PPD too low from second system - Help please?

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Akagi

Akagi

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Hi guys, some of you might have seen me mention this elsewere, but I have a system used mainly for folding which has an i7 930 and a GTX570. Combined they are only pulling between 18K and 25K.

Now I ran the GTX570 in a different system before on Core17 and it was getting around 40K PPD, and I have heard from elsewhere that the i7 should be getting around 20K PPD. I have a passkey configured, the slot rules etc are configured correctly, I have ran quite a-lot of WU's on the system now so I believe I have easily surpassed the minimum quota for bonus points.

I have also re-installed the client a couple of times, changed various slot settings about, and of-course re-started the actual system several times.

It is not running in power saver mode, everything it optimised for high performance, the CPU and GPU seem to perform fine for everything else thought I will explore that more extensively if this continues.

Anyone have any ideas? :(

OS is Windows 8 Pro x64, full specs:

i7 930 @ stock
Asus ROG Rampage II Extreme
8GB (2x 4GB) Corsair Vengeance Blue 1600MHz (at 1066MHz because I need to change it in the BIOS)
GTX570 DCUII 1.25GB @ stock
500GB Barracuda 7200.9

Cooling is decent, PC-K62 with a 140MM intake at the front, 2x 140MM exhausts in the top, Kuhler 620 pulling air in at the back through a filter, and of course the DCU-II cooler on the 570.
 
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swiftmetal said:
Are you reserving one core to feed the gpu?
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I believe the CPU is running on 7 threads. Should I change it to 6 so that the GPU has a full core?

ozaudio said:
have you tried to fold on both cpu and gpu on there own to see if both running is causing the problem

also have you tried any different drivers for the gpu.

is both cpu and gpu showing 99% load while they are folding?
oh ye - you deffantly have the " client-type" " advanced " in the gpu slot , nothing misspelt by mistake or missing a letter?
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CPU slot has no rules, GPU slot has client-type advanced and next-unit-percentage 100.

CPU is running at 99%, GPU is running at 95 - 99%. When using the CPU on its own it only pulls about 7 - 9K PPD which is an issue on its own. The GPU on its own only pulls 12 - 15K PPD which again is an issue on its own.

I have not tried backdating drivers, but it has had two driver updates since which have made no difference.
 
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Biffa said:
It should help the gpu as well, as with Nvidia and Core 17 it uses an entire core of the cpu for each GPU

acme are you just running the one rig? Your daily points are around the 110-120K PPD mark which sound about right.
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I am running the 670 in my sig rig for perhaps 18 - 20 hours a day, and the i7 930 and GTX570 24/7.

The 670 pulls 75 - 85K.

So are you thinking that the rig is in-fact making the PPD that it should, but the app isn't reporting it correctly?

My points in the last 24 hours is 86K according to extreme overclocking stats.
 
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The GPU is not overclocked, and when it was getting more points it was on Windows 7 rather than Windows 8. It was also crunching on its own rather than alongside a CPU.

I'm running SMP6 now.
 
Is it normal for a 670 to spontaneously shoot up to dizzy PPD estimates? Mine usually sits at around 80K but I have seen it sit between 100K and 120K for reasonably long bursts before. To me that just seems plain wrong. :p

It is clocked to 1230MHz on the core.
 
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