Is the Nvidia control panel you mention part of the video card software or motherboard software for Nvidia chips?

Thanks.

Is the Nvidia control panel you mention part of the video card software or motherboard software for Nvidia chips?

It's video card software. Cheers, Tom

I'm going blind looking for "find optimal" in the Nvidia Control Panel (182.08).

What version are you using?

Thank you.

After some surfing...it looks like you have to install Ntune...?

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Consciousness: That annoying time between naps......

Experience is a wonderful thing: it enables you to recognize a mistake every time you repeat it.

Trying to figure nTune out now. However, this note bothers me.

Note: nTune does not support overclocking, underclocking or performance auto-tuning on multi-processor systems.

Try this...YMMV as I am running XP 64 pro

1. go to your computers control panel, and then double click on accounts, once that is open click on turn user accounts controls on or off,then turn off user accounts controls, apply and restart computer.

(Not sure about this step. I turned my Guest account on and off...)

2. download and install ntunes from nvidia and restart your comp
I downloaded 5.05.54.00

3. once its all installed and you have restarted your computer there will be two new programmes, "start/program/nvidia corperation" the programmes are nvidia control panal and nvidia moniter.

Open Ntune, and you "should" see a menu listing for "Performance". Expand this, and agree to the "user agreement". This will open up the "Performance" options for you.

"nvidia monitor" monitors temps and fan speed and nvidia control panel "NTUNE", allows extra control of clock speeds

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Consciousness: That annoying time between naps......

Experience is a wonderful thing: it enables you to recognize a mistake every time you repeat it.

Running W7 32-bit, but didn't have any issue installing.

There does not seem to be any "automagic optimizer" for the GPU, there is for the motherboard and CPU.

It will let me manually modify the GPU..........not what I want to do. I wanted to be auto.

Anyway, just have a piddly 8600 GT on this puter I play some games on. Puter has AMD 4000+ single-core, so nTune works there.

I tried on a quad-core AMD 9850BE with a 9800 GTX+ and an AMD 9850BE with an 8800 GT and neither seemed to want to work. I'll take another run at them tomorrow.

Ok, I don't use Ntune for anything myself. I just saw you were having a problem getting it werking...

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Consciousness: That annoying time between naps......

Experience is a wonderful thing: it enables you to recognize a mistake every time you repeat it.

I'm going blind looking for "find optimal" in the Nvidia Control Panel (182.08). What version are you using?

2.2.390.00.

Cheers, Tom

The temperature is now a consistent 85 degrees.

I've done nothing, but for the last two days the GPU temperture is a constant 66 degrees!!

Tom

The temperature is now a consistent 85 degrees.

I've done nothing, but for the last two days the GPU temperture is a constant 66 degrees!!

Oops! Just discovered that GPU processing stopped without any notice. I took down BOINC, restarted him, and processing resumed. And the resumed WU got credit. And temperature is back up to 85.

Is this a feecher of BOINC 6.5.0? Is there a better BOINC?

Tom

I'm going blind looking for "find optimal" in the Nvidia Control Panel (182.08). What version are you using?

2.2.390.00.

Cheers, Tom

To get "Find Optimal", download and install NVIDIA System Tools.

Is this a feecher of BOINC 6.5.0? Is there a better BOINC?

To *MY* mind, no, not at this time.

I am starting to look at 6.6.20, though not yet on a GPU capable system. Not for a little while yet ...

Not sure why you stopped processing on the GPU. But, if resource share is low, 6.5.0 like all non-6.6.x versions thinks the GPU and CPU are the same and does not distinguish between them. I run my GPUs with share 500 so that they get anywhere up to 48% system use to try to "force" them to run all the time. So far, GPU Grid cooperates but MW does not ... sigh ...

That COULD be one reason it stopped.

I do not recommend that you try the 6.6.x versions YET ... but if you are brave, ... well ...

Or, wait a week or two and there are a couple brave souls already trying 6.6.18 and 6.6.20 ... early reports are, well, no show stoppers ... though I do think that the issue I raised with the scheduler request should be fixed. (though it is not likely, sadly) ...

I've been running 6.6.20 for several days now. Was running 6.6.18 prior to that.

Nothing horrible has happened, and it does keep the CPUs and GPU busy. I'm not positive I understand the work scheduling or wotk fetch algorithms anymore, but nothing has missed deadlines and nothing has run out of work, so we'll see.

One of the things I didn't like about the pre-6.6.x clients was the problem described above -- it would stop working the GPU because it scheduled the GPU and CPU together, so you have to raise the priority on the GPU projects. I haven't had to do that with 6.6.x.

FWIW, I'm running SETI and GPUGRID on the GPU and a gaggle of wildly different projects on the CPU.

Mike

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Nothing horrible has happened, and it does keep the CPUs and GPU busy. I'm not positive I understand the work scheduling or wotk fetch algorithms anymore, but nothing has missed deadlines and nothing has run out of work, so we'll see.

I am not sure anyone does.

One of the flaws in the way BOINC is developed is that they code and only later document what they code when they have moved onto other things. Setting your design goals down on paper BEFORE you code is always better because then you can see if you have hit the target you were aiming at.

I put 6.6.20 on the Mac Pro and it seems to be reasonably well behaved so after lunch maybe I will install it on my i7 and see what happens there ... after that, it is wait and pray ... :)

I had a similar problem with my "old" E6850 C2.
At idle it was in the 60's and load 92 and 95C respectively with a thermaltake power fan.

I decided that this was not normal and sent the chip back to intel (through my local store) within 7 business day intel sent a brand new E6850 but as usual never said why.

I decided to exchange it against a Q9550 and I got $175 bucks back for a E6850.
Now even under stress no core goes pass 43C and thats at 100% load.

So there was a problem with it although Intel said that their processor can handle 100C.

But that's way too high as far as I am concerned.

Martin Chartrand