Those little annoying F@H things ..

[SmoulderingCircuits]

Been harrassed with the infamous 8013 myself, I guess the 7000 series has been dropped?

I tried running 64 unicores on an FX-8120 and got a couple 79xx or one might have been a 78xx but it was nonetheless Calmodulin garbage. That was how I broke the OS. I can understand that but the other 8120 was only running 16 unicores, yet still broke the system.

 

[Pickster]

Had my first BSOD in a long time today. While I think about it I must update the firmware on the M4 SSD.

I was hopeing to leave the system crunching while I am away from it for a couple of days, so I hope it doesn't need babysitting.

 

[SmoulderingCircuits]

Had my first BSOD in a long time today. While I think about it I must update the firmware on the M4 SSD.

I was hopeing to leave the system crunching while I am away from it for a couple of days, so I hope it doesn't need babysitting.

Now you've said that, it'll need rebooting 10 times and 5 hours of updates.

 

[Pickster]

Now you've said that, it'll need rebooting 10 times and 5 hours of updates.

For those that dont know, there is a bug in some of the earlier Crucial M4 firmware that causes it to hang after 5100 odd hours of power on time.

After the blue screen I checked and I was at 49xx hours of power on time. I dont know if that was the cause of the blue screen but i updated the firmware and all has been stable since. So with any luck I wont have any issues.

I'm off upto Manchester again tomorrow so while I'm away from the rig I hope it will be ok.

And Kup, if you are reading this, I have the motherboard and CPUs down south now so we can arrange a meeting or collection of some sort so I can pass it over.

 

[aicjofs]

So the little bedroom computer is a Q6600 and GTX460 running an SMP and GPU client(just the v7 clinet to keep it simple), been folding right along. The wife has been complaining that she can't play Words with Friends because the computer is too slow and this annoys her. It's obvious to me that its the GTX460, I could just tell her to idle it when she plays her game but that would be just too easy. No onboard video so I go to my box of junk to look for video cards, let see an HD3450, that would do it... but even though WIndows finally allows mixing ATI and Nvidia GPU's I just don't like doing it, plus I hate Catalyst drivers. Lets see what else is in the box, oh look a 8400GS that is PCI(not PCIe), perfect. Here's where I made my mistake, both the CPU and GPU work units are the 7+ hour variety, and both at 80%+ complete. Of all the years of folding, EVERY time I toy with something I make a copy of the "work" folder, nope not last night, in too big of a hurry. Pop the 8400GS in, swap monitor cable, change the BIOS to set PCI as boot card, windows does the driver shuffle, start the V7 client and watch in horror as the 8400GS now takes the GPU0 spot from the GTX460 and bumps it to GPU1(which is actually correct), decides it hates the core15 work unit because the 8400GS uses core11, and poof, flushes it, and then hangs the V7 client, on a restart it decides the SMP work is corrupt too and flushes it and then locks up again, and the FAHcontrol refuses to talk to the client even after numerous restarts. I tried everything and eventually had to uninstall and reinstall(what difference does it make right I have lost both work units). Still the V7 can't sort the GPU situation. I had to manually set cuda cores to get it working. Damn 2 7+ hour work units gone. So a few hours later I check in on it, frame time on the GTX460 is about a minute longer then normal. WTH? Is this that situation where running with 2 GPU's causes a conflict even if the one GPU isn't folding. After 30 min of head scratching I finally notice hey where is MSI afterburner in the system tray? Yeah it didn't autostart and the core/shader is stock clocks... Words with Friends plays great though now I hear!

 

[jits h]

I thought it would perform better than that, shame.

What PPD is it pulling? Mine gets 20-30k, usually sits at 25k.

It's been a while since I've folded on my 1090T but the most I've got on standard clock (3.21GHZ) is 13K PPD. Don't know if theres better WU's for AMD components now though

 

[mArTyN]

WU's on GPU now seem to be stuck on "8010" = 2510 points. My PPD has dropped quite a bit in the last few days from at least 22,000 to 19,692 now. Big shame as my average 24hr has dropped by about 2,000 points.

 

[yassarikhan786]

WU's on GPU now seem to be stuck on "8010" = 2510 points. My PPD has dropped quite a bit in the last few days from at least 22,000 to 19,692 now. Big shame as my average 24hr has dropped by about 2,000 points.

I'm on one of those WU's at the moment. GPU temps don't go above 73 when I'm folding those WU's. The larger point WU's on my GPU push the temps up to 85 C :S. I have restarted folding on my GPU now as it is much cooler in my room now

 

[mArTyN]

Yes I'm the same , my GPU temps have dropped a little. Do you think these WU's stress tht GPU less ?

 

[yassarikhan786]

Yes I'm the same , my GPU temps have dropped a little. Do you think these WU's stress tht GPU less ?

Yeh, from the temperatures it does seem so. Although my room is a lot cooler now considering the temperature outside is 10 - 15 C as opposed to 20 - 25 C.

 

[mArTyN]

My EVGA 560 Ti 448 is currently at 78c...............normally around 85c.

 

[yassarikhan786]

My EVGA 560 Ti 448 is currently at 78c...............normally around 85c.

I'm going to be re-applying thermal paste on the GPU very soon as the temps have definitely increased.

 

[SmoulderingCircuits]

It's been a while since I've folded on my 1090T but the most I've got on standard clock (3.21GHZ) is 13K PPD. Don't know if theres better WU's for AMD components now though

Ofcourse it will, Thuban is terrible at low locks. 3.8Ghz and above will allow it the breathing room it needs to work properly. 4Ghz gets up to 40k PPD.

On a side note, my FX-8120s stopped being pummelled with 8013s and actually got some decent units, getting up to 22k as opposed to 16-18k PPD. FX-8120s are good as Thubans when they get a decently coded WU.

 

[mArTyN]

I'm thinking of bringing my main rig online folding for a few days..............has anyone any idea how a HD6950 fairs regarding PPD ?

 

[mArTyN]

I'm going to be re-applying thermal paste on the GPU very soon as the temps have definitely increased.

I think I may well follow your lead. I only bought this a few weeks ago, BUT, thats not saying the factory get it right !

 

[yassarikhan786]

I think I may well follow your lead. I only bought this a few weeks ago, BUT, thats not saying the factory get it right !

I'm going to order some mx-4

. I hope I can get temps back to what they were or even better.

 

[SmoulderingCircuits]

I'm thinking of bringing my main rig online folding for a few days..............has anyone any idea how a HD6950 fairs regarding PPD ?

Probably about 8k I'd guess seen as a 5870 is 9k and 5xxx has most optimised WUs for ATI/ AMD GPU folding.

 

[SmoulderingCircuits]

I think I may well follow your lead. I only bought this a few weeks ago, BUT, thats not saying the factory get it right !

Age doesn't make any difference to TIM application. It'll be the same temperature under like conditions now as it will be in 5 years providing you weren't wearing out the GPU itself over that period - but you get the point.

 

[mArTyN]

I use MX4 on everything it's good kit. I also got the Arctic cleaning kit (1 bottle of cleaner + 1 bottle of purifier) and can highly recommend it.

 

[mArTyN]

Probably about 8k I'd guess seen as a 5870 is 9k and 5xxx has most optimised WUs for ATI/ AMD GPU folding.

Thanks for the quick response.