*** F@H Tech Assistance Thread ***

[Athlonite]

I recently picked up an 8800GT to shove in my server's spare PCI-E slot and fold on, but it's running far too hot. Even at 100% fan speed, it runs at 85c. It's a single slot model. The case has somewhat decent ventilation, but it does have an 8800GTS in there with it, as well as an overclocked E2140, both running 100% full load all the time.

Do the single slot 8800GT's normally run this hot? Should I try finding a better cooler for it, or would simply replacing the thermal paste with MX-2 be good enough?

just replaced my thermal paste on my ATI HD5770 with AS5 temps dropped by 10c from upto 64c down to a solid 51c when folding on it

 

[hat]

Man, it's idling at 67c in there... with 80% fan speed. Granted the 8800GTS and the E2140 are both loaded, but the 8800GT running at 67c idle? wat.

 

[Sinzia]

I recently picked up an 8800GT to shove in my server's spare PCI-E slot and fold on, but it's running far too hot. Even at 100% fan speed, it runs at 85c. It's a single slot model. The case has somewhat decent ventilation, but it does have an 8800GTS in there with it, as well as an overclocked E2140, both running 100% full load all the time.

Do the single slot 8800GT's normally run this hot? Should I try finding a better cooler for it, or would simply replacing the thermal paste with MX-2 be good enough?

85 is (I think) within the design specs for the card, I think those went to 90 before issues, I'm going off some old memories of when I had a single slot 8800GT. (RIP BFG)

 

[thebluebumblebee]

I recently picked up an 8800GT to shove in my server's spare PCI-E slot and fold on, but it's running far too hot. Even at 100% fan speed, it runs at 85c. It's a single slot model. The case has somewhat decent ventilation, but it does have an 8800GTS in there with it, as well as an overclocked E2140, both running 100% full load all the time.

Do the single slot 8800GT's normally run this hot? Should I try finding a better cooler for it, or would simply replacing the thermal paste with MX-2 be good enough?

Trying new TIM costs almost nothing. Putting a new cooler on an 8800GT doesn't make much $ence IMHO. I believe that the G92's are okay up to 90 degrees, but I'm uncomfortable over 80.

Secondly, I need some help with my MSI GTX460 Twin Frozr II SOC. It's doing the following at stock clocks:

[21:25:52] Completed 47999999 out of 50000000 steps (96%).
[21:27:44] Completed 48499999 out of 50000000 steps (97%).
[21:29:16] CoreStatus = 63 (99)
[21:29:16] + Error starting Folding@home core.

It always restarts the client, but with the core clocks running at 405MHz. This happened over the weekend with no one using the system. This has been happening a lot (at least once per day) and I have been lowering the OC until now when I'm down to stock. Any idea's? Do I have a defective card? Works fine for gaming, BTW.

 

[hat]

Yikes... the machine rebooted and the 8800GT was set to automatically start folding. I was laying in bed, half-sleep when I smelled a hot soldery smell... the 8800GT was running at 95c. It was like this for about a half hour. I'm using it in my main rig now (GTX260 is on my table), and it appears to be running fine. I may even be considering selling my GTX260... when I installed it for the first time I didn't notice a huge performance gain anyway.

I need to do something about these temps though. At 80% fan speed, it hits 75c, with MX-2 in my main rig with the well ventilated case. Any ideas?

 

[adrianx]

mx-2 or a new set(s) of thermal pads for memory module...also you may use a small brush to take off the dust from the radiator fins, last ideea is a new radiator /cooler for your card

 

[mstenholm]

Trying new TIM costs almost nothing. Putting a new cooler on an 8800GT doesn't make much $ence IMHO. I believe that the G92's are okay up to 90 degrees, but I'm uncomfortable over 80.

Secondly, I need some help with my MSI GTX460 Twin Frozr II SOC. It's doing the following at stock clocks:

It always restarts the client, but with the core clocks running at 405MHz. This happened over the weekend with no one using the system. This has been happening a lot (at least once per day) and I have been lowering the OC until now when I'm down to stock. Any idea's? Do I have a defective card? Works fine for gaming, BTW.

