7xxx Sexiness Thread! :D

http://i827.photobucket.com/albums/z...g?t=1352700876

http://i827.photobucket.com/albums/z...t/oneshot1.png

This is my newest addition to the XS Crunching Family. I may have another on the way soon. I'm really starting to like 100K BOINC PPD.


Please post up the pics of your new(est) additions to the XS WCG Crunching Family!

Phew that's a beauty! :up:

http://i.imagebanana.com/img/akbqf1h...1112183152.png
http://i.imagebanana.com/img/nsa5748...1112184409.png

New stock for the farm :D

Explains the 1.3+ mil slice of pie :clap:

stoneageman doesnt have the edge, hes got the cliff. wow just wow amazing.

Sizeable breeding operation at THAT farm

More Stoneageman Impressiveness :D

What psu SAM?

http://i.imagebanana.com/img/7anmsxo...1112193420.png

Got this a couple of years ago, for running 4x580's on GPUgrid :up:

Sam,

For the NFG to crunching, me...

Could you please list the details of the rig depicted in the above farm stock addition. (MB, RAM. PSU, CPU, HS+Fans and video cards) settings and production results would also be much appreciated. I want to built an efficient new crunching rig for myself and you certainly appear to be the person to benchmark and learn from.

Thanks,
Jean-Guy

Thermalright Silver Arrow SB-E heatsink
Intel Core i7 3930K Enthusiast
MSI Big Bang Xpower II, Intel X79
3GB MSI Radeon HD 7970 OC, 5500MHz
128GB Crucial RealSSD M4
8GB (2x4GB) Corsair DDR3 Vengeance
Silverstone strider 1500w psu

When it comes to benchmarking, I'm not in that camp at all. I just get it to a stable & efficient clock & move on. Currently at 4Ghz but I'll tweak it up a little bit more, once it's run in :D
I originally intended for it to run with two cards, but I had a card left over as I'm waiting on another board :up:

Sam,

Thank you very much for providing the above details on your new rig. This information is of much value to me.

If it is not a trade secret, what ratio GPU/CPU are you running on that rig? How many WUs per card?

Sure wish that I could give you a formal web thank you..! (need 50+ more posts for option)

Jean-Guy

8 wu's/card

Main rig: 2x Gigabyte Windforce 7970's w/ 980x

http://imageshack.us/a/img171/4932/sam0087o.jpg

Backup rig: Powercolor 7870, Westmere ES

http://imageshack.us/a/img62/6586/sam0085r.jpg

Farm: 3x MSI 7870's w/ i7 920's.

http://imageshack.us/a/img440/6613/sam0094c.jpg


To be delivered tomorrow! :cool:

http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/5062/86357526.jpg

One 7970, specs in sig.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/7649917/_P6X1560.jpg

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Dave needs to see this.

"Say hello to the industry?s most powerful server graphics card, the AMD FirePro? S10000. Find more details here: http://bit.ly/VY5ifc and check out this server setup with EIGHT S10000 graphics cards. That?s right, 16 GPUs! "

http://www.amd.com/us/products/works...es/S10000.aspx

fairly certain that the cards are going to melt down to a nice handy pile of plastic. really how did they manage to get that past reliability testing?but i still want to have it

too bad each of those is 3200~4000$

1.4tflops/card Double Prec
3.5tflops/card Single

I'm going to order a 7850 by the end of this week. My HTPC has a maximum video card length of 250mm, which is kind of a bummer. I'll have more pics then.

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Dave needs to see this.

"Say hello to the industry?s most powerful server graphics card, the AMD FirePro? S10000. Find more details here: http://bit.ly/VY5ifc and check out this server setup with EIGHT S10000 graphics cards. That?s right, 16 GPUs! "

http://www.amd.com/us/products/works...es/S10000.aspx

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I think 8 7990 with watercooling would be a better investment. More shaders + cheaper.

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fairly certain that the cards are going to melt down to a nice handy pile of plastic. really how did they manage to get that past reliability testing?but i still want to have it

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Yeah...there is not much space there.

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I'm going to order a 7850 by the end of this week. My HTPC has a maximum video card length of 250mm, which is kind of a bummer. I'll have more pics then.

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I think you could have went with a 7870 if you wanted more power. Just some quick searching and I think this 7870 is less than 250mm. Should be close to reference 7870 which is 9.5" long.

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fairly certain that the cards are going to melt down to a nice handy pile of plastic. really how did they manage to get that past reliability testing?but i still want to have it

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Na, they run full blast fairly well - at least in the other GPU server clusters my work had, and they looked just like that. Sound like tornadoes though!

I'm still cautious about heat with GPUs. Water cooling a rack like that before spanking it 24/7 strikes me as a good, if expensive, idea.

I honestly don't care too much about GPUs and heat. The performance of GPUs scales much more quickly than that of CPUs, so to me their usable life span is much shorter compared to CPUs. I keep a CPU for several years and upgrade GPUs frequently. That's just my $0.02.

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so to me their usable life span is much shorter compared to CPUs.

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Well the lifespan of one of my MSI cards above was just three days :shakes:

Definetely a short and sweet lifespan, SAM.

