uninstall any existing FAH services made with pre 6.20 clients before updating. | 6.23 |
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| c20900b43f66056887a5193e2009b090 Released: 2008-11-26 |
| Windows Vista/7 GPU2 Console client (Note: Vista/7 does not permit running as a service). Uninstall any existing FAH services made with pre 6.20 clients before updating. | 6.23 | 
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| 8d666584d97916e47ffa860fce93876e Released: 2008-11-26 |
| Windows: V6 Beta SMP2/CPU clients | |||||
| Windows XP/2003/Vista/2008/7 SMP2 client console version Read this Install Guide first! (and Passkey Information) | 6.34 (32-bit or 64-bit) |
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| 110c2e5ece8d9f5d5dc68da4a2725105 Released: 2011-02-23 Must run with -smp for SMP mode. See this wiki page for info on running the console with switches. |
| Linux 64-bit SMP2 client console version Read this Install Guide first! (and Passkey Information) | 6.34 (64-bit) | 
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| 06f954ea832505d45566cc0be47158eb Released: 2011-02-23 Must run with -smp for SMP mode. See this wiki page for info on running the console with switches. |
| Older (deprecated) Windows: V6 Beta SMP2/CPU clients | |||||
| Windows XP/2003/Vista/2008/7 SMP2 client console version Read this Install Guide first! (and Passkey Information) | 6.30 (32-bit or 64-bit) |
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| 5a8657227cb749ed2656264fe75326b1 Released: 2010-07-27 Must run with -smp for SMP mode. See this wiki page for info on running the console with switches. |
Drop-in binary for current Windows SMP2 console client (6.30).
MD5: 067ca01c02bbdebc2eba5f2110210702
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