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[Vinn3H]

Totaly agree with you there Happy, i have had the card's running at 85 - 90 while playing crysis and they havent skipped a beat. (wasnt monitoring the temps) my first gtx 280 (XFX GTX 280 xXx edition) normaly runs 10 deg cel hotter than the second gtx280 (zotac - amp edition) but i bought the zotac card about 8 months after the XFX card. either way, i still like to keep the cards as cool as possible while running F@H esspecialy keeping them under a heavy load for an extended period of time. in AUS the XFX cost me $690.00 (at the time) so you can see its a bit of an "investment" and i want to get the most out of it. but at the same time, i have the cash to backup a "dead card" so thats why in dedicating "gpu life" to F@H. also, sorry about the amount of "" in the article, i have had a bit to drink tonight (went out with friends) and im sure there are quite a few spelling mistakes hahaha. either way i think my GPU's have processed a few WU's so im happy to help. even now GPU0 (XFX) is running at 63 (core) 58 (AMB) and GPU1 (zotac) is running at 51 (CORE) 49 (AMB) i love rivatuner + logitech G15! makes life easier

[happy]

good glad to see your doing alright, once your familiar with the gpu setup, take a look at the smp client should boost you roughly 2k ppd

more clients the merrier

[zomb69]

how come when i close this , it still runs in background so i go to task manager and end the process only for it to reappeaer seconds later?? i cannot stop it from running.

using 9.7 driver and win7 rc 7100 64bit.

[happy]

is it set to run as a service?

[zomb69]

Originally Posted by happy

is it set to run as a service?

as far as i can tell , no.

also can it use my second gpu as well? or just the first.

[happy]

thats strange, right best thing to do, remove all you f@h stuff, redownload the console client(personal preference), set it all up again

it will work on both gpu's, you have to disable crossfire, then set up 2 f@h directories, apply the additional flag of "-gpu 0" & "-gpu 1" when you set up the client

have a look at this for in-depth guide http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandeg...GPUGuide#ntoc3

[zomb69]

Originally Posted by happy

thats strange, right best thing to do, remove all you f@h stuff, redownload the console client(personal preference), set it all up again

it will work on both gpu's, you have to disable crossfire, then set up 2 f@h directories, apply the additional flag of "-gpu 0" & "-gpu 1" when you set up the client

have a look at this for in-depth guide http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandeg...GPUGuide#ntoc3

thanks will try this
cant disable crossfire as i have an X2

[happy]

Originally Posted by zomb69

thanks will try this
cant disable crossfire as i have an X2

thats strange i thought you could, something to do with Catalyst A.I setting :S, or maybe its me, try it with the gpu flags and see how it goes

[zomb69]

Originally Posted by happy

thats strange i thought you could, something to do with Catalyst A.I setting :S, or maybe its me, try it with the gpu flags and see how it goes

mmm thanks for your help but after a breif read of that page you linked , it says i need two monitors so i geuss ill just run it on one gpu for now.


im installing console client as you said but it stopped at 0 out 500000 steps, whats happening is it running like that? its not useing the gpu, only cpu.

[happy]

Originally Posted by zomb69

mmm thanks for your help but after a breif read of that page you linked , it says i need two monitors so i geuss ill just run it on one gpu for now.


im installing console client as you said but it stopped at 0 out 500000 steps, whats happening is it running like that? its not useing the gpu, only cpu.

sorry mate thats the cpu client there

http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandeg..._Vista-623.zip

thats the gpu client, you could try the dummy plug method it does work

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtbfXg193do

[zomb69]

Originally Posted by happy

sorry mate thats the cpu client there

http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandeg..._Vista-623.zip

thats the gpu client, you could try the dummy plug method it does work

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtbfXg193do

ok thanks

[yoyo69]

Here is how to make dummy plugs. They work well I use them myself.

http://www.overclock.net/overclock-n...ummy-plug.html

[zomb69]

Originally Posted by yoyo69

Here is how to make dummy plugs. They work well I use them myself.

http://www.overclock.net/overclock-n...ummy-plug.html

thanks but im not going to risk playing aroung with my gpu like that

[yoyo69]

The use of dummy plugs does not do anything to your GPU it just fools the OS in to thinking that there is another monitor connected.

[must_kill_ati]

Am I correct in thinking that a KVM switch would do the same trick?

[yoyo69]

Yes in some cases I believe that it does. (Vista might still need second monitor/dummy).

[must_kill_ati]

When using the smp cpu client, what flag do I use to use 2 of my 4 cores?

[happy]

you need to add "-smp" that will use 2 cores

[must_kill_ati]

Originally Posted by happy

you need to add "-smp" that will use 2 cores

If I add the -smp flag, it uses all 4 cores. In my readings, I saw a method to use a set number of cores. I can't for the life of me find the way to use more than 1 core, but less than 4.

[happy]

isit using 100% of your cpu or only ~50%

[must_kill_ati]

with the flag -smp I use 4 cores, each representing 25%

[happy]

i see, well in task manager, if you click on each of the FAHCORE_78 processes, you can assign them to cores (affinity), so 0 + 1, for it to only use two cores, but i swear smp only used 2 cores and you would have to run 2 instances of it to use 4 cores, maybe they've updated the client :S

[must_kill_ati]

KK, I'll have to swim back through a few sites worth of F@H stuff. Somewhere out there is a thread with one post in it that has a flag to allow a specific number of cores to be alloted for use. I might even be cool enough to post it here if I ever find it

[happy]

i know there is way to assign cores using notfreds VM client, unless thats what you saw, maybe when yoyo gets on this evening he can help out

[must_kill_ati]

I keep thinking it's something like -smp 2 or -smp 3 to designate the number of cores...but I can't find it yet, and I can't get that to work...but it's something similar.