*** F@H Tech Assistance Thread ***

[thebluebumblebee]

Before you delete everything and start over, could you give us a screen shot of the user setup page from Fahtracker?

 

[mstenholm]

Can do. So the EOC ID is not needed then?
And passkeys are avialble from?

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/getpasskey.py

Your EOC ID is 452981

 

[mstenholm]

Before you delete everything and start over, could you give us a screen shot of the user setup page from Fahtracker?

Good suggestion. I think it is a key-in problem hence the re-install advice.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

the tab is called "tracker settings"

 

[King Wookie]

Thx for the help.
Passkey and EOC ID now loaded.

Had to do a reinstall anyways. There was an issue with fahtracker's updater. So let's see how it goes.

 

[garyinhere]

Got my i7 Xeon OC'd and crunching on all 8 cores and folding 2 GTX 460's!
+965BE crunching with a 275 & 250 folding
+9650 quad crunching and two 8800's folding
+Q8400 quad crunching with a GT 240 folding
Going to start upgrading to i7's @ the beginning of the year!

Edit: Ha thought this was the reg folding thread... comment fail lol

 

[Feänor]

Hi guys. Folder in need of information.

Can someone who's running gpu2 and gpu3 at the same time under windows 7 64 bits give me the driver number he's using?

I've tried (numerous) regular and cuda "optimized" display driver, without any overclock, and i keep getting blinking and driver recovery messages.

 

[bogmali]

If the system is the one in your SPECS, may I suggest GeForce 258.96. I have a pair of GTX460 that will not work with the newer drivers without crashing.

 

[Feänor]

Thanks bogmali. Have tried the 258.96, and now new problem: my gt 430 isn't recognized. So i'll need another one to try to fix all the problems.

I have a gtx 460, a gt 430 and a gtx 275 co-op and hope to get them working together.

Hope when i'll replace the gt 430 with a gtx 470, all those f***ing drivers problem will be history...

 

[garyinhere]

Really Hot 460

I have two Gigabyte GTX 460's and one of them is running very hot. They are not in SLI. I set the cards back to stock but still have the temp problem. I lowered the volts and that didn't help either. I run my case open air with a fan blowing in it. I also placed a fan on the back of the HDD cage blowing air between the cards with no luck on dropping the temps. I'm kinda at a loss on what would be causing this. I had both of the cards setup the exact same way on a crosshair iii and temps were fine. The only thing that has changed is AMD to Intel and Crosshair iii to an X58. Any idea's? Here's a screen shot.

 

[Chicken Patty]

If you remove the added fans and close up your case does it raise the temps on that particular card? If it doesn't maybe a bad temp sensor?

 

[garyinhere]

If you remove the added fans and close up your case does it raise the temps on that particular card? If it doesn't maybe a bad temp sensor?

I switched both of the cards to see if it was a hot running card or jst the position. Now the top card is at 72 and the bottom is at 54 so i think that helped... if it gets hot again going to use the top and bottom slots and leave the one in the middle empty.

 

[Chicken Patty]

I switched both of the cards to see if it was a hot running card or jst the position. Now the top card is at 72 and the bottom is at 54 so i think that helped... if it gets hot again going to use the top and bottom slots and leave the one in the middle empty.

I had that issue in C/F, only remedy was the one you stated above. Even with a fan flowing right into it, I guess it was just not enough room to flow it efficiently. The heat just got trapped there.

 

[niko084]

This may have been asked 1000 times but I can't seem to find anywhere how you are supposed to get all the big bonus points while crunching with the i7's...

I very well may have a spare i7 930 soon and being my WCG points are plenty up to par I wouldn't mind setting it up for F@H, however I'm not sure how to do this properly. I came by one posting about just running the SMP client but I remember hearing something about running a VM or multiple VM's, not sure whats involved in that setup or how to set it up properly.

Thanks ahead of time and keep on folding!

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Just follow Setting up the Windows SMP client and put in -bigadv where he says.

 

[niko084]

Alright just setup the SMP client on a i7-980x @ 4.42ghz, I can let it chug for a few days here... Should help rake in some points.

