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stooper101
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Speaking of spankings, anyone hear from Sir Grawlfang?
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Putting_things_on_top
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| Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 1:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Grizzly wrote: | ...
I think you will find (with a bit of diggin' ) that the venerable Sir Millenium Knight , has been arrrround for a bit longer (The name is a clue Rolling Eyes - Umm and a few other names/aliases's ).
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Yeah - my bad. 
I was just relying on EOC stats.
But I did qualify it by saying "possibly before", though.
I guess it should have been definitely rather than possibly.
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HIS Production was awe'some , on mainly one UBER BOX , plus some others - hence his ranking today after ~ 4 years of stop . He was the top world wide producer for some years .
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Maybe he can be enticed back into the throng, especially if his über-box is still available!
Hmmm...let's see here...what's in this drawer???
OH! I have some spare batteries, a voltage transformer, about a half-roll of duct-tape, and a metal spatula...
...maybe we can rig the loonie-magnets to pull him in again!
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This isn't a whole lot of fun, but...
I have now also passed Sir CADCAM in total points on F@H. 
But, I am especially grateful to:
-- Andy Barber (team-rank #1) who has a substantial lead (by 7+ million, but I'm closing that gap - albeit slowly).
-- Sir Antigens (team-rank #2) who has flung down the gauntlet and is usually out-performing me in average PPD (and by a not-too-insignificant margin at that!).
These two Knights are providing challenges for me that make it worth getting out of bed every day (promptly at the crack of noon!).
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| Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 8:20 pm Post subject: NEW SHINY OBJECT |
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Oooooo!!!!
Look what the UPS guy just delivered!
My newest shiny object:
The EVGA GTX-690 Signature Edition 04G-P4-2692-KR 
It will take me a few days to get this installed, configured, 'burned-in', and ready to go.
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Concrete-mixing Moose
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HAHAHA! Good one! 
That's a dishwasher part, this is a real graphics card complete with ...
Wait a minute, you might be right ... damn! That's why the rinse cycle takes so long.
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| Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 9:04 pm Post subject: AAAGGGHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Well, a couple of BSODs and far too many hours spent coalescing geek-info, and my newest rig is up & running. 
For anyone who cares, the GTX690 has a quirky split-personality thing going on. One physical card looks like 2 separate GPUs to the O/S (Win7Pro).
If anyone needs help getting one of these bad boys running (even for non-F@H shrubbing), gimme a shout!
I'm hoping that my new shiny object can help push me consistently above 100,000 PPD mark. 
Oh, and the AMD FX-8150 (on a ASUS Sabertooth 990FX mobo) can be easily O/C'd from the normal 3.60GHz to 4.15GHz thru the UEFI BIOS.
That's assuming you have ample [more-than-adequate] CPU cooling.
Gonna give it a week or two before I deem this new rig "reliable".
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Concrete-mixing Moose
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Altogether, for the GTX 690 we’re looking at a pair of fully enabled GK104 GPUs (1536 CUDA cores) clocked at 915MHz, paired with 4GB of 6GHz GDDR5 (2GB per GPU) all on a single card.
From
Ananad tech review 2 cores = 2 cards on BIOS
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UUGGHH!!!! Continuing occasional BSODs. 
This is due to 'stop code 0x0000000000000101' - which means there's a driver SNAFU (timing-error) on the GPU (not CPU).
And the driver is not necessarily at fault - it could be 'buggy' FAHCore code (WUs).
I'm running the 301.42 NVidia drivers.
In order to get the 690 (dual 680s) to even be recognized by F@H, I have to set "client-type = beta".
However, the F@H support forum warns that running 'beta' is likely to produce unpredictable results, such as BSODs and other hateful things.
I'm wondering if there any other projects (WCG, etc) that do have support for GTX 690 ???
I don't want to leave this card sitting idle for months on end (waiting for Stanford to get their Kepler code finalized).
And I'm getting very annoyed with checking my new rig every 4 to 6 hours. That BSOD error inhibits auto-reboot!!!
So why not put it go good use elsewhere...for the time being, anyway.
ANY SUGGESTIONS???
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sir spuddly buddly
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| Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2012 1:20 am Post subject: |
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Somebody has one up and running see Folding Forum
Are you OC-ing? tried another driver?
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| Concrete-mixing Moose wrote: | Altogether, for the GTX 690 we’re looking at a pair of fully enabled GK104 GPUs (1536 CUDA cores) clocked at 915MHz, paired with 4GB of 6GHz GDDR5 (2GB per GPU) all on a single card.
From
Ananad tech review 2 cores = 2 cards on BIOS |
Here's another handy site for video-card/GPU reference-specs, news, comments, and informed-rumors:
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sir spuddly buddly
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| Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2012 3:01 am Post subject: Re: AAAGGGHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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| Putting_things_on_top wrote: |
Oh, and the AMD FX-8150 (on a ASUS Sabertooth 990FX mobo) can be easily O/C'd from the normal 3.60GHz to 4.15GHz thru the UEFI BIOS.
