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I got a 7970 from my cousin to borrow he could not use it. He has a 7990 and could not fit it in his system with the 7990.  How well do youn think it will fold im going to try and add it in with my 770.

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How many ppd do you think i could get with this? I know it will perform better.

My rig  case- Graphite 600t white CPU-i5 3570k OC 4.0Ghz RAM- 8gb Vengeance memory HDD-WD Black 1tb PSU-tx650 GPU- MSI 770 gameing edition 2gb , gtx 650 1gb Motherboard- asrock extreme 3 z77 Fan controller- NZXT sentry lx CPU cooler- H60 Peripherals- g300 mouse G630 headset k70 silver cherry mx red switches  my free nas nas Case- Dell something.. Ram- 8 gb ecc ddr 2 CPU - Pentium D 3.0ghz HDD currently 160 gb adding 3tb wd red “Sucking at something is the first step to being sorta good at something” –Jake the Dog

 

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Your cousin....

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Your cousin....

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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 :)

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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 :)

I am going to run this with the GTX 770 so i get more ppd while i game. The gtx 770 will still game the 7970 will run my second moniter and fold. I do hope i do not have to many problems installing. Thanks

My rig  case- Graphite 600t white CPU-i5 3570k OC 4.0Ghz RAM- 8gb Vengeance memory HDD-WD Black 1tb PSU-tx650 GPU- MSI 770 gameing edition 2gb , gtx 650 1gb Motherboard- asrock extreme 3 z77 Fan controller- NZXT sentry lx CPU cooler- H60 Peripherals- g300 mouse G630 headset k70 silver cherry mx red switches  my free nas nas Case- Dell something.. Ram- 8 gb ecc ddr 2 CPU - Pentium D 3.0ghz HDD currently 160 gb adding 3tb wd red “Sucking at something is the first step to being sorta good at something” –Jake the Dog

 

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His rig is cool. It has a 3930k in it as well.

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@BenDreadful I have it running now. It works but it is displayed as 7900 series in every program except for folding@home. It is working with afterburner and i can moniter it. Do you know how i could fix this?

I will have to fix the loud fan(it is a referance card) before i get yelled at.

My rig  case- Graphite 600t white CPU-i5 3570k OC 4.0Ghz RAM- 8gb Vengeance memory HDD-WD Black 1tb PSU-tx650 GPU- MSI 770 gameing edition 2gb , gtx 650 1gb Motherboard- asrock extreme 3 z77 Fan controller- NZXT sentry lx CPU cooler- H60 Peripherals- g300 mouse G630 headset k70 silver cherry mx red switches  my free nas nas Case- Dell something.. Ram- 8 gb ecc ddr 2 CPU - Pentium D 3.0ghz HDD currently 160 gb adding 3tb wd red “Sucking at something is the first step to being sorta good at something” –Jake the Dog

 

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@BenDreadful I have it running now. It works but it is displayed as 7900 series in every program except for folding@home. It is working with afterburner and i can moniter it. Do you know how i could fix this?

I will have to fix the loud fan(it is a referance card) before i get yelled at.

 

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?

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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?

I did manualy add it and it does work and displays as a 7970. What i am having a problem with is that everything else only displays 7900 series for the card.

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i get 100000PPD on my 7970 alone

 

use the advance client slot config.

 

read the pinned post on the Folding@home sub-forum 

Sorry I already know all of that stuff and the advanced flags are no longer required as core 17 is out of beta. 100k ppd though thats awesome :) :)

My rig  case- Graphite 600t white CPU-i5 3570k OC 4.0Ghz RAM- 8gb Vengeance memory HDD-WD Black 1tb PSU-tx650 GPU- MSI 770 gameing edition 2gb , gtx 650 1gb Motherboard- asrock extreme 3 z77 Fan controller- NZXT sentry lx CPU cooler- H60 Peripherals- g300 mouse G630 headset k70 silver cherry mx red switches  my free nas nas Case- Dell something.. Ram- 8 gb ecc ddr 2 CPU - Pentium D 3.0ghz HDD currently 160 gb adding 3tb wd red “Sucking at something is the first step to being sorta good at something” –Jake the Dog

 

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I did manualy add it and it does work and displays as a 7970. What i am having a problem with is that everything else only displays 7900 series for the card.

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.

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I have control of it and can change clocks and set fan curves. I only have the problem with the name. I am glad i can set the fan curves the fan at 60% is louder than everything else in my system.

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I have control of it and can change clocks and set fan curves. I only have the problem with the name. I am glad i can set the fan curves the fan at 60% is louder than everything else in my system.

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Forgot to quote again...

 

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 :/

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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 :/

I think i can live with it. Thanks for the help.

My rig  case- Graphite 600t white CPU-i5 3570k OC 4.0Ghz RAM- 8gb Vengeance memory HDD-WD Black 1tb PSU-tx650 GPU- MSI 770 gameing edition 2gb , gtx 650 1gb Motherboard- asrock extreme 3 z77 Fan controller- NZXT sentry lx CPU cooler- H60 Peripherals- g300 mouse G630 headset k70 silver cherry mx red switches  my free nas nas Case- Dell something.. Ram- 8 gb ecc ddr 2 CPU - Pentium D 3.0ghz HDD currently 160 gb adding 3tb wd red “Sucking at something is the first step to being sorta good at something” –Jake the Dog

 

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