At least you should get a quick replacement for it directly from the merchant you bought it from.

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I honestly don't care too much about GPUs and heat. The performance of GPUs scales much more quickly than that of CPUs, so to me their usable life span is much shorter compared to CPUs. I keep a CPU for several years and upgrade GPUs frequently. That's just my $0.02.

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In my own situation, the cost/lifespan ratio is important. Killing a $400 video card due to excess heat is, to me anyway, an exorbitant cost and beyond my means at half that price. If I spend real money on hardware I need a five year lifespan MINIMUM. Failing just out of warranty will guarantee I do not buy that brand again.

I've run some GPUs crunching 24x7 for lengthy periods of time at pretty high temps (295, 285, 460, 480, 660Ti, 670 last 2 not very hot) and have not had any die on me yet. In particulr I've been crunching the 295 for about 3.5 years almost non stop with no sign of degradation - heck it's working hcc right now :yepp:

(well one card died but that was my fault as I shorted the damn thing when playing with cpu fan clips while the system was running) :doh:

I'm conflicted between buying a new portrait lens for Xmas photos or a new video card. I think I'll get both!

One.Shot,

Somewhat peculiar but still very effective conflict resolution...

I like your way of thinking.

Ooh...what lens?

I want the Nikon 85mm 1.8G, but I may settle for the Nikon 50mm 1.8G. We'll see.

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I want the Nikon 85mm 1.8G, but I may settle for the Nikon 50mm 1.8G. We'll see.

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that entire series are good lenses and they are cheap! i have the 35 1.8g was like 150$

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that entire series are good lenses and they are cheap! i have the 35 1.8g was like 150$

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I also have the 35mm 1.8. I got it for $199.99 this past spring. It's a pretty nice lens.

Here is a shot taken with it from the local Natural History Museum

http://i827.photobucket.com/albums/z...g?t=1352966312

Yep, I have the 50mm 1.8G for a few years now. That lens goes on my D300 whenever my 300mm f/4 prime + 1.4x TC Nikon setup isn't on.

Might as well show off what I have:
http://i.imgur.com/xH1fR.jpg
3 MSI HD7770s each running 3 WUs on an EVGA X58 3X SLI with an i7-920 @ 3.83GHz under an Antec Kuhler H2O-620

as for temps: i love the smell of molten pcb in the morning....:D

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as for temps: i love the smell of molten pcb in the morning....:D

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Are you talking to me? :yawn:

Don't look at me, I'm just walking here.

[Ion],

You need to put 4 WUs each on those cards. I have a lowly Dual Core w/o HT and run 4 and pull 245k-250k WCG PPD on my 7770 @1050 core.

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[Ion],

You need to put 4 WUs each on those cards. I have a lowly Dual Core w/o HT and run 4 and pull 245k-250k WCG PPD on my 7770 @1050 core.

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I'll check that out. I'm already pulling close to 100k PPD ATM (BOINC) with the 3 cards. The problem is I only have 8 threads--and 4 WUs/card would use 12. But it could be worth trying and giving a shot--thank you! :up:

i am running 0,5cpu so you should be fine. only problem is when a couple wu start and finish at the same time the cpu is a 100% where as the gpu hovers around 50% but theres just no way to fix that.

WCG is excellent for long term testing, as our rigs run 24/7. Many of my rigs have run for three full years 24/7. In total we speak of about 23 machines. It is true that I have always bought top components of the moment. I did have two chassis fan that failed. All my Asus boards have never had a problem except for one old model over four years full work that started becoming erratic. My Intel CPUs all 980X from 2009 and one 3960X from 2011 never had a problem and they run all at a minimum of 4 Ghz or over. About three ram sticks did fail over more than 60 sticks. And two power supply units did also fail by becoming unstable. Hard disks never had a problem, and one CD-DVD reader failed. The most delicate components have been the Nvidia CPUs the 5xx series of whom I got many boards that failed during the warranty period when put under parallel computing stress. The manufacturer alway has exchanged them with a new one or reimbursed the full price.
In fact I do change sometimes the components before they had the time to fail because technology progresses.

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I'll check that out. I'm already pulling close to 100k PPD ATM (BOINC) with the 3 cards. The problem is I only have 8 threads--and 4 WUs/card would use 12. But it could be worth trying and giving a shot--thank you! :up:

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Set <avg_ncpus>to 0.75 and you should have 12 threads. 100k BOINC is pretty descent though for 3x 7770's so there may not be much to gain from this. Try it and see! :up:

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I'll check that out. I'm already pulling close to 100k PPD ATM (BOINC) with the 3 cards. The problem is I only have 8 threads--and 4 WUs/card would use 12. But it could be worth trying and giving a shot--thank you! :up:

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Set <avg_ncpus>to 0.75 and you should have 12 threads. 100k BOINC is pretty descent though for 3x 7770's so there may not be much to gain from this. Try it and see! :up:

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Here are my last couple days results plus this mornings running 4 WUs on my 2 core/thread limited setup...

