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From a piece of crap to a....slightly less piece of crap

Discussion in 'bit-tech Folding Team' started by vasileioszografos, 25 Feb 2013.

  1. vasileioszografos

    vasileioszografos What's a Dremel?

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    So, I have a GeForce 9600 GS card in my build (as well as 2 GTX560Tis) running PhysX only.

    And since there are virtually no PhysX supporting games :D plus the fact that I dont use my CPU and main GPUs for folding I decided to use the 9600 GS for 24/7 folding.

    I inherited that card from someone and it is okayish for folding. Will clock something near 1900 PPD with default settings.

    So I decided to slightly overclock it. Cranked up the GPU clock to 750 and the memory clock to 529 which gave a shader of 1900 (the 560ti has a shader of 1645 btw. ok different number of shaders but just as a reference).

    So now it clocks upwards of 2600 PPD (on the same project).
    Not too bad for a piece of **** I wont care twice if it melts.
    It keeps a reasonable 62C and the fan is quite silent.

    Nice one :thumb:

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    By the way. If you havent seen or havent heard of a 9600 GS before I dont blame you.
    It is some OEM card that used to come in various vendor builds etc.
    Looks like that
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  2. mikemaher205

    mikemaher205 What's a Dremel?

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    Every little counts.
     
  3. vasileioszografos

    vasileioszografos What's a Dremel?

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    as a reference a quad core Xeon 3.2 can manage something like 1400 ppd
     
  4. mikemaher205

    mikemaher205 What's a Dremel?

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    1400? Do you mean 14,000? What Xeon are you talking about here, I was looking at getting a Xeon 5450 folding for extra points...
     
  5. vasileioszografos

    vasileioszografos What's a Dremel?

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    Depends on the project I suppose. It ranges from 10K to 1.4k ppd.

    W3565
     
  6. vasileioszografos

    vasileioszografos What's a Dremel?

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    And here is a tip.
    If you are going to overclock a piece of hardware, especially if it is old, replace the thermal paste.

    The temps of the 9600GS at full blast --->65-69 degrees
    After replacing the thermal paste ---> 54 degrees

    The old one had almost solidified :D
     
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  7. kirk46

    kirk46 Cheesecake Nom Nom

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    any 2nd hand gpu i buy i always apply new TIM :D :thumb:
     
  8. vasileioszografos

    vasileioszografos What's a Dremel?

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    Good idea.
    It is a small thing, but people (including myself) always forget. And it can make such a big difference.

    Which is probably the same as saying, if you keep your hardware for a few years, replace the thermal paste once in a while. :dremel:
     

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