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Re: Please Post if GPU Board makes Windows unbearable while running HCC
do any of the amd cards cause this studdering on windows or is it just nvidia?
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Re: Please Post if GPU Board makes Windows unbearable while running HCC
Dunno about AMD but the GTX580 certainly gets over-utilised it seems
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Re: Please Post if GPU Board makes Windows unbearable while running HCC
I'm sure it does my 560M stutters when using the laptop. so I use it mainly at night for gpu crunching and cpu 24 hours
but the 560M is only averaging a temp of 55c so living with that.
considering purchasing an amd for my desktop i5 processor
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Re: Please Post if GPU Board makes Windows unbearable while running HCC
OS: Win7pro 64-bit
BOINC version: 6.10.58 (official from WCG)
GPU: nvidia GeForce GT 430
Display driver: 275.33 (maybe I should update this)
CPU: Intel i5-2500 Sandy Bridge (monitor plugged into discrete card)
***NO CPU/GPU OVERCLOCKING(except Intel turbo boost)

Like others, I set it to run only when idle because of the refresh rate issue.
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Re: Please Post if GPU Board makes Windows unbearable while running HCC
Hello pirogue
Reference: pirogue [Oct 12, 2012 7:05:10 PM] post

Any twitch of the mouse causes the WU to pause for x minutes and restart at the beginning.
I surmise that the pause action causes the restart to zero. I recall this has been the case since beta. I guess there may be problems storing paused data to some memory (CPU, or GPU memory?) on pause and a mechanism to retrieve that stored data upon resumption from pause.

Anyways, you indicated that you have an i7-2600K. I understand that the i7-2600K has an integrated-GPU. Have you tried hooking your monitor to the motherboard (to tap into the i7-2600K's integrated-GPU)? That should free your Radeon 5450 from having to render the UI-visuals (as that job would now be shouldered by the integrated-GPU) which in turn would free the Radeon 5450 to crunch the HCC-GPU-v6.56 WUs unburdened.
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I gave up and bought a new 7870. I went from >30 minutes to ~80-85 seconds per WU with no laggy-ness at all. biggrin
I had gotten rid of all of my fast GPUs after we moved to outrageouselectricrateville. Now that air conditioning season seems to be coming to an end, I figured I'd contribute a little more to WCG for the winter.

Sample for 5450:
Total kernel time: 2037.588379 (1026 kernel executions)
Total memory transfer time: 1.456618
Average kernel time: 1.985954
Total time for ../../projects/www.worldcommunitygrid.org/X0960069530900200605241158_X0960069530900200605241158.jp2: 2092 seconds
Finished Image #0, pctComplete = 1.000000
CPU time used = 1560.446803


Sample for 7870:
Total kernel time: 27.412212 (1026 kernel executions)
Total memory transfer time: 1.495306
Average kernel time: 0.026718
Total time for ../../projects/www.worldcommunitygrid.org/X0900069101254200605301947_X0900069101254200605301947.jp2: 81 seconds
Finished Image #0, pctComplete = 1.000000
CPU time used = 51.948333
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Re: Please Post if GPU Board makes Windows unbearable while running HCC
Lawrence:
I had a EVGA 460GTX in my machine when I started the GPU WU and it was "pretty laggy"..not unusable for pure net work but you wouldn't want to watch a movie with the GPU WU running..Tonight I switched to a Saffire 5870 card and the :laggy" effect dropped noticeably.
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Re: Please Post if GPU Board makes Windows unbearable while running HCC
i7-2600, ATI 6950. At 100% utilization (8 cores @ 100% + GPU) the machine can only be used for posting how unusable it is. :)

Easily fixed for now by only allowing GPU usage when idle. Would be nice if WCG could take advantage of my GPU while I'm doing uninteresting things like web browsing though.
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Re: Please Post if GPU Board makes Windows unbearable while running HCC
Wandering here!

Running an i7 3930 at 3.8 GHz sharing 6 cores of 12.
Two GTX 680 Super Clocked in SLI also contributing.

