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GTX 260 F@H people, Please let me know your PPD, drivers

Markfw

Markfw

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I got a new card 896 MB GTX 260 (192 shaders) 620/1080/1296 shaders. I used the NV_FAH_CPU_AFFINITY=0. 178.28 CUDA drivers, I have the affinity changer loaded, and 2 x smp units. Total machine PPD=(guessing)8200, 2 x 2200 + 3500 GPU. When I had one SMP and one GPU it was 2900 and 4600 for 7500 total. 4600 even seems low, for a 5757 384 point units. I get the same or better from 880 GT's !!!

WTF am I doing wrong here. All suggestions are welcome. I expected 7000 from this baby.
 
I'll let you in 2 weeks Mark. I just ordered a new 55nm GTX 260 @ 626 core/ 1350 shaders / 2106 memory (effective. 1053DDR) and I get the rest of my i7 in about 2 weeks. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Markfw900
I got a new card 896 MB GTX 260 (192 shaders) 620/1080/1296 shaders. I used the NV_FAH_CPU_AFFINITY=0. 178.28 CUDA drivers, I have the affinity changer loaded, and 2 x smp units. Total machine PPD=(guessing)8200, 2 x 2200 + 3500 GPU. When I had one SMP and one GPU it was 2900 and 4600 for 7500 total. 4600 even seems low, for a 5757 384 point units. I get the same or better from 880 GT's !!!

WTF am I doing wrong here. All suggestions are welcome. I expected 7000 from this baby.
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Mark, I have an EVGA GTX 260/216 ( 180.60 Cuda beta) and it gets between 6000-8500PPD depending on the WU. I have my clock spped at 575, my memory clock is 1000. But I cranked my Shader Clock to 1575 and that is what makes the differance. 🙂

My MSI GTX260/192 will be here Friday. and I can do more tests along side each other. But Silverthorne chimed in on another thread and said he got 8500 PPD with his card (260/192). 🙂

 
I used the nvidia system tools to find the optimal. Its now @ 5800 from 5100, and 1567 shader. Now I may have to try that on all my video cards ! I have 13 now, and number 14 coming (sometime, if UPS can deliver)
 
Mark,

I have a GTX 260 (192 shader) running now on the 180 drivers...650 core -1401 shader - 999 memory...and F@Hmon varies between 5800 and 6800 PPD depending on the WU. At the moment with a 5757 project (384 points) its at 5820 PPD. This is with BOINC running on both cores of an X2 6000+ chip. My 8800GTs get between 4400 and 5700 PPD depending on the WU. Can't tell what's up with your card. But 7000 PPD is a bit high, I've never seen more than 6800 back when the 480 pointers were common.

Another GTX 260 should arrive in a day or two....and will put me over 22K PPD.
 
Mark, Here is a Snapshot of my current PPD production. Right now I am typing from the main rig and my PPD on the GTX 260 is over 8000. When now using the rig, the PPD goes up a bit more...
 
You have an awful lot going on with that PC to troubleshoot effectively.

What does the GPU do all by itself?

Now, what does it do with a single SMP

Finally, what does it do with two SMPs (I think you already posted that)


When you change to a new card, you should use add/remove programs to uninstall the pre-existing driver installation. then turn off your machine (instead of re-start) and make the hardware swap.

When you turn the machine back on with the new card, you should cancel out of the windows hardware driver wizzard, then double-click on the downloaded driver you got (I'm using 178.24 instead of 178.28, but I don't think that is relevant)

Finally, you need to be sure you select 'slightly higher priority' in the configuration of the GPU client.

-Sid
 
That snapshot I took this morning was kind of in a rush! Just wanted to remind you that I dropped the shader clock to 1475 the night before. I am doing a bit of testing to see what and how it does with different clocks. So far around 1575 is the furthest I can go without issues. 1475 still gets me over 8000 PPD and all my temps are at a comfortable 58-60c.
 
Originally posted by: Markfw900
On a 5757 unit (384 points) I am getting 6912 according to fahmon

look here
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So, that is running with a Q6600. What OS are you running it on.

Mine is with Vista 64 ultimate...Dont think it should make much differance though.
But it uses very little cpu % while running.

