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by Nicpaillard
Thu Oct 08, 2020 4:58 pm
Forum: FAH Hardware
Topic: Enable AVX after CPU upgrade
Replies: 1
Views: 9176

Enable AVX after CPU upgrade

When I upgraded my CPU, from a non-AVX to an AVX CPU, my system didn't recognized the new instruction set. In fact, Windows (Win 7 -x64) didn't. So, to enable it without having to reinstall Windows, you have to instruct windows to use it. I found the tweak on Superuser forum: To enable or disable AV...
by Nicpaillard
Tue Sep 22, 2020 5:04 pm
Forum: Problems with AMD/ATI drivers
Topic: Problems obtaining GPU WU
Replies: 42
Views: 64097

Re: Problems obtaining GPU WU

Same problem here ACH, I have an HD 6970 that was working fine until late July (when they changed the classification). I have a GPU sitting there, encouraging my CPU to work as fast as possible... I would like to put it to work too.
by Nicpaillard
Tue Sep 15, 2020 2:35 am
Forum: FAH Hardware
Topic: Understanding GPUs.txt - Where to see White/Blacklisted?
Replies: 14
Views: 5147

Re: Understanding GPUs.txt - Where to see White/Blacklisted?

I thought the 1:1 meant my GPU wasn't supported because of this description earlier in the thread. GPUs.txt consists of lines in the following format: 0xpci_vendor:0xpci_device:gpu_type:gpu_species:description Where the fields have following meaning: pci_vendor - The PCI vendor ID as four lowercase ...
by Nicpaillard
Mon Sep 14, 2020 3:52 am
Forum: FAH Hardware
Topic: Understanding GPUs.txt - Where to see White/Blacklisted?
Replies: 14
Views: 5147

Re: Understanding GPUs.txt - Where to see White/Blacklisted?

If my GPU (an AMD Radeon HD 6970) in the list (Official GPUs.txt) is read as: **** 0x1002:0x6718:1:1:Cayman XT [Radeon HD 6900 Series] **** That means it is unsupported, right? But I've read that this GPU is one of the last from this serie that supports DP and OpenCL 1.2. What's what with the Radeon...