 

[mstenholm]

Alright just setup the SMP client on a i7-980x @ 4.42ghz, I can let it chug for a few days here... Should help rake in some points.

Unless you run into a couple of 2684 then you should do better then 21:00 TPF (> 64 k PPD) on that chip at that speed. 4.05 GHz equals 21:10-20 TPF on a dedicated rig.

Feel free to let it run a "few" days.

 

[BUCK NASTY]

OK -bigadv guys. I'm running into low production on my latest i7-870. She's clocked @ 3.8Ghz with ram @ 1520mhz 9/9/9/24/88/1t. It's not a heat/throttling issue, as she never tops 67C on air. I have installed the latest bios/system drivers, but I feel something is holding her back. Running -smp 7 on cores 1 thru 7. Running 3xGPU2 on core 0. SLBJG and the batch is L027b024. I have had her @ 4.0Ghz stable with no improvements. Let me know what you you guys might think the problem might be.

EDIT: she's running P2685 in the pic.

 

[mstenholm]

I would pause the GPUs for one CPU frame. If the time per frame drops significantly then you know that they use more then the one core. I can see that it shouldn't be the case but that's the best that I can come up with.

 

[BUCK NASTY]

I would pause the GPUs for one CPU frame. If the time per frame drops significantly then you know that they use more then the one core. I can see that it shouldn't be the case but that's the best that I can come up with.

Trying it now to see if there is any improvement.

 

[TeXBill]

I have two Gigabyte GTX 460's and one of them is running very hot. They are not in SLI. I set the cards back to stock but still have the temp problem. I lowered the volts and that didn't help either. I run my case open air with a fan blowing in it. I also placed a fan on the back of the HDD cage blowing air between the cards with no luck on dropping the temps. I'm kinda at a loss on what would be causing this. I had both of the cards setup the exact same way on a crosshair iii and temps were fine. The only thing that has changed is AMD to Intel and Crosshair iii to an X58. Any idea's? Here's a screen shot.

@ garyinhere My Gigabyte cards have a hot spot on the back side of the card where the gpu is. I put a antec spot cooler fan blowing air out the back of the case. It drops the temps to a acceptable range. Running the cards on top of each other lets the heat rise to the other card and get sucked in to the fan on the top card. Can you separate the cards put more room between them? Maybe if you have a different card put it in the bottom slot and the gigabyte card in the top slot. Not sure if this will work or not. I had to put my gigabyte cards in different cases to keep them cooler.

 

[TeXBill]

Buck I bet its because of GPU2. Mine was doing the same thing and I just put fermi cards in that rig and the PPD went up by about 10,000 PPD.

 

[bogmali]

Buck-41 minutes TPF is not that bad on an i7-8XX. I would even go as far as saying that it's amazing because you're feeding 3 GPU's at the same time. Just Mstenholm said, pause the GPU clients and see what the difference is PPD and TPF wise.

 

[BUCK NASTY]

Killed the GPU2 clients and TPF decreased by 1.5 minutes. Still not enough of a difference to say that the GPU's were conflicting. I need to dig deeper into this.

Buck-41 minutes TPF is not that bad on an i7-8XX. I would even go as far as saying that it's amazing because you're feeding 3 GPU's at the same time. Just Mstenholm said, pause the GPU clients and see what the difference is PPD and TPF wise.

Naw, it's off quite a bit. I know 1156 rigs are a downgrade from 1366, but these P55 rigs are capable(and cheap to build). I have 3 other 1156 rigs and they all pull between 27K ppd with GPU's and 33K ppd without GPU's. I'm gonna wipe the drive/reload windows and start from scratch after the -bigadv finishes(the HDD and Win7 install is from another rig-Phenom x4/4xGPU2). That might be holding it back. Thanks for the suggestions guy's!

 

[BUCK NASTY]

Update: Installed win7 again as well as all drivers. Played around with the affinity's of the clients and now she is producing 26.5K ppd with the 3x GPU2 clients. Total for the rig is 49K+/-. I'm satisfied for now, but feel there is more O/C left in this chip. Currently @ 3.8Ghz/1.35V/190bclk/x20multi running 68C on air. Gonna shoot for 3.9/4.0 next week.