Thinking about making a comeback
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Did a trial today and found it makes next to no difference. I get almost identical PPD whether I set the SMP client to use 6 cores and set the affinity as described or just leave the SMP client using 8 cores and let Windows sort out the affinity on its own. If anything, my SMP is fractionally better while the GPUs are exactly the same.
Thanks for that. It's made a big improvement on my SMP score - now giving me ~19,600 PPD.
Done that - thanks again. Set fan curve in EVGA precision and it's keeping the hottest of the 670s to 70c with a fan speed around 73%. A bit noisier but the cards are cooler.
I've applied a modest OC to the 670s (GPU clock offset +100 and mem clock offset +299). Getting another 2,500 or so PPD out of each card, taking my total estimated to ~103,000 PPD. What have you got yours running at? Wondering how much more I can get out of these.
I did a bit of reading and didn't know about the throttling at 70c thing so I've adjusted my fan curves accordingly and the fan on the hottest card is now running at 80% to keep the temp at 68c. I've upped the OC on the cards to +123 and +400 (1103 boost and 1702 (3404) memory). Stable so far. PPD now over 105,000.
Getting a bit noisy in here now, the sooner I get the cash together for watercooling blocks the better
Getting a bit noisy in here now, the sooner I get the cash together for watercooling blocks the better
Soldato
Is the memory clock important for folding? I was under the impression that other wasn't.
You're correct - the concensious is that the memory has little effect on Folding.
Also, I'll check my 670 speeds when I get in to see what they are running at....
But got a feeling they're around 1200 & 1186
Just so you know......
A decent GTX660TI (like the MSI Power Edition or EVGA FTW Signature 2) are good for a decent OC and are virtually on par with my 670's OC'd on the lower point wu's - not had the decent wu's to check yet.
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Got myself a power monitor today so I've hooked the rig up to that to see how much power it's drawing. Early indications are that it's pulling about 540W at full tilt. This is a lot less than I thought with an OC'd 3770K and 3 x OC'd GTX670s and shows that my 1250W PSU is total overkill 
Going to leave it on the monitor for 24 hours to see how it averages out over the course of a day.
Going to leave it on the monitor for 24 hours to see how it averages out over the course of a day.
I've just got up (banged my toe last night and woke up early and couldn't get back to sleep) and it's now pulling 644W. It seems to have grabbed some better WUs though - estimated PPD = 147,000.
Now that's more like it
Now that's more like it
Very Nice 
Almost as good as my 680's but at a lot less cost.
My 680's on the same wu's are averaging just over 42k across all four.
The rig is running around 192.5k PPD
Are you using the Client-type 'advanced' flag or 'beta' flag?
BTW: best keep an eye on the GPU's - those WU's become very unstable with high OC's
Also, what make/model are your 670's and what core speed are they running at? (I will check mine in about an hour and let you know what they are in.c speeds)
Almost as good as my 680's but at a lot less cost.
My 680's on the same wu's are averaging just over 42k across all four.
The rig is running around 192.5k PPD
Are you using the Client-type 'advanced' flag or 'beta' flag?
BTW: best keep an eye on the GPU's - those WU's become very unstable with high OC's
Also, what make/model are your 670's and what core speed are they running at? (I will check mine in about an hour and let you know what they are in.c speeds)
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Very Nice
Almost as good as my 680's but at a lot less cost.
My 680's on the same wu's are averaging just over 42k across all four.
The rig is running around 192.5k PPD
Are you using the Client-type 'advanced' flag or 'beta' flag?
BTW: best keep an eye on the GPU's - those WU's become very unstable with high OC's
Also, what make/model are your 670's and what core speed are they running at? (I will check mine in about an hour and let you know what they are in.c speeds)
I'm not using any additional flags - I just did a basic set up. Do you think adding flags would benefit?
The cards are Palit (standard, not Jetstream). I confess to not understanding EVGA PrecisionX to be honest. Two of the cards are running at 1201MHz and the other one is running at 1254MHz. I don't understand how they're running at different speeds, they all have the same settings applied (sync is checked in PrecisionX).
I wiuldnt bother with flags atm if your picking up those wu's.
The reason for the different flu speed is due to the cards themselves - they are hard wired to optimise under load and temp. All four of my 680's are at different speeds. Nothing to worry about just as long as they are stable (very few of mine are stable if I up them by more than 80 so it seems you are very lucky) - have yiu increased the power usage to the highest setting?
The reason for the different flu speed is due to the cards themselves - they are hard wired to optimise under load and temp. All four of my 680's are at different speeds. Nothing to worry about just as long as they are stable (very few of mine are stable if I up them by more than 80 so it seems you are very lucky) - have yiu increased the power usage to the highest setting?
My two 670's are running at 1200 and 1220 and both are just standard models (evga and pallit I think).
However, I'm gonna return them and get. Couple of oc'd 660ti's
That is if I ever get time..... Turns out nuclear submarines can occupy a serious amount of time
However, I'm gonna return them and get. Couple of oc'd 660ti's
That is if I ever get time..... Turns out nuclear submarines can occupy a serious amount of time