 
I have XP pro, it uses 25% cpu. I know if I got vista I could fire up another smp unit. Right now, its 8800 ppd for one smp and one gpu. If I fire up the other smp, the ppd drops to 8200 total.
 
Ya, I tried 2 smp and a Gpu with XP and it's not a really good idea...When my other GTX 260/192 gets here, it will be going in a rig thats running Xp 64 and a Q6600. I will let you know the stats as soon as I can....
 
I am not used to hearing about a GPU on top of 2 SMPs.

I also got a PPD decrease when I tried that. On the flip side, two GPUs and a single SMP seem to work great! Well over 13K per machine.

(Q6600, WXP sp3)

-Sid

edit: Mark, you might try the 18x.xx series video drivers. They will diminish the GPU output by ~15-20%, but they really free the CPU. You might find that the ability to run two SMPs gives more gain than the loss from the GPU.

(this really only applies to WinXP systems)
 
Your correct as far as using Xp for 2 Smp and a Gpu, But Vista on the other hand isn't so bad. I get approx 11,000 - 12,000 PPD depending on Wu on my Q9450 Rig. But that will change in the near future as I will be getting yet another Gtx 260/216 to match the one I have for this baby, then I will run 2 Gpu and 1 smp.😛
 
I just loaded 180.48. It locked up after 20 minutes, but I was getting 11000 ppd! I am trying again. Its using 15% cpu for the video card.But I just got an unstable machine on the GPU after after 24 hours of stability.....

Maybe the 180.48 drivers aren;t that good.
 
I used the nvidia system tools to find the optimal. Its now @ 5800 from 5100, and 1567 shader
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I know this might not be well received, but I think un-doing the overclocking might have a better chance of eliminating the lion's share of the EUEs more than changing drivers. The 180 series lets the GPU do more of the work... that was apparently enough to show the issue.

-Sid
 
Well, after a reboot, its up to 17% done, and over 9000 ppd with 2 smp units and a GPU. I think I will wait and see what happens.

After another 1/2 hour, the ppd went to 8200. I am back to one gpu and one smp.
 
OK, I had lockups, horrible ppd and screen freezes. I went back to 178.28, and one smp and one gpu, and all is back to wellness...

Sorry sid, that sure didn;t work out, and I lost 1000 points trying....
 
My cards are re-scheduled until Monday the 5th.:frown: So I hope to get some info later that evening....
 
My new motherboard and card came yesterday, but the motherboard won't boot from IDE or SATA, just the CD. Then I tried SCSI, and it will boot, but not CD anymore ! Should I return it ? Its just a cruncher. Once I get it done, it will just sit and crunch.
 
Originally posted by: Markfw900
My new motherboard and card came yesterday, but the motherboard won't boot from IDE or SATA, just the CD. Then I tried SCSI, and it will boot, but not CD anymore ! Should I return it ? Its just a cruncher. Once I get it done, it will just sit and crunch.
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jeez....it seems like there have been a LOT of delivery and bad hardware problems lately.🙁

NOT good.
 
Originally posted by: Markfw900
My new motherboard and card came yesterday, but the motherboard won't boot from IDE or SATA, just the CD. Then I tried SCSI, and it will boot, but not CD anymore ! Should I return it ? Its just a cruncher. Once I get it done, it will just sit and crunch.
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If cleariing CMOS and a flash doesn't fix it, I'd make them take it back. Really no rush and it might just be the RMA that breaks the camel's back and begins some serious consideration of QA.... Ya never know.

Anyway, you should get what you've paid for.

-Sid
 
Well, Got my New cards in and I increased my PPD production quite a bit. The GTX 260/192 is set to the exact specs as my GTX 260/216 and I am getting the same PPD on both. Right now their running projects 5014 and 5016 for the 480 points and they fluctuate between 7029 - 6912. They have the same drivers ( 180.60 )

So, I was looking around and found that you can use the EVGA Precision on the MSI cards and it does work. So you can just install the latest drivers from Nvidia and then install the EVGA Precision and adjust your shaders, core, memory and fan!

Here is a snapshot.
 
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