That's assuming you have ample [more-than-adequate] CPU cooling.
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Should read what people write ... hows the PSU on your machine? These cards need a lot of juice.
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| Putting_things_on_top wrote: |
I'm wondering if there any other projects (WCG, etc) that do have support for GTX 690 ???
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List of GPU boinc projects here http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/GPU_computing
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| Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2012 2:34 pm Post subject: Re: AAAGGGHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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| sir spuddly buddly wrote: | | ... hows the PSU on your machine? These cards need a lot of juice. |
I have an OCZ 1250W PSU (80 Plus Gold Certified) - more than adequate.
I really like this PSU - fully modular, plus VERY generous supply of cables.
Another important thing is the CPU cooling.
I opted for the Cooler Master X6 Elite (but I replaced its stock fan with the Ultra Kaze 'Scythe' fan - 38mm thick, ~105 CFM).
And yes, I chose the UEFI-BIOS 'performance' profile and I am running at 4.156GHz.
With the CPU (all 8 cores) running at 100%, I have yet to exceed 38c!!!
The GTX-690, however (when it's behaving itself), is running warm-ish at around 74c under 100% load.
I am seriously considering water-blocking the 690 because I don't like anything to run over 65c.
BTW, I also have an OCZ Vertex-4 SSD (256GB, 6GB/s SATA).
This makes a very noticeable difference in boot-time (and overall performance).
If you can find enough spare-change, get one; you won't be disappointed.
OCZ seems to have the fastest SSDs on the market (today), IMO.
My enormous case (Cooler Master Cosmos II) really helps with the cooling.
I replaced its few 'stock' fans with Scythe; plus, I added as many additional Scythe fans as would fit (I now have 13 fans in the case).
I also have a CyberPower PSU (900 watts, 1500VA).
The current total draw is ~480W at full load.
So, I have enough power ceiling to add a 2nd GTX-690 in the future.
GTX-690's TDP is rated at 300W, but seems to be about 260W in reality.
As for the random BSODs, I am speculating that there is a timing issue:
The Kepler architecture does not use a fixed clock-speed; they have a "base" and "boost" speed.
I have noticed that when a GPU WU starts out (from a cooled-down unit), the speed starts off with the "boosted" rate.
But as the temp climbs up, the clock is slowly & automatically tweaked down to its "base" (or even below) to prevent thermal problems.
The F@H application may get confused by this "variable" clock-speed, and this may be the root problem with that specific stop-code.
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Are you running SMP/multi core WUs at the same time? Might need a spare core ...
Also have you tried fixing the clock at one speed? I remember seeing some software that does that.
1 review had a 100% load temp of 81C so I would n't worry.
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| Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2012 9:22 pm Post subject: |
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| sir spuddly buddly wrote: | | Somebody has one up and running see Folding Forum |
Yes. I saw that. But it's not all that informative. Lacks 'details'.
Over the past week, I have spent hours reading/researching the F@H forum...as well as competing teams' forums and geek-ware sites...accumulating information.
| sir spuddly buddly wrote: | Are you running SMP/multi core WUs at the same time? Might need a spare core ...
Also have you tried fixing the clock at one speed? I remember seeing some software that does that.
1 review had a 100% load temp of 81C so I wouldn't worry. |
I DID find a very useful tool.
It's called NVidia Inspector, and I used it to set the clock speed on each half of my 690 to 1019MHz and I also cranked the fan to 85%.
I'm not too thrilled with MSI's AfterBurner or EVGA's PrecisionX. These are gamers' overclocking tools.
Coming up on 48 hours without a BSOD, and GPU temps are under 70c. at ~100% load 
Once I have my rig & 690 stabilized for about a week, I will post a detailed 'how-to'.
The 'spare core' is not really necessary on a faster processor (mine is AMD FX-8150).
In this case, the SMP WU is being executed in the lowest possible priority.
So, when anything else comes in (at the default 'normal' priority), it is given - well - PRIORITY. 
Even GPU WUs take a small bit of CPU cycles, but not enough to slow anything down to a noticeable degree.
On dual or quad core CPUs, however, there can be a lag that is more obvious.
(Lots of people complain of very poor browser performance).
BTW: My CPU is cranked at 4.156GHz, all 8 cores at 100%...and my temp = 38c!!!!
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| Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2012 8:01 pm Post subject: |
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AAGGHH.
I was forced to down-clock my FX-8150 back to its default 3.612 GHz.
The BSODs were continuing; but after the down-clock, everything's running fine (all 8 cores at 100%) for over a week.
The BSOD (0x101 stop code) has not happened again since the down-clock.
I suspect this error is tossed for either a GPU or CPU timing mis-sync.
The Nvidia Inspector tool certainly helps, though.
I'm now producing shrubberies at PPD >100K (or 3 million/month). 
BTW, I'm saving-up my spare pocket-change for another 690 !
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