What is producing your points?

[INFRNL]

Just curious as to what everyone is running for the grid? I know a lot of guys are using the GTX 260's. also if you feel like it you can note what and how many cards per rig. Thanks

Rig1: 2 GTX 275's@745core/1620 Shaders/1248(2496)mem

Rig2: 3 GTX 275's@same as above

Rig3: 1 GTX 275@same as others ^^^

[PoppaGeek]

1 GTX 260 (216) 626/1349/1053 averages 12k a day

BUT it is also the rig I play a few hours of LOTRO most days. If not then I guess 14k a day average.

[Naja002]

5x 8800GS (3x EVGA, 2x XFX)
1x 8800GT (1x Asus....POS)

[Gamekiller]

Gtx 295.
I'd look into buying another but:
1: cost...
2: can't find my card anymore.. evga gtx 295 with backplate is no longer on newegg... just some more expensive overclocked ones with no backplate

[INFRNL]

Gtx 295.
I'd look into buying another but:
1: cost...
2: can't find my card anymore.. evga gtx 295 with backplate is no longer on newegg... just some more expensive overclocked ones with no backplate

I was going to get a gtx 295 once, but they were near impossible to find a while back.

I also used to have an evga gtx 260/192 that had the backplate; it was a much nicer card than they put out now; wonder why the change. I would imagine the backplate helps dissipate heat, no?


Thanks for the posts so far fellas; I think its nice to see what others are running and we can kind of compare rigs/cards. Kind of gives us an idea of the differences, among other things. :up:

[Gamekiller]

Yeah, you can tell the backplate works because it does get hot. I'm sure it would be much better if a fan was blowing over it.
Hmmm... or I could sit some old cpu heatsinks on it. :p:

[DAK1640]

GX2's, GTX260's, GTX 275's, 9800+ and GTS 250's...Not sure how many of each though...:rofl:

[MikeB12]

4xgts250, 1xgtx260

[Plan.B]

1 gtx280 and 1 9800gtx

[Otis11]

Mine - 1 GTX 260 (216) 626/1349/1053

What can I say, you're just a rolemodel PG... :p:
(Seriously though- that's a little scary.)

[OldChap]

1x 9800gtx (original type) @ 770 1944 1150 ave the last 7 days around 9k8ppd

[anubis]

8800gt

[INFRNL]

GX2's, GTX260's, GTX 275's, 9800+ and GTS 250's...Not sure how many of each though...:rofl:

Your the one I was mainly wondering about :(..thinking of what is getting you 200k ppd :shrug:

Thanks for eveyone elses input as well. keep em coming. with all the CB deals for us in the USA I figure more would be adding cards like crazy :ROTF: :yepp: :shrug:

Wonder what a 9800GT would do compared to a 9800GTX; probably a little differnence...thats ok; I will keep that one for F@H.

Anyone want me to run some cards for them :rofl: I currently have 3 empty slots. well really 2 cause I plan to add another card by next week; just not sure If I want to add it here or F@H.
I really need more for f@h, but I want to try and get up there with DAK too :D

[INFRNL]

now I get n idea about dak. I am starting to learn how to read the stats. Looks like as of today DAK is running 15 gpu's; could possibly be more depending on how the rigs are setup.

Congrats DAK and everyone else.

On a side note; I am liking these GTX 275's, not sure how the 260's compare, but looks like I produced 20-23k+ ppd on ea card today. Thats not too shabby is it?

[Gamekiller]

Yeah he's running the equiv of about 8 gtx 295s. :p:

23ppd on a 275? nice.

my gtx 295 has been getting 25-26k ppd... but it was getting a ton of errors even at stock. i believe i fixed it with a simple restart though lol

:wth:

[INFRNL]

^^^ hopefully you got it fixed.

so are you getting 25-26k per side or total?...havent looked at your stats. If its per side, then for some reason I am not producing enough

[Gamekiller]

It's total. =/

[PoppaGeek]

Have not played game last few days and daily average went up to 17k. A lot more than I expected.
GTX 260 (216) 626/1349/1053

[Gamekiller]

Speaking of LOTR... I rented LOTR: Conquest for the Xbox 360... puts a different spin on usual lotr gameplay and on the storyline as well. Off topic I know. :D

[Kondik]

