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GTX 460 superclocked
perryjay:
Holiday? You get a holiday?? :o
Seriously though, I am far from an expert in any of this. I just sit back and wait until I see you guys have it just about right before I try any of this stuff and pray I get it installed right. As I told Jason in another thread, I am more than happy to try something new for you guys but I need a lot of hand holding. There is no way I could do what you guys do.
Hmmm, what do I expect? First and foremost would be that you guys have fun doing what you do. Second would be to take the time to get whatever it is you're making for us to actually do what it is supposed to.(hello, does Dr A read these posts? ) I would guess most of us who visit this site are more than happy to help out if we can to test the new stuff but many are like me and scared they will screw everything up and cost you more time. Rest assured though, when I do mess things up I will do my best to let you know what I did to get me there.
As for the users that don't visit here, they expect a finished product they can just plug and play. They could care less what you went through to bring it to them. No amount of warnings is going to stop them and they are going to be the loudest of the loud when they screw it up. Not much you can do about them though. As far as your quote from Joe, I think you made it abundantly clear there was a problem with the apps, the problem was a number of the users grabbing the installer, plugging it in and forgetting it. Then when they finally did notice, blame you guys. About all you can do is keep that "For advanced users only" sign up and maybe add "Use at your own risk"
Ghost0210:
--- Quote from: perryjay on 25 Aug 2010, 12:51:11 pm ---As for the users that don't visit here, they expect a finished product they can just plug and play. They could care less what you went through to bring it to them. No amount of warnings is going to stop them and they are going to be the loudest of the loud when they screw it up. Not much you can do about them though. As far as your quote from Joe, I think you made it abundantly clear there was a problem with the apps, the problem was a number of the users grabbing the installer, plugging it in and forgetting it. Then when they finally did notice, blame you guys. About all you can do is keep that "For advanced users only" sign up and maybe add "Use at your own risk"
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Well said! :D Pretty much my thoughts on this point.
There are unfortunately a large number of users that don't help with the tesing, yet still expect any applications here to work with whatever obscure build they are running, and when it all goes wrong blame the developers, the alpha testers and the beta testers for writing, testing and releasing a bad application?!?!?!? Then instead of asking for help on the appropriate forums, they would just shout and scream about the problems they had, instead of trying to understand why it went pear shaped and fixing it for themselves and others.
As for warnings, even if you had big flashing lights and alarms going off when you got to that screen, how many people would actually read and take note of them.
How many people that have downloaded the x32f build have actually read the full thread and noted the known issues that have been posted on the first page? 10%, 20%?
I think the mixture here is good, the warnings are there for people to see if they bothered to read and pay attention
TouchuvGrey:
--- Quote from: TouchuvGrey on 24 Aug 2010, 04:04:47 pm ---Downloaded and installed Lunatics_Win64v0.37_(SSE3+)_AP505r409_AKv8bx64_Cudax32f.exe
( Beta ) hoping this will help. i've watched my host average drop from 13,500 per day to
8700 per day since installing the GTX460. Suspecting i screwed something up along the way.
i have a Black Belt in that sort of thing. <sigh>
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update:
Architecture: GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz [Family 6 Model 26 Stepping 5]
OS Details: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium x64 Edition, (06.01.7600.00)
Number of CPU's: 8
Created: Sat, 26 Dec 09 17:11:17 -0700
Timezone: GMT -5
Floating Point Speed: 2,550.20 million ops/sec
Integer Speed: 6,651.04 million ops/sec
Memory Bandwidth: 125Mbit/sec
Ram: 11.99Gb
Cache: 256.00Kb
Swap: 23.98Gb
Disk Total: 419.93Gb
Disk Free: 180.33Gb
Ave Upload Rate: 29.53 Kb/sec
Ave Download Rate: 2.46 Mb/sec
Ave Turnaround:(tbf) 1,818,490.34
cpid: a23269cdfd792a32f4cdad5ec3412d55
Rank: 1,393
Last Update: 0
7 Day Average: 28,477
Last 7 Days: 199,341
Last 28 Days: 447,884
RAC: 20,452
Coprocessor: 0 x 6.10.58CUDA with 2 (BOINC)
This latest build seems to agree with my computer. Considering
updating the driver to the lastest Nvidia Beta 260.63, but will likely wait
a few days to see if it gets WHQL or an updated beta.
arkayn:
I am running my new GTX 460 with the 260.63 drivers, seems to work fine to me. Of course getting work downloaded from SETI is a pain so right now it is working on a full cache of Collatz work.
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