So yesterday I was working on my daughter's new gaming rig. I put in a EVGA 1070ti. Was working pretty good. Well about 2 months ago I picked up a EVGA Hydro copper water block for my EVGA 2070 XC Ultra. New but without box. I got a wild hair and pulled my 2070 out of my folding rig. PPD from this card air cooled was 2.2 to 2.6 million. Running like it should on air. followed the online instructions and even watched the EVGA Youtube vid on the install. Before the tear down the RGB worked just fine even though the MSI 2070 super in the same rig RGB was inop. Install went smooth. So I tore my rig down and installed the 2070. Got the loop bled and powered it back up. Now the 2070 has a inop RGB and ppd is down to 1.1 million. I have seen it dip as low as 650k. The rig I installed it into has a Gigabyte Arous water cooled 1080ti. The 1080ti has a custom flashed bios in it. So when I first installed the 1080ti Precision X! would not load. It would hang on the splash screen then close. I figured it was the bios causing it not to run. So I used afterburner to monitor everything. When I had this going the EVGA 1080 was in the second pci-e slot. Both cards put out correct ppd for the card. Once the 2070 was installed in the second pci-e Precision started to load. BUT........ It shows target no adjustment and at 0%. The 2070 would run 1700 MHz in the other rig. Obviously the boost clock and only run 1410 in this rig. I pulled the card out this morning and reseated it. Deleted Fah and reloaded it. Wiped the gpu drivers and installed the latest drivers. Removed Precision X! and reinstalled it. Did the same with afterburner. So now I'm stumped as to why ppd has dropped to 1/2 on this card and RGB is inop. 
 
Old folding rig specs
I7 2600k
Asus P67 Evolution
8 gigs of Gskill ripjaws
Win 7
 
Currently in 
!9 10850k
MSI z490 Gaming edge wifi
32 gigs Gskill Trident z
Win 10
 
P.S. all of this mess because I wanted to give my daughter my water cooled 1080. What was I thinking.

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notfordman
I'm not going to be any true help....but, occasionally my folding rig [1080TI] would not fold like you stated, half points of what it "should do". A restart will most times get it back for me, not always, but most often. My first thought was a driver reinstall. Do you use DDU? That may help if not used. I don't want to assume, cause you know what happens...Sorry not to be as helpful as intended. Another idea is to try one card at a time. 
 
Answer to what you were thinking? Trying to give your child a great PC experience, I think. 
 
Edit: after rereading your original post, wondering if the custom BIOS is giving issues. Sometimes certain WU won't tolerate much of an overclock. Hope you get it ironed out. 

The custom bios is in the 1080ti which is working as it should. Current work unit is 2.6 million. The 2070 is the one with the low ppd. I manually deleted the drivers but I will look at DDU and remove them with it. The key to this I am thinking is the RGB not working. The plug for it went right in with out any additional force. EVGA vid said should be able to only go one way.

notfordman
Wonder if the plug on the water block is not fully seated or something? The connector is on the end of GPU with the power plugs. Being water cooled makes it much "more fun" to trouble shoot. Did you install LED sync in Precision? Try one thing at a time so you can tell what the fix was. 
 
Wondering about the lower slot speed, this is on the new hardware [z490], right?
 
Someone will chime in and help. I hope it's something simple. We have a great team that's always helpful. 
 
https://www.evga.com/support/manuals/files/400-HC-1189-B1.pdf
^hydro manual.^
 
 

I looked at it and it seems fully seated as best as I can tell. I have used the lower slot with lower slot speed before and have had no issues. Precision should have led sync there when you install it. 

I have been thinking it might be rgb related. Water coming is not cheap but can be done on a budget. Buy used stuff if available.

SmookinJoe
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SmookinJoe
Can you test the 2070 in a different machine?(without changing the rgb connections)
Are you using onboard video?(I do)
Didn't you say you had another card not have RGB in that same slot...has that card been installed in a different machine...is the RGB still not working?
Has that second slot ever had a card that's RGB worked?
Happy now

I would have to make a water loop for the machine I took it out of. I could swap into my daughter's. The other card with inop rgb was in the folding machine. RGB worked on this card in that rig. The second slot I don't think i have put a cards in with rgb. I do have the 1070ti I could try in it.

I don't see why you couldn't on a water cooler card. Air cooled the fan and rgb are the same connector

The MSI board it's in has 2 slots. The other board is the one that rgb worked in. That's a 3 slot board. Rgb not working was in the 3 slot board on the other card.

notfordman
~snip~ Thanks for chiming in SmookingJ.  

That's the problem with sitting too close to the stage...you get roped into the entertainment..
Hi Gene
Pst the "g" is invisible in Smookin...lol
Here is some stuff about what I pointed out earlier and, I think, what notfordman was talkin about..
I got lots of hits from google asking about PCH and I was just reading this...
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/6n8gwg/pcie_pch_vs_cpu/
Original search..
https://www.google.com/search?channel=trow5&client=firefox-b-d&q=%E2%88%99%E2%88%991x+PCIe+3.0+x16+slot+%28x4+mode%2C+from+PCH%29
 

Ducrider
I added a couple of links to my previous post...make sure you give the first one a peek ...

SmookinJoe
Quoting ProDigit..
"For mid-tier graphics cards (GTX 1650, 1060, 1660, 1660ti, 1070, 1080, or RTX 2060 or RTX 2070, GTX titan), the minimum recommended PCIE lane speed is 4x, before a noticeable reduction in speed is recorded.
For top-tier graphics cards (GTX 1080 ti / fe, RTX 2080, 2080 ti, RTX Titan), a minimum of PCIE 8x speed is required for highest efficiency."
Taken from..
https://forums.evga.com/HARDWARE-GUIDE-Folding-at-Home-what-hardware-should-I-get-m2927907.aspx
Half way down first Page  Desktop System
Your 2070 Super could be crossing the line into 8x territory and this could be why it is running badly..
Remember I know nothing!...but I can read...lol
 

Yes a hit in ppd but maybe a 10-15 percent. I'm not thinking 50 percent in reduction.. 
 
 
Edit: it's a 2070 not a 2070 super.

Yes MSI 2070 super rgb inop in the folding rig. 2070 with rgb working before waterblock swap/new rig swap worked. 2070 super rgb still inop. in folding rig.

Well my points are going to be lower today..power went out for 4 hrs...
Ducrider
Did you figure out why your card is producing low points per day?

Have you been able to work on this issue lately? Hope you have made progress, with no further help from me.... Wish I had the answers.