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stiv88
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Add second gpu to fold

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Hi all, today i bought new gpu and i want fold with. Can someone wrote how to add it to folding? I must have enabled SLI?

980ti

Thanks.
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Re: Add second gpu to fold

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Welcome to the folding forum.

Adding a GPU to folding basically requires your to add the GPU to your system, install the full drivers downloaded from the nVidia or AMD-ATI site as appropriate, and install the folding client. If you have the folding client already installed, an uninstall followed by a reinstall is recommended after a change in hardware.

Some of the details will depend on which OS you are running, and in the case of Linux may involve manually downloading the GPUs.txt file if it is not automatically updated during installation of the folding client.
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Re: Add second gpu to fold

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I have all drivers installed. Both cards works good in games. I have enabled SLI mode in driver.
But in folding only one card work - http://i.imgur.com/GAFSNlY.png look at gpu usage.
Im running on windows 10 pro.
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Re: Add second gpu to fold

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You'll need to add a second GPU slot to get both folding - folding doesn't make use of sli or crossfire and will run a separate task on each GPU.
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Re: Add second gpu to fold

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How i can add second GPU slot?
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Re: Add second gpu to fold

Post by 7im »

stiv88 wrote:How i can add second GPU slot?
Did you follow the directions Joe_H posted above?
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Re: Add second gpu to fold

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An uninstall and reinstall is probably the safest method, but configure>slots>add>GPU should work too
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Re: Add second gpu to fold

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reinstall with delete data works. thanks for help. :ewink:
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