Goal: Seti Germany by Thanksgiving

[DAK1640]

C'mon team, we can do it. We may have some recruiting to do, but that's ok...We are Xtreme, we WILL make this happen...:up:

Show your spirit.:clap:

[Otis11]

We got this! :sonic:

:woot:

[123bob]

I'll get one more 260-216 online in a few. It needs a driver update. It's my main rig, so the garbage I've been seeing on the farm with the newer drivers better play nice here..... No KVM so I should be OK.

Bob

[OldChap]

Foreigner here...when is Thanksgiving? would it help if i put my 98xx's on here for a few weeks? and if so what ppd do they do?

[don_xvi]

Funny, OldChap, I was gonna make a crack about Canadian Thanksgiving already being passed but didn't have time.
Thanksgiving in the states is Thursday the 26th of November this year.

And I hope to get a GTX of some sort online soon ! Just looking for a hot enough deal...

[123bob]

My main rig 260-216 is online and crunching.

[Snow Crash]

I've been struggling with my 295 ... I think my Corsair 750 TX may be a little underpowered for the 295 full bore plus a healthy OC (4.3 GHz @ 1.325 vCore) on my i7-920. That's really a guess but I can say that it seems like the more I push the more *problems* I seem to have. I unplugged the extra fan I was using for a bit of extra cooloing on the GPU and, gulp, dare I say this, I am undervolting (938 mV using EVGA Tuner) and underclocking (all the way down using EVGA Precision) to see if I can stay stable and crunching without crashing. Any chance drivers could be the issue ... 191.07 on Vista 64 using boinc manager 6.10.17?

[DAK1640]

Foreigner here...when is Thanksgiving? would it help if i put my 98xx's on here for a few weeks? and if so what ppd do they do?

98xx's will do just fine...output approx 5K / day...My 9800GTX's do 6-7K ppd (each)

[DAK1640]

I'll get one more 260-216 online in a few. It needs a driver update. It's my main rig, so the garbage I've been seeing on the farm with the newer drivers better play nice here..... No KVM so I should be OK.

Bob

Hey Bob, I never had any issues with my kvm's...I have (2) 4ch and (1) 2ch. I have noted the usb ones aren't as reliable as the old fashion ones tho.

[Otis11]

Looks like we need to bump production up just a bit! One day off of taking Germany for Thanksgiving!

[cjc_75]

I've got to the point in my RAC where any gaming puts a hit in it :down:

My new 260 216 seems to error out now and then, then maxes out on daily WU's...sitting idle for the rest of the day.

All I want for Xmas is more GPUS :D

[Otis11]

Haha, well then It looks like you fit in pretty well here! And is you 216 OCed?

[cjc_75]

No, its a stock gigabyte gtx 260 super overclock...I'm starting to wonder if its my PSU, ocz modstream 600W.

[INFRNL]

Looks like we need to bump production up just a bit! One day off of taking Germany for Thanksgiving!

What kind of #'s do we need? If i have to, I can put my other 3 275's back on for approx 60k more ppd.:shrug:

[DAK1640]

What kind of #'s do we need? If i have to, I can put my other 3 275's back on for approx 60k more ppd.:shrug:

We need approx 85K ppd more than yesterday's finish.:up:

[INFRNL]

So we only need 85k ppd more each day. I will take my 3 cards off of F@H till thanksgiving. They need 300k ppd more I think for their comp. Its a lot harder to get 300k more there than it is to get 85k here or am I reading your message wrong? I am not even sure where you guys are seeing the stats. I know how to find our individual stats...let me look into this. I can prvide 3 more 275's and possibly see if I can get a 260 or 2 to help out.

[Kristall-99]

is gpugrid just Nvidia based? or can Ati be put on the grid aswell.

[Snow Crash]

Sorry, it is only capable of using Nvidia cards at this time. I think they plan on expanding into ATI but that's not likely until sometime next year.

