BenDreadful

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Can I ask you both where did you get that from? Any links or sources?

Ignore everyone saying amd is better than nvidia, the fact that they don't specify the model, series or anything about the cards should tell you to not take them seriously. About quadro vs geforce, geforce is a clear winner. The work units made for gpu's are targeted at mainstream cards. In other words, it's better for the team working on work units to optimize them for cheaper, more mainstream cards than anything else. 1000 people folding on geforce cards beats 10 people folding on quadro cards.

Well, that's how I have it atm, didn't bother to fix that since I really don't care how it's called as long as it's crunching numbers. I really have no clue where to start fixing that, sorry

Yeah, that was the same issue I had. Couldn't change the fan curve or clock speed too. Is that the same issue you're having? I don't know how to fix that, tried everything I know, the only thing that fixed it was reinstalling windows from scratch, but I don't think that's a convenient or only solution.

Did you try to manually add it in fah? When you go to the slots tab in configure did you try adding a new gpu slot?

First of all, disregard everyone claiming amd folds better than nvidia or nvidia folds better than amd. Generalization like that is pretty stupid when you don't ask questions like which drivers are being used, which series card, which WU etc. Now, are you using that 770 only for folding or do you play games or do other stuff with it? If you do, you can have both of them in the same system if you have room in your mobo. I have a 780 as my main gaming card and a 7970 just under it. 780 is for folding and when I need it for other stuff, and the 7970 has been switched to Boinc recently, but folded for almost a year 24/7. So yeah, it's doable. As far as ppd, I was getting around 95k-100k with it on stock clocks. I didn't want to overclock it since the temps on it were high-ish by default AND I wanted to lower the max fan speed so I hear it as little as possible. It's still louder than my 780 which is the evga sc acx model, but w/e. Installation can be a problem, I had to flash my mobo to a more recent version when I bought the 780 (when I built the rig I had the 7970 in it first), but that was an easy process, just shocked me a bit since I thought there was something very wrong. Also, you MIGHT encounter a problem with detection. My system detected the 780 + 7970, but I was only able to adjust things for the 780 (things = fan speed, frequency etc.). Those adjustments weren't there for the 7970. My pc saw that it was there, but didn't give me the option to change anything. Tried Afterburner and Precision x, but both were a no-go. A few weeks back I was stuck in a boot loop and had to reinstall windows. After that, everything worked fine so I can't tell you what the problem was there. All in all, my advice would be if you can squeeze it in, go for it. As far as performance in games, I would go with the 770. The performance isn't that different, but you get cool things like shadow play with the 770, which I absolutely adore. Hope I've been helpful

Welcome to the team What are you folding on?

Back to OP: All you need to watch for are your temps, the lower the temp, the longer it will live. No one can say for sure how long that will be for your specific cpu or gpu. The thing is, if you fold 24/7 on your gpu on 70 degrees with fans on 100%, I would guess that the fans will die before the card itself dies. I would much rather lower the fan speed and gain 5 or so degrees than run them at 100%, but that's just me and it could be pointless. As someone already said, these things are meant to be hot, not sit idle. I have a 7970 which I've had folding for almost a year non-stop and it's now Boincing 24/7, but it's still the same loud and hot card it was when I bought it.

PM Whaler_99 your folding id

With 8104 work units which are bigadv work units which are only available in linux and I'm almost completely sure the OP rig won't be running linux

If you go on his profile you will see that his last post was yesterday.

Just one more question. The stat page boincstats.com doesn't update that often or did I mess things up again and my points aren't going the way they are meant to? I have linustechtips_team in my boinc manager for both my projects, I got it on the stat site on my account too. Should be good right?

"Ultimate" It's the same thing with every other folding machine that wants to be a functional desktop pc at the same time. He's either going to fold in windows where the 780's will do most of the folding, not tapping the true power of the cpu's or go linux and use the cpu's to get bigadv wu's, but then the gpu's are going to waste. Either way, this build is kind off overkill, would make more sense to put one non-xeon cpu and use the 780's to fold and the money leftover to build a 4p beast. Remember, each of those cpu's cost $2.5k. That's $5000. Change that to a 3970x which is still overkill, but w/e, and you have $4000 extra to spend on a 4p unit. I know that probably most, if not all, parts here were given to him for free, but still. Bang for buck this isn't ultimate imo.

Yeah, that's the thing, I don't need this gpu for anything, it's mainly for Boinc now. And it seems like when I pause the cpu with "Run based on preferences" it pauses the gpu too. I guess it's the 0.964 of a cpu it's using. Oh well, gonna think of something else. Thanks for your help