Added GTX670 Not getting expected performance Boost

I replaced my C1060 Tesla card with a GTX670. Its been a couple of weeks now and no performance increase. At the same time I moved the os from win xp x64 to win 7 pro x64. Computer is an i7 960/Asus P6X58D-E mb with 24 GB ram. I'm running Boinc 6.10.60 and Lunatics_Win64_v0.40. Will my current Boinc version suffice or do I need to move up? Also, what is this about a change in the environment variable? Boinc at start up rates the 670 at 457 gflops peak. That seems awfully low. The GTS250 in the same machine is rated higher than that. the 250 is for video only and not running boinc. The GTX670 is running driver 310.90.
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The current issues with the server and unavailability of enough WUs to fill the cache will certainly impair your system from delivering its maximum potential. You should see better RAC once the WUs start flowing freely. I am using 6.10.60 as well and it shouldnt affect performance as long as you have the right optimized apps. You may want to upgrade your Lunatics MB file to x41zc and set up your GPU to crunch astropulse. The following links should help.

x41zc
Astropulse
You can download the latest files from Arkayn's website

I will let the more experience crunchers explain the gflops of the GPU.

Use a separate, external (and up-to-date) tool like MSI Afterburner if you want to be reassured that the GTX 670 is running according to specification.[/quote]

I should have mentioned it is an EVGA GTX670 and I'm running the EVGA Precision X 3.0.4 tool. I set the GPU clock offset to + 23MHZ and the Memory clock offset to + 46MHZ. I set the power Target at 110% but I'm not sure that helps. I haven't tried setting the GPU & Memory any higher than current yet. I am also running 2 work units at a time and it seems to average 10 to 14 minutes eack for the longer ones.

NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 670 (driver version 31090, CUDA version 5000, compute capability 3.0, 2048MB, 457 GFLOPS peak)

NVIDIA GPU 1 (not used): GeForce GTS 250 (driver version 31090, CUDA version 5000, compute capability 1.1, 512MB, 470 GFLOPS peak)

There is no opencl line. The current cuda version is Lunatics_x41g_win32_cuda32.
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I noticed that you haven't mentioned how much power you have; how big is your psu and is it enough? I have a 1200 watt psu running an i7/950 with 1 x GTX660SC/2Gb @ 1 x GTX460SE/1GB. I have implemented the evironmental variable because I was having error problems with my Opencl tasks. Currently I'm running Win7/64bit, BOINC 7.0.47, _x41zc cuda 5.0, nVidia 310.90. If you continue to run Opencl make sure that you reserve 1 core via your app_info.xml.

BTW, both devices are EVGA and am using PrecisionX 3.0.4. I keep PrecisionX minimized and have it start at startup, automatic fan control and force fan control for each interval checked. If you don't keep it minimized, you won't know what the card temps are and the card may over heat.

My other machine runs 1 x EVGA GTS250 & 1 x GTX275/GTS250 -- which is a very unique card in that it has two different physical GPUs on the same card. Both machine use the PrecisionX with the same settings with the temps on auto. My office is in a room of my house that has no a/c and no breeze in the summer and the temps on the GTX660SC only got above 70 once when it hit the 90s for a couple of days. I haven't checked my temps on either of machines since mid August. Just checked the temps on the i7/950 and the 660SC is doing about 62c and the 460SE is doing about 52c.[/quote]

Never heard of a GTX275/GTS250. My i7 machine is in the house and makes little or no impact on the room temp. The other 3 local machines are in the shop. Its about 22'x26'. It is well insulated and has a heat pump but I've rarely turned it on this winter as the computers put out enough heat to keep it at 60 or above. One pc has a GTX660 Ti that runs 60 to 65C. The other 2 have GTX470s and they run about 70 to 75C.
I got tied up working on a Dell laptop today and didn't get to move up to x41zc.
Maybe tomorrow or Tuesday.
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I just upgraded to Boinc 7.0.28 from 6.10.60 and all seems to be working BUT what has happened to the old Messages Tab and where can I get to the info it used to display?
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And where do I go to set local preferences?
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I found the "Messages" relabeled under the Advanced Tab as "Event Log" but still can't find any path to local preferences.
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I found the "Messages" relabeled under the Advanced Tab as "Event Log" but still can't find any path to local preferences.