If I don't have anything running but the 2 GPU clients, my cpu usage is a steady 2%.
You might want to diddle with priorities, to make sure your GPU client is running at a higher priority than your CPU clients. I'm no expert on this subject so that will be the extent of my advise.
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- Sat Jul 11, 2009 10:35 am
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: VMware Folding Appliance
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5373
- Sat May 30, 2009 11:06 am
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: GPU client beating the crap out of my graphics card
- Replies: 15
- Views: 14175
- Sat May 30, 2009 7:54 am
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: GPU client beating the crap out of my graphics card
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- Views: 14175
- Fri May 29, 2009 7:02 am
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: GPU client beating the crap out of my graphics card
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Update: Confirming that the upper card is running hotter because of it's location. I swapped the cards and the temperatures remained constant, i.e. the upper card running several degrees warmer than the lower card. For the summer I have little choice but to turns the clocks down. I've turned the clo...
- Fri May 08, 2009 10:37 am
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: GPU client beating the crap out of my graphics card
- Replies: 15
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Good input. There is one slot separating the cards, but it does make sense that the lower card could be heating the upper one. OTOH, I didn't have this issue until recently. The upper card may be have run a wee bit warmer, but nothing like this. I may try taking the case apart and re-seating the sto...
- Fri May 08, 2009 6:41 am
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: GPU client beating the crap out of my graphics card
- Replies: 15
- Views: 14175
I have no interest in water cooling, but thanks for the suggestion. I have an Arctic Cooling Twin Turbo that I could put on it. I bought it for an 8800GT but that card did not offer PWM fan control so I didn't bother and replaced that card and a passively cooled 9600GT with a pair of GTS 250s. There...
- Thu May 07, 2009 10:03 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: GPU client beating the crap out of my graphics card
- Replies: 15
- Views: 14175
GPU client beating the crap out of my graphics card
I have the clocks on one of my GeForce GTS 250 graphics cards turned down as low as the EVGA Precision tool will allow, and it's still running 81 degrees and the fan at 83%. I am using the just released drivers, the official Windows 7 drivers from NVidia. I'm seeing some strong PPD numbers, but don'...
- Mon May 04, 2009 10:39 am
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: Project 5102
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5789
- Mon May 04, 2009 12:05 am
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: Project 5102
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5789
Project 5102
Most of the WUs I have been getting take about 14 minutes per step and are worth 1920 points. I complete one of those per day on each of 4 virtual machines. I just picked up a 5103, worth a whopping 3340 points, but the first 1% took 53 minutes to complete. That makes it worth only 900 PPD and it wi...
- Sat May 02, 2009 9:21 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: 2 different GPUs on P5N-SLI mobo ?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6206
- Sat May 02, 2009 9:15 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: Future GPU heads up
- Replies: 21
- Views: 16551
- Wed Apr 29, 2009 6:34 am
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: 1650 ppd on a 3850 - does this seem right?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7528
I wonder if you could do anything with priorities? FAH should be running at a priority just above the idle process, but that would be worth verifying. Pandora is a browser app so there isn't a lot you can do about that, except try bumping the priority of your browser by one step to see if it helps w...
- Wed Apr 29, 2009 6:28 am
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: Future GPU heads up
- Replies: 21
- Views: 16551
- Mon Apr 27, 2009 9:01 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: What's better in terms of PPD/$
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9027
- Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:21 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: Bring Back David Hays!
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4858
- Sun Apr 05, 2009 8:42 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: Info about GPU folding safely/accurately.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4709
I like how quiet my graphics cards are at stock clocks, with the fans running at 50% or less. Except sometimes I get WUs that really drive my GPU temperatures up and then for a few hours they aren't so quiet. FAHwatch reports I've had one EUE on 37 work units. I wasn't overclocked at the time. [/img]
- Sun Apr 05, 2009 8:18 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: I'm red
- Replies: 25
- Views: 23348
- Fri Apr 03, 2009 10:34 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: I'm red
- Replies: 25
- Views: 23348
A few days ago I came home at lunch to the sound of a high pitched squeal. My computer was off. The sound was coming from my APC UPS. The electricity was off but came back on shortly. I rebooted my computer, expecting it to come out of hibernation. Instead it booted up normally. I checked PowerChute...
