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Getting a GTX260 and a ATI5970 to play together.
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Send message Joined: 12 Aug 09 Posts: 172 Credit: 645,240,165 RAC: 0 |
I have one box with a GTX260 which I use for Seti. I recently, well yesterday, installed a 5970 as I want to lift my MW performance a little. I was running BOINC 6.10.29 happily until I installed the drivers for the ATI card. All I get now is the message "Connecting to localhost" in the manager, with the client MIA. I downgraded to 6.10.24, then 6.10.18, in case that was the problem but still the "Connecting to localhost" message. MSI Afterburner shows all three GPU's are present, and I am running Windows 7. Is there some BOINC config file I need to modify? EDIT: Given the ATI driver seems to be the cause of all my problems, I should say what it is, doh. Cal 10.1 Beta. |
Send message Joined: 12 Aug 09 Posts: 172 Credit: 645,240,165 RAC: 0 |
OK I have found the magic combination, finally! BOINC 6.10.29 Cal 9.12 hotfix. I now have Seti on the GTX260, and M@H on the 5970. I did have to detach and reattach to get it all going. Lets hope it is the same arrangement when Fermi comes out. |
Send message Joined: 6 Oct 09 Posts: 25 Credit: 4,849,998 RAC: 0 |
so what was a problem in? |
Send message Joined: 8 Nov 07 Posts: 323 Credit: 1,362,120 RAC: 0 |
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Send message Joined: 12 Aug 09 Posts: 172 Credit: 645,240,165 RAC: 0 |
That's exactly what I am saying. I am using the NVIDA 260 to crunch Seti and the ATI 5970 is crunching Milkyway, on both GPU's. It was a concern for me because, one of my personal goals, is to have every project I start go over one million credits. So no GTX260 no Seti. I was also, using MSI Afterburner 1.4.2, able to overclock the two 5970 cores, but leave the GTX2620 core alone. Now that the whole thing is stable, I will, tomorrow, max out the system by adding another ATI 5970 to the mix and see how we go. |
Send message Joined: 8 Nov 07 Posts: 323 Credit: 1,362,120 RAC: 0 |
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Send message Joined: 24 Dec 07 Posts: 1947 Credit: 240,884,648 RAC: 0 |
That's exactly what I am saying. I am using the NVIDA 260 to crunch Seti and the ATI 5970 is crunching Milkyway, on both GPU's. David, which motherboard are you using to have 3 PCIe slots? I know there are several, I'm just interested to know what you've got. Regards.... |
Send message Joined: 6 Oct 09 Posts: 25 Credit: 4,849,998 RAC: 0 |
David, which motherboard are you using to have 3 PCIe slots? I know there are several, I'm just interested to know what you've got. Regards.... 5970 has two GPUs, but use only one PCIe slot. |
Send message Joined: 12 Aug 09 Posts: 172 Credit: 645,240,165 RAC: 0 |
On two of the boxes I am using Asus P7P55D Deluxe, and in one the Asus p7P55D Pro, which is the non gamer version of the above. They run the 1156 socket chipset I use. The Pro version is the oil cooled one, which will end up with the four 5970 GPU's oil cooled and a Fermi GPU also oil cooled. According to my supplier the Fermis are buggers for heat. Even the single entry level GPU will run 200 watts. I am about to install the other 5970 now, then on Tuesday we will do the conversion to oil cooling as the blocks for that have also, finally, arrived. BTW: When I was cooling one of the the twin 295's I had in the box, with air, they ran in the high 80's to max at 91 degrees. When I converted just one card the temp dropped to a steady 38 degrees on that card and its neighbour dropped to low 80's. An eye popping difference I thought. |
Send message Joined: 6 Oct 09 Posts: 25 Credit: 4,849,998 RAC: 0 |
David, what liquid cooling system do you use? |
Send message Joined: 12 Aug 09 Posts: 172 Credit: 645,240,165 RAC: 0 |
http://www.koolance.com/default.php There is a review of the 5970 blocks I will be using. This is not the cheapest company to buy stuff from, but I like the security of using the best metal fitting etc that I can find. There is a serious amount of hardware depending upon it in my machine! |
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