Posts by Sailor
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killo-o-watt readings ... I thought they'd be higher.!
(Message 47003)
Posted 6 Apr 2011 by Sailor Post:
This post needs to be pinned, bolded, posted to the main page, what ever it takes to make as many peeps to get to read it. Absolutly right on the money, everyone who cruches with his GPU needs to check his PSU, you will be surprised how your bill drops with an efficent supply! btw, nowadays cheap and efficent PSUs are available from OEM manus like FSP, who reach 85% efficiency also. |
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Limiting GPU usage
(Message 36829)
Posted 27 Feb 2010 by Sailor Post: That isnt really an option since usualy when the PC is on... im working on it. So what im looking for is a way to limit the GPU usage to say 75% - or whatever is needed to have a lagfree Windows. |
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Limiting GPU usage
(Message 36814)
Posted 27 Feb 2010 by Sailor Post: *bump* I would like to know too, if and how it might be possible to lower the load on the GPU? Im working on my PC and the input lag is very annoying. Thx in advance for any help! |
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Current List ATI card support
(Message 35010)
Posted 1 Jan 2010 by Sailor Post: I had no problems ordering a XFX 4770 from Germany recently, check here : http://geizhals.at/eu/a426938.html :) |
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Current List ATI card support
(Message 34988)
Posted 1 Jan 2010 by Sailor Post: Wrong, ATi 4770 has double precision. 4730 maybe also ? not sure right now. |
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Cruncher's MW Concerns
(Message 33983)
Posted 30 Nov 2009 by Sailor Post:
What else do you have to compare? And there are cases where it works pretty good. Example: A Phenom II vs a C2D, projects Rosetta & SIMAP: in Rosetta the C2D will go ahead with ~33% credits/per hour, in SIMAP the Phenom II is slightly faster - in most other projects the C2D is faster then the Phenom II, but the difference is way smaller then in Rosetta. So its easy to make the statement: The Phenom II is most efficent in SIMAP, while beeign bad at Rosetta, on the other hand the C2D is very efficent in Rosetta, while rather poor on SIMAP. This statement has only been done over creditcoparison - note: I dont care which project gives the machine a higher RAC, thats a total different story and goes into the "cross project credit parity" and it isnt what im talking about. btw: your comparisions to "socialism" are way off, they dont fit at all, and by no means in this general form as you are throwing them. Id be interested what your idea behind socialism, in general, not in meaning of BOINC, is. PM me if youd like to discuss. |
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Cruncher's MW Concerns
(Message 33796)
Posted 27 Nov 2009 by Sailor Post: You cant compare different kind of GPUs... its like stating "my Phenom x4 955 in XXX makes more credits then my Athlon 1400 in YYY, so XXX is the best paying project..." |
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Odds and Sods
(Message 33756)
Posted 26 Nov 2009 by Sailor Post: Not a new move from nvidia, sadly. Looks like the relabeling works very well, else they would have stopped this "experiment" after the 8800-->9800 relable. If you ask me, the last really good nvidia card was the 7xxx series, I had 2 7900GTs (one still around here) - fast, not too expensive & silent. |
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Midgrade GeForce Cards - what temps OK running MW CUDA
(Message 33367)
Posted 19 Nov 2009 by Sailor Post: There is a nVidia 9400GT for PCI , and ATi 2400 Pro aswell. thats about the best you get for PCI and I doubt there will come any better in the future. http://geizhals.at/eu/a429192.html http://geizhals.at/eu/a461942.html |
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Midgrade GeForce Cards - what temps OK running MW CUDA
(Message 33290)
Posted 15 Nov 2009 by Sailor Post: Im having an Artic Cooling Accelero on my ATi 4770 and my card is usualy between 58° and 60° C. I wouldnt run any card in the 90+° range 24/7, its going to reduce their lifespan for sure. Back to the Cooler: I can only suggest the Arctic Cooling Accelero, Ive never had a card running so quiet and cool and the same time! Actually my CPU fan makes more noise. In Europe it sells for ~12 € : http://www.alternate.de/html/product/Grafikkarten_Luefter/Arctic-Cooling/Accelero_L2_Pro/348206/?tn=HARDWARE&l1=Grafik&l2=L%C3%BCfter Compability list : nVidia 9800, 9600, 9500, 8800, 8600, 8500, GTS250 7950, 7900, 7800, 7600, 7300, 6800, 6600, FX5950, FX5900, FX5800, FX5700; ATI Radeon HD 4850, 4830, 4670, 4650, 4550, 3870, 3850, 3650, 3470, 3450, 2600, 2400, X1950, X1900, X1800, X1600, X1550, X1300 |
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ATi 4770 - Problems with Milkyway
(Message 32162)
Posted 8 Oct 2009 by Sailor Post: Oh yeah sorry the OS is XP 32 bit tho. Neverless... may I present : http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/workunit.php?wuid=124858187 the first MW WU finished on my 4770, sure feels good! Raimund Barbeln´s W1.3 obviously did the trick, thanks a lot, I owe you one! Thx also to everyone else trying to help =) |
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ATi 4770 - Problems with Milkyway
(Message 32151)
