I am about to start up a new machine, about 10 days away. I am looking for any advice I might need to have the machine working on GPU projects at its best capacity. Here are the specs of the machine:

Chassis: MAINGEAR SHIFT Chassis with Advanced
Vertical Heat Dissipation
Motherboard: Asus® Rampage IV Extreme
Supporting SATA 6G, USB 3.0, 3-way SLI
Processor: Intel® CoreT i7 3930K
Six-core 3.2GHz/3.8GHz Turbo 12MB L3 Cache w/ HyperThreading
Processor Cooling: MAINGEAR EPIC 140 Supercooler
Intel Turbo Boost Advanced Automatic Overclocking
Memory: 16GB Corsair® VengeanceT DDR3-1866 1.5V (4x4GB)
Graphics and GPGPU Accelerator: 2x EVGA® GeForceT GTX 580 6GB GDDR5 Total in SLI with MAINGEAR EPIC X2 Liquid Cooling [ULTIMATE]
Power Supply: 1000 Watt Seasonic® XP-1000 80+
Platinum Certified Modular Power Supply ROHS

What I want to know, since while I am an avid cruncher I am technically at a loss, is there anything special I need to do in configuration of preferences so that both graphics cards are functioning on work units? I will be running on local preferences. Is there anything special in a cc.config.xml line that I need?

I am coming in with this now, because a couple of years ago when I brought on an i7-920, it took a month and a great deal of help to keep that machine from running out of work, and that was just with CPU processing.

So, if there is any experiential reasoned advice, I would appreciate it very much.

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I found this.
http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?s=68f0f3425e3b0058865536fcdbaf1f33&t=625171
it got my system up and working.
great for graphic cards.

Thanks for the link. Either these guys are way over my head or they are over complicating everything. It is probably the former, as I am, as I originally said, technically at a loss.

I got a great deal of help at the WCG forums. Basically, I need to copy in a cc.config file I have on another computer to my BOINC Data folder, edit the GPU line to include every GPU. Then, make sure that the projects I select work with
nVidia, and attach.

I am running BOINC 6.12.34 on seven machines. One, a laptop, started running GPU for Milky Way before I knew what was going on. All I knew was that I jumped from about 9,000 credits a day to 20,000 credits a day. I found the culprit and fixed it. No GPU processing on a laptop, due to the heat.

So, you know, if that one just took off on its own, I don't foresee any difficulty.

Thanks again.

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So, now just about three weeks in, I crossed 10 million credits.

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