[DAK1640]

So we only need 85k ppd more each day. I will take my 3 cards off of F@H till thanksgiving. They need 300k ppd more I think for their comp. Its a lot harder to get 300k more there than it is to get 85k here or am I reading your message wrong? I am not even sure where you guys are seeing the stats. I know how to find our individual stats...let me look into this. I can prvide 3 more 275's and possibly see if I can get a 260 or 2 to help out.
Big thanks INFRNL:up:

[INFRNL]

Big thanks INFRNL:up:

NP, I moved the 3 275's back over, now to find a good deal on some GPU's. Either 260/216 or 275's. Anyone want to sell me some for cheap :shrug: :rofl:

[PoppaGeek]

I have got to sell the 192 core. It is just sitting. Since it acts like the other one I have decided it is the 65nm older 260s that have the problem. Seems most 55nm do ok. Waiting on a HD then installing Vista64 on the Athlon and trying it once more, different MB and all and try some under clocking and the newest beta drivers but I have no confidence it will work. It does ok on F@H except for 576x WUs and that was all they would send. Seemed to play games ok and Nvidia supposedly tests them I would just hate to sell it to someone and they had problems playing games. I may box it up and hide it in the dark corner of the PC parts closet and pretend it never happened. I have 289 reviews on ebay feedback and 100% positive and this card will screw that up, it hates me and wants to destroy me!

[Otis11]

Can't you use it for your games and let the others be dedicated crunchers? That would help more than putting it in a dark corner...

Or if you want to put it on ebay (which i recommend), test it with the games you have, sell it and just make sure the guy knows that it won't run DC apps correctly, most won't care a bit. (You could also offer to have him send it back if he has trouble... then there's no way he can rate you poorly and it's better than the dark corner)

[INFRNL]

Where is gtsrboy? he is in trouble. He just sold a gtx 275 for dirt cheap without consulting me first. I would have bough that card in a heartbeat

[Paladin]

I should pass Riptide tomorrow in Collatz (http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=team&proj=col&team=191) which will fulfill my goal there. I'll bring my 275 & 8800 back here thereafter.

[Otis11]

Good to have you back Paladin!

This is going to be close, but I think we'll get it!

[INFRNL]

I am trying to get a card or 2 more, which should help a little. Does anyone know how many ppd a gts 250 produces? I saw someone selling one for $95 and was thinking of picking it up possibly :shrug:

you can mix cards on the grid right? just not f@h, cannot recall

[shadowwind]

i got 2 gts 250 they are getting about 10 k a day depending on the work units . i get some WUs that takes 13 hours to complete so i will get a little over 5 k on those days.i think you would be better off with a gtx 260 point wise poppa is running 2 gtx 260s and he get 25k to 34 k a day depending on work units.:D

yes you can mix cards on the gpugrid

[PoppaGeek]

i got 2 gts 250 they are getting about 10 k a day depending on the work units . i get some WUs that takes 13 hours to complete so i will get a little over 5 k on those days.i think you would be better off with a gtx 260 point wise poppa is running 2 gtx 260s and he get 25k to 34 k a day depending on work units.:D

yes you can mix cards on the gpugrid

Nice to hear from ya!:wave:

Hope job going well! :up:

My RAC for 2 260s is 33k.
:toast:

[DAK1640]

I am trying to get a card or 2 more, which should help a little. Does anyone know how many ppd a gts 250 produces? I saw someone selling one for $95 and was thinking of picking it up possibly :shrug:

you can mix cards on the grid right? just not f@h, cannot recall

I have (6) GTS250's and they avg 8-9K ppd

[shadowwind]

Nice to hear from ya!:wave:

Hope job going well! :up:

My RAC for 2 260s is 33k.
:toast:

new job is going well just wish i didn't need to travel out of town as much. i may go back to building guitars i prefer to get my hands dirty in a shop then dressing up.:shocked:

[INFRNL]

thanks fellas,
so I was right in my calculations. 2x gts 250's= 1 gtx 275

My rac for 2 gtx 275's is currently showing 39k, I can produce anywhere from 16+ to 23?k ppd
Does anyone have a rac for a single gtx 260-216?

also what about a gtx 285?