Posted 8 Oct 2009 by Sailor Post: Even if, thats way overrated. I have 22A on 2 12V rails, thats more then a lot of 500w PSUs offer. Also, im pulling about 160w when im having CPU & GPU on full load. This recent wattage race is like a plague, ive seen people putting a 650w PSU in a system with an onboard gpu, mkay. |
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ATi 4770 - Problems with Milkyway
(Message 32147)
Posted 8 Oct 2009 by Sailor Post: I´ll try that on the weekend, thx |
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ATi 4770 - Problems with Milkyway
(Message 32142)
Posted 8 Oct 2009 by Sailor Post: Besides MW the PC is rockstable, PSU is a 425w Enermax, brand new. I got a 4770 with an Arctic Cooling heatsink/fan on it, and even after hours of collatz im hardly hitting 60° - Ive never had a card that was running this cool. I usualy have around 65% GPU usage in Collatz, however with the app_info there are ways to squeeze the performance up, which brought me to 95-98% GPU usage, and hotter temps. I dont know if MW would stress the card in another way, but this is far as I get the card with collatz and its still rockstable. Games are also running fine for hours, havent played that much with the new card yet, but Anno 1404, 1701 and Civ IV do run many hours without any problems. I wonder if I should downclock the card and try MW then ? Just dont know if its worth the hassle. |
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ATi 4770 - Problems with Milkyway
(Message 32134)
Posted 8 Oct 2009 by Sailor Post: Hey there, maybe anyone has an idea whats going wrong on my end. I recently upgraded to an ATi 4770, and ofc wanted the card to crunch right away. So I went through all the FAQs on how to get started, which driver versions, dll renames etc. However, I cant get MW to run, better say: it runs, but withhin 5 to max 20 seconds in the Workunit, i get a driver crash (screen hangs, monitor turns black, then goes up again, WU stops crunching) I am however running Collatz without any problems since minute 1, so I cant be doing everything wrong. things ive done/tried: - dlls are renamed correctly - BOINC does find my card correctly
- Driver versions ive tested are 9.7, 9.8 and 9.9, 8.12 is not possible to install, card is too new. all the 9.x versions worked with collatz - several BOINC versions, starting with 6.6.36 now using 6.10.4 since about 10 days. Same here, no client turned down collatz, but no sucess with mw. - Ive tested the 0.19g and 0.20 optimized, crash stayed the same. - I tried running only 1 WU at a time, still it kept crashing I would appreciate any help or suggestions. |
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New faster application?
(Message 8657)
Posted 19 Jan 2009 by Sailor Post:
Yes, my point was that a faster processor ofc should get more credits.
but more work IS getting more credit, the stock application doesnt get you 108 credits per hour.
Well I do look at my stats aswell, but ill have to say I look at them from a different view. You say, the numbers tell the efford in science you did, but do they really? I mean I look at my numbers and I see MW now has caught QMC, but Ive spend much more processing time in QMC then in MW. So much for the comparison. I pretty much use credit to determine, in which project my CPU is efficient. Examples are : in Rosetta my CPU performs very poorly, the small L2 cache prevents better numbers, while Intels f.e. e8x00 series perform outstanding. So ive withdrawn from that project, not because I was looking for more credits, but because I think, my time can be spend better elsewhere - I think thats what credits are good for. In other projects you can tell from other things but credits, but Rosetta is one of those, where you can only tell from credits. About the capped credits: I mean you are making 108 credits per hour and you talk about capped credits? And even pretty old CPUs getting these numbers. Show me any project that is even close to those numbers. |
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New faster application?
(Message 8623)
Posted 18 Jan 2009 by Sailor Post:
What has a GPU to do with a CPU ? Its like saying a 3 GHz Quad core shouldnt be alowed to get more credits then a P II... And it doesnt matter how much a project improves over the time, and certainly not compared to other project. How you gonna compare or value the science output from 2 totaly different projects? exactly, you cant. And if MW stock app gets update to a new, faster level, admins might lower the credits again, like they did in the past, then youll be even far away from the numbers you are pulling now - so what? Im happy that I can run WUs so much faster now, and help the project getting to their goals a lot faster. Why dont see it this way? Its much more rewarding then pressing F5 on a statspage every 10mins looking how a stupid number keeps increasing. |
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Vote for the MilkyWay favicon!
(Message 8181)
Posted 4 Jan 2009 by Sailor Post: #9 |
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Why don't we have a Milkyway favicon here?
(Message 8142)
Posted 2 Jan 2009 by Sailor Post: My vote would go for either of those :   Good job on all Suggestions tho ! What are the project admins saying ? =) |
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@MW staff: credit limit and credit level
(Message 6296)
Posted 19 Nov 2008 by Sailor Post: Dont feed the trolls, comes to my mind :D |
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