Advanced search

Message boards : Graphics cards (GPUs) : Card Problems

Post to thread Subscribe Sort
Author Message
Profile CJ in Seattle [BlackOps]
Avatar
Send message
Joined: 3 Mar 09
Posts: 35
Credit: 434,840,087
RAC: 0
Level
Gln
Scientific publications
watwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwat
Message 21013 - Posted: 20 Apr 2011 | 2:39:39 UTC - in response to Message 20992.

I have the XFX 260 (216 Cores) Black Edition and it fails tasks left and right. Do not try to run this card. (PS, its not the heat as it was sitting comfortably at 73-76 C. It can handle furmark until it cooks at 94+ C without crash but GPUGRID it just throws a tantrum.
____________

ID: 21013 | Rating: 0 | rate: Rate + / Rate - Report as offensive    Reply Quote
Otis11
Send message
Joined: 2 Aug 09
Posts: 21
Credit: 197,088,189
RAC: 0
Level
Ile
Scientific publications
watwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwat
Message 21015 - Posted: 20 Apr 2011 | 2:50:30 UTC - in response to Message 21013.

I have the XFX 260 (216 Cores) Black Edition and it fails tasks left and right. Do not try to run this card. (PS, its not the heat as it was sitting comfortably at 73-76 C. It can handle furmark until it cooks at 94+ C without crash but GPUGRID it just throws a tantrum.


Well, I'd say give it a try. I've been running 2 260s (One EVGA and one MSI) for quite a while now and rarely get errors even heavily overclocked.

I know a few other people have had issues with them, but worth a try IMO.

ID: 21015 | Rating: 0 | rate: Rate + / Rate - Report as offensive    Reply Quote
Profile CJ in Seattle [BlackOps]
Avatar
Send message
Joined: 3 Mar 09
Posts: 35
Credit: 434,840,087
RAC: 0
Level
Gln
Scientific publications
watwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwat
Message 21053 - Posted: 25 Apr 2011 | 6:00:30 UTC - in response to Message 21015.

I have the XFX 260 (216 Cores) Black Edition and it fails tasks left and right. Do not try to run this card. (PS, its not the heat as it was sitting comfortably at 73-76 C. It can handle furmark until it cooks at 94+ C without crash but GPUGRID it just throws a tantrum.


Well, I'd say give it a try. I've been running 2 260s (One EVGA and one MSI) for quite a while now and rarely get errors even heavily overclocked.

I know a few other people have had issues with them, but worth a try IMO.


I decided to give it a second chance, and I even clocked it down to reference speed. Here is just the first page. This is a XFX Black Edition. I don't think they designed it as well as EVGA or MSI equivalents.