Two GTX 285's on 702/1598/2646 here, I'd get more score If I wasn't playing half of the day and the client is suspended and does nothing, but since I'm jobless for two weeks I can have some fun :hehe:

I wanted a third GTX 285 but then when I tested how the cards would work when packed together I decidet that 3 cards = turbine , because they choke eachother < two cards that blow air silently

[Gamekiller]

I'm ready to put this gtx 295 on water.... but for the price I could almost buy another card. :p:

[INFRNL]

Have not played game last few days and daily average went up to 17k. A lot more than I expected.
GTX 260 (216) 626/1349/1053

that seems pretty darn good for a gtx 260


It's total. =/

is this oc'd or stock? also is that rac or avg? I noticed on the stats that avg is higher than rac; if I remember correctly


@ Kondik can't you run gpu grid and still play? the other night I dropped to stock speeds just in case and messed around with terminator salvation @ 1080P max settings; I believe. I did not seem to have any problems

[PoppaGeek]

Mine - 1 GTX 260 (216) 626/1349/1053

What can I say, you're just a rolemodel PG... :p:
(Seriously though- that's a little scary.)

Why? I am missing something, what did I do that is scarey? :shrug:

The clocks and timings are stock for the card it is a factory OCed card. I am corn fused. :ROTF:

[Gamekiller]

Oc'd, but I've changed my OC a lot in the last week or two.

Looks like I've been doing more than I thought.
http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=user&proj=ps3&name=14089

[Otis11]

Why? I am missing something, what did I do that is scarey? :shrug:

The clocks and timings are stock for the card it is a factory OCed card. I am corn fused. :ROTF:

Oh, haha - I just knew those weren't the stock specs and that's what mines running at. I guess I didn't think through it to hard - just reading through and saw my card with the exact same clocking that's not stock seemed a bit odd to me... Nevermind then. :rolleyes:

[Gamekiller]

Just a warning.... but you guys might want to watch out for this error:

"MDIO ERROR: cannot open file "restart.coor""

It's on 99% of my failed WU's lately.
Edit: It's on a lot of my completed ones also.... :shrug:

[PoppaGeek]

Kinda got some bad news for multi-GPU setups.

Was going thru INFRNLs results and the numbers did not look right. So I copied all the valid results for each machine into a spreadsheet. Kinda tedious but glad I did it.
Rank 1 machine average PPD = 20914 - that is 1 GPU 20914/1 = 20914 - 4 -5 WUs a day
Rank 2 machine average PPD = 53859 - that is 3 GPUs 53859/3 = 17593 - 10 WUs a day
Rank 3 machine average PPD = 33809 - that is 2 GPUs 33809/2 = 16904 - 6 - 7 WUs a day

I am going to recheck all my numbers. There are things that could effect all this such as overclocks, amount of time ran each day etc that only INFRNL can enlighten us on but if these are accurate then multi-GPU setups do not look advantageous point wise.

[PoppaGeek]

No comments? :confused:

[INFRNL]

Kinda got some bad news for multi-GPU setups.

Was going thru INFRNLs results and the numbers did not look right. So I copied all the valid results for each machine into a spreadsheet. Kinda tedious but glad I did it.
Rank 1 machine average PPD = 20914 - that is 1 GPU 20914/1 = 20914 - 4 -5 WUs a day
Rank 2 machine average PPD = 53859 - that is 3 GPUs 53859/3 = 17593 - 10 WUs a day
Rank 3 machine average PPD = 33809 - that is 2 GPUs 33809/2 = 16904 - 6 - 7 WUs a day

I am going to recheck all my numbers. There are things that could effect all this such as overclocks, amount of time ran each day etc that only INFRNL can enlighten us on but if these are accurate then multi-GPU setups do not look advantageous point wise.


EDIT: I do not know if it just depends on wu's, but it does look like multi gpu's definately take some kind of hit.

It shouldn't matter how many lanes the slots has does it? obviously single is 16. my dual rig should be 16/16, but triple gpu rig is 16/16/4 I believe. Its a biostar x58. maybe each card take a little ore of a hit.

I would take one out of the triple rig and run it on the single, but not sure If it will mess up the #'s?

