None - sorry - its a generalised utility that covers essentials, a throw away vender bribe rofl - so its kind of as is. Cant think of any workaround it might have for that.

My son wanted me to piece together a desktop for him since he can't stand gaming on his laptop. The only thing I am going to have to buy is the video card, because his current choice of games is not very demanding I am trying to keep the card in the $30-50 range. I have it narrowed down to three, NVIDIA GT430 and GT520 as well as AMD HD6450. I understand the one from AMD is not a double precision and therefore will not run MW@H

Also please advise me if I am overlooking something, remember the primary purpose of this computer is to run older games (World of Warcraft, Sims/Sims 2, Starcraft, Homeworld) while I would like to run MW@H I am not willing to make any severe compromises on the cards ability to game.

Try Sapphire Trixx - works on reference AMD cards
https://www.sapphireselectclub.com/ssc/TriXX/TriXX.aspx
Regards Zy

I ran the cards overnight @1115/300 to see if low memory worked (I run my 5970s @770/175). The invalids came in, whilst still a very small number, they were still there.

At 1030am I changed it to 1125/1000 (default is 1125/1375), and the invalids have pretty well stopped - insignificant now. So its not a happy bunny down at 300, probably not surprising given the 4.3Bn transistor count. Zy

Run Time is 52 secs with GPU set to 1125/1575, the max speed inside the driver, power slider is +5
Validates ok. GPU Temp is max 73 degrees, fan on auto, running 2 x 7970 in crossfire, 1090T CPU @3.6Ghz 16Gb DDR3 RAM @1600, no CPU apps running.
Nice stuff ATI hatdware running NVidia app via OpenCL. Suspect more speed to come with ATI OpenCL app. If additional voltage applied likely to go to 40-45 secs a WU I reckon.
Good start straight off the bat and no tweeking as such
Regards Zy

How do they benchmark on any BOINC projects vs the other AMD/ATI cards?

Way ahead thats for sure - but that was always going to be the case being a 28nm card. What is only just beginning to dawn on all is just how much of a beast this Architecture is.The step change is on par with the leap forward the 5XXX range kicked off, arguably this one is greater.

The 7970 looks very promising but are there any projects that it works with now? I notice that MW, Collatz and Moo! are not working so far.

It actually works if you use the Nvidia OpenCL one.

How do they benchmark on any BOINC projects vs the other AMD/ATI cards?

Way ahead thats for sure - but that was always going to be the case being a 28nm card. What is only just beginning to dawn on all is just how much of a beast this Architecture is.The step change is on par with the leap forward the 5XXX range kicked off, arguably this one is greater.

That are CPU runtimes you are given, not GPU runtimes, that card can't be that fast.

I was very surprised aswell with the 4770 performance

Thanks for the responses.

Not sure what you mean by several validation errors.
Fairly sure it's not a heat problem - currently running at 58c with CC WUs, MW sends it to about 62c.

Settled on the 6950.... problem is, the 650 W PSU wont drive the 6950 plus even ONE of the 4770's

I wonder if something as simple as flushing the stderr (or adding some extra newlines) before the end of the program could fix this.

Not all machines are giving invalid results. So far have i been having a perfect run. That's another matter that i cant get enough WU's.

We get results back from the stderr for quite a while (this wasn't true about a year ago), and I don't many other projects do this.

I really do apologize for being a bit of noob - But I was wondering, how do you know if your WUs get validated or not? I don't know if there is any connection, but I noticed I'm getting considerably less credit than I used to for doing what [I think] is as much work.

Hi Pete, the cc_config.xml has to be in the base BOINC DATA directory, not the program directory. The DATA directory has the subfolders named 'notices, projects, slots and symbols'. Then restart BOINC. I would also recommend BOINC 6.12.34 (which you're using). Versions later than that so far have some serious problems.

Thank you so much! That seems to have fixed my little "problem." I guess it's just something about my setup that's weird. The other night I had just MW running on gpu, with other projects running on cpu. It finished the 12 MW tasks & sat there all night without reporting. Boy that's frustrating! I could have done with a cheaper gpu, but I went with DP specifically to run MW. Oh well, been in the computer business since '69, I should know better than to let them frustrate me.
Pete

<cc_config>
<options>
<use_all_gpus>1</use_all_gpus>
<report_results_immediately>1</report_results_immediately>
</options>
</cc_config>

I placed it in the BOINC folder in "Program files," and it seemed to work for a while.

The server room that houses Milkyway@home is currently running on a backup AC system. As it is a server room, AC is required even when outside temperatures are not very high.

We are currently in the process of trying to move Milkyway@home from the current situation into a modern, stable computing center that has just been installed on campus. The details are still being worked out.

I will discuss the final 12 hours of double make-up credits with the group, but I would personally like to wait a little longer before starting them. The high temperatures are starting to average below 80F, so I think we will be able to run these in the next week or two. -Matthew N.