Hi everyone,
Weather was shitty in the past few days.
It was raining (with cats and dogs) for 20 hours. Now it stopped, but temperature outside dropped dramatically. At 9AM, when I started to write this article, temperature was 6°C (42.8°F).
My effort to bring up my HD7990 and crunch data for Gridcoins, started to payoff. PrimeGrid is generating computational errors on the Genefer work units, but Seti@Home runs smoothly.
The temperature in my apartment reached a decent 21.1°C (70°F) with one HD7990. I'm aware that the GPU is sub-optimal, as the temperature of the radiator is nothing compared to the old times when they mined LTCs.
SETI@home is not very GPU intensive. Their GPU application also utilizes CPU for some calculations, so a lot of data is shuffled between the CPU and the GPU which makes a 100% GPU workload unlikely.
There are BOINC applications which could easily outmatch the power consumption of LTC hashing, for example Primegrid GFN-22 (looking for very large prime numbers). But if shorter GFN tasks are failing on your GPUs, GFN-22 will more than likely fail too. It could be that those tasks are failing precisely because they are hard on the GPU.
Thanks, @vortac!
It looks that PrimeGrid works perfectly with the old GeForce GT630 in Ubuntu 16.04. I will let this one working on PrimeGrid for a while, and use the time to find a solution also for the HD7990.
Many thanks for your support!
You'll likely making enough money on SteemIt to pay for your electricity bill too ;-).
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You'll likely making enough money on SteemIt to pay for your electricity bill too ;-).
Sorry, couldn't resist.
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