Very low performance GTX 660ti

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duke2nukem
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Very low performance GTX 660ti

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Hey guys ! :)
I've been starting folding now but I noticed that my PPD are significant lower than they should be. With my i5-3570k I get about 4100 PPD and with the GTX 660ti I get 1600 PPD. I read in the forums that the GTX 660ti gets around 60k PPD so I am wondering what I did wrong.
Thanks for your answers !
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Re: Very low performance GTX 660ti

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You have left out the first 100 lines of your log, so all we can do is ask for that. viewtopic.php?f=61&t=26036

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Re: Very low performance GTX 660ti

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Sorry for that, here is the log. Thanks for your help !

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Re: Very low performance GTX 660ti

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Without knowing what driver version is installed, the two things I see are that the CPU slot is using 4 cores. This must a setting you changed because 1 core is normally reserved for the GPU slot. If not reserved, the GPU runs slower. Second is that core 18 work units run at about half the PPD as core 17 work units, but nothing you can do about that.
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Re: Very low performance GTX 660ti

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Older card like the 660TI don't fold well with newer driver and vice versa.

When I had my 660TI I used driver until 327.xx. Even 304.xx or 319.xx where ok, and right: that created around 62kPPD (that time on a ubuntu). What version do you use ?
After knowing that we might add some complexity because of Core 18 ;-)
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Re: Very low performance GTX 660ti

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ChristianVirtual wrote:Older card like the 660TI don't fold well with newer driver and vice versa.

When I had my 660TI I used driver until 327.xx. Even 304.xx or 319.xx where ok, and right: that created around 62kPPD (that time on a ubuntu). What version do you use ?
After knowing that we might add some complexity because of Core 18 ;-)
I used to have the driver 347.xx. but the PPD was even a bit less than now, so now I'm running the 327.23. which was suggested in another Forum Thread.

Edit: Running F@H today after 2 hours I now get 36k PPD from my GPU and about 2,5k PPD from my CPU. Still not as many PPD as it should be but a drastic change :D
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Re: Very low performance GTX 660ti

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Actually looks right on target for core 18 with the current version. If you don't get about twice that on the next core 17 work unit, please post that log into.
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Re: Very low performance GTX 660ti

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7im wrote:Actually looks right on target for core 18 with the current version. If you don't get about twice that on the next core 17 work unit, please post that log into.
Okey problem solved I guess, you were right 8-) Reached the next WU today and now I get about 58k PPD with my GPU and 3k with CPU.
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