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It will set most of the stuff for you, but for a 570, you just need to make sure it is indicated as fermi and you can setup big packet size and turn advanced on. If you get EUEs, try turning off advanced, then changing packet size (much less likely unless there is actually a problem with your card). You could also do some temperature logging and use either built-in fan profile or something like MSI Afterburner to make your cooling more aggressive. I currently have one 180 (maybe smaller) in front, a 200 on top, 120 on back, and another 120 in the case just blowing air directly over the two cards I have folding. Massive temp drop from the directed air.
So what I'm thinking is that if may try moving an internal direct fan from mosfets to ram. It's worth a shot possibly.
At the moment I am running stock clients w/ no flags set ...no advanced, just to ensure that's not the cause.
Note, nights tend to be cooler than days. Cooler room at night with fans on blowing air through case will mean cooler case temp then and better folding.
Another thing, I think it is more likely the GPU cooling or GRAM temp that is bad/excessive(too extreme such that it is heating case). Can you control a case fan that blows on the video card with a conductive type thermal temp sensor placed right on the GPU heatsink?? The sets that do this are cheap now that enthusiasts have a lot of liquid cooling available economically more (volume production always lowers cost per unit.
Don't mind me if you've checked and/or tried all this, I tend to worry a system problem until it is fixed as cheaply as possible :) Been doiing this for 30+ years, so know environment factors play big into temp.
So isn't this card supposed to automatically raise the fan speed when it gets hot? I mean 50% fan speed on 100% load for 12 hours doesn't seem right to me ...although it is nice and quiet the way that I like it.
On another note ...I did reroute the fan onto the dimms so we'll see if that makes a difference too.
Was it just one EUE or a series? If just one, don't worry. If a series, then something isn't stable.
So what I've done is reset all of the fans to a "standard" setting. This brings each to about 1350rpm wereas "silent" was only about 1100rpm. It makes quite a difference in cfm and cooling and the noise is endurable.
I have an extra filtered fan mount that I will hook up as soon as I can mod off the front to make it fit into the case. It's a Lian Li part that I picked up that I scratched when I tried to mount it. The vendor said it was compatible but he lied. When I wrote him about it and sent pics he said it was too scratched to return ...and recommended that I just drill holes in the side to mount it. Sorry for the rant. With the front off I will be able to mount it easily.
At any rate ...all was going well until I tried "advmethods" last night with the new setup. It EUE'd another SMP WU and the console was not funtional. I will run w/o advanced settings until I'm surely stable again.
Tushon, yes it was only one or two EUE's. I don't usually get those on my other boxen.
How do I do that in V7? I can go to the log tab in V7 and cut n paste what I see but the EUE is long from there since it happened.
Thanks for everyones help ...it's very encouraging.
I am not yet folding now, though next month near end of month plan to have a dedicated rig Folding only (not a big powerful one, it will have a i7 2300 CPU only. That is much better than killing my current laptop with Folding full time (it sleeps or hibernates most of the time, truely impractical to fold on it). Got a Newegg bundle to start things off already (some parts here Tuesday, possibly case will arrive Wednesday).
John.
I modded the front of the case with a fan that was rerouted from the internal part of the case ...it was directed at the ram. Needless to say it dropped case temps drastically as now the case is only at 33C with both SMP and GPU clients running. This is a big 5C difference. And the fan is only set to run at 50% for now.
Ok how do I upload pics on this newfangled board???
Here's a tout for the new forum, "Supporters" get an "Attach a File" link.... One of the perks.
My case is actually still that temp even though I have been folding an advanced SMP for about two hours now. Very cool inside now compared to what it was this morning.
The temps above were idle at the time ...case temp full load SMP last I checked was the same.