What he mean was, most probably higher ram speeds gives extra oomphhs. And about the does Graphic acceleration hardware affect the Folding probably he's saying that running the folding calculation on the gpu itself.

I think its better to use "No nonsense" text-only console because it wont interfere with the gc at first place. Let the proc itself do the calculation, so its better not to use the graphical client. The latest Text only console were 5.04 beta and i think they did improve something.

RECENT CHANGES (Client):

5.04 (Console only):
- Allows configuration of the amount of memory to indicate available,
especially useful when running multiple "big unit" clients on a single
machine.
- Allows for the setting of -advmethods as a persistent option
through the Configuration.

There will be more optimizations and enhancement made to the client to make use the Ghz clock efficiently. Just fold and make something usefull to the community.

Maybe all the X1800 and X1900 series user should make a proposal to the Stanford University ? By that way we can speed up the client/console RnD process.

Can't wait to run it on my R520.