GTX 570 Faulty but folding.

[leejc73]

I've managed to pick up a faulty ASUS GTX 570.
Display outputs are corrupted to hell, green hatch markings all over the place and severe pixelation in windows (unusuable), but it's still folding perfectly using a gtx 460 as primary.
Hoping it'll push my 24hr average above 100k.
Anyone else using faulty but foldable hardware??

 

[SnW]

nice mate , that's a a true folding spirit right there

 

[Pickster]

The only thing I would be worried about would be sending back work units that have errors in the computation. Its about quality not quantity.

If I was in your shoes I would look around to see what would cause such errors and if the GPU folding touches that area in any way.

It could be the ROPs part of the GPU thats bad and I wouldn't have thought folding would go anywhere near that part.

I'm sorry if this seems like a buzz kill, I don't mean it that way. Just want to point out the possible pitfalls.

 

[SnW]

If it errors it won't fold so if its bringing in the WU's fine,
no problem, at all.........

BTW i also hope to get to 100K! as i am now installing my new hardware ,
MSI z77 gd45 , i5 , 3570k GTX680.......

 

[leejc73]

The only thing I would be worried about would be sending back work units that have errors in the computation. Its about quality not quantity.

If I was in your shoes I would look around to see what would cause such errors and if the GPU folding touches that area in any way.

It could be the ROPs part of the GPU thats bad and I wouldn't have thought folding would go anywhere near that part.

I'm sorry if this seems like a buzz kill, I don't mean it that way. Just want to point out the possible pitfalls.

I had the same worries when I first installed it, but I've been keeping an eye on the logs and it's folding without any issues. It wouldn't hack it with much of an overclock but at 750/1900 it's returning a PPD of 26k. It's churned through about 12 WU's successfully so far.

 

[Pickster]

26k is certainly nothing to turn a nose up at. ESP for what must have been a cheap buy.

I am itching to get a replacement for the GTX 460 in my folding rig, but for the price I paid for the 460 and which it would cost to replace it, its quite a bit of cash for only a bosst of 10k PPD.

Even if the power supply could hack it, I couldn't keep both cards folding because I found out the 460 loses performance when along side another gfx card. It might only be certain graphics cards but I would assume since the 460 is unhappy with a 560, anything from the 500 series is going top cause a conflict.

 

[SnW]

Even if the power supply could hack it, I couldn't keep both cards folding because I found out the 460 loses performance when along side another gfx card. It might only be certain graphics cards but I would assume since the 460 is unhappy with a 560, anything from the 500 series is going top cause a conflict.

Now i need to start a thread about this ,
i have the same issue wth a GTX460 and a GTX680 which isn't folding next to it