My thoughts still stand I think. Giving that you could buy a 275 for $200 or less, would provide the best card for the money IMO. Although the 260's are not too terribly far behind, but still enough for me to justify the difference. My calculations are fairly acurrate on this as well. At one point in time, I said onF@H the 275 produces around 1500k ppd more and on the grid approx 3k ppd more. Looks to be on par from what I have compared to PG

Looks like I will stay with the 275's for now, unless I cannot find any deals and I find a killer deal on a 260-216


Does anyone have spare cards sitting idle that need me to run for them. i know some cannot afford the electric bill right now? just thought Id put that out there.

[Snow Crash]

I'm tired of not knowing if I'll make pie or not and I have a enopugh PSU to handle a pretty good card. I'm thinking either a 275 or maybe try a 5870 to see what's up with the ATI developments at GPUGrid ... who wants to see which (and does anyone know where I can get my hands on a 5870?)

[shadowwind]

GOOD LUCK on 5870 i checked out 4 different online stores and no luck. checking out zipzoomfly in a few i post back if they got it in stock.

[PoppaGeek]

GPUGrid and Free-DC show one of my gtx 260s RAC as 21k. It is the machine that is used for not much else. The one I play LOTRO is 11k. 21k seems high to me. :shrug:

[INFRNL]

GPUGrid and Free-DC show one of my gtx 260s RAC as 21k. It is the machine that is used for not much else. The one I play LOTRO is 11k. 21k seems high to me. :shrug:

maybe its a monster on steroids:ROTF: I think thats more than my gtx 275's, unless its getting special wu's :shrug: Does seem a tad high though

[Otis11]

GPUGrid and Free-DC show one of my gtx 260s RAC as 21k. It is the machine that is used for not much else. The one I play LOTRO is 11k. 21k seems high to me. :shrug:

That's at stock?!?! I think there's something wrong with that... on a mild OC I was pushing 18k... but at the "stock" superclock speeds it was stable around 16k if I remember right... Just need to get a monitor so I can fix this thing up...

[PoppaGeek]

Just checked the history and I thought it was longer ago that I pulled one of the cards out of that machine. The 28 day RAC still has alot of numbers from when both cards were in it. The 7 day RAC is 17k and that seems about right. When both cards were in the machine it ran 35k-38k a day.

[Otis11]

That seems like a good number... Still, a little higher than I would have guessed for stock...?

[DAK1640]

Thanks to everyone...looks like only 12 more days till we overtake Seti Germany...:clap::clap::clap:

[Otis11]

Thanks to everyone...looks like only 12 more days till we overtake Seti Germany...:clap::clap::clap:

Cutting it close! But looks like we're going to get it!!! :up:

[INFRNL]

If I could or could have found a great deal on a gpu, it wouldn't be sooo close

[Snow Crash]

OK ... I pulled the trigger on a 285 ... it will be here next week and I hope to have it up before company comes to visit for Thanksgiving but will probably not be crunching while they are here ... unless I can't hear it over all my other fans :shocked:
This won't help much in closing out on Seti Germany but it will make sure I stay in Pie :yepp:

[INFRNL]

It looks like it will be very close, But I think we will make it!

Snowcrash, you should have had your card shipped nextday, we need it :rofl:
I'm just kidding. I dropped the ball a little. I was going to try and get another card used, but missed a couple deals and have not had time lately to go looking in the fs sections of my forums

[Otis11]

We're good... as long as no one drops production we're going to slide right in! :up:

[INFRNL]

good to know :up:

[Snow Crash]

<rant>

Snowcrash, you should have had your card shipped nextday, we need it :rofl:
Their website said I could pick it up in store on Friday but then they backed out of that via email and said to call them and they would ship for free. I call and lucky me, I get a trainee customer service rep who doesn't know anything and can't find anything even though I gave him the order number. After putting me on hold three separate times he says they will ship it to me at no charge and it will go out that day. I get home and check the order status only to find that it still has not shipped and they did not fix the sales tax (no sales tax if I order for a direct shipment on web site). I call again and explain ... while I am hold for the second time for this call they f'in hang up on me. I check the website to see if the rep finished fixing the tax for me and it tells me that their "order management system is down, sorry for the inconvenience". I just checked now and it still has not been shipped and of course there is still no credit for the sales tax. Best Buy sucks ascii. I was kinda hesitant to go with them to begin with but this fiasco seals the deal, I will never go there again. There are too many good retailers, no need to deal with this incompetence.
</rant>
sorry for the rant ... had to get it out.

