Personal computing discussed
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Momento Mori wrote:I am running two GTX285 on a windows vista x64 box with SMP Client on the i7 and the work units for the GPU I am getting right now are of the 8000 step type but they also award about 1680 points each. On a good day right now with the SMP and two GPUs + PS3 folding I break 20k PPD.
Ragnar Dan wrote:From the more than 13 pages of that thread I read before I started skipping toward the end (it was 42 pages by the time I looked at it), it appears the drivers only improve output on Vista-related OSes like this thread subject states. The question now becomes does it improve things with the Windows 7 beta, since the OS is supposed to use the same driver model.
I'd like to know where that driver comes from before I use it, since it's not on nVidia's site that I can find. Betas seem to have quit being released by the time the 182.08 version came out for some reason. I may try it on my 8800GT-256, though the latest driver update (to 182.08), which has helped my 9600GSO, actually slowed down the 8800. I hate mucking around with a new OS install, though. Maybe I'll try putting it on the other partition in that machine and see what happens. But I'll lose folding time.
jeffry55 wrote:Hey Pinto Bean! What happeded to your PPD over the weekend? I saw you up to 72k and then dropped off to around 50k. Did that new driver make your nodes explode?
JPinTO wrote:jeffry55 wrote:Hey Pinto Bean! What happeded to your PPD over the weekend? I saw you up to 72k and then dropped off to around 50k. Did that new driver make your nodes explode?
I never tried the 185.20 drivers... I was tempted for a moment to install Vista but... [shudder].
Just messing around with my farm setup. I'm getting too many SMP WU failures, and not enough A2 cores.
- JP
JPinTO wrote:Are those nodes overclocked? Or they were just failing on the 30xx WUs?Just messing around with my farm setup. I'm getting too many SMP WU failures, and not enough A2 cores.
Flying Fox wrote:Seriously, what a mess. And we were just talking about the GPU2 clients being the most straight forward out of all these new fancy clients?
Flying Fox wrote:Seriously, what a mess. And we were just talking about the GPU2 clients being the most straight forward out of all these new fancy clients?