Gtx 295?

[p2501]

So I'm not the only one that has this issue! My XFX GTX295 squeals just like my old BFG 9800GTX.

Atleast it is good for one thing... I could easily tell when the second GPU was finally being used! It sang a "duet"!

Yeah, the missus was laughing when I told her my card was singing for us, lol. Maybe we all should try the nail polish mod and void our warranties?
Naw, I can live with it. It's going to be watercooled, and then I can close the case already, problem gone. ^^;

[Kondik]

Hm so far the ASUS GTX 295 is the only nVIDIA card I had since 8800GT that doesnt produce the obnoxious coils squeaking noise ...

Now I dont know why but if I start 3D Mard Vantage and WOW it's a a freeze , but an Instant yummy Lock , nothing except a reset works, but I can easily play Supreme Commander for several hours without an issue.
Happends with all drivers ... but this is perhaps Windows 7 Issue or I don't know ... bah ...

[WFO]

So I'm not the only one that has this issue! My XFX GTX295 squeals just like my old BFG 9800GTX.

Atleast it is good for one thing... I could easily tell when the second GPU was finally being used! It sang a "duet"!

LOL... my 9800GX2s make my Silencer 750s sing. +

[Kondik]

Well I fixed my issue , nvidia driver retardation caused a lot of issues but still one VGA runs and folds
but then I add the 3rd core [ 1st from the 2nd card ] It starts folding on GPU 1 [ 2nd on 1st card ] instead ...
and I clearly set params gpu 0 1 2 3 , the 3rd doesn't work I'm out of HDMI cables

I'm kinda more than confused Shouldn't F@H with flag GPU 2 fold on 2nd card 1st gpu instead of the 2nd of the 1st

Now I noticed that clients GPU 0 and GPU 1 are folding on cores 2 and 4

I think I just created a Vortex of chaos ...

[OldChap]

Yep Rivatuner had me confused for a while with gx2's : a single showed as gpu0 then gpu1. two show as gpu1 then gpu0 then gpu2 then gpu3. If this does wierd I don't see any reason why yours should be different

[p2501]

Okay, I just found out the hard way that 1242MHz on the memory is my 295's upper limit on air, I went one step further (1260 I think) and it bsoded out. Well, that brought to my attention that, either because of the BSOD or because of the driver, on reboot the desktop wasn't expanded to the HDMI output anymore which kept the second GPU from folding, again. The only way to expand it was to take out the dummy and plug it back in, only after this expanding worked again. Now the second client still didn't want to get back to folding, so here's the second peculiarity about this card/driver: start up the second GPU's folding, then the 1st ones.

Learning by doing, lol.

Edit: Did a standard reboot because GPU1 dropped out of it's high clock and needed to recover. The desktop wasn't expanded again, also I needed to fiddle with the HDMI plug again. But this time I was able to start GPU0 first and then GPU1.

[nebj00la]

Now I'm getting 14,700 PPD with out of the box settings!

[nebj00la]

Yeah, the missus was laughing when I told her my card was singing for us, lol. Maybe we all should try the nail polish mod and void our warranties?

Hmmm... Where might one be able to read about this "nail polish mod"?

[p2501]

Hmmm... Where might one be able to read about this "nail polish mod"?

I don't even know in which section it was posted, but it's easy.
Just take the card apart and drown each coil, choke and cap on the card with a good layer of nail polish. It was done on a 280, and it was silent afterwards. While you're at it you can also put on real TIM instead of the cheap stuff nV is using..

Found linky: http://theovalich.wordpress.com/2008...280-squealing/

[Kondik]

I'm returning one of the GTX 295, keeping just one ... while playing any game on QUAD sli i often get display error, application hangs up screen flickers and we're back in windows ... and the scaling wasn't that greac ... cept crysis warhead... 1920*1080 8x FSAA Enthusiast made me cry ... that was GODLY .... but as for now .. it's not worth the trouble perhaps as a folder but setting 4 cores properly ... yuck ... nvidia's Quad SLI simply isn't mature enough ...

It's good for benchmarks , useless for games , wants me to shoot someone at folding ...
I'll return it tommorow and get a full refund and buy myself a nice young barely 18+ hooker night

[nebj00la]

YMMV with cyanoacrylate

No such luck here, they are singing the same tune. My next step is to set up a high sensitivity microphone after I install the waterblock.

