Re: Gigabyte NVidia GTX 670 does not want to fold?
Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2012 5:46 pmOK, thanks 7im & others!
It seems everything with my status is OK, but for some reason even though I added the -beta command line parameter to my client, my GPU is at about 0% usage, although the GPU slot I added seems to use some CPU (5-10%).
And there are two FahCore_XX.exe running, as shown in Task Manger, as it is supposed to be.
The Folding@Home Control GUI shows the ETA as "Unknown" however, and never reached 1% in the small time (less then 2 hours) that I let it run. The project # for the GPU slot is 8010.
My GPU shows as NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 (GK104), Revision A2 in GPU-Z 0.6.4.
Now, is this normal? Will the ETA/% completed for the GPU slot change to something more meaningful than 'Unknown', maybe in 2-3 hours?
System specs:
Windows 7 64-bit, Ultimate, SP1 + latest patches.
ASRock motherboard with Intel chipset and 4-core/8-thread Intel Core i7 CPU, Gigabyte videocard with NVidia GTX 670 chipset and 2GB of videoRAM, latest WHQL NVidia GeForce drivers 306.23 (released 3-4 days ago).
No overclock, except the built-in Intel CPU Turbo.
Foling@Home Version 7.1.52. Folding slots: 1 SMP + 1 GPU (with Beta flag).
EDIT: I can only assume 4 things:
1) Just few units for Kepler GPUs are being sent - which would be strange, as the client seems to get a unit fine and says "Running" as the status.
2) Some config issue on my part.
3) GPU units assigned to Kepler video cards are not 100% reliable, and may not work sometimes (but why does it eat CPU then??).
4) NVidia driver from September 13th is too new?? The previous stable/WHQL driver was from May 2012, but I got this new NVidia videocard just less than 1-2 weeks ago, so did not get a chance to use anything other than the latest one much.
It seems everything with my status is OK, but for some reason even though I added the -beta command line parameter to my client, my GPU is at about 0% usage, although the GPU slot I added seems to use some CPU (5-10%).
And there are two FahCore_XX.exe running, as shown in Task Manger, as it is supposed to be.
The Folding@Home Control GUI shows the ETA as "Unknown" however, and never reached 1% in the small time (less then 2 hours) that I let it run. The project # for the GPU slot is 8010.
My GPU shows as NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 (GK104), Revision A2 in GPU-Z 0.6.4.
Now, is this normal? Will the ETA/% completed for the GPU slot change to something more meaningful than 'Unknown', maybe in 2-3 hours?
System specs:
Windows 7 64-bit, Ultimate, SP1 + latest patches.
ASRock motherboard with Intel chipset and 4-core/8-thread Intel Core i7 CPU, Gigabyte videocard with NVidia GTX 670 chipset and 2GB of videoRAM, latest WHQL NVidia GeForce drivers 306.23 (released 3-4 days ago).
No overclock, except the built-in Intel CPU Turbo.
Foling@Home Version 7.1.52. Folding slots: 1 SMP + 1 GPU (with Beta flag).
EDIT: I can only assume 4 things:
1) Just few units for Kepler GPUs are being sent - which would be strange, as the client seems to get a unit fine and says "Running" as the status.
2) Some config issue on my part.
3) GPU units assigned to Kepler video cards are not 100% reliable, and may not work sometimes (but why does it eat CPU then??).
4) NVidia driver from September 13th is too new?? The previous stable/WHQL driver was from May 2012, but I got this new NVidia videocard just less than 1-2 weeks ago, so did not get a chance to use anything other than the latest one much.