I have 2x BFG GTX260-216, both running linux

1 works, 1 fails

I have a 260 216 and it does not work under vistea 64 and win7 64. So I changed as many others to collatz.

What brand is the card, possibly EVGA?

I have a ASUS GTX 260 216sp and it does not work under win7 64. So I changed as many others to collatz.

Can we get a refound for a broken card or what?

Please tell us GDF?

Please tell us NVIDIA or ASUS?

I have got an ASUS GTX 260/216 Top (factory OC) 65nm, worked fine using 182.06 drivers. After upgrading to 185.xx, 186.xx, 190.xx and 191.xx drivers doesn't work with GPUgrid. Crunching Seti CUDA VLARkillv12, Collatz, MW and Folding works fine.
Win XP x_64.

I have a 260 216 and it does not work under vistea 64 and win7 64. So I changed as many others to collatz.

What brand is the card, possibly EVGA?

That is a GAINWARD-card

We are implementing a workaround, which is quite drastic. We will make an application just for 260 which does not use PME. Clearly only some workunits can run there, but at least we move on without waiting.
When in place, it will be advertised from the news.

gdf

This staement was from1oth October. Is the new application for the 260 available now?

Our experience with gainward was very bad. The one we tried had a different dissipation system which were working very poorly with temperatures above of 100 degrees. These were GTX275.

With temperatures up to 92 degrees on other cards we had no problems.

For the 260, we have not done anything yet as there are people which can run on it.

gdf

i WAS getting errors with my GTX260 until i STOPPED overclocking my CPU
since then no errors at all!

Our experience with gainward was very bad. The one we tried had a different dissipation system which were working very poorly with temperatures above of 100 degrees. These were GTX275.

With temperatures up to 92 degrees on other cards we had no problems.

For the 260, we have not done anything yet as there are people which can run on it.

gdf

Ok, then still waiting.

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"Silakka"
Hello from Turku > Åbo.

Waiting as yet!

Is there any progress? :-)

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From Siberia with love!

Seems that volunteer's questions are remaining without response here... It's OK, we are still waiting...

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From Siberia with love!

Still waiting too........

I sold my problem GTX 260 192 core 65nm. Kept the 2 55nm that do fine. The older 65nm cards are a problem for all but games. When new cards come out, like Fermi, and are available the prices will drop so the GTX 260 will be worth less. So sell while it is still worth a decent price.

There are many GTX260 cards. Not all are good and not all are bad.

I had a GTX260 192 that could not finish a single GPUGRID task. It normally worked fine, but just was not up to the rigours of GPUGRID.
The same was true for Aqua but I think it did do Milkyway tasks, these tasks being very short.

I got rid of that bulky single fanned card, but I kept my similarly rated GTS250, as this still works fine!

At present I have one Palit GTX260 sonic 216sp http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/w6pes/. This is an excellent card, both in terms of its design, with 2 fans and 55nm architecture, and the performance (Boinc rating of 582 GFlops peak) – about 25% better than a GTX260 192sp that actually works. I can even overclock it by about 12% and get consistently good results, though I choose to run it natively as I want it, the Mobo and PSU to all last on this system. It normally stays below 70degrees Celsius, cooler than my GTS250 and much cooler than the long gone GTX260 192sp.

So I think a 65nm GTX 260 192sp with one fan is much more likely to run hot and cause errors.

Well, I have tried to run a couple WUS without overclocking, without using PC at all and with speedup videocard's fan from 90 to 100% (note, that usually it rotates at 40% of maximum speed), so as with maximum air flow through my PC's case (3R Systems Air 400, Hiper PS). But there was always the same famous fft-error.

By the way, now I am trying to see the destiny of another 2 WUs (downloaded because I have upgraded my videodriver a couple days ago (190.42, Linux x64)). In "NVidia X Server Settings" it shows that GPU is on 80-81 C, will see what happen...

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From Siberia with love!

Just a note about fast fans on your card. I have an ATI 4850 crunching folding@home. It was running quite hot and the fan started to go round very fast. Then there were errors reported saying that the fan was causing vibrations and the project stopped running.
I removed 2 case blocks (for other cards) from the rear, below the video card, put a large fan at the front of the case, blowing directly onto the video card and removed the case side pannel.
The result was that the cards fan slowed down and GPU was about 15 degrees coolder, and I started to finish tasks.

Many cards take little account of any heat flow inside a typical case.

Unless it blows all the air out the back of the case, some hot air will circulate around the card, inside the case, creating a hot spot.

From your case pictures I can imagine the cool air comming in from the front, and almost bypassing the GPU altogether, going out via the rear fan - especially if the card sits close to the bottom of the case.

A better design of case would have a side fan on the door, blowing out, situated just below or level with the graphics card.

Is it a GTX260 192 or 216?

There are still errors...

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From Siberia with love!

use GPU-Z to see what the temperatures are doing.
If they are consistantly over 80 it could be the source of the problem.

If not then the card just is not up to the task. Try hooking up to Milky way at home. GPU tasks should complete in a few minutes, os there wont be so many errors.

My Palit GTX260 216sp has successfully completed the last 33 GPUGRID tasks in a row - about 2 weeks work, and on a Vista Ult 64bit machine!
Driver Version 19038, CUDA Version 2030, CC 1.3, 582 GFlops (Boinc).

The other 2 cards I use on GPUGRID finish less than 40%
One is a GTS250 and one is an 8800 512MB.