1) Message boards : Graphics cards (GPUs) : Is the problem whit GTX 260, Ok now?? (Message 17224)
Posted 5086 days ago by WhiteFireDragon
so are these updated to accept fermi WU's yet?
2) Message boards : Graphics cards (GPUs) : Is the problem whit GTX 260, Ok now?? (Message 17009)
Posted 5095 days ago by WhiteFireDragon
so is this problem fixed yet? i have two gtx260's, one is working fine, the other one is a 65nm core216 and doesn't work. please let me know if there's hope in holding on to this card for a future fix, or if i should just sell this card because there won't be any plans to problem.
3) Message boards : Graphics cards (GPUs) : GPUGRID and Fermi (Message 16842)
Posted 5103 days ago by WhiteFireDragon
and this is with winXP right? so it shouldn't matter if i used win7 right?
4) Message boards : Graphics cards (GPUs) : GPUGRID and Fermi (Message 16837)
Posted 5103 days ago by WhiteFireDragon

Now running a 6.73 task,
2282490 1440606 5 May 2010 17:20:07 UTC 10 May 2010 17:20:07 UTC In progress --- --- --- --- Full-atom molecular dynamics v6.73 (cuda30)

This long task looks OK so far, about 30min in and 9% complete; expected to complete in about 6h roughly. GPU usage is presently about 75% I have it set to use one full CPU core, temps were 91deg C, so I turned the fan up to 79% and the temps droped to 82deg C. At that speed it is not quite as loud as my GTX260! The clock rates are staying true. Looks like the problems I was having were all down to using W7 and possibly the drivers for W7.

how are you getting these new WU's to work? what did you have to set in the preferences?
5) Message boards : Graphics cards (GPUs) : GT240x2 (Message 16796)
Posted 5105 days ago by WhiteFireDragon
i'd like to say hi to everyone, it's my first post on this forum.

i'm going to chime in on my numbers, but i don't want to add any more fuel. i was looking for a crunching card only and didn't know what to pick. i should have seen these forums and this thread sooner, as it would have saved me a lot of time. i did my own research and based on the specs, power consumption, and price, i concluded myself that the gt240 is the best value.

when i plugged it in and after it returned a few WU, the results were better than i expected. on win7 64bit and while the CPU was crunching at 100% for WCG as well, this card finished a WU in exactly 8 hours for 5145 points. at this rate, it's at least 15k/day. after slightly OC'ing it and running beta units only, i finish a WU in 21.7 minutes for 281 points. this is projection of 18.7k points per day.

with 4 of these, that's 60k/day for regular WU, and 75k/day for beta WU's. if i OC higher, use linux/XP, or pull off WCG to dedicated a CPU thread per GPU, then that will be a huge performance boost also. i don't have a gtx295 to compare using the same exact parameters, but from the results posted so far, 4 of these budget cards beats the 295 in price (got mine for $50 AR), power consumption (mine loads at 45w) , and computational power (15k/day per card).


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