[Otis11]

Haha... BestBuy? I swore I would never go there again after they screwed my brother over with a defective ipod he got there

We decided to follow through on our complaint and now my family can get 5-10% off all electronics depending on markup... So don't count it out to quickly - and follow up on the complaint!

[123bob]

Well, :slapass::stick::cord: me....

I suspended my main rig for a bit since it was having some driver trouble with 195.39. It was giving me the old "driver had to reset" error. I forgot to resume....:slobber

This was a few days ago. It's back up now with dual harpers for WCG and a 260-216 for here.....

Bob

[Snow Crash]

Haha... BestBuy? I swore I would never go there again after they screwed my brother over with a defective ipod he got there

We decided to follow through on our complaint and now my family can get 5-10% off all electronics depending on markup... So don't count it out to quickly - and follow up on the complaint!

I detailed the timeline and exact events and have sent that along in a formal complaint ... we'll see if anything happens.


Well, :slapass::stick::cord: me....
how do we know you don;t actually like being slapped, poked, and whipped :rofl:

I suspended my main rig for a bit since it was having some driver trouble with 195.39. It was giving me the old "driver had to
reset" error. I forgot to resume....:slobber

This was a few days ago. It's back up now with dual harpers for WCG and a 260-216 for here.....
Bob
Seriously ... sorry to hear that but glad to hear you have it back up and running again.

[123bob]

how do we know you don;t actually like being slapped, poked, and whipped :rofl:


Generally I do, but not for lost production....:rofl::ROTF:

[Snow Crash]

I asked them for a discount on the purchase price or just overnight shipping and this is the response ...

Best Buy Customer,

If you are contacting us to cancel your BestBuy.com order, please call us at 1-888-BEST BUY. (1-888-237-8289)

Thank You.
Best Buy Customer Care


seriously ... what are these people thinking? I don't want it cancelled, I want it to ship and I want the sales tax fixed !!!

[Otis11]

I asked them for a discount on the purchase price or just overnight shipping and this is the response ...

Best Buy Customer,

If you are contacting us to cancel your BestBuy.com order, please call us at 1-888-BEST BUY. (1-888-237-8289)

Thank You.
Best Buy Customer Care


seriously ... what are these people thinking? I don't want it cancelled, I want it to ship and I want the sales tax fixed !!!

:shakes:

Maybe that's an automated response till they can get back to you? :shrug:
(hopefully)

I just talk to the manager at the store face to face with printouts and receipts... he knows me, my brother and my dad by name now. :rofl:
(my family buys way to many electronics - when we pointed that out and had receipts to prove it they became really helpful. Haven't forgot us yet.)

Is the store close to you that that would be an option?

A lot of their employees are incompetent, but their management is good if you talk to them (at least in my experience) so as long as you don't need help from the lower level troops you should be good. :rolleyes:

[INFRNL]

Well, :slapass::stick::cord: me....

I suspended my main rig for a bit since it was having some driver trouble with 195.39. It was giving me the old "driver had to reset" error. I forgot to resume....:slobber

This was a few days ago. It's back up now with dual harpers for WCG and a 260-216 for here.....

Bob

Thats not good, I had a few hours downtime today myself :shakes:. I updated the bios on my p55 rig. Forgot to put the voltage back up; went to my parents for my Mom's 60th B-day. I got home to find out that the P55 crashed. I then went to update to the 195.xx driver myself; it works on all my x58 machines, but does not allow SLI on my P55 :confused: :mad: :shakes:
So I went back to 191.07 drivers I think they are :shrug:

Updated all my machines to boinc 6.10.18:up:
For some reason I am not getting the production I planned, but I am still doing well.

I am thinking of making some changes again too, just not sure what the heck I am doing or want to do right now. I know I need to figure out how to proerly power all my systems. I have My P55 running on a 500 enhance psu, but the 2 gtx 275's are running on my Galaxy evo 1250 which also runs my main rig with another 2 gtx 275's.

