2015/05/06 20:33:21
James_Poma
HK-Steve
Just a thought.
As you are folding on cpu and gpu.
Do you have a cpu core free for the gpu folding??



I believe so as it is a quad core i7 running at 3240ghz with hyper threading. I does not show all of the 8 cores active at any given time.
2015/05/06 20:34:55
HK-Steve
The video card that you pulled out, did you uninstall the drivers, then change video card. Then install the 327.xx drivers??
2015/05/06 20:36:44
HK-Steve
When folding a cpu wu, it should say cpu:7.
That means there is a free core for the gpu.
2015/05/06 20:40:17
James_Poma
I uninstalled the drivers for the older ASUS Nvidia card but I installed the latest video drivers for this new video card. Version: 350.12. Should I downgrade back to the 327.XX drivers that I was using with my old card?
2015/05/06 20:41:44
James_Poma
HK-Steve
When folding a cpu wu, it should say cpu:7.
That means there is a free core for the gpu.



It says: CPU:6
 
Correction....It now says CPU:7
2015/05/06 20:50:22
HK-Steve
Cool. You are good to go there with cpu 6 or 7.
For best PPD use the 327.xx drivers.

I can not tell you which ones I use at the moment as I am in Australia at Ayres Rock. Home to Switzerland in about 9 days.
2015/05/12 09:24:49
James_Poma
I have the EVGA 04G-P4-3778-RX GeForce GTX 770 4GB 256-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Dual Classified with EVGA ACX Cooler Video Card Manufactured Recertified video card and it was suggested that I used the 327.xx driver for it. I went to Nvidia to find that driver but it is not offered for my card. I did find it but the specs only show the GTX 770m to use that 327.23 driver.
 
Are you sure that that 327.23 version will work on my new card and work better than the new driver 350.xx for folding? My old card is listedas being compatable with the 327.23 driver but my new card is not on the list.
 
Thanks for any help.
 
James Poma
2015/05/13 08:28:49
DutchForce
Welcome to our Team, James Poma.
 
The 327.23 driver will give you the best folding performance on your GTX770 for Core17 projects (newer drivers have a 50% lower folding performance).  However with Core18 projects there is not much difference when you use the newer drivers. 
Core17 projects are phased out and Stanford is moving to the more improved Core18 and you'll probably get much more Core18 than Core17 projects (I'm getting ~90% Core18 WUs with my GTX780 Ti's and GTX660 Ti's). 
So it's up to you if you want to use 327.23 drivers, which you can find here for your GTX770:  NVidia 327.23 WHQL driver - 64-bit
 
You also mentioned the "Slightly Higher" priority setting for the GPU, that option was usefull for older projects (Core15 and older), which didn't use much of the CPU and you could use all CPU cores for folding.  But that is changed with Core17 and Core18, now you need to have at least one CPU core free for every GPU.
2015/05/13 12:17:17
James_Poma
Well I uninstalled the newer driver and installed the 327.23 version of the driver and I am still getting what appear to me to be video card crashes about once a day. I have a quad core i7 running at 3250mhz and the video card has stock settings and is not being over clocked.
 
 
 

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2015/05/17 12:25:42
Nickes
just thought id say hi, just got my new pc and started folding today =)

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