[p2501]

You tried super glue and they're still doing this? Are you sure you've got everyone of them covered? Which block are you getting btw?

Soooo, let's make this thread also about clocks. I've found the sweet spot for my card on all three clocks. It' happily folding at (CSM): 702/1440/1242.
On folding forums someone is reporting folding at 1512, but I don't know if that's really _stable_ for him, I mean 24/7 folding stable here with an error rate close to zero.

Anyways, if I bring her up to 1476, the first one is fine but the second starts with NaNs. At 1512 the first starts with NaNs and the second has an NaN rate of maybe 95%. So no 1512 on the shaders for me (on air at least), I dunno if it's bad luck of the draw or if this is standard. So please all report your _stable_ clocks here, I beg you.

[YukonTrooper]

Explanation of the squealing: http://theovalich.wordpress.com/2008...280-squealing/

[p2501]

Explanation of the squealing: http://theovalich.wordpress.com/2008...280-squealing/

See post #84.

[YukonTrooper]

See post #84.

What? I don't see anything there.

[Kondik]

What drivers are you using guys ? The officials WHQL'ed are giving me gaming issues , nvidia driver stopped responding bla bla ... didn't happend before ... I think. In foldin' is good

[p2501]

185.20

[nebj00la]

I just installed 181.20 today.

[p2501]

I'll ask again. Everyone, what are your stable clocks on both cards (stable as in absolutey no NanNs or whatnot)?
Additionally, of what brand is your card?

[YukonTrooper]

I'll return it tommorow and get a full refund and buy myself a nice young barely 18+ hooker night

LOL! I totally missed that. Just another night in Prague, eh, Kondik?

[Kondik]

Shush ....

p2501 run . I'll find you one day and eat your dog ... I installed 185.20 ... boy was I suprised , That what I saw was not Microsluttering , it was Macrosluttering or FrameFrogger Edition, didn't matter what game I started ,From the beginning I had teleporting units ...
Thank god that the 180.20WHQL [ On the other side 180.22 not very crispy and crunchy ] are much much better , "teleporters" are visible only at 1920x1200 8x FSAA and High Load Games. As for the Folding, I'm out of dummy plugs , just 2 Cores are folding correctly [ 1 VGA ] and I don't think I should buy myself another 2 LCD's

[p2501]

Waaaaaait, you're running 180.20??

Sorry to hear about your experience, but that driver was the only one that let me boot with SLI disabled. But if you're running 180.20 with success I might try that too. But I'm returning my card tomorrow. If I buy something that expensive I think I can demand that both parts perform the same.

[Kondik]

Waaaaaait, you're running 180.20??

Sorry to hear about your experience, but that driver was the only one that let me boot with SLI disabled. But if you're running 180.20 with success I might try that too. But I'm returning my card tomorrow. If I buy something that expensive I think I can demand that both parts perform the same.

Yes 180.20 works like a charm, 180.22 works too but sucks hard in games and 185.20 gives me sluttering as newer.

I took one GTX 295 and will refund it tommorow ... it's too much work to make it work correctly even in games ... horrid

And I don't want to be nVidia betatester ...

Abd in the other hand the SMP client doesn't work ... evil

[p2501]

Oookay, then I think I'll try 180.20, too. Thanks for that, maybe with this I can get rid of beta drivers. Anyway, my Zotac will be refunded tomorrow, additionally I pulled the trigger on a XFX GTX295 and an Antec Signature 850W to go with it. The XFX got at least two good reports over at folding forums.

If SMP doesn't work then why don't you try multiple VM's? You're destined to do this with your i7!
(get WinAFC to go with it, I'll help you set it up if needed)

[Kondik]

Oookay, then I think I'll try 180.20, too. Thanks for that, maybe with this I can get rid of beta drivers. Anyway, my Zotac will be refunded tomorrow, additionally I pulled the trigger on a XFX GTX295 and an Antec Signature 850W to go with it. The XFX got at least two good reports over at folding forums.

If SMP doesn't work then why don't you try multiple VM's? You're destined to do this with your i7!
(get WinAFC to go with it, I'll help you set it up if needed)

It's Linux/Unix/Solaris no thanks, Intel Nvidia Microsoft Supporter and Flagweaver