I may be pulling 1 machine to run big wu's for F@H and possibly exploring linux and will pair with either my 9800gt from an old amd system , cheap gpu by itself, or possibly another GTX275. I have not decided yet. Way too many ideas in my head :ROTF: :shrug:

[123bob]

Thats not good, I had a few hours downtime today myself :shakes:. I updated the bios on my p55 rig. Forgot to put the voltage back up; went to my parents for my Mom's 60th B-day. I got home to find out that the P55 crashed. I then went to update to the 195.xx driver myself; it works on all my x58 machines, but does not allow SLI on my P55 :confused: :mad: :shakes:
So I went back to 191.07 drivers I think they are :shrug:

Updated all my machines to boinc 6.10.18:up:
For some reason I am not getting the production I planned, but I am still doing well.

I am thinking of making some changes again too, just not sure what the heck I am doing or want to do right now. I know I need to figure out how to proerly power all my systems. I have My P55 running on a 500 enhance psu, but the 2 gtx 275's are running on my Galaxy evo 1250 which also runs my main rig with another 2 gtx 275's.

I may be pulling 1 machine to run big wu's for F@H and possibly exploring linux and will pair with either my 9800gt from an old amd system , cheap gpu by itself, or possibly another GTX275. I have not decided yet. Way too many ideas in my head :ROTF: :shrug:

I went back to 190.XXwhatever since I found out my rig has been throwing errors ever since going to 195.xxwhatever. That driver seems to su*k real bad for 260 cards. It was throwing "snow-storms" on the screen, and giving me the error "graphics driver has reset" and such.

So far, so good on the older driver. I have a couple of valids. :up:

Since Nvidia has decided to ignore my repeated problem reports on the issue I have with KVM functionality, I'm really looking at the 5870 thread with interest. For $300 a card, that will be my next move if they prove solid on real work.

On the PSUs, I learned early on to go big and good with those. I have mostly 750 watt units, a mix of Silverstone 750s, which DDTung turned me onto, some Corsairs, and the rest Thermaltakes. They have all been rock solid. The lowest rated supplies I have are some 500 watt Thermaltakes. They are all supporting at least one quad and one 260-216. So far so good, but I can see that they might have not been the best choice for upgrading.

I'm still a noob on farm management, and I don't think any of us can call themselves experts. DDTung was the closest we had to that. I do miss him. :(

My best,
Bob

[DAK1640]

I too miss DDTung...I also agree Corsair makes a mighty fine PSU, I use the 750W units. Now onto drivers...191.07 seem to work well for me.:clap:

[123bob]

Oh no, looks like the main rig is still having trouble with driver 190.62. It appears to be throwing errors still. I'll try some driver gymnastics and see if I can get it back. It's a factory OC evga 260-216. One of the early ones....

[PoppaGeek]

Oh no, looks like the main rig is still having trouble with driver 190.62. It appears to be throwing errors still. I'll try some driver gymnastics and see if I can get it back. It's a factory OC evga 260-216. One of the early ones....

If trying 2 or 3 different drivers does not help forget it. It was an older 65nm model that I could never get to work RMA'd it and the replacement would not work either. My 2 newer 55nm work fine.

[123bob]

Thx very much for the heads up Poppa. :up:

I had thought originally that all the 260-216s were 55nm. I found a tiny snippet that has my part number as 65nm.... The card is part number 896-P3-1267-FR. The FR indicates that it came from Fry's so I substituted AR and found a little blurb saying it was 65nm. I know my card is a very early 260-216 so I suppose it is true.

No wonder it's been driving me crazy! Now I can quit trying to make it work. I was worried that the card had a hardware problem.

Sparky is looking for another 260-216 to fill out a dual card folder. I had intended to give it to him for folding. I suppose I should take it back to 182.50 driver and ensure it folds. If it does, it's his.

