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    Anyone have a spare GPU to throw at Milkyway?

    Hey guys

    I've been on MilkyWay for a few weeks already pushing on with my Radeon HD 7970, making nearly 400K a day, and there' a few more people contributing to it but I suspect they are using CPU's instead of GPUs because the daily points are very low.
    Well, the thing is... there's one team behind us (Ellison Crunchers) only 5M points away from us and slowly closing in each day. They have 1 guy who's pushing just a little bit more than me and the others all combined on our Team.

    If anyone got a spare GPU they can throw at this project to keep Ellison Crunchers at bay please join in, I'm trying my best not to lose our current spot on the stats.


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    My GTX260 died, Windows 10 broke OpenCl 1.1 for my HD 4770, the only 'card' I currently have that can crunch MilkyWay (DP required) is the IGP on my A10-5700 APU...
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    I'll see if I can put a GPU on it later today.

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    I just put a GTX-970 on it. The first unit came back as validation inconclusive............ ????? Anyway I selected all the choices for work units for GPU so we will see how that goes. The other issue is heat....... so again we will see how that goes. :-)

    edit: just crunching the milkyway units now, no "n"body. getting fewer inconclusives now.
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    I just remembered why I don't let MilkyWay try to use my GPU - it needs to be a double-precision GPU, and my HD6670 is only single-precision, so all the tasks i got just failed! Switching preferences back to CPU only and will let MilkyWay have a look in again once the Pentathlon is over.

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    They're a pretty stern lot over there at MilkyWay: Not only do they require DP capability, they want you to run a pretty recent GPU as well.
    My HD 3850 (AGP) became useless that way, as well as my HD 3870, my HD 4770 and my son's HD 4850.
    All perfectly capable cards, DP-wise, but lacking in the OpenCL capabilities (absent with the HD 3800 series and limited to OpenCL 1.1 with the HD 4700 and HD 4800 series).
    Last thing I read however is even more shocking: the IGP of a AMD A10-7700K was recognised as ATI GPU R600 (R38xx) does not support OpenCL, but that person runs Ubuntu 16.04 with its rotten AMD Radeon support.
    Personally I've crunched MilkyWay on the IGP of my A10-5700..


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    Quote Originally Posted by Dirk Broer View Post
    They're a pretty stern lot over there at MilkyWay...
    lol, no worries, just means Einstein gets exclusive use of my GPU for the time being

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    Perhaps I can divert the HD 7790 from the 'fast reaction force' to the A10-5700 system, and place its A8-3850 (plus 8GB RAM) in my (reserve force) ASUS F1A75-M, instead of that mobos present A6-3500. I can then test my HD 7750 in that board to see whether that Graka has died too....The A6-3500 so will end up where it once started: on my ASUS F1A75.


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    I removed the gtx-970 and replaced it with a gtx-750. gonna have to joggle a few system gpu's around to be able to crunch some stuff I also wanna crunch.

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