The thing about being stable, especially with 295, is that you can go just far enough that the driver will reset itself without crashing (erroring) the WU. The big problem when that happens is that it resets itself into 2D mode ... very slow. Pop open Precision and see what it says what your shaders are really doing. I change the Precision graphs to show me gpu temps for both cards and shaders for both cards because on a 295 the downcloack can happen on one card but not the other .... you really need to check both. Don't use GPUZ if you suspect you may have downclocked because the way it interogates your GPU forces it to step back up to high performance 3D. While that might seem like it gets you back to where you need to be it is only temporary and your GPU will downclock again shortly. The only way I have found out of the downclock due to a driver reset is to first suspend BOINC, close BOINC, reboot the machine, change my OC (remember, that's how this all started to begin with) and then let BOINC get back to work.
The funny thing abut this post is I have been stepping up my memory freq today and was getting impatient and then I remembered Mabyboi had high clocks there and was claiming stable so I was just stopping by real quick to see what your actual numbers were. Think I might keep stepping up slowly
Originally Posted by Snow Crash
The thing about being stable, especially with 295, is that you can go just far enough that the driver will reset itself without crashing (erroring) the WU. The big problem when that happens is that it resets itself into 2D mode ... very slow. Pop open Precision and see what it says what your shaders are really doing. I change the Precision graphs to show me gpu temps for both cards and shaders for both cards because on a 295 the downcloack can happen on one card but not the other .... you really need to check both. Don't use GPUZ if you suspect you may have downclocked because the way it interogates your GPU forces it to step back up to high performance 3D. While that might seem like it gets you back to where you need to be it is only temporary and your GPU will downclock again shortly. The only way I have found out of the downclock due to a driver reset is to first suspend BOINC, close BOINC, reboot the machine, change my OC (remember, that's how this all started to begin with) and then let BOINC get back to work.
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