has been running various Einstein applications using a succession of GPUs over the years. Most recently it has been running an RTX 3060.
When it was new it was not an economy build, but long since it is not new. The CPU is i5-4690K CPU @ 3.50GHz [Family 6 Model 60 Stepping 3, which was often termed a Haswell at the time. Intel currently lists it as 4th-generation, which sounds pretty bad as they are far above the 10th by now.
The motherboard is an ASUS Z97-E/USB 3.1.
Intel suggests running a sort of compatibility checker, asserting it will tell you whether your system is acceptable. All it told me was that there were no applicable updates for my system.
A black card packed with the GPU advised me to go the Intel quickstart guide at:
This looks pretty discouraging as it only lists compatibility for generations 10 through 14 of Intel processors, does not list motherboard chipsets so old as mine, and insists that Resizable BAR support must be enabled on the motherboard.
I guessed, and saw some support online for my hope, that the various BIOS configuration requirements and suggestions were performance-affecting, and not necessary for basic function.
So I just uninstalled the Nvidia driver, powered down, removed the Nvidia GPU, and installed the B580.
The only system responses I got on powering up were some disk activity and the single motherboard beep. So no error beeps, but no pixels on the screen either. So I powered off, put the 3060 back in, ran the Nvidia installer, and breathed a sigh of relief when my system came back to life and was able to run Einstein.
Possibly this is just the symptom of trying to run this card on too old a system. Or I did something wrong, or I had the bad luck to get a bad card.
I'm not sure what to do right now. Selling it on eBay would be easy. I'd be eager to hear any suggestions as to easy and reasonably safe things I might try.
I saw posts that Resizable BAR support is mandatorily required. Your cpu and BIOS does not support that. You won't be able to use the B580 on that motherboard.
I saw posts that Resizable BAR support is mandatorily required. Your cpu and BIOS does not support that. You won't be able to use the B580 on that motherboard.
So is there a MB than uses his CPU and Ram and supports Resizeable BAR? Or is it even possible on that generation?
A Proud member of the O.F.A. (Old Farts Association).
Yeah I think I agree with Keith. The system may just be too old to support that GPU.
If you can put two GPUs in that host, you might try running it as a secondary card to see if it’s detected as a device and use a different GPU to run the display
Archae86 may want to check if they own a 2nd generation Haswell (Haswell Refresh). For those, the k-Type CPUs do carry an operational integrated graphics adapter (like this one does).
Hey Mumak, after reading that thread, I am still confused about how to get the Arc GPU working. May I know what exactly was your configuration to receive a WU for the Arc GPU?
I assume because the two BRP Intel-gpu applications available were only compiled for the igpu in Intel processors and the applications needs to be re-compiled with the new Battlemage product ID's so it recognizes the external gpus.
Mumak wrote: Note sure if
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i don't see that much variation in the tasks. could be a few things.
were you running anything in the background in your first tests that could otherwise slow the GPU down? (heavy CPU loads, anything else using the GPU)
did you update the GPU drivers?
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Tom M wrote: How many
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No, same setup/config.
I attempted to install a B580
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I attempted to install a B580 GPU in my main PC today. I failed to get a single pixel on the monitor.
Details:
The host on which I attempted the install:
https://einsteinathome.org/host/12260865
has been running various Einstein applications using a succession of GPUs over the years. Most recently it has been running an RTX 3060.
When it was new it was not an economy build, but long since it is not new. The CPU is i5-4690K CPU @ 3.50GHz [Family 6 Model 60 Stepping 3, which was often termed a Haswell at the time. Intel currently lists it as 4th-generation, which sounds pretty bad as they are far above the 10th by now.
The motherboard is an ASUS Z97-E/USB 3.1.
Intel suggests running a sort of compatibility checker, asserting it will tell you whether your system is acceptable. All it told me was that there were no applicable updates for my system.
A black card packed with the GPU advised me to go the Intel quickstart guide at:
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000091128/graphics/intel-arc-dedicated-graphics-family.html
This looks pretty discouraging as it only lists compatibility for generations 10 through 14 of Intel processors, does not list motherboard chipsets so old as mine, and insists that Resizable BAR support must be enabled on the motherboard.
I guessed, and saw some support online for my hope, that the various BIOS configuration requirements and suggestions were performance-affecting, and not necessary for basic function.
So I just uninstalled the Nvidia driver, powered down, removed the Nvidia GPU, and installed the B580.
The only system responses I got on powering up were some disk activity and the single motherboard beep. So no error beeps, but no pixels on the screen either. So I powered off, put the 3060 back in, ran the Nvidia installer, and breathed a sigh of relief when my system came back to life and was able to run Einstein.
Possibly this is just the symptom of trying to run this card on too old a system. Or I did something wrong, or I had the bad luck to get a bad card.
I'm not sure what to do right now. Selling it on eBay would be easy. I'd be eager to hear any suggestions as to easy and reasonably safe things I might try.
I saw posts that Resizable
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I saw posts that Resizable BAR support is mandatorily required. Your cpu and BIOS does not support that. You won't be able to use the B580 on that motherboard.
Keith Myers wrote: I saw
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So is there a MB than uses his CPU and Ram and supports Resizeable BAR? Or is it even possible on that generation?
A Proud member of the O.F.A. (Old Farts Association).
Yeah I think I agree with
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Yeah I think I agree with Keith. The system may just be too old to support that GPU.
If you can put two GPUs in that host, you might try running it as a secondary card to see if it’s detected as a device and use a different GPU to run the display
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Archae86 may want to check if
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Archae86 may want to check if they own a 2nd generation Haswell (Haswell Refresh). For those, the k-Type CPUs do carry an operational integrated graphics adapter (like this one does).
Cheers,
Walton
Hey Mumak, after reading that
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Hey Mumak, after reading that thread, I am still confused about how to get the Arc GPU working. May I know what exactly was your configuration to receive a WU for the Arc GPU?
My host with the B580 runs
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My host with the B580 runs under Linux and works with Primegrid.
At Einstein I don't get any WUs for the GPU, so only FGRP5 for me at the moment.
No Windows currently here.
I assume because the two BRP
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I assume because the two BRP Intel-gpu applications available were only compiled for the igpu in Intel processors and the applications needs to be re-compiled with the new Battlemage product ID's so it recognizes the external gpus.