Regards,
Bob

[DAK1640]

You da man Bob:up:

[123bob]

Done deal. The GPUGrid problem card is going to fold for Sparky. I hope he doesn't run me over with it...:rofl:

I'm still looking for a 5870. I can't seem to find one local here....I'll back fill the main with my trusty 8800GTX until I can get one online somewhere. The 5870s seem rather popular right now. :yepp:

Bob

[INFRNL]

Hey guys don't :slapass: me, I had 2 machines crash today possibly due to the new beta drivers :shrug:. Kind of funny how I can run for over a month non-stop without issues, then I upgrade and system crashes :mad: :shakes:

Anyway; I am back up, will see what happens tomorrow. I hope it doesn't crash.

I may have to give up 1 system, but that will only affect WCG.

I will possibly be losing my P55 to my brother or possibly Otis. I am feeling a tiny bit nice and they are both in need of a good system. I am not sure what I am actually going to do yet, but plan for a new 920 system to replace the p55 or just add to the farm.

another good note is, I just bought a gtx 260 from a fellow member and sold my UD2 on another forum.

Now I can really compare the GTX 260 to my 275's, no more BS, hands down comparison between cards on very similar hardware:up:

Should have my card before Snow Crash gets his 285 :rofl: just playing, but I should have it by the weekend. contemplating buying an msi 260 from a member on another forum as well :shrug:

maybe a trip to MC this weekend :shrug: :p: ;)

[Otis11]

Hey guys don't :slapass: me, I had 2 machines crash today possibly due to the new beta drivers :shrug:. Kind of funny how I can run for over a month non-stop without issues, then I upgrade and system crashes :mad: :shakes:

Anyway; I am back up, will see what happens tomorrow. I hope it doesn't crash.

I may have to give up 1 system, but that will only affect WCG.

I will possibly be losing my P55 to my brother or possibly Otis. I am feeling a tiny bit nice and they are both in need of a good system. I am not sure what I am actually going to do yet, but plan for a new 920 system to replace the p55 or just add to the farm.

another good note is, I just bought a gtx 260 from a fellow member and sold my UD2 on another forum.

Now I can really compare the GTX 260 to my 275's, no more BS, hands down comparison between cards on very similar hardware:up:

Should have my card before Snow Crash gets his 285 :rofl: just playing, but I should have it by the weekend. contemplating buying an msi 260 from a member on another forum as well :shrug:

maybe a trip to MC this weekend :shrug: :p: ;)

Gotta build a crunching basis some how... :rofl: (we'll see how it works out)

Lookin forward to seeing how the cards compare! Need to start looking into ATI once they finally get that working, but we won't put it all on you. :p:

[Snow Crash]

snip ... Should have my card before Snow Crash gets his 285 :rofl: just playing, but I should have it by the weekend...snip
I should have mine plugged in and crunching tomorrow night:yepp:

[INFRNL]

I should have mine plugged in and crunching tomorrow night:yepp:

Well thats good news :up:

@Otis: I used to run ATI, but less than half production compared to nvidia killed it for me. If they get it figured out, ati may start kicking some butt.:shrug: I hoe they get it figured out cause I am sure there are a lot of ati fans that had no choice but to go with nvidia

[DAK1640]

I should have mine plugged in and crunching tomorrow night:yepp:

Well it's about time Snow Crash...You almost got a penalty.
It looks like 8 days till we overtake SETI Germany...The day before thanksgiving. Way to step up team.:clap:

[123bob]

If we even think we are short for this goal, I'll turn over the 55nm 260-216s I have folding, over to the grid.

LMK. Those will be a PITA since I will have to go through driver gymnastics on the KVM I have, but I'll do it. I have 6 of these cards.....

The one 65nm 260-216 card I have got fired tonight. It's going on a long boat trip to Ohio. It will fold there.

Bob

Kudos to all who have stepped up, keep it up, and just joined us coming out of the depths of the DC vault to make it happen.