Sorry for the delay PG. Your thinking is correct. seems as though the single GPU system has a higher rac. but if you go unde my stats and look at ACTUAL points per day per system I think it come out a bit closer to being the same.

Also my rac on the 3 gpu rig is not accurate yet. I had 3 cards running for almost a week I think then put them on F2H for a while and just this week I believe put them back onto the grid. That system doesnt doesnt have a true month of continuous time.

I have also noticed that RAC it a total avg from total points. I do not know what I am trying to say. Basically if you ran for 1 month and took them off for 2, then your rac would be all jacked up and would not be an accurate measurement for ppd calculations

[PoppaGeek]

The numbers I used were for actual days not by week or month and I did not count any day that was very different. If it usually did 10 - 11 WUs a day then a day of 5 was not used. I did not use the numbers on the first page but the numbers under Tasks. That is what concerned me.

I am trying to find other multi-GPU systems to compare but Mikeb12 is getting alot of errors and with a stomach full of staples I doubt he cares too much right now. No one else had systems that were in use a long time and did not have too many errors.

I put the spreadsheet on Google Docs. (http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tz3FUJjgqkaNaq0tPSEEJZg&output=html) I deleted the Sent column and the Status column to make it a little easier to read.

[INFRNL]

I think my error rate is pretty low and I think the single and double gpu have been running just over a month now, maybe getting closer to 2 months; can't recall. looks like single is approx 23k/day roughly and dual and triple are closer to 20k/day. is that kind of what you are seeing?

but if you take my total points and divide by 6 gpus; it comes to around 18-19k. That could be due to not enough time on the 3 gpu rig; not sure.

EDIT: I think I meant total for today, but yesterday was a bit better. I do not know if they are done with updates for today or not. do they update twice a day like WCG?

I am going to run my Q9550 rig with single GPU on the grid for a little bit and see how it compares to my other single GPU...sorry f@h

[Gamekiller]

I'm getting so many errors even with my card stock..
I'm even getting errors with my 8600gt...
temps aren't the issue... no idea what is

[PoppaGeek]

gamekiller: I dunno but the trick for my cards seems to be finding the drivers that card or system likes. I have not tried swapping cards to see if it is a MB thing or a driver thing or both but zero errors in F@H on 182.50 drivers on 192 shader and Zero erros on GPUGrid with 190.38 drivers 216 shader. Change drivers and all I get is problems. Kinda like a woman I guess if something makes them happy then leave it alone. Happy is good.:yepp:

Try different drivers. :up:

[PoppaGeek]

INFRNL: Sorry to have picked on you but you had the best results for comparing 1, 2 and 3 card setups and it seems to me there is a diminishing return on multi-GPU setups. More time may show it differently but I think it is worth watching.

[Gamekiller]

The 190.38 lets me keep my gtx 295 in sli mode. :(

[INFRNL]

INFRNL: Sorry to have picked on you but you had the best results for comparing 1, 2 and 3 card setups and it seems to me there is a diminishing return on multi-GPU setups. More time may show it differently but I think it is worth watching.

I don't mind; I am just trying to help you figure it out.

I cannot afford a system for each card :ROTF: and wether it be here or f@h we will have to lose a few points on multi gpu setups. Still great production IMO.


I also want to add that my rig with dual gpu's is on vista 64 and the other 2 are on win 7

The Q9550 rig I will be adding here in a moment is single gpu on vista 64; So we can add more results into the comparison ;) :p: :ROTF:

I may have messed some stuff up :ROTF:. I upgraded boinc on the 9550 rig to 6.6.36, boinc would not get any work for gpu grid, kept getting an error, said I had to upgrade driver. so I updated to the 190.38 <<< I think it is. anyway, I got it running now, but it downloaded like 5 or 6 wu's.
I do not think I want that many for a single gpu; I will lose out on my bonus points; will keep an eye on it.

now for my dual gpu rig. I decided to upgrade as well to see how it works for SLI, but it got rid of all my Grid work and downloaded new work. So basically I lost the work I was working on. So I am now missing 2 wu's. another thing is I wasn't paying attention and wanted to try and hook up my 3rd monitor and all the screens went blank for a second. :ROTF: So it errored out my current wu's. so now I have 2 additional errored wu's to add to my list.
I think most of the error on the cards are from me or power outtages.