3932401 2451054 23 Apr 2011 15:12:31 UTC 23 Apr 2011 15:53:12 UTC Error while computing 2,350.75 214.30 42,234.77 --- Long runs (8-12 hours on fastest card) v6.13 (cuda31)
3932048 2450813 23 Apr 2011 12:23:55 UTC 23 Apr 2011 15:12:31 UTC Error while computing 10,026.02 1,030.51 35,140.08 --- Long runs (8-12 hours on fastest card) v6.13 (cuda31)
3931881 2450750 23 Apr 2011 10:08:18 UTC 23 Apr 2011 10:40:39 UTC Error while computing 1,852.48 181.01 38,584.72 --- Long runs (8-12 hours on fastest card) v6.13 (cuda31)
3931870 2450742 23 Apr 2011 10:02:05 UTC 23 Apr 2011 10:08:18 UTC Error while computing 282.94 31.87 35,140.08 --- Long runs (8-12 hours on fastest card) v6.13 (cuda31)
3931623 2450592 23 Apr 2011 8:46:32 UTC 23 Apr 2011 10:02:05 UTC Error while computing 4,438.93 331.31 31,618.11 --- Long runs (8-12 hours on fastest card) v6.13 (cuda31)
3931478 2450481 23 Apr 2011 8:12:04 UTC 23 Apr 2011 8:46:32 UTC Error while computing 1,974.48 137.89 38,584.72 --- Long runs (8-12 hours on fastest card) v6.13 (cuda31)
3931146 2450316 23 Apr 2011 3:05:14 UTC 23 Apr 2011 3:13:59 UTC Error while computing 437.87 42.65 35,140.08 --- Long runs (8-12 hours on fastest card) v6.13 (cuda31)
3931143 2450314 23 Apr 2011 3:13:59 UTC 23 Apr 2011 4:47:11 UTC Error while computing 5,494.32 566.94 31,622.96 --- Long runs (8-12 hours on fastest card) v6.13 (cuda31)
3929921 2449253 22 Apr 2011 17:12:37 UTC 23 Apr 2011 2:51:07 UTC Error while computing 5,199.72 898.05 9,283.26 --- ACEMD2: GPU molecular dynamics v6.13 (cuda31)
3922065 2444463 19 Apr 2011 19:10:38 UTC 19 Apr 2011 19:39:28 UTC Error while computing 150.13 28.80 42,290.54 --- Long runs (8-12 hours on fastest card) v6.13 (cuda31)
3920413 2444105 19 Apr 2011 4:21:10 UTC 24 Apr 2011 4:21:10 UTC Timed out - no response 0.00 0.00 --- --- Long runs (8-12 hours on fastest card) v6.13 (cuda31)
3920412 2444104 19 Apr 2011 4:21:10 UTC 24 Apr 2011 4:21:10 UTC Timed out - no response 0.00 0.00 --- --- Long runs (8-12 hours on fastest card) v6.13 (cuda31)
3920358 2444089 19 Apr 2011 4:01:58 UTC 24 Apr 2011 4:01:58 UTC Timed out - no response 0.00 0.00 --- --- Long runs (8-12 hours on fastest card) v6.13 (cuda31)
3920265 2444029 19 Apr 2011 2:53:19 UTC 19 Apr 2011 2:54:59 UTC Error while computing 0.00 0.00 0.00 --- Long runs (8-12 hours on fastest card) v6.13 (cuda31)
3920252 2444023 19 Apr 2011 2:45:46 UTC 19 Apr 2011 2:52:04 UTC Error while computing 0.00 0.00 0.00 --- ACEMD2: GPU molecular dynamics v6.13 (cuda31)
3920250 2444021 19 Apr 2011 2:45:11 UTC 19 Apr 2011 2:48:14 UTC Error while computing 0.00 0.00 0.00 --- Long runs (8-12 hours on fastest card) v6.13 (cuda31)
3920249 2444020 19 Apr 2011 2:45:11 UTC 19 Apr 2011 2:48:14 UTC Error while computing 0.00 0.00 0.00 --- Long runs (8-12 hours on fastest card) v6.13 (cuda31)
3920242 2444015 19 Apr 2011 2:40:21 UTC 19 Apr 2011 2:41:55 UTC Error while computing 0.00 0.00 0.00 --- Long runs (8-12 hours on fastest card) v6.13 (cuda31)
3920221 2443999 19 Apr 2011 2:16:34 UTC 19 Apr 2011 2:17:58 UTC Error while computing 0.00 0.00 0.00 --- Long runs (8-12 hours on fastest card) v6.13 (cuda31)
3920211 2443992 19 Apr 2011 2:03:16 UTC 19 Apr 2011 2:09:37 UTC Error while computing 0.00 0.00 0.00 --- ACEMD2: GPU molecular dynamics v6.13 (cuda31)
____________

ID: 21053 | Rating: 0 | rate: Rate + / Rate - Report as offensive    Reply Quote
Profile skgiven
Volunteer moderator
Volunteer tester
Avatar
Send message
Joined: 23 Apr 09
Posts: 3968
Credit: 1,995,359,260
RAC: 0
Level
His
Scientific publications
watwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwat
Message 21054 - Posted: 25 Apr 2011 | 10:32:04 UTC
Last modified: 25 Apr 2011 | 10:44:05 UTC

[MDX] CJ, running GPUGrid tasks on a card at 73-76 C is not necessarily comfortable; some cards handle these temperatures fine but others do not. I would suggest you increase your fan speed, reduce your GDDR speed (makes little difference to performance of that card) and lower your GPU clock slightly. Also run with some CPU overhead; if your CPU is always maxed out you don't know for sure if other CPU tasks are causing problems (hogging).