Ultimate kudos to Naja, who started this team, brought me onboard, and got us going.....:worship:

Dude, you rock. :up:

[06F150fx4]

I should have mine plugged in and crunching tomorrow night:yepp:

There goes my lead over you :( :down:

[Snow Crash]

There goes my lead over you :( :down:

You'll be back soon enough ... kicking my ascii and taking names :yepp:

[06F150fx4]

You'll be back soon enough ... kicking my ascii and taking names :yepp:

I might have the wife drop in a gtx 260 till i get home just to keep up

[[XC] 4X4N]

Put a GTX260 back on the grid for this, and I think I'll keep it here this time. It runs much hotter and squeals sometimes with F@H. I can run the fan at stock with gpugrid, a lot easier on my ears. :)

[INFRNL]

4X4N;4116038']Put a GTX260 back on the grid for this, and I think I'll keep it here this time. It runs much hotter and squeals sometimes with F@H. I can run the fan at stock with gpugrid, a lot easier on my ears. :)

Thanks for the added help :up:

[Otis11]

Nice to have ya back!

[Snow Crash]

Had a very long day yesterday so it was not until this morning that I got the 285 crunching. For the moment it is below stock as I had read there was a screw up at the factory that flashed these at core speeds that would cause them to crash. Sure enough when I finally got it going and opened Precision, the core was running at 694. I was in a rush (had to leave for work) so I just turned all settings to lowest to make sure there would be no crash during the day. I will try to tweak it a little tonight and do my long term OC after TDay but for now it will make sure I pie every day :-)

Welcome back 4x4 :up:

<update>
I now have the shaders set to a more respectable 1584 :-)
and it looks like we may take Germany by the last update Sunday night ... 4 days ahead of schedule ... XS FTW!
</update>

[INFRNL]

got my GTX 260-216 today!!! have to make some changes though. I also need to figure out what the max I can go on shaders for Gpugrid or F@H. I might have to go over f@h to look through some posts

EDIT: I an not sure what the max shader clock that can be runon these, but I am sure soon to find out. I was @ 1699 or whatever the actual was, probably over 1700 but I got a driver stopped and restarted. I backed it off to 1687(1692 actual) so far its been good, will see by tomorrow how it does. Tonight I have to change a couple of systems around, so I will have a couple hours downtime, actually a few on 1 GTX 275, wish I had my dremmel here, could make a quick fix, but I think my plan will work for a while.

I basically have a Lian-li A05B for my son with a Gigabyte X58 UD4P trying to run 3 GTX 275's. The way the case is built will not allow for the 3rd card to seat correctly. Its probably not a good idea to run 3 GTX 275's in this case without major mods anyway. I had the case all enclosed and it got way too hot. had to pull the side panel off to properly cool everything. The GTX 260 seems to run quite a bit cooler than the GTX 275's. So maybe for now I will run 1 GTX 260 in this case and possibly add a couple more later, will see in time. I got a pretty good deal on this card so I am happy so far. Will see how it compares to my 275's for final answer. END EDIT

[Otis11]

Well, I can officially say today's the day! :woot:
(12:01 here)

Let's fire the boosters! Full steam! :sonic:

(Don't forget to wave and smile!) :p:

[INFRNL]

Well, I can officially say today's the day! :woot:
(12:01 here)

Let's fire the boosters! Full steam! :sonic:

(Don't forget to wave and smile!) :p:

:rofl: and I had a really bad day. I am having issues with either drivers, boinc, or a combination of both:shrug: drivers fail and restart, locks the systems to 2d speeds thereafter, reads full speed but runs at 2d clocks

I also think that one of my systems psu is dying:shrug:. been running fine, only thing thats changed is boinc and driver. Starting today My issue is that the system will just shut off and will not turn back on and the led's on the mobo do not light up. I can turn the psu off and on again and its fine for a bit.
I am currently trying to troubleshoot, not sure where to start, but I am thinking psu.

[DAK1640]

Eliminate the drivers as being issue. I am certain 191.07 play nice with: GX2, GTX 260, GTX 275, 8800GT, GTS 250, 9800GXT, and 9800GSO. Hope you get it sorted out.

