aristide1 wrote:Neil,

A $50 NVidia 9600 GSO card will get you like 4000 PPD and leave your processor(s) free for the most part.

You will need Vista, nobody's perfect.

Or XP with the 180.60 drivers. My CPU load on the GPU core went from 100% to barely measurable. There was a slight hit on PPD (~100).

After 24 hours of folding on my 4850 (8.9 drivers) ive only got around 2200 points. This is much lower than what others are getting with older, slower cards. Am i doing something wrong, or are nvidia cards just far more efficient than ATI cards at this? The benchmark machine has an ATI card in it. ...

Upon running both GPU and SMP on my 2GB of memory pc I started getting "low on memory" warnings. I'm using 1.6GB total. So I installed another 2GB and all is well, considering it only sees 3GB total. Is the rest used for anything? Feels a tad quicker. Launch the task manager, select the processes t...

Hey SKeptical Thinker, What are you speed settings? I left everything except the shaders stock: 550/1800/800 The card becomes unstable at shader of 1900 but no BSOD. I cranked up the fan and the temp dropped below 60C, but that made no difference. I'm running at 750/1850/1045 settings in rivatuner....

Dang, there's a decent amount of new folders that I wush would post their info. I don't want to OC very much because my experience has been that the eneergy costs rise faster than the amounts of points gained. In fact that will probably be adquate reason to return this 8800GTS G92, but I will measu...

An NVidia 8800GS, low speed, shaders speeded up a bit, about 4189PPD so far. :) Added - Increased shaders again, about 3/4 of the way up the slider, now at 4822 PPD. 8) You have a ways to go. This is my overclock on an 8800GS: http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/34vev/ Here are my benchmarks from FahMo...

angelkiller wrote:

SKeptical Thinker wrote:Coretemp is another that I have used.

I think he misread the topic. CoreTemp doesn't do anything but CPU temps AFAIK.

For a general GPU tool, RivaTuner.

You are correct. I did misread the topic. Speedfan still is a good choice, though

aristide1 wrote:I think I overheated once already, and I've raised the fan speed since, but I would like to know what's going on.

Thanks

A

There are a bunch. I would start with speedfan, which might enable you to control your fans, depending on motheboard. Coretemp is another that I have used.

Its still $119. Actually the king of efficiency is the 8800GT with 256MB. Its not common, NewEgg has none, and Tiger has 1 at $130, one on Amazon over $200, and very few on Ebay. I look at the Tiger $30 premium (this card should be $100) and the break even point in electrical savings is like 2.5 ye...

aristide1 wrote:And at noon today it was $99.

Is this a video card or a gallon of gasoline?

Now it's $120.

Anyone care to bet where it goes next?

aristide1 wrote:The EVGA discount didn't last long, just over the weekend, now it's $80 after rebate. But.....

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814150276

is also $80 without a rebate, free shipping, and it's faster. Whoohoo!

It's also now $130

If I could get a Windows SMP client to work, I'd gain back two fast C2D machines! Much as I hate to say it, a single GPU2 wipes the floor with SMP and can be much more energy efficient too. I'm fine tuning my new SPCR (i.e. as quiet as poss) dual 8800GT folding rig and, currently, I'm getting aroun...

Myth! wrote:

SKeptical Thinker wrote: I have a EVGA 8800 GS 384MB ($64 after multiple price reducers from newegg) that is now running at ~750C

I think that's too hot

Why? I have the fan at 1000%

So is anyone GPU2-ing here? I've spent the last week and a half getting the maximum overclock I can get and be folding stable. I have a EVGA 8800 GS 384MB ($64 after multiple price reducers from newegg) that is now running at ~750C/1860S/1025M. It has been stable for more than a day and is producin...

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How did replacing the northbridge heatsink work for you? Pretty well. I put the Thermalright HR-05 IFX with the smart fan on a couple of weeks ago. I was able to overclock the GPU all the way to 980MHz after upgrading to the F4 BIOS (950MHz on F3) with the NB voltage at the max. I was running the f...

I'm currently trying the GPU2 client on my ga-ma78gm-s2h. I started out at the standard 500MHz clock and then proved that I could get it stable (and non EUE) at 850MHz. I've since upped the NB voltage by .3V and am trying 950MHz (1GHz was system unstable). Anyone else trying to run the GPU2 client o...

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I have a BE-2350 in a Gigabyte ga-ma78gm-s2h. I have set the CPU voltage in the BIOS at 0.975. Speedfan reports 1.0-1.04 depending on load. It's running with 10x multiplier and 210 clock. BE-2350 2.1GHz 1.04V both cores at 100% 2.1GHz 1.00V idle 2.1GHz 1.3V idle 1.36 both cores at 100%

My system consumes 47W at idle and 59W during two Prime-95 stress tests. System inventory: Antec NSK-2480 with two Thermaltake 120mm Smart Fans ga-ma78gm-s2h BE-2350 with 10x multiplier, .975V in BIOS, clock at 210 Ninja Mini CPU HS (no fan) GeIL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 Seagate 500...

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