SETI@home News Vol. 114

:eek: Damnit man lol done that myself mind.
Me little rig "puke" is acting funny, had the strangest message i ever had "usb over voltage detected" formatting the little s..now see how it goes then i believe i may do some folding :eek::eek:
 
HeX said:
460 does really well. Longest WU i've had on mine has taken ~12mins.

That's with 460 @ 850/1700/4200. :)

Ones it's doing atm are taking 9mins/ea.
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Nice tiffy's Hex and eggcup :p

Hex - how many wu's are you running on your 460? Im convinced that Im losing massive amounts of credit as my wu's on 470's or 480's take anything upto 1hr :eek:
Most are around 30-35mins with 3 wu's per card, but I get periods of wu's going through at 50-60 mins
If I run Einstein - I get longer wu's, and increasing to 2 cpu's feeding the cards has helped to bring down the times a bit

I have some fans arriving tomorrow, so will work on getting some decent temps in that monstrosity of a case of mine.
Then Im going to get some more RAM as 2Gb is not enough if running Einstein and other projects together..

If that doesn't help, Im starting a thread so that we can get some comparisons over wu and fermi completion times as this is really bugging me..

Well done Toxic on the BIOS flash - nowt like a bargain :D:D
 
edgedemon said:
Nice tiffy's Hex and eggcup :p

Hex - how many wu's are you running on your 460? Im convinced that Im losing massive amounts of credit as my wu's on 470's or 480's take anything upto 1hr :eek:
Most are around 30-35mins with 3 wu's per card, but I get periods of wu's going through at 50-60 mins
If I run Einstein - I get longer wu's, and increasing to 2 cpu's feeding the cards has helped to bring down the times a bit

I have some fans arriving tomorrow, so will work on getting some decent temps in that monstrosity of a case of mine.
Then Im going to get some more RAM as 2Gb is not enough if running Einstein and other projects together..

If that doesn't help, Im starting a thread so that we can get some comparisons over wu and fermi completion times as this is really bugging me..

Well done Toxic on the BIOS flash - nowt like a bargain :D:D
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Didn't know you could do more than 1 WU per GPU so it'll be just the 1 :D

(SETI is so much more complicated compared to when I used to crunch on an XP2100+ a million years ago!) :o

How does one change the number of WU's a GPU can crunch?

This is what my 460's been up to:

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EDIT - 25mins and I'm out of WU's :(
 
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ToxicTBag said:
Go to app_info.xml depending what os your using its in C:\ProgramData\BOINC\projects\setiathome.berkeley.edu open the app_info.xml with notepad only.Scroll down and where you see <type>CUDA</type>
<count>1</count>
Thats telling boinc to run 1 instance of cuda per gpu, change it to
<type>CUDA</type>
<count>.5</count>
Which is telling it to run 2 instances and .33 for 3 etc.
Try it with 2 taking note of how long it takes to do 1 before changing, that way you can confirm by looking at 2 sets of completion times if it is worth doing 2.
Think i have it right :)



Very true sah - wouldn't mind but it's not even covert, very in your face which is just not British!! :D
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all detailed nicely by Toxic

try with 2, see what your temps/times are like and if ok go for 3:D
 
Excellent, will give it a go when I have a fresh supply of WU's.

Current WU's are only using about 70% of my GPU power, so going to 2 should mop up those spare cycles at least :)
 
Evening peeps :)
Question, i need to do a fresh os install as long as i back up boinc data folder i can save and transfer back when complete but in view of the servers being down when i re install boinc does it need to connect to servers? I know i should know this but am just not sure.
Thanks in advance :)
 
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