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Message 42626 - Posted: 19 Feb 2012, 21:36:33 UTC

I am about to start up a new machine, about 10 days away. I am looking for any advice I might need to have the machine working on GPU projects at its best capacity. Here are the specs of the machine:

Chassis: MAINGEAR SHIFT Chassis with Advanced
Vertical Heat Dissipation
Motherboard: Asus® Rampage IV Extreme
Supporting SATA 6G, USB 3.0, 3-way SLI
Processor: Intel® CoreT i7 3930K
Six-core 3.2GHz/3.8GHz Turbo 12MB L3 Cache w/ HyperThreading
Processor Cooling: MAINGEAR EPIC 140 Supercooler
Intel Turbo Boost Advanced Automatic Overclocking
Memory: 16GB Corsair® VengeanceT DDR3-1866 1.5V (4x4GB)
Graphics and GPGPU Accelerator: 2x EVGA® GeForceT GTX 580 6GB GDDR5 Total in SLI with MAINGEAR EPIC X2 Liquid Cooling [ULTIMATE]
Power Supply: 1000 Watt Seasonic® XP-1000 80+
Platinum Certified Modular Power Supply ROHS

What I want to know, since while I am an avid cruncher I am technically at a loss, is there anything special I need to do in configuration of preferences so that both graphics cards are functioning on work units? I will be running on local preferences. Is there anything special in a cc.config.xml line that I need?

I am coming in with this now, because a couple of years ago when I brought on an i7-920, it took a month and a great deal of help to keep that machine from running out of work, and that was just with CPU processing.

So, if there is any experiential reasoned advice, I would appreciate it very much.

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Message 42786 - Posted: 28 Feb 2012, 18:59:54 UTC - in response to Message 42626.  

I found this.
http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?s=68f0f3425e3b0058865536fcdbaf1f33&t=625171
it got my system up and working.
great for graphic cards.
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Message 42787 - Posted: 28 Feb 2012, 19:46:49 UTC

Thanks for the link. Either these guys are way over my head or they are over complicating everything. It is probably the former, as I am, as I originally said, technically at a loss.

I got a great deal of help at the WCG forums. Basically, I need to copy in a cc.config file I have on another computer to my BOINC Data folder, edit the GPU line to include every GPU. Then, make sure that the projects I select work with
nVidia, and attach.

I am running BOINC 6.12.34 on seven machines. One, a laptop, started running GPU for Milky Way before I knew what was going on. All I knew was that I jumped from about 9,000 credits a day to 20,000 credits a day. I found the culprit and fixed it. No GPU processing on a laptop, due to the heat.

So, you know, if that one just took off on its own, I don't foresee any difficulty.

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Message 43173 - Posted: 27 Mar 2012, 1:12:13 UTC

So, now just about three weeks in, I crossed 10 million credits.
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