How to get a Core 2 6300 to work with an ATI HD5670
26 Oct 2012 3:30:20 UTC
Topic 196592
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I have an old Intel Core 2 6300 @ 1870 GHZ cpu
from device manager ACPI Multiprocessor PC Driver
# 5.2600.1.0 date: 2001
Processors:Driver 5.2600.1.0 dated 01/04/2004
RAM: 3.5 GB
HDD: 203GB FREE
ATI HD5670 board driver (from Device Manager) 8.930.0.0... but on Your Computers in Boinc it says it is 1.4.1664
I would like to configure it to use the board for Einstein.
Bionc recognizes the board but can't seem to utilize it and I do not know enough about OpenCL or if the processors are capable utilizing the board ....if not to the recycling it will go
How to get a Core 2 6300 to work with an ATI HD5670
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I forgot running XP Media Center Edition Version 2002 SP3
Hi! The logs for that PC
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Hi!
The logs for that PC give a hint:
One has to be careful tho when updating AMD drivers for Windows XP: OpenCL support was removed from the latest versions of the driver for Windows XP, so updating to the latest drivers won't work either!! You will want to try finding a driver of version that is 11ish or so, IIRC.
Cheers
HB
Maybe during installation of
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Maybe during installation of BOINC manager, you have enabled the use of a non-privileged user account. If so then you need to re-install BOINC without this option.
RE: You will want to try
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Either 11.12 or 12.1, seems to be the consensus.
After much floundering around
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After much floundering around I realized that even 11.1 and 12.1 drivers were now for install on Windows Vista. I found and old disk of Vista and installed it on my Core 2.
What do you know the HD 5670 is fully functional and pumping out WU's at 1/10th the time (75,000 sec on the cpu and now with the gpu 9-10k sec or less).
It appears that AMD does not support XP at all now
RE: After much floundering
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Yeah sadly they are BY FORCE taking XP away from us... :-(
PC setup MSI-970A-G46 AMD FX-8350 8 core OC'd 4.45GHz 16GB ram PC3-10700 Geforce GTX 650Ti Windows 7 x64 Einstein@Home
The Catalyst 12.1 driver for
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The Catalyst 12.1 driver for Windows XP (32-bit) is still downloadable from the AMD website:
Win XP driver 12.1
A number of other versions (including XP 64-bit) are linked from the ATI Driver Version Cheat Sheet.
RE: RE: After much
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XP is a lot of work for increasingly little return. Vista through Win8 use the same driver model, allowing them to write a driver that works on all 3 for minimal additional effort. Xp's driver model is significantly different requiring a lot of additional work. In addition, in the market they care about (gaming), XP is down to barely 10% of the total market and at most 16% of the windows gaming market. I say at most, because the windows/DX version share graph the 16% came from is fairly volatile making me suspect the ~3% jump in last months numbers are noise while the long term decline of XP's is steady at two thirds of a percent per month, and has been similar for at least the past year. Enough other numbers related to old hardware jumped in December that I suspect gamers going home for the holidays and playing on old computers they gave their parents and/or laptops they bought for use when away from home that are older and less capable than their desktops probably explains a fair amount of it.
Assuming the decline remains linear until MS drops support for XP in April of next year it's share as a gaming platform will be down to almost zero. That assumption is probably not entirely valid, since a year ago the drop was closer to .75%/month. OTOH the imminent loss of security patches will probably boost it up closer to the end date.
Lastly, while steam doesn't break it out I strongly suspect that the share of XP systems with new graphics cards is much smaller than their total share and most of the developer effort is focused on new sales not people who're still using several year old cards.
http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey?platform=combined
(at the bottom)
http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/directx/
i put both drivers mentioned
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i put both drivers mentioned above on my core 2 ... and could not get my HD 5670 to work, I looked again at the AMD website it said "for OS Vista and 7" no mention of XP.
As soon as I installed VISTA and installed the drivers for the 32 bit version for Vista ... it recognized the 5670 and immediately sent out work units and I saw in GPU-Z it was working in openCL.
Sadly without support for XP newbies like myself and using old computers running XP for BOINC will go the way of the dinosaur.
Right now my Radeon HD-5670 is singing a new song being utilized by VISTA/BOINC and thanks for all the advise.
RE: ... I looked again at
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Did you try the link Richard gave you above?
If you want a page specifically for Windows XP, what about this page? All you need to do (for XP) is download the 12.1 version which was the last one to contain the OpenCL stuff you need for crunching.
Cheers,
Gary.