Is your XFX 260 (216 Cores) Black Edition a 55nm or 65nm card?
GPU-Z would tell you.

ID: 21054 | Rating: 0 | rate: Rate + / Rate - Report as offensive    Reply Quote
Profile CJ in Seattle [BlackOps]
Avatar
Send message
Joined: 3 Mar 09
Posts: 35
Credit: 434,840,087
RAC: 0
Level
Gln
Scientific publications
watwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwat
Message 21058 - Posted: 25 Apr 2011 | 15:55:18 UTC - in response to Message 21054.
Last modified: 25 Apr 2011 | 16:41:00 UTC

65 nm

Ok. I've clocked it down, set the fan to 50, cut back on my cpu to 75%. So far my card is holding at a solid 55. Let's see how it does.
____________

ID: 21058 | Rating: 0 | rate: Rate + / Rate - Report as offensive    Reply Quote
Profile skgiven
Volunteer moderator
Volunteer tester
Avatar
Send message
Joined: 23 Apr 09
Posts: 3968
Credit: 1,995,359,260
RAC: 0
Level
His
Scientific publications
watwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwat
Message 21059 - Posted: 25 Apr 2011 | 23:29:20 UTC - in response to Message 21058.

Forget about using your 65nm card at GPUGrid, it will probably never work. Sell it and get something better, while it's still worth something (best option), or crunch for another project (MilkyWay might be the most worthy other GPU project, but it's not medically orientated).

ID: 21059 | Rating: 0 | rate: Rate + / Rate - Report as offensive    Reply Quote
Profile CJ in Seattle [BlackOps]
Avatar
Send message
Joined: 3 Mar 09
Posts: 35
Credit: 434,840,087
RAC: 0
Level
Gln
Scientific publications
watwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwat
Message 21060 - Posted: 26 Apr 2011 | 0:05:30 UTC - in response to Message 21059.
Last modified: 26 Apr 2011 | 0:11:05 UTC

No worries. I finally got my big tower up and running. It's crunching on 3x GTX 460's. It killed my 850W PS and I just replaced it today with a 1200W. I'll go ahead and set my smaller tower to running Milkyway and see how that works out.
____________

ID: 21060 | Rating: 0 | rate: Rate + / Rate - Report as offensive    Reply Quote
Profile CJ in Seattle [BlackOps]
Avatar
Send message
Joined: 3 Mar 09
Posts: 35
Credit: 434,840,087
RAC: 0
Level
Gln
Scientific publications
watwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwat
Message 21075 - Posted: 26 Apr 2011 | 17:18:54 UTC

Milkyway is running steady with no problems on GTX 260. Thanks for the recommendation!
____________

ID: 21075 | Rating: 0 | rate: Rate + / Rate - Report as offensive    Reply Quote
Profile skgiven
Volunteer moderator
Volunteer tester
Avatar
Send message
Joined: 23 Apr 09
Posts: 3968
Credit: 1,995,359,260
RAC: 0
Level
His
Scientific publications
watwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwat
Message 21076 - Posted: 26 Apr 2011 | 17:39:55 UTC - in response to Message 21075.

Cool, even if the odd task does fail there, the tasks only take about 12min to run so you are not losing a lot of run time.

Good luck,

ID: 21076 | Rating: 0 | rate: Rate + / Rate - Report as offensive    Reply Quote
Post to thread

Message boards : Graphics cards (GPUs) : Card Problems

//