Alright, so a little while ago, ago I build a gaming computer with the following specs:
8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 RAM
NVidia 560 Ti GPU
Intel Core i5-2500k (3.3 GHz, 3.7 Turboboost)
2 TB HD
Asus P8Z68-v PRO MOBO
So I installed BOINC, and began running GPUGrid. I am running Windows 7 64-bit Home Premium. I was able to crunch one of the extra long Work Units (the ones that they say take 8-12 hours on the best of cards) in around 9 hours. Everything seemed great. A few days ago, I decided to try overclocking, so I went into AISuite, and chose the "Fast" automatic TPU overclocking. I rebooted my system, but World Communtity Grid, when running, pushed my processor too hot, and so I decided to reverse the overclocking (I don't have an after-market heatsync).
I booted into the BIOS of the P8Z68-v PRO and changed the settings back to what I think was default (I didn't manually enter any numbers, didn't enable EPU, simply turned the performance back to "High Performance" and what not. Now, my GPU seems to be only able to do half of one of these longer work units in the time it used to be able to do one in. CUDA-Z showed performance of around 800GFlops for single percision, but only around 112 GFlops for double percision. I was under the impression that double precision takes around 2 times as long, so my double percision rating should be 400 GFlops, according to the single-percision measurement, correct? As well, I was under the impression that the 560 Ti could hit a TFlop while running a GPUGrid WU, so these numbers were a bit surprising. Did I somehow screw something up in the BIOS, or is it normal for some long workunits to take 2x as long as other workunits of the supposed same length?
Thank you :) |