While running one GTX 680 with this application and another project on the other at half capacity of the card, Vista becomes laggy and jerky with mouse movement very swimmy. I finished the job, aborted the pending job, and turned off this application in my preferences.

The running GTX 680 was flat out at 1215 MHz and a full core was utilized on the CPU. Five cores were free during this problem.

This one is not ready for prime time just yet. I run 16 projects shared equally on this machine, and none of them has had the slightest impact on Vista at any time. I am a gamer, and most games, not quite all, run just fine while these jobs are also running. Not so with this application. I hope you fix it soon. Then I'll take jobs from it as well.
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Re: Please Post if GPU Board makes Windows unbearable while running HCC
I agree snooze GPU while in use is not a solution. It's not fair to the apps to do run smoothly. (I do have application specific pausing. ie games). HCC makes the computer more "annoying" to use than unbearable. After making this most I will be suspending HCC but will check in often for a fix.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560
BOINC 7.0.28 x64

I can provide fuller system info if required. Thanks! Graphics drivers were updated during the last week but problem existed before then. I just included the graphics and CPU related stuff.
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System Information
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Time of this report: 11/13/2012, 21:08:51
Machine name: GRANITE-HP
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.120830-0333)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard
System Model: p7-1003w
BIOS: BIOS Date: 05/04/11 10:20:28 Ver: 6.07
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 650 Processor (4 CPUs), ~3.2GHz
Memory: 8192MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 8192MB RAM
Page File: 4669MB used, 11711MB available
Windows Dir: C:\Windows
DirectX Version: DirectX 11
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
User DPI Setting: Using System DPI
System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled
DxDiag Version: 6.01.7601.17514 32bit Unicode

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DxDiag Notes
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Display Tab 1: No problems found.
Sound Tab 1: No problems found.
Sound Tab 2: No problems found.
Sound Tab 3: No problems found.
Input Tab: No problems found.

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DirectX Debug Levels
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Direct3D: 0/4 (retail)
DirectDraw: 0/4 (retail)
DirectInput: 0/5 (retail)
DirectMusic: 0/5 (retail)
DirectPlay: 0/9 (retail)
DirectSound: 0/5 (retail)
DirectShow: 0/6 (retail)

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Display Devices
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Card name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip type: GeForce GTX 560
DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC
Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_1201&SUBSYS_83B41043&REV_A1
Display Memory: 4050 MB
Dedicated Memory: 978 MB
Shared Memory: 3072 MB
Current Mode: 1920 x 1080 (32 bit) (59Hz)
Monitor Name: Generic PnP Monitor
Monitor Model: SMBX2250
Monitor Id: SAM071B
Native Mode: 1920 x 1080(p) (60.000Hz)
Output Type: DVI
Driver Name: nvd3dumx.dll,nvwgf2umx.dll,nvwgf2umx.dll,nvd3dum,nvwgf2um,nvwgf2um
Driver File Version: 9.18.0013.0623 (English)
Driver Version: 9.18.13.623
DDI Version: 11
Driver Model: WDDM 1.1
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
Driver Date/Size: 8/30/2012 14:14:00, 18229096 bytes
WHQL Logo'd: Yes
WHQL Date Stamp:
Device Identifier: {D7B71E3E-5141-11CF-9C71-B9A31CC2C435}
Vendor ID: 0x10DE
Device ID: 0x1201
SubSys ID: 0x83B41043
Revision ID: 0x00A1
Driver Strong Name: oem111.inf:NVIDIA_SetA_Devices.NTamd64.6.1:Section024:9.18.13.623:pci\ven_10de&dev_1201
Rank Of Driver: 00E02001
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Re: Please Post if GPU Board makes Windows unbearable while running HCC
Hardware - Llano APU A8-3850 which has an embedded HD6550D Radeon core (queries in device manager as a Sumo 9640).

OS - Win7 Home Premium

It's only running one GPU thread.

I wouldn't say it's unbearable by any means but there is noticeable stutter when moving the mouse for example - things that many people might find annoying at least. Were I actually using that machine, it would definitely be set to suspend while in use.
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