Anyway; I will keep you posted. may have to upgrade the drivers on other 2 rigs If I do not run into any problems with the 190.38 driver

[PoppaGeek]

I have always gotten 2 WUs at a time. Since I did not play LOTRO for 2 days it completed 3 WUs a day instead of usual 2. Today I have 6 WUs in queue. :eek: There goes my bonus.:shakes:

[INFRNL]

I think they just recently changed something :shrug:

maybe it depends on drivers. the 9550 rig did not like the 190.38 driver; it made the screen go blank and would flicker every few seconds.

I put the 186.18(I think) drivers on it errored out the cuda23 wu's and downloaded some new ones. I now only have 1 wu in queue again :shrug:


the dual gpu rig is still running strong with sli enabled, but I think if you disable sli you lose your work automatically, not 100% sure. However 10 wu's in queue= :shakes: :mad:. will see by tomorrow if I need to make changes to get less wu's in queue

[shadowwind]

I have always gotten 2 WUs at a time. Since I did not play LOTRO for 2 days it completed 3 WUs a day instead of usual 2. Today I have 6 WUs in queue. :eek: There goes my bonus.:shakes:

hey poppa i thought you had a ATI card i would use that to play games on or is that card folding for you just curious:)

[PoppaGeek]

The ATI 4850 is in a box. Too much heat for F@H considering 1 in 5 WUs error, usually after 6 - 9 hours. I may bring it back up this winter. After gaming on a 260 though I would want a 4870-4890 to game on. I am looking to get either another 260 or a 275 if I can find a good deal on one. Re-cert 260s (216) are about $135 on Newegg, would like to find a 275 re-cert but no luck so far.

I do not count rebates. Got burned too many times over the years.

[PoppaGeek]

I have always gotten 2 WUs at a time. Since I did not play LOTRO for 2 days it completed 3 WUs a day instead of usual 2. Today I have 6 WUs in queue. :eek: There goes my bonus.:shakes:

I can find nothing in forums on why I went from 1 WUs in queue to 5. Someone that has been doing this awhile, is this normal? My card produced enough WUs to be trusted? I looked thru settings on web site and found nothing to control how many WUs I get at a time but I will get no bonus for 2 - 3 WUs. :shakes:

[Gamekiller]

I have 5 in queue with 2 running and I have tons of errored units so maybe it's something on their side.

[Plan.B]

I have to sell a 9800gtx to finance a gtx280: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=232667

[Gamekiller]

Lol @ the massive Delta! Ha! I love fans like that... though I need to get rid of mine... only so much I can take from their noise. :D

[INFRNL]

I can find nothing in forums on why I went from 1 WUs in queue to 5. Someone that has been doing this awhile, is this normal? My card produced enough WUs to be trusted? I looked thru settings on web site and found nothing to control how many WUs I get at a time but I will get no bonus for 2 - 3 WUs. :shakes:

I saw a setting that says keep enough work for 5 days; then says something about forcing 5 days on ver 5.1...something like that. I changed it to 1 day; thinking about aborting some projects to maintain bonus points.

My dual gpu rig is now on 190.38 w/ sli enabled, but its showing approx 13-14hrs per wu now :confused:. I do not know if it actually takes that long, but it does take a long time. I really dont mind as long as my ppd remain consistent, but damn thats a long wu.
This rig seems to be running fine. will monitor for a couple days; If I do not like the results I will default back to 186.18 drivers as I know there are no issues.

new gpu rig added last night; I found out that my issue had something to do with the OC. This card is a factory oc BFG, but cannot handle the oc that all my evga's are running :mad:.

I have noticed a bunch of errors too. I think I need to reinstall drivers. just not sure if I want to run 190 or stick with 186 drivers :shrug:....
now that I know my problem was oc related, I might try the 190.38 driver again and monitor results.

Even though I had issues early this morning and lost a bunch of work; my ppd still came out well for the day so far @ 100kish today

[PoppaGeek]

192 drivers will fetch CUDA 2.3 WUs and older drivers will get 2.2. So switching drivers will loose WUs in progress.

[INFRNL]

192 drivers will fetch CUDA 2.3 WUs and older drivers will get 2.2. So switching drivers will loose WUs in progress.

I know. I am thinking of just going back to 186.18 because I am not seeing good results in work on 190.38.