best nvidia driver?

wikksmith wrote on 11/6/2014, 9:24 AM

Hello:
Getting back into video editing after some time off.
What nvidia driver are people recommending for use with GTX 580 and VP12?
Are people using GPU rendering with success?
Any reason to upgrade to VP13?
Thanks,
Donald

VP12 (build 770), Win 7 Pro, i7-2600k, Gigabyte P67A-UD7-B3, 8GB RAM, Intel 2nd generation SSD. Media = AVCHD.

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doublehamm wrote on 7/2/2015, 11:17 AM

I 100% agree with the nVida part. But this PC is now 100% dedicated to video production. Okay and Facebook. I have multiple top line nVidia cards from every generation since the 285s. I did have a massive amount of AMD cards (270s and 280s) about a year and a half ago whey they were the kings of bitcoin mining. Then i sold them off only to find that they were suppose to be great for Vegas Pro.

Just woke up, will start seeing what I can do with overclocking

Here she is. She is still pretty dusty, but that is next weeks project when I return home. You don't even want to see the radiator from the H60.

EDIT: Hmmm, my pic link not showing.

OldSmoke wrote on 7/2/2015, 11:31 AM

Remove the "s" from https and it should show; I cant even view it online.

doublehamm wrote on 7/2/2015, 11:57 AM

Have it running at 4.4GHz at the moment. Voltage fluctuates between 3.7-3.99V. At what point should I start to worry about that? 20 minutes at 4.4Ghz and max temp 63C, avg temp 59.3C

OldSmoke wrote on 7/2/2015, 12:20 PM

[I]Voltage fluctuates between 3.7-3.99V[/I]

You mean 1.370V and 1.399V? Personally, 1.399V is a bit too close to 1.4V. You may want to go back to 4.3GHz. Do a render test and see how much more you gain with 4.4GHz vs 4.3GHz and then see if it's worth it.

Edit:
There are much better overclockers out there that would be able to lower the CPU voltage and still have higher clock frequencies, especially on your MB. You may want to google for it but it can be time consuming.

doublehamm wrote on 7/2/2015, 1:01 PM

I really saw not much difference between 4.3-4.5. When CPU is at load, the voltage drops is what I have seen.

Idle CPU voltage at 4.3 is 1.384. At full load down to 1.36.

Idle CPU at 4.5 was 1.402, but at full load back down to 1.36. I think max temp was around 62.

Keeping at 4.3 to keep it from never going above 1.4 per your suggestion, but does the voltage matter much at idle? Just a thought.

As far as the R9 390X goes, if I add Film Convert to a clip and set it to run solely through the CPU, I get about 5-8 fps. Very ugly. Once I switch it to the R9 390X, I get full frame rate. On that end, i think editing will become much more enjoyable!

Thank you for everything, and now I cannot wait to get home from vacation and work! That sounds soooo wrong....

OldSmoke wrote on 7/2/2015, 1:07 PM

Something is off. At idle, the voltage should be below 1.0V, around 0.9V. Voltage is what causes heat and degrades the CPU. Is Intel SpeedStep Technology enabled?

doublehamm wrote on 7/2/2015, 1:23 PM

Just when I thought I got this all figured out...

Maybe I am reading something incorrectly?

Temps are 35-38 at idle.

OldSmoke wrote on 7/2/2015, 1:24 PM

Use HWiNFO, it will show the voltage for each core and tell you min and max too.

doublehamm wrote on 7/2/2015, 9:45 PM

I see in the first column that the minimum voltage was 0.846 when looking at the cores, but every time I stare at it it sits at 1.296V. The vcore in the 2nd column is the value that matches cpu-z.

OldSmoke wrote on 7/2/2015, 10:03 PM

Could be the update interval in HWiNFO is too long. Anyways, these are good voltages and temps. Is the system stable and faster then before?

doublehamm wrote on 7/3/2015, 5:42 AM

She has been pretty stable. Can't really say much about it being faster but I am sure it is. I never did any official testing before. Actually I know it is faster because when I play through footage with no effects I get full speed play back. However once I start adding some CC, the 390x is the only thing that can keep up. So far it is a keeper!

MikeLV wrote on 7/12/2015, 4:21 PM

Hi again, question about Nvidia drivers. I'm looking at my windows uninstall program list and in addition to the "graphics driver" itself, there's a bunch of other Nvidia items like virtual audio, PhysX system software, 3d vision controller, etc. Are all of these necessary or just the driver itself? I don't do any gaming, just video work...

doublehamm wrote on 12/30/2015, 3:43 PM

Well poop, I woke up this morning to a dead PC. Tried turning it on, tells me CPU fan error. This computer was rock solid until now. I tried reconnecting all fan cables, still no luck. I dug the beast out and put in my old H60 fan that ran for 4 years straight, and not a problem. This Corsair H110i did not even last me 5 months :(

Slightly good news is I have the H60 back in there at 4.2Ghz, rendering heavy file in Vegas and max temp 66C after ab out 20 minutes, and usually under 60C when I look at the status.

A little compressed air really helped that thing out I think. I may also have the fan reversed over last time, but not entirely sure. Right now I have airflow going into case, instead of exhausting out. Again, not entirely sure, but something I did between June and now seems to have improved it.

Hopefully I can find a solution for the H110i.