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SOLVED IT! I had switched my card BIOSes to the OC/SLAVE bios via hardware switch to overclock more, I didn't get much more overclocking and went back to the old clocks. I left the OC BIOS on. Apparently FAH doesn't like EVGA's 960 OC BIOS, it took 2 WUs when switched back, but one card is now doing a WU 20K points higher than before, and the card that was doing 20K point WUs is currently doing a 60K WU

 

 Apparently there is nothing wrong, there is just a lot of low point WUs right now

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Hi guys, I've been folding on my new rig for over a month now, both GTX 960s did WUs between 40,000 and 100,000+ for the last month. Now all the sudden one of my 960s is only doing workloads around 20,000 points for each WU while the other one is still acting normal, it's costing me over 150,000 PPD a day. I've reinstalled the client, I've even installed the client on my secondary operating system (Windows 7) with the same result. Sometimes it downloads WUs that have an ETA of 3+ days that I have to dump to have it re-download one that has an ETA in a few hours (both worth about the same amount of points). I don't think there's anything wrong with my card but then again there might be? Plus I can't figure out which card is which? Anyone have any idea how I can fix my set up? If it's a card problem I would like to figure it out and have EVGA fix it.

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CPU: Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition 3960X | Motherboard: Intel DX79SR "Stormville" | RAM: 32GB G.SKILL Ripjaws Z Series DDR3 PC3-12800 (4x 8GB) Quad-Channel | GPU: 2x EVGA GTX 970 FTW 4GB in SLI (I have Many other builds plus 100+ Macs (don't judge me)... Many specs are listed on my profile)

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Are you remembering to wait around 1h for the ETA to display a more accurate value? It's normal to have an early estimate of over 3 days and then only having the WU actually take a few hours.

 

Also, check MSI afterburner. See if something is wrong with the cards.

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Are you remembering to wait around 1h for the ETA to display a more accurate value? It's normal to have an early estimate of over 3 days and then only having the WU actually take a few hours.

 

Also, check MSI afterburner. See if something is wrong with the cards.

yep i waited, it sat with 3 days remaining for almost a day, it usually takes 5 minutes for my ETA to normalize, so when it passes 30 minutes I know it's not going to happen, and when it downloads a new one it tends to normalize in the first few minutes. Each 20K-30K WU is finishing in about 2 to 3 hours. Afterburner shows everything is fine, the card I think it is does run about 60MHz slower than the other though (it's the secondary card in the SLI config). But it has done that since day one it was folding WUs the same size at the same ETA as the other before. I think it's my bottom card, which doesn't make sense, it's a month newer and runs about 20 degrees cooler at full load at around 50C

CPU: Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition 3960X | Motherboard: Intel DX79SR "Stormville" | RAM: 32GB G.SKILL Ripjaws Z Series DDR3 PC3-12800 (4x 8GB) Quad-Channel | GPU: 2x EVGA GTX 970 FTW 4GB in SLI (I have Many other builds plus 100+ Macs (don't judge me)... Many specs are listed on my profile)

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yep i waited, it sat with 3 days remaining for almost a day, it usually takes 5 minutes for my ETA to normalize, so when it passes 30 minutes I know it's not going to happen, and when it downloads a new one it tends to normalize in the first few minutes. Each 20K-30K WU is finishing in about 2 to 3 hours. Afterburner shows everything is fine, the card I think it is does run about 60MHz slower than the other though (it's the secondary card in the SLI config). But it has done that since day one it was folding WUs the same size at the same ETA as the other before. I think it's my bottom card, which doesn't make sense, it's a month newer and runs about 20 degrees cooler at full load at around 50C

Huh.

 

Make note of which project those slow WU belong to. If you start to see a pattern, it might just be that the WU is, in fact, much slower. Back when I folded, there were the 300k PPD and the 50k PPD WUs on my Gtx 970. Not much I could do other than suck it up and do what the researchers need.

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Huh.

 

Make note of which project those slow WU belong to. If you start to see a pattern, it might just be that the WU is, in fact, much slower. Back when I folded, there were the 300k PPD and the 50k PPD WUs on my Gtx 970. Not much I could do other than suck it up and do what the researchers need.

I just think it's strange I keep getting 20k-29k WUs back to back to back on only 1 card, but yeah I'll keep an eye on it, and if it keeps it up a few days from now, I'll take it out and RMA it

CPU: Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition 3960X | Motherboard: Intel DX79SR "Stormville" | RAM: 32GB G.SKILL Ripjaws Z Series DDR3 PC3-12800 (4x 8GB) Quad-Channel | GPU: 2x EVGA GTX 970 FTW 4GB in SLI (I have Many other builds plus 100+ Macs (don't judge me)... Many specs are listed on my profile)

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SOLVED IT! I had switched my card BIOSes to the OC/SLAVE bios via hardware switch to overclock more, I didn't get much more overclocking and went back to the old clocks. I left the OC BIOS on. Apparently FAH doesn't like EVGA's 960 OC BIOS, it took 2 WUs when switched back, but one card is now doing a WU 20K points higher than before, and the card that was doing 20K point WUs is currently doing a 60K WU

 

 Apparently there is nothing wrong, there is just a lot of low point WUs right now

CPU: Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition 3960X | Motherboard: Intel DX79SR "Stormville" | RAM: 32GB G.SKILL Ripjaws Z Series DDR3 PC3-12800 (4x 8GB) Quad-Channel | GPU: 2x EVGA GTX 970 FTW 4GB in SLI (I have Many other builds plus 100+ Macs (don't judge me)... Many specs are listed on my profile)

[PC#1] Log: [Link] [PC#2] Log: [Link] F@H stats: [Link]

 

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