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Message 26601 - Posted: 13 Aug 2012, 18:29:51 UTC

Might be a bit late to answer, but I have been using an EVGA GTX 670 SC (which is slightly overclocked) for about a month. I also use the 301.42 driver for the card.

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Intel i7-3820 @ 4.3 GHz
16 GB of RAM
Windows 7 64-bit

I usually run GPUGRID during the day while idle and through the night. I run all the applications available and so far my times have been pretty fast.

For long-runs, it takes about 5-7 hours, depending on the task. The standard tasks run for about 2-5 hours also. The beta tasks take anywhere from 30 minutes to 2 hours or so.

Note that the times do range, and as of now I'm crunching many beta tasks so I couldn't give too precise of times on the other tasks.

As for heating, the card stays at about 67 degrees Celsius during long-runs and doesn't go higher. The card load is at about 90-95% during long-runs, also, and ranges around 50% during beta tasks.

The only problems I've had are driver crashes when stopping the beta tasks that have come up recently, which are the Noelia tasks.

Hope this helped.
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Message 26689 - Posted: 25 Aug 2012, 3:24:04 UTC - in response to Message 26601.  

Might be a bit late to answer, but I have been using an EVGA GTX 670 SC (which is slightly overclocked) for about a month. I also use the 301.42 driver for the card.

Other specs:
Intel i7-3820 @ 4.3 GHz
16 GB of RAM
Windows 7 64-bit

I usually run GPUGRID during the day while idle and through the night. I run all the applications available and so far my times have been pretty fast.

For long-runs, it takes about 5-7 hours, depending on the task.


Dylan: When comparing your GTX670 long runs to my GTX570 long runs clearly your 670 is slightly faster. However, your CPU times seem extremely large compared to mine. I am guessing that my Q9550 (4 core non-hyperthread) has more cache available than your 8 core i7-3820?

I wonder if there is going to be a big improvement with CUDA5? We are both running CUDA42 gpugrid app.
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Message 26703 - Posted: 25 Aug 2012, 20:26:26 UTC - in response to Message 26689.  

I'm pretty sure my CPU times are larger because I didn't give a core to the GPU, and instead gave all 8 to another project. Up until now I never really thought about it, and will try to fix it as soon as I can. Thanks for the notice.
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Message 26704 - Posted: 25 Aug 2012, 22:32:13 UTC

6XX cards always use a full core so if you set BOINC to use 1 less thread than your CPU has available your other projects that use CPU only will process much better!
Thanks - Steve
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