11/30/2012 0:001:21:44:21 126,269 299
11/29/2012 0:003:22:28:32 267,363 625
11/28/2012 0:003:21:35:51 268,590 630
11/27/2012 0:003:18:32:31 256,147 589
11/26/2012 0:003:15:04:52 245,170 556

If you go to 4 per card for a total of 12 you should pick up about 5 to 10k+ BOINC PPD for your setup I would think.

If you have less cores than threads, stagger the work units by a couple percent. I'm running 6 gpu threads on 2 cores (.33 cpu - .166 gpu) and my cpu usage still doesn't stay at 100% very often when the wu's are spaced properly. 7.05's are cpu heavy as they start, then at 49.7 -50% (end of first wu, start of second one) and again at 99.7%/0.00%. I'm getting more points this way and I'm only on a 7660D @ 1140mhz.

Here is a pic of my new rig that I built with the new cpu and mobo I picked up from Artemm, Thanks again Artemm for a great deal on awesome hardware!

http://www.straferight.com/forums/me...es-company.jpg
http://www.straferight.com/forums/me...cg-hcc-rig.jpg

sRHunt3r,

Awesome looking rig... Love that icy blue power glow...! :up:

Let us know your settings and PPD once you got it set up and running for a while.

The CPU is at 4.2 and all cards are at 1050 / 902 with the voltage dropped on gpu .05 and dropped .2 on mem to help keep the heat sandwich cool. Running 8 tasks per gpu and .5 per cpu for a total of 24 concurrent w/u's. I still get a random power down about once a day that I am working on but she has been getting around 1.8mill wcg a day for the past few days.

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The CPU is at 4.2 and all cards are at 1050 / 902 with the voltage dropped on gpu .05 and dropped .2 on mem to help keep the heat sandwich cool. Running 8 tasks per gpu and .5 per cpu for a total of 24 concurrent w/u's. I still get a random power down about once a day that I am working on but she has been getting around 1.8mill wcg a day for the past few days.

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Uh huh....I have the tire tracks to prove it

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The CPU is at 4.2 and all cards are at 1050 / 902 with the voltage dropped on gpu .05 and dropped .2 on mem to help keep the heat sandwich cool. Running 8 tasks per gpu and .5 per cpu for a total of 24 concurrent w/u's. I still get a random power down about once a day that I am working on but she has been getting around 1.8mill wcg a day for the past few days.

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Thanks for above data input. What BOINC manager version are you using? Which version of AMD video drivers are you using? Are you using CCC? Which software are you using to manage your video card voltages?

I should be getting a new a new MSI 7970 OC 1050 MHZ tomorrow. I planned to put it in the rig in my signature to replace the 6990 that is now there and then crunch ATI hcc_1 GPU WUs only. I am now using BOINC 7.0.36 and CAT 12.10 with CCC. I plan to update the to CAT 12.11 Beta x (?) when I exchange the video cards since I read that the 12.11 drivers were better for 7xxx series. (With or without CCC?). Any inputs an optimum possible OC, custom CAT install and numbers of ATI hcc_1 GPU WUs to run with new setup will be much appreciated.

I sure wish that I had a better CPU with a 6/12 thread set up. Santa what I want for Christmas is a 2011 MB with a 3930 CPU...!! Just in case Santa finds out I have been a bad boy; I better visit the "Free Geek" used computer store in Vancouver nexrt week to see if there are any realistic bargains to be had.

Thanks again for above inputs,
Jean-Guy

Damn, now that's effin' Xtreme:exclaim::exclaim::exclaim:

Jeanguy, I am using Windows 7, Boinc ver 7.0.36 with ati catalyst 12.11 beta 4 and I use MSI Afterburner to overclock and control the voltages. I hope that helps, but like I said, I am still having an intermittent issue that I am still troubleshooting.

Thx retro and sorry for the tire tracks oc I appreciate all you do on the forums, your app info thread has been a great help.

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Jeanguy, I am using Windows 7, Boinc ver 7.0.36 with ati catalyst 12.11 beta 4 and I use MSI Afterburner to overclock and control the voltages. I hope that helps, but like I said, I am still having an intermittent issue that I am still troubleshooting.

Thx retro and sorry for the tire tracks oc I appreciate all you do on the forums, your app info thread has been a great help.

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Thanks Sr...,

Did you install AMD CCC or did you do a custom install of CAT 12.11 Beta 4 without CCC?

You have filled all of your memory slots. This may require you to raise your Vcore, VDIMMs and / or Vtt to stabilize your 4.5GHz OC under stress. This post is for a 980x but its content may still be helpfull to you http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/27...58so2#t1975337 Is your system stable at a DDR3 1800 setting?

Good luck,
Jean-Guy

Thanks for the link, while looking over it and perusing my bios I found an error I made coming from the Gigabyte bios to the ASUS, I misinterpreted the description on a couple settings and had them flip-flopped. I corrected it and it has been running steady (fingers crossed), Thanks again jeanguy2 :up:

You're welcome sR,

One question for you: "Did you install AMD CCC or did you do a custom install of CAT 12.11 Beta 4 without CCC on your rig?

I installed the complete set with CCC but I do not use it to overclock or control fan speed, I do all of that through Afterburner.