eVGA GTX275 Oced up to 702/1584/1260 gives me 760 GFlops

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The GT240 took about 14h to complete its first task. There were no problems. Unfortunately there was no bonus either, due to the nature of the work unit. At that rate you would get about 6500points per day, but if you got early finish bonuses (the next task should) you would probably get about 7500 or 8000points per day with this card.

1641191 55914 17 Dec 2009 19:47:06 UTC 18 Dec 2009 13:38:51 UTC Completed and validated 51,800.35 12,269.58 2,831.97 3,823.15 Full-atom molecular dynamics v6.71 (cuda23)

The GT240 took about 14h to complete its first task. There were no problems. Unfortunately there was no bonus either, due to the nature of the work unit. At that rate you would get about 6500points per day, but if you got early finish bonuses (the next task should) you would probably get about 7500 or 8000points per day with this card.

1641191 55914 17 Dec 2009 19:47:06 UTC 18 Dec 2009 13:38:51 UTC Completed and validated 51,800.35 12,269.58 2,831.97 3,823.15 Full-atom molecular dynamics v6.71 (cuda23)

Hi SKGiven

You did get a bonus claimed was as above 2831 granted was 3823.

I would like to know if you can use this card to crunch while you are using your computer and in particular whether you can watch video at the same time or does it make video stutter.
Thanks for the info.

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You are correct, I did not read it properly! After a quick look at the sent and due date I jumped to the wrong conclusion; a few days ago a task was sent to me the same day it was due for return, so no bonus was granted, and this one looked like it was doing the same thing.

The GT240 card completed another task; one of the longer GIANNI_VIL tasks. It took 23h. So the card should bring home about 6649points a day, as long as it keeps working perfectly!

People should note that this card has a 600MHz core and 96 Shaders. Most other cards have a 550MHz core and some cards also purport to have 112 Shaders. I have not yet come across a card with both a 600MHz core and 112 Shaders. The RAM frequencies also vary by about 20% over the range of cards.

If people can report their cards performance and details (Points per day, GFlops, Shader count and frequencies) then an exact performance table could be produced. I only have one of these cards at the minute so I cant do this.

WRT watching videos and crunching:
After noticing that playing video coincided with one GPUGrid work unit failure last week, I decided to disable GPU use while using the computer with my GTS250 (G92b core), to see if that improved things. I think it has; no failures since, but I expect some other measures the Techs introduced have helped things too. G92 core cards are subject to a CUDA bug. So, for anyone that has one I would suggest that as a general rule people do not use the GPU when watching videos, or even when using the system; it would be even more annoying than usual to find that an unwanted website commercial caused a task to fail after 9h.
The GT240 uses a GT215 core which does not presently suffer from such problems. For testing purposes I enabled GPU Crunching when the computer was in use and then watched part of a 1080p movie. Using GPU-Z, I could see that the GPU RAM useage went up by 8MB and that the GPU usage did fluctuate a little, however the films quality was perfectly normal. There was no glitch graphics or sound. The test system had a 2.2GHz Phenom/opteron core with 4GB RAM at its disposal and was using all 4 cores to crunch on Boinc at the same time. So, I was very impressed with the cards performance, as well as Boincs; being able to crunch CPU and GPU tasks simultaneously while the system played a 1080p movie.

When watching video with my old 8800GTS 512 (G92 core), and trying to run GPUGrid at the same time, this was not the case!

With low quality video there was no discernable difference.
With medium quality video there was the occasional jump, but hardly noticeable.
With TV quality, video interruptions were a bit too frequent for my liking.
For HD / 1080p and better, I just could not watch the video and run GPUGrid at the same time.

Well I've got the first 240 going on a system with win 7 and a core duo 4300 with only 2 gig of ram.
IPlayer stutters with this card running GPU Grid so had to set it to run only when computer had been idle for 2hrs so I'm concerned I wont be getting my bonus:(
If GPU Grid would give me the option to only have one WU at a time I might get my bonus Grrrr

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Well I've got the first 240 going on a system with win 7 and a core duo 4300 with only 2 gig of ram.
IPlayer stutters with this card running GPU Grid so had to set it to run only when computer had been idle for 2hrs so I'm concerned I wont be getting my bonus:(
If GPU Grid would give me the option to only have one WU at a time I might get my bonus Grrrr

I've found that if you set the sum of Connect Every and Additional Work Buffer low enough, you can get the bonus. 0.3 days is low enough to get the bonus with my 9800 GT. That usually gives me only one workunit except when the first one is at least half done; then two. Running nearly 24 hours a day.

Setting for additional work was 0.25 lowered it to 0.1 and left blank for connect.

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Betting Slip, I am a bit surprised to hear that your media player stutters.
I tested my card and there was no stuttering when playing a 1080p movie, but my systems design is different (AMD quad, 4GB).
Perhaps the problem is i-player, the system, an update, a monitor driver or a scan was running?
Do you run CPU tasks as well?
I did note in the past that occasionally some tasks do interfere with normal system use, but only at certain times; when a task is completing or uploading it uses more resources than normal (Hard Disk, RAM and Internet).

I like the low power design. Your GPU is probably doing over ten times the work of an i7.

What are the specs of your card (GPU-Z and Boinc)?

PS. You could try setting additional work to 0.00 (might work, but keep an eye on it - you might not get any new tasks)!

Unfortunately the computer is remote and haven't got ready access to it. I have lowered additional work to 0.05.
I will be installing on local computers 2 more of these cards one with 1gig ddr3 and one with 512MB ddr5 so will be able to give you more up to date info on these particular cards.