Try the dedicated MEM tester for GPU http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=15691

 

[oily_17]

I just noticed that one of my 460's keeps failing a WU, even at stock clocks, the WU is -

P6806 (R3987, C2, G10)

Think I will run the Mem tester on it and see what it says...

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Yikes... the machine rebooted and the 8800GT was set to automatically start folding. I was laying in bed, half-sleep when I smelled a hot soldery smell... the 8800GT was running at 95c. It was like this for about a half hour. I'm using it in my main rig now (GTX260 is on my table), and it appears to be running fine. I may even be considering selling my GTX260... when I installed it for the first time I didn't notice a huge performance gain anyway.

I need to do something about these temps though. At 80% fan speed, it hits 75c, with MX-2 in my main rig with the well ventilated case. Any ideas?

That's cooler than mine! Mine Folds at ~81 (1728MHz on the shaders). I'm seeing used GTS450's on CL for $80 (almost double the PPD while using half of the electricity), that's why I recommended not spending anything on your GT, but, if you can find a cheap or free cooler, (a stock G92 dual slot cooler might fit) go for it. May be time for me to do something with the TIM on my card.

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

hi all im fairley new to folding and to start with downloaded every client ver as i have a hybrid sys as listed 5870(hardware id 0001) + gt240(hardware id 0000)
im running two smp 2 clients one the cpu one the other the nvidia gpu ver of the same client both using different ids 10 and 11 i think my ps3 is on 1 anyway i have two questions

am i wasting my time with the ps3 or is my everybit helps theory sound its on 24/7

and i would like to fold on the ati card as well but whenever ive tried to configure it neither gpu client has worked what do i enter into each ones aditional params box?

 

[Athlonite]

every WU helps .... how have you got the NV and ATI gpu's setup
CPU 1 = SMP machine ID 1
GPU 0 = ATI machine ID 2
GPU 1 = NV machine ID 3
if it still doesn't work you may have run two completely separate installs of F@H 6.41 and make sure the switch's are use used in the shortcuts for each card

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

how have you got the NV and ATI gpu's setup

ive got the 5870 as my main rendering card in pciex 1 and my nv gt240 in pciex 3(technically the 2nd x16 slot for crossfire) an an ssd in pciex 2 which is x 4 il try what your sayin once my nv cards done its WU, so just to check tho, the gpu no goes in a shortcut for FAH for each client(so you mean at end of shortcut name)?, i thought it would go in additional parameters box and im using 6.30r2 clients
ps thanks for the help

 

[thebluebumblebee]

hi all im fairley new to folding and to start with downloaded every client ver as i have a hybrid sys as listed 5870(hardware id 0001) + gt240(hardware id 0000)
im running two smp 2 clients one the cpu one the other the nvidia gpu ver of the same client both using different ids 10 and 11 i think my ps3 is on 1 anyway i have two questions

am i wasting my time with the ps3 or is my everybit helps theory sound its on 24/7

and i would like to fold on the ati card as well but whenever ive tried to configure it neither gpu client has worked what do i enter into each ones aditional params box?

ive got the 5870 as my main rendering card in pciex 1 and my nv gt240 in pciex 3(technically the 2nd x16 slot for crossfire) an an ssd in pciex 2 which is x 4 il try what your sayin once my nv cards done its WU, so just to check tho, the gpu no goes in a shortcut for FAH for each client(so you mean at end of shortcut name)?, i thought it would go in additional parameters box and im using 6.30r2 clients
ps thanks for the help

If I may offer my 2 cents, don't Fold on the ATI card. Just use SMP on the CPU and GPU2(not GPU3, you won't get as many PPD) on the GT240. If you still want to Fold on the ATI, just say so and we'll go from there.

