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Message 1829102 - Posted: 8 Nov 2016, 2:16:29 UTC - in response to Message 1829086.  

They will also send you thermal pads that the user has to applied to both the VRAM and the VRMs.. I'm waiting on them to send me both before I tear mine apart to place these on there.

Or if you don't feel comfortable doing your own surgery, you can RMA them with a cross-ship.
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Message 1829107 - Posted: 8 Nov 2016, 2:46:52 UTC

Used 980s are getting awfully cheap on eBay ...
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Message 1829118 - Posted: 8 Nov 2016, 4:02:06 UTC - in response to Message 1829102.  
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They will also send you thermal pads that the user has to applied to both the VRAM and the VRMs.. I'm waiting on them to send me both before I tear mine apart to place these on there.

Or if you don't feel comfortable doing your own surgery, you can RMA them with a cross-ship.


Actually they will only ship vbios changes cards, possibly refurbished ones, but none with thermal pads.

In their opinion, they don't see a need for the pads :( This from their forum bulletin boards and their reps there.

But I have no problem taking apart the cards. I've already done it for about 10 cards the 980, 980tis, Titan Xs, 1080. Seen the pdfs on it and have a plan to hybrid these bad boys which should actually make them better cooling efficient..
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Message 1831790 - Posted: 21 Nov 2016, 21:03:08 UTC - in response to Message 1828730.  

Would it be possible to update your credit/hour graph to include GTX 1050 / GTX 1050 Ti ?
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Message 1831797 - Posted: 21 Nov 2016, 21:37:14 UTC - in response to Message 1831790.  

Would it be possible to update your credit/hour graph to include GTX 1050 / GTX 1050 Ti ?
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Yeah I was waiting for the servers to stabilize before I put the stress of a scan on them. Maybe next weekend if things clear up.
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Message 1832301 - Posted: 25 Nov 2016, 1:49:02 UTC

Last night's scan; new this week is the 1050 Ti's but there aren't enough regular 1050's yet.

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Message 1832319 - Posted: 25 Nov 2016, 2:47:20 UTC - in response to Message 1832301.  
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Nice!, can vouch my house is substantially cooler switching for development to a single 1050ti. Having been digging, I'd pin the more or less equivalent Credit/Wh of the top four or five, on the appropriate graph, as intentional. The wider variance on the 1050ti in particular I would tend to blame on the recent driver bloat/crud, which requires manual intervention to deal with.
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Message 1834144 - Posted: 4 Dec 2016, 22:18:05 UTC

An updated scan with this week's data: still no regular 1050's strangely



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Message 1834157 - Posted: 4 Dec 2016, 23:25:49 UTC

It's been a while since I last compared the rate of data between the two telescopes so I graphed it up from the latest scan; it seems like GBT data is being processed considerably faster with 8.19!

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Message 1840633 - Posted: 7 Jan 2017, 14:28:17 UTC

Having waited hopefully long enough for people to upgrade to BOINC 7.6.33 (which has more granular OpenCL device ID for AMD parts) I ran another scan; it's still a bit general for some parts (eg AMD Radeon R7 200 Series which includes a bunch of cards) but it is now able to discriminate RX480's from RX470's etc (sadly there aren't quite enough 470 or 460 parts to qualify yet).

I was also asked privately about GTX 1050 vs GTX 1050Ti; again I have some data but there aren't enough regular 1050's to have them show up on the chart (there's maybe 5x the 1050 Ti's in my scan). The unwinsorized mean credit/hr for the regular 1050 was 404 cr/hr and the 1050 Ti was 423 cr/hr so the difference is marginal.

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Message 1847195 - Posted: 7 Feb 2017, 7:58:48 UTC

Well I certainly can't complain about the performance of my 4 GTX 1060 3B in my 2 rigs. :-D

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Message 1847291 - Posted: 8 Feb 2017, 7:57:45 UTC - in response to Message 1805908.  

Why no 1050Ti?
Got one on my computer & one on Stephen's... ;)


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Message 1847294 - Posted: 8 Feb 2017, 8:03:21 UTC - in response to Message 1847291.  
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Why no 1050Ti?
Got one on my computer & one on Stephen's... ;)

Jan 7th.
I was also asked privately about GTX 1050 vs GTX 1050Ti; again I have some data but there aren't enough regular 1050's to have them show up on the chart
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Message 1847329 - Posted: 8 Feb 2017, 14:59:39 UTC - in response to Message 1847291.  

Why no 1050Ti?
Got one on my computer & one on Stephen's... ;)

The most recent data does show the 1050 Ti.
I would guess that since the 1050's were released in 2016 October is the reason they don't show up in 2016 July data.
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Message 1850172 - Posted: 20 Feb 2017, 11:29:37 UTC

^hi all, just seen something strange in my results

Boinc self determine théorical Gflop to my GPU ( HD7750 ) a 2048 Gflop, , on technical websites and wiki , the value is about 819 Gflops ...

but now on somme task , it set to 2304 Gflops , is it self calculated with time by result ?

look at theses ..

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/result.php?resultid=5423626195 >2048
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/result.php?resultid=5516955845 >2304
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/result.php?resultid=5514924288 >2048
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/result.php?resultid=5522146789 >2304

thks for your thoughts ...
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Message 1850309 - Posted: 21 Feb 2017, 0:23:13 UTC - in response to Message 1850172.  

^hi all, just seen something strange in my results

Boinc self determine théorical Gflop to my GPU ( HD7750 ) a 2048 Gflop, , on technical websites and wiki , the value is about 819 Gflops ...

but now on somme task , it set to 2304 Gflops , is it self calculated with time by result ?

look at theses ..

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/result.php?resultid=5423626195 >2048
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/result.php?resultid=5516955845 >2304
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/result.php?resultid=5514924288 >2048
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/result.php?resultid=5522146789 >2304

thks for your thoughts ...

As I recall BOINC always reported the GFLOPs of all of my older CAL Radeon GPUs as double the actual value.
It probably has something to do with them having issues with the GPU detection using CAL.
For the numbers you are seeing you are seeing I would guess your GPU is running 1000MHz base and then 1125MHz for turbo?
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Message 1850592 - Posted: 22 Feb 2017, 18:41:40 UTC

GPU is already Oced at max 900Mhz without turbo possibility ;)
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Message 1856948 - Posted: 21 Mar 2017, 0:26:44 UTC

More people have upgraded BOINC and snapped up the new fancy cards so I ran another scan; this time there was enough data for 1050 vs 1050Ti and the RX 400 series is starting to show up:



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Message 1856950 - Posted: 21 Mar 2017, 0:53:21 UTC

I like where the 1050Ti slots right underneath the 1070 for efficiency.
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Message 1856954 - Posted: 21 Mar 2017, 3:01:33 UTC - in response to Message 1856950.  

Hmm, I suppose if there are ever enough 1080ti's then they might edge out top spot. Well out of my pricerange though. Could probably retire most of my machines and just beef up the Mac Pro for virtualisation.... hmmm
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