I am also going to add another 2GIG of RAM to the remote macjine because with Win 7 X64 it could be short of memory and hence the slight stutter.

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24/12/2009 11:44:04 Starting BOINC client version 6.10.13 for windows_x86_64
24/12/2009 11:44:05 Processor: 4 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9300 @ 2.50GHz [Intel64 Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 7]
24/12/2009 11:44:05 Processor: 3.00 MB cache
24/12/2009 11:44:05 Processor features: fpu tsc pae nx sse sse2 pni
24/12/2009 11:44:05 OS: Microsoft Windows 7: Enterprise x64 Edition, (06.01.7600.00)
24/12/2009 11:44:05 Memory: 4.00 GB physical, 8.00 GB virtual
24/12/2009 11:44:05 Disk: 368.10 GB total, 325.36 GB free
24/12/2009 11:44:05 Local time is UTC +0 hours
24/12/2009 11:44:06 NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GT 240 (driver version 19107, CUDA version 2030, compute capability 1.2, 512MB, est. 46GFLOPS)


This is what BOINC says for GT 240 512MB DDR5

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from log file:



NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce 9800 GTX+ (driver version unknown, CUDA version 2030, compute capability 1.1, 512MB, 470 GFLOPS peak)

I ran the "autodetect" in The Nvidia X-server settings/configuration tool and it upped the GPU speed a little, to 800 MHz, from 756MHz.

(driver is 190.53)

Thanks for posting your info,

How practical would it be to persuade the BOINC developers to add code that also reports the GPU chip type during BOINC startup?

It would be a useful tool.
If it can be done by GPU-Z there is no reason why something similar could not be included in Boinc. Perhaps they could speak to GPU-Z and include it as an optional add-on during the installation? You would have to contact the Boinc developers at Berkeley to make any such suggestion.
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/

1/15/2010 2:07:52 PM Starting BOINC client version 6.10.18 for windows_x86_64
1/15/2010 2:07:52 PM Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E7500 @ 2.93GHz [Intel64 Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10]
1/15/2010 2:07:52 PM Processor: 3.00 MB cache
1/15/2010 2:07:52 PM Processor features: fpu tsc pae nx sse sse2 pni
1/15/2010 2:07:52 PM OS: Microsoft Windows 7: Ultimate x64 Edition, (06.01.7600.00)
1/15/2010 2:07:52 PM Memory: 4.00 GB physical, 8.00 GB virtual
1/15/2010 2:07:52 PM NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 260 (driver version 19562, CUDA version 3000, compute capability 1.3, 896MB, 605 GFLOPS peak)


this is what boinc says for my card. it is a zotac 216 gtx 260 factory oc'ed to 650mhz/1050mhz(mem)/1400mhz(shader)

Also I'm new here. it's been about a week can you explain why boinc says more than the ones on this page's list? Like it shows 100 but boinc says 605

The more recent versions of Boinc have an updated GPU rating system.
You would probably need to read this whole thread to appreciate that, and it is getting rather long!

A set of Notebook GPU Comparison charts
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Graphics-Cards-Benchmark-List.844.0.html

NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce 9400 GT (driver version unknown, CUDA version 2020, compute capability 1.1, 1023MB, 29 GFLOPS peak)

Well, that's my crappy 9400 GT. I post it since I don't see it in the first post! My 2 cents

Regards

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Processor: 4 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz [Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 11] OC'ed to 3.00GHz
Processor: 4.00 MB cache
Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni ssse3 cx16 syscall nx lm vmx tm2 pbe
OS: Microsoft Windows 7: x64 Edition, (06.01.7600.00)
Memory: 4.00 GB physical, 8.00 GB virtual
Disk: 310.33 GB total, 276.25 GB free

NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 260 (driver version 19562, CUDA version 3000, compute capability 1.3, 896MB, 629 GFLOPS peak)
NVIDIA GPU 1: GeForce GTX 260 (driver version 19562, CUDA version 3000, compute capability 1.3, 896MB, 629 GFLOPS peak)

OC'ed with Gainward Expertool to 3D Core Clock 676MHz Memory Clock 1150MHz Shader Clock 1455MHz

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6-3-2010 12:59:04 Starting BOINC client version 6.10.36 for windows_intelx86
6-3-2010 12:59:04 log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
6-3-2010 12:59:04 Libraries: libcurl/7.19.7 OpenSSL/0.9.8l zlib/1.2.3
6-3-2010 12:59:04 Data directory: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\BOINC
6-3-2010 12:59:04 Running under account Administrator
6-3-2010 12:59:06 Processor: 2 AuthenticAMD AMD Athlon(tm) Dual Core Processor 5200B [Family 15 Model 107 Stepping 2]
6-3-2010 12:59:06 Processor: 512.00 KB cache
6-3-2010 12:59:06 Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 htt pni cx16 syscall nx lm svm rdtscp 3dnowext 3dnow
6-3-2010 12:59:06 OS: Microsoft Windows XP: Professional x86 Edition, Service Pack 3, (05.01.2600.00)
6-3-2010 12:59:06 Memory: 3.48 GB physical, 6.81 GB virtual
6-3-2010 12:59:06 Disk: 232.88 GB total, 202.96 GB free
6-3-2010 12:59:06 Local time is UTC +1 hours
6-3-2010 12:59:09 NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 260 (driver version 19621, CUDA version 3000, compute capability 1.3, 896MB, 596 GFLOPS peak)

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