[Snow Crash]

:sonic::sonic::sonic::sonic::sonic::sonic:
:yepp:**** WE DID IT *****:yepp:
:sonic::sonic::sonic::sonic::sonic::sonic:

[INFRNL]

Eliminate the drivers as being issue. I am certain 191.07 play nice with: GX2, GTX 260, GTX 275, 8800GT, GTS 250, 9800GXT, and 9800GSO. Hope you get it sorted out.
You and me both:shrug: I have some on 191.07 and some on the latest and i think 1 on the one before 191.07. I think I may try to revert back to an earlier version of boinc. Just can't recall what I was running before 6.10.18/19. I think it was 6.10.13/14
Weird thing is some are fine, some are not, I just don't get it


:sonic::sonic::sonic::sonic::sonic::sonic:
:yepp:**** WE DID IT *****:yepp:
:sonic::sonic::sonic::sonic::sonic::sonic:

YES WE DID :up: :clap: 91 days till we take 1st place

Now that we are #2 and soon to be #1; I hope you guys don't mind, but I am going to pull some cards off to put bac to F@H:sofa:

I will keep 100k ppd or a little more here on the grid :up:

[06F150fx4]

Awesome. Great job everyone!!!

I may have just caught a deal which would have me throwing 2 8800 gt's on the grid. Here's hoping :)

ETA: I did in fact pick up a pair of 8800gt's and they should be up today or tomorrow.

[DAK1640]

:lsfight::party3::rehab::rehab::rehab:

Well done by all. What an amazing TEAM:up::clap::up::clap:

[Otis11]

:sonic::sonic::sonic::sonic::sonic::sonic:
:yepp:**** WE DID IT *****:yepp:
:sonic::sonic::sonic::sonic::sonic::sonic:

:woot:

So what's the goal for the French? Valentines day or Chinese new year? :ROTF:

[123bob]

:woot: :party: :eleph::eleph::eleph::party3::eleph::eleph::eleph: :party: :woot:


Way to go team!!



:woot: :party: :eleph::eleph::eleph::party3::eleph::eleph::eleph: :party: :woot:

[Snow Crash]

Awesome. Great job everyone!!!

I may have just caught a deal which would have me throwing 2 8800 gt's on the grid. Here's hoping :)

ETA: I did in fact pick up a pair of 8800gt's and they should be up today or tomorrow.

Dude ... you're killin me :shakes: j/k ... I just start to make ground on catching you and you bump it up again :clap: ??? I think I might have to try and improve my cooling and OC to see if I can keep up until either 58XX or GTX300 takes off :yepp:

[DAK1640]

Wat'z up with stoneageman & jackofall ?:confused:

[Snow Crash]

haven't heard anything about stoneageman (never do :-) but I did read a post where Jack said his *moneymaker* crashed and he has not had time to trouble shoot yet.

[INFRNL]

Wat'z up with stoneageman & jackofall ?:confused:

I could be on crack but didn't he say something about not being able to pay the bill anymore and had to cut back? :shrug: or Snow may be right:shrug:

Jack...where are you buddy, you are letting me sneak up on you, well at least for daily production. :ROTF:

[Otis11]

I could be on crack but didn't he say something about not being able to pay the bill anymore and had to cut back? :shrug: or Snow may be right:shrug:

Jack...where are you buddy, you are letting me sneak up on you, well at least for daily production. :ROTF:

Yeah, it was in the pie that I asked him what was up - His reply


My "big hitter", dual Xeon, 4x GTX295 rig is down. Had to reboot after it hung one night during the week. 24 hours later it switched itself off and refuses to boot again, no beeps from the mb, etc. etc. Not had time to do any more investigating yet.

Hope it's back up soon! :up:

[06F150fx4]

Dude ... you're killin me :shakes: j/k ... I just start to make ground on catching you and you bump it up again :clap: ??? I think I might have to try and improve my cooling and OC to see if I can keep up until either 58XX or GTX300 takes off :yepp:

If it's any consolation, I also got a motherboard, 4 gigs of ram and a phenom 9850 in the deal with the 2 8800gt's. But yesterday, my ASUS M3A79-T Deluxe takes a crap taking a phenom 9950 off of WCG. I was going to use that to help catch you in WCG haha. Oh well, I guess for now I am just going to have to be ok keeping pace with you in GPUgrid.

Anyone want to donate a spare am2+ motherboard haha?