- Sun Mar 29, 2009 10:02 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: I'm red
- Replies: 25
- Views: 23348
The i7 has 4 physical cores, 8 virtual cores. I wasn't that surprised at the just over 50% CPU usage of the Windows SMP client. I have been shocked at how completely the four Linux SMP clients in the VMs are able to utilize the CPU. I'm seeing a steady 97%, with frequent peaks of 98% with my machine...
- Fri Mar 27, 2009 5:54 am
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: A tale of two GTS 250s
- Replies: 13
- Views: 12670
http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=9075&start=165#p90893 There was a bug in the core that interacted with some changed behavior in the 185.20 driver. The good news is that it doesn't appear that this particular error "contaminated" any runs; the effect here was that some results were simpl...
- Fri Mar 27, 2009 5:39 am
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: A tale of two GTS 250s
- Replies: 13
- Views: 12670
Are you running Windows 7 64-bit? The 185.20 drivers are now known to cause one card to run faster than the other in Vista 64 and Windows 7 64, so even if they're equal right now, once you get a new WU on one of the cards, it may pick up speed and run faster than the other. However, 13k PPD sounds ...
- Fri Mar 27, 2009 5:19 am
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: Video card crashes when folding.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6008
There's a lot of issues with the GPU client. You should go through the messages in the ATI specific issues forum since crashes are common. I guess I've just been lucky, but the GPU clients have run very stable for me, with three different NVIDIA graphics cards - a 9600 GT, an 8800 GT, and now two G...
- Thu Mar 26, 2009 7:14 am
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: A tale of two GTS 250s
- Replies: 13
- Views: 12670
A project 5779 WU is really working one of my cards this morning. The GPU temp is touching 72C and the fan is running at 60%, which is clearly audible. The good news is it's flying through this work unit at 2 minutes per step so it will be finished with it shortly. This did give me a good opportunit...
- Wed Mar 25, 2009 8:37 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: I'm red
- Replies: 25
- Views: 23348
what is this 'Notfred' appliance you speak of? Folding Virtual Appliance User-friendly Instructions for Installing the Folding Virtual Appliance the SMP client under windows is lacking. That's the reason for this crazy situation where running multiple instances of the Linux SMP client in virtual ma...
- Wed Mar 25, 2009 3:21 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: I'm red
- Replies: 25
- Views: 23348
As an aside, I'm building a second PC out of "surplus" parts from my first build: AMD Phenom II 720 processor. This is a nice processor that overclocks to 3.6 GH without a sweat. It's no i7, but for what it is, a $130 CPU, it's outstanding. Gigabyte MA790XT-UD4P motherboard. This is a really nice mo...
- Wed Mar 25, 2009 2:52 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: I'm red
- Replies: 25
- Views: 23348
0 points posted Sunday. Ouch. It looks like my production is going to run from about 13K to 15K PPD with an average of around 14K. I won't surpass dasman but I may give Aristide1 some competition in daily production. Hardware: Intel Core i7 920 running at 3.2 GHz at stock voltage. It ran stable at 3...
- Wed Mar 25, 2009 2:19 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: A tale of two GTS 250s
- Replies: 13
- Views: 12670
A couple of points: I was not using the 185.20 drivers when I posted about the wildly varying PPD numbers. The 185.20 drivers were not the cause because I wasn't using them yet. I'm still using the 185.20 drivers, but my production the last few days has been in the 4000s, occasionally low 5000s. At ...
- Tue Mar 24, 2009 9:32 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: Which GPU client? Console or Systray?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4913
I've switched over to the systray GPU client. Ultimately all that was required was to copy the exe into the same folder as the console client. It picked up right where the console client left off. I could personally do without the Windows installer. I suppose this would seem complicated to others bu...
- Sun Mar 22, 2009 10:24 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: A tale of two GTS 250s
- Replies: 13
- Views: 12670
- Sun Mar 22, 2009 9:36 pm
- Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
- Topic: Which GPU client? Console or Systray?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4913
Which GPU client? Console or Systray?
I've been running the console client but decided tonight to give the systray client a go. I don't like the way the application and the data files get buried. With the console, everything is here: E:\Folding at Home It's there because that's where I put it. There are a bunch of folders in there - two...