 

[Athlonite]

ive got the 5870 as my main rendering card in pciex 1 and my nv gt240 in pciex 3(technically the 2nd x16 slot for crossfire) an an ssd in pciex 2 which is x 4 il try what your sayin once my nv cards done its WU, so just to check tho, the gpu no goes in a shortcut for FAH for each client(so you mean at end of shortcut name)?, i thought it would go in additional parameters box and im using 6.30r2 clients
ps thanks for the help

In the shortcut the place that says Target should have something like this in it
for GPU 1
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Folding@home\Folding@home-gpu0\Folding@home.exe" -gpu 0

for GPU 2
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Folding@home\Folding@home-gpu1\Folding@home.exe" -gpu 1

and as long as you've made separate work folders for each GPU core then that should work

either that or just hold fire until V7 of FAH is released sometime in the next month or so which should in theory take care of everything for you

 

[theonedub]

Been tweaking my setup to get the most PPD out of my 570, but so far no luck. At stock clocks of 732c it only does 12.4-13kPPD whereas my 470 did 15k @ 775c. Tried setting different affinity options, changing core priority, disabling WCG, etc and only gained maybe 400ppd tops.

My install of Windows is getting pretty old, but I want to put off a reinstall until I get a SSD. Is there something else I should try? I am running the latest 266.58 drivers. I guess the next thing I am going to try is a reinstall of the drivers fresh.

Thanks

 

[oily_17]

Maybe the difference is in the WU's each card was doing.

My 460@880core only gets about 11K now, whereas it used to get near 14K

 

[theonedub]

Card is seeing similar WUs- just the 1280s and 1298s. I actually made the initial switch in the middle of a WU and watched it from there. What else should I check?

 

[oily_17]

Not sure if even a reinstall would help....

Maybe someone with a 570 can give you a guide to what PPD they are getting at their clocks

...sorry dont have a 570 to compare

 

[theonedub]

I appreciate any and all help Maybe a 570 owner will chime in or I can ask over @ OCN, maybe.

 

[oily_17]

You can get some results for the 570 on their GPU PPD database -

http://www.overclock.net/overclock-net-folding-home-team/475163-folding-home-gpu-ppd-database.html

 

[johnspack]

I'm sure I've asked this before, but why when I fold under win7 x64 do I get lag on even my hidden taskbar popping up when I'm folding? This never happens under xp64 what so ever. I'm almost switched over to win7 now because it just does sh*t..... But the slide show thing is annoying, is it because of my sli bridge? I rather need it though.. If I run a 3d app, it will most likely lock up. Limitation of this p45 chipset? Just annoying....

 

[hertz9753]

I'm sure I've asked this before, but why when I fold under win7 x64 do I get lag on even my hidden taskbar popping up when I'm folding? This never happens under xp64 what so ever. I'm almost switched over to win7 now because it just does sh*t..... But the slide show thing is annoying, is it because of my sli bridge? I rather need it though.. If I run a 3d app, it will most likely lock up. Limitation of this p45 chipset? Just annoying....

Are you folding with the CPU and GPU's? Two GTX 285's on a non-sli board, using a hack for sli and a sli bridge. Try running it without the bridge.

 

[johnspack]

No, I don't fold the cpu, it's too precious to me. I saw this same behavior on an older mobo with vista. It's too bad, I need this configuration for my main box. Just weird that it runs so much better under xp64.

 

[oily_17]

I'm sure I've asked this before, but why when I fold under win7 x64 do I get lag on even my hidden taskbar popping up when I'm folding?.....

I noticed this on one of my machines with Win7 x64, it seemed to happen if I had no other windows open at the time.

Now I just leave a Real Temp window open on the desktop and I never get the lag from the hidden Task bar, also I can keep an eye on temps

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

I switched allegiances and now fold solely for TPU and when i switched like a tool i thought id tidy my 3 working fine clients up, as 1 was a gui one, the other 2 console, and one was on my ssd so i obv wanted it off.
but in putting them on the 1 drive (and trying to start a fresh reinstall clients style) ive arsed it up now i can use the 5870 fine and cpu both with console clients the gt240 dosnt wana play i can force it to try with forcegpu nvidia_g80 but it dosnt do any work sends it back then i get a unstable pc msg in its log??

roll on v7 they dont make it too easy do they,yaknow to work for them

ps sorrry didnt wana 2nd post but is a gt210 worth folding on,il set my mums pc off on the d lo lol.