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by haysdb
Sat Jul 11, 2009 10:35 am
Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
Topic: VMware Folding Appliance
Replies: 2
Views: 5258

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.
by haysdb
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: 13559

Hot air rises. Makes sense to me. I'm just surprised at the degree at which the upper card seems to be heated by the lower card.

The positive-pressure case design should ensure that there is good airflow through and between the cards.
by haysdb
Sat May 30, 2009 7:54 am
Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
Topic: GPU client beating the crap out of my graphics card
Replies: 15
Views: 13559

I fiddled around with overclocking in the beginning but I came to feel it wasn't worth the trouble, and the risk of trashing work.
by haysdb
Fri May 29, 2009 7:02 am
Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
Topic: GPU client beating the crap out of my graphics card
Replies: 15
Views: 13559

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...
by haysdb
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
Views: 13559

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...
by haysdb
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: 13559

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...
by haysdb
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: 13559

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'...
by haysdb
Mon May 04, 2009 10:39 am
Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
Topic: Project 5102
Replies: 4
Views: 5623

I always have about 1 GB of memory free (out of 6).

I have picked up a second one. My points will take a hit for a couple of days.

I'll finish them comfortably before the deadline, which is 7 days.
by haysdb
Mon May 04, 2009 12:05 am
Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
Topic: Project 5102
Replies: 4
Views: 5623

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...
by haysdb
Sat May 02, 2009 9:21 pm
Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
Topic: 2 different GPUs on P5N-SLI mobo ?
Replies: 4
Views: 6058

It's definitely possible.

The 8600GT has just 32 shaders so it will be no folding monster, but it should be good for 1500 ppd or so.
by haysdb
Sat May 02, 2009 9:15 pm
Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
Topic: Future GPU heads up
Replies: 21
Views: 16091

i7. Nothing much else of note. Overclocked a bit, but only to 3.2GHz, at stock voltage.
by haysdb
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: 7363

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...
by haysdb
Wed Apr 29, 2009 6:28 am
Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
Topic: Future GPU heads up
Replies: 21
Views: 16091

As soon as there is something comparable to the 9800GTX+/GTS 250 in a lower power chip, I will replace the two cards I have. My system is pulling over 400 watts. :shock:
by haysdb
Mon Apr 27, 2009 9:01 pm
Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
Topic: What's better in terms of PPD/$
Replies: 11
Views: 8777

Consider the entire cost of the rig, not just the incremental cost of the graphics cards. I started with an 8800 GT, with the thought of buying a second one. It was soon retired because it was (A) noisy and (B) doesn't play well with other graphics cards.
by haysdb
Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:21 pm
Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
Topic: Bring Back David Hays!
Replies: 2
Views: 4747

I was gone over the weekend and my computer crashed late Saturday night and didn't fold all day Sunday.

I wish I could figure out why it does that. About once a week, sometimes twice, it crashes and reboots. I don't have Folding@Home set up to start automatically. I guess I need to do that, huh?
by haysdb
Sun Apr 05, 2009 8:42 pm
Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
Topic: Info about GPU folding safely/accurately.
Replies: 2
Views: 4572

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]
by haysdb
Sun Apr 05, 2009 8:18 pm
Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
Topic: I'm red
Replies: 25
Views: 21877

aristide1 wrote:Damn thats a big UPS. :shock:
Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.

It's actually a fairly compact unit. And dead quiet.
by haysdb
Fri Apr 03, 2009 10:34 pm
Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
Topic: I'm red
Replies: 25
Views: 21877

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...
by haysdb
Sun Mar 29, 2009 10:02 pm
Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
Topic: I'm red
Replies: 25
Views: 21877

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...
by haysdb
Fri Mar 27, 2009 5:54 am
Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
Topic: A tale of two GTS 250s
Replies: 13
Views: 12185

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...
by haysdb
Fri Mar 27, 2009 5:39 am
Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
Topic: A tale of two GTS 250s
Replies: 13
Views: 12185

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 ...
by haysdb
Fri Mar 27, 2009 5:19 am
Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
Topic: Video card crashes when folding.
Replies: 4
Views: 5835

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...
by haysdb
Thu Mar 26, 2009 7:14 am
Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
Topic: A tale of two GTS 250s
Replies: 13
Views: 12185

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...
by haysdb
Wed Mar 25, 2009 8:37 pm
Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
Topic: I'm red
Replies: 25
Views: 21877

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...
by haysdb
Wed Mar 25, 2009 3:21 pm
Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
Topic: I'm red
Replies: 25
Views: 21877

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...
by haysdb
Wed Mar 25, 2009 2:52 pm
Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
Topic: I'm red
Replies: 25
Views: 21877

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...
by haysdb
Wed Mar 25, 2009 2:19 pm
Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
Topic: A tale of two GTS 250s
Replies: 13
Views: 12185

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 ...
by haysdb
Tue Mar 24, 2009 9:32 pm
Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
Topic: Which GPU client? Console or Systray?
Replies: 2
Views: 4759

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...
by haysdb
Sun Mar 22, 2009 10:24 pm
Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
Topic: A tale of two GTS 250s
Replies: 13
Views: 12185

Could you point me to a source re: the 185.20 drivers producing inaccurate results?

Edit: I found a couple of threads. There's nothing definitive at this point.
by haysdb
Sun Mar 22, 2009 9:36 pm
Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
Topic: Which GPU client? Console or Systray?
Replies: 2
Views: 4759

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...