nVidia GeForce Driver time again.....

Mats Nilsson
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I´m not a 24/7 cruncher but

I´m not a 24/7 cruncher but before I started running the beta applications I was average about 6000 credits and then I dropped to about 3000 and now with this new drivers I am up to about 5000 again. So something has happened somewhere and the only difference I know about is the drivers.

Edit: GTX 660Ti

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RE: I´m not a 24/7

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I´m not a 24/7 cruncher but before I started running the beta applications I was average about 6000 credits and then I dropped to about 3000 and now with this new drivers I am up to about 5000 again. So something has happened somewhere and the only difference I know about is the drivers.

Edit: GTX 660Ti

I am doing these units:
12,018.76 4,040.18 25.04 3,333.00 Binary Radio Pulsar Search (Perseus Arm Survey) v1.39 (BRP5-cuda32-nv301)

while you are doing these units:
6,917.35 1,850.02 17.58 3,333.00 Binary Radio Pulsar Search (Perseus Arm Survey) v1.39 (BRP5-cuda32-nv301)

You have a 660Ti, while I have a 760, I think it could be time to upgrade my drivers!!

Mats Nilsson
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On the cuda applications I

On the cuda applications I have not noticed any significant improvement only on the GWopencl applications. I think my GTX 660Ti is a Little bit overclocked from manufacturer I don´t know how much. It´s running GPU at 941MHz and memory at 6008MHz.

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I´m not a 24/7 cruncher but before I started running the beta applications I was average about 6000 credits and then I dropped to about 3000 and now with this new drivers I am up to about 5000 again. So something has happened somewhere and the only difference I know about is the drivers.

Edit: GTX 660Ti

I am doing these units:
12,018.76 4,040.18 25.04 3,333.00 Binary Radio Pulsar Search (Perseus Arm Survey) v1.39 (BRP5-cuda32-nv301)

while you are doing these units:
6,917.35 1,850.02 17.58 3,333.00 Binary Radio Pulsar Search (Perseus Arm Survey) v1.39 (BRP5-cuda32-nv301)

You have a 660Ti, while I have a 760, I think it could be time to upgrade my drivers!!

MAGIC Quantum Mechanic
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RE: On the cuda

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On the cuda applications I have not noticed any significant improvement only on the GWopencl applications. I think my GTX 660Ti is a Little bit overclocked from manufacturer I don´t know how much. It´s running GPU at 941MHz and memory at 6008MHz.

Mats, you can D/L Precision X to look at all the numbers on your 660Ti (and change any settings you want to)

I have a nVidia GeForce 660Ti from EVGA and most of them I have seen were sold OC'd or SC (super-clocked) the one I have is SC

Mikey are you talking about you 760 with the 2-core?

Are you running other tasks (from other projects) or just one or 2 GPU tasks (BRP PAS) ?

I never have ran the BRP PAS GPU tasks with a 2-core but that CPU is from back in 2007 so you probably won't be getting any RAC like a 660Ti and a quad-core i5-3570K CPU @ 3.40GHz as Mats has.

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RE: RE: On the cuda

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On the cuda applications I have not noticed any significant improvement only on the GWopencl applications. I think my GTX 660Ti is a Little bit overclocked from manufacturer I don´t know how much. It´s running GPU at 941MHz and memory at 6008MHz.

Mats, you can D/L Precision X to look at all the numbers on your 660Ti (and change any settings you want to)

I have a nVidia GeForce 660Ti from EVGA and most of them I have seen were sold OC'd or SC (super-clocked) the one I have is SC

Mikey are you talking about you 760 with the 2-core?

Are you running other tasks (from other projects) or just one or 2 GPU tasks (BRP PAS) ?

I never have ran the BRP PAS GPU tasks with a 2-core but that CPU is from back in 2007 so you probably won't be getting any RAC like a 660Ti and a quad-core i5-3570K CPU @ 3.40GHz as Mats has.

I am running 2 units at a time on one pc but only one unit at a time on another pc. On my AMD cards though I am running two units at a time on all of them. The pc running only one unit at a time is an older dual core pc with two gpu's in it and the pc itself is pretty much maxed out running only one unit, when running two units at a time on the 760 both gpu's slow down quite a bit.

And yeah I know I have some older cpu's still hanging out, I want to upgrade but choices have been made as to what and they are still working, so just haven't been yet.

I always leave a cpu core free for each gpu in the machine, but as I said on the dual gpu/dual cpu machine AND it only having 3gb of ram in the pc it is really struggling!!

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I upgraded to the latest non

I upgraded to the latest non beta Nvidia driver my dual gpu pc and now it won't even boot up! It tries but just doesn't finish the bootup process, I turned it off overnight and will try again today. I may end up rolling it back to the old one.

MAGIC Quantum Mechanic
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Just moved on to the new

Just moved on to the new GeForce drivers starting with the laptop and on to the rest 344.11 - WHQL

mikey
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RE: Just moved on to the

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Just moved on to the new GeForce drivers starting with the laptop and on to the rest 344.11 - WHQL

I ended up rolling back to the old one and the pc STILL wouldn't boot up, so I took the 2nd gpu out, the Nvidia, and am just running the AMD gpu right now and it is working fine. The pc has an 850 watt psu so that is not the problem, but the cpu is only a dual core one and the memory is only 4gb, so the pc itself is not new and could be the source of my problems.

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RE: RE: Just moved on to

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Just moved on to the new GeForce drivers starting with the laptop and on to the rest 344.11 - WHQL

I ended up rolling back to the old one and the pc STILL wouldn't boot up, so I took the 2nd gpu out, the Nvidia, and am just running the AMD gpu right now and it is working fine. The pc has an 850 watt psu so that is not the problem, but the cpu is only a dual core one and the memory is only 4gb, so the pc itself is not new and could be the source of my problems.

Yeah pretty weird that it won't work.......did you try that card in another one to see if it was just the card?

Been years since I had a dual-core and my last one was a good one but the processor died on me about 4 years ago here.

Man way back in 2005 I started here with a PIII 500 with about 127.49 MB ram

I have only updated the drivers on 2 of mine so far since it takes a while and at the same time I was updating the Oracle VB and as usual problems appeared so I had to do a clean install after the first one failed and then the vLHC started having a problem so I even had to reinstall that project which also takes longer than most of these do.

mikey
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RE: RE: RE: Just moved

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Just moved on to the new GeForce drivers starting with the laptop and on to the rest 344.11 - WHQL

I ended up rolling back to the old one and the pc STILL wouldn't boot up, so I took the 2nd gpu out, the Nvidia, and am just running the AMD gpu right now and it is working fine. The pc has an 850 watt psu so that is not the problem, but the cpu is only a dual core one and the memory is only 4gb, so the pc itself is not new and could be the source of my problems.

Yeah pretty weird that it won't work.......did you try that card in another one to see if it was just the card?

Yes it works just fine.

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Been years since I had a dual-core and my last one was a good one but the processor died on me about 4 years ago here.

Man way back in 2005 I started here with a PIII 500 with about 127.49 MB ram

I have only updated the drivers on 2 of mine so far since it takes a while and at the same time I was updating the Oracle VB and as usual problems appeared so I had to do a clean install after the first one failed and then the vLHC started having a problem so I even had to reinstall that project which also takes longer than most of these do.

Did you keep the box and just need a new dual core cpu? If so what kind do you need? I have a few I am not using anymore.

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