Posts by c0d1g0

1) Message boards : Number crunching : 2x 5970 CrossfireX Stuck wus (Message 39802) Posted 18 May 2010 by c0d1g0 Post: Fisrt of all, special thanks to "The Gas Giant" and "David Glogau" for posting precisely the solution (in my case) to my 3GPU's issue. I did turned off CrossfireX mode and removed the crossfirex bridge between cards. ALSO, I moved the second card (HD5870) from PCI-e_2 slot to PCI-e_3, so there's more space between them and that brings a reduction of 10°C... so now I'm running both cards between [85°C - 93°C] at full load, activity on CCC says its 93% at peak... (Yes, sometimes I reached 105°C on the HD5970) My main monitor is at 1st DVI port on the HD5970 and I borrowed and old monitor just to plugg at 1st DVI port on HD5870 and... Voila! (Had to restart Windows to detect that last card) but BOINC did recognice 3 GPU's and now I'm crunching at 1:40mins overall... even 1:00 - 1:20 on the HD5870 !!! I'll try with the dummy plug. And for *scottishwebcamslive* I have to say I'm running with a PSU CoolerMaster 850W and everything seems fine. So, yours should be no problem
2) Message boards : Number crunching : 2x 5970 CrossfireX Stuck wus (Message 39785) Posted 17 May 2010 by c0d1g0 Post: Let me understand this... Are you saying crossfirex is not necessary for the other ATI card (the HD5870) to get detected?? Because, without crossfirex the "Device" section of Windows still detect every card (displaying 3 GPU's), but BOINC only reports 2 GPU's (the ones at HD5970). Is that what the dummy plugs are for? I don't know any. Or is it just a plug without monitor? I'll try what you recomend, because that way I could use my 1st and 3rd PCI-e slot (and not the 1st and 2nd) to make more space between cards. (I couldn't do it because of the size of the crossfirex bridge) Thanks for the input! Does anyone recomends based on facts to upgrade BOINC from 6.10.18?
3) Message boards : Number crunching : 2x 5970 CrossfireX Stuck wus (Message 39781) Posted 17 May 2010 by c0d1g0 Post: I'm crunching MilkyWay with the following config. without "problems": * AMD Phenom II X4 965 @ 3.4Ghz * 2 x 2GB Corsair Dominator (1600Mhz) * XFX ATI HD5970 in CrossfireX with XFX ATI HD5870 Both at default clock/mem speeds) * Win7 Ultimate x64 * Catalyst 10.4 * BOINC 6.10.18 BUT, my times had raised from 1:40min p/WU on a "single" HD5970 to 2:30min p/WU on the CrossfireX with a HD5870. But I'm still able to crunch on the 3 GPU's. And every now and then some WU's finish on the 1:40 barrier. Sadly enough this is the only project I can crunch, because when I activate the CrossfireX, Collatz starts 3 WU's and inmediately halt everything (even the mouse) and DNETC runs 1 WU's with 3 cores for about a minute, and then miserably fail with a "compute error" on each and every WU. By the way, I don't think this could be a Windows issue, because the exact same description for each projects applies when I tried WinXP-Pro-64 SP2 So, what I experience don't seem to be in acordance with what others are experiencing, and I don't know where to continue trying to get up the other projects. Finaly, this applies no matter I'm running or not a CPU project. (AQUA)
4) Message boards : News : Visualization/Screensaver Work (Message 36569) Posted 16 Feb 2010 by c0d1g0 Post: I'll go for Idea #2 also... Seems more "balanced" among the other two approaches.