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Message 6678 - Posted: 16 Feb 2009 | 17:02:08 UTC

Has anyone tried leaving this setting "Enabled" for a few days to see if it will run the tasks twice as fast?

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Message 6681 - Posted: 16 Feb 2009 | 18:14:33 UTC - in response to Message 6678.

Has anyone tried leaving this setting "Enabled" for a few days to see if it will run the tasks twice as fast?


No ...

And it is not likely I will be able to try as the Nvidia control panel BSOD if I try to open it ...

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Message 6683 - Posted: 16 Feb 2009 | 18:44:12 UTC - in response to Message 6681.
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Been running mine today like that, and I think it's limited to 240 of 480 cores while on. The one task I'm running right now is 25% done after 2 hours wall clock time. Kinda sucks considering that every time I disable Multi GPU Mode, my machine freezes during reboot.. Guess I need to revert to 32bit XP where I last had Multi GPU off and problem free.. grr..

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Message 6687 - Posted: 16 Feb 2009 | 20:35:36 UTC - in response to Message 6678.

It took two days until I noticed that I had to disable multi-GPU mode. :-|

After a few minutes the fan got louder because the card has been hotter.
Indeed, in multi-GPU mode it works only with 'half steam ahead'.

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Message 6696 - Posted: 16 Feb 2009 | 23:50:29 UTC - in response to Message 6687.

Indeed, in multi-GPU mode it works only with 'half steam ahead'.


Thanks Dieter, unfortunate - I'd love to just run one task at a time much more quickly.

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