View Full Version : Crunchy GPU advice needed.
As posted in another thread.
Greetings XS crew :)
Thinking of getting a GPU for crunching and was wondering which series would be the best value?
I know the final choice would be somewhat project-dependent so I would be grateful if you could advise as to which models to consider from both camps.
It will be yet another addition to my credit card debt so looking for VALUE, lower end to midrange......not the £400 monsters :D
So guys (and Patty :p: ), what is the best crunching bang per buck in the GPU department?
Feedback much appreciated.
P.S. I am also allowing for psu upgrade if needed.
Help me hunt down The [H]orde :D
Addendum: I figured it was more relevant to post in this section.
Bedtime bump.
Crunching time's a wastin' :D
$SOLID$ Necro
10-20-2009, 07:21 PM
NVIDA usually does better then ATI because the folding program was optimised slightly better on them, so on a budget I would go with a GTS250or GTX260 :up:
Naja002
10-20-2009, 09:56 PM
As posted in another thread.
Greetings XS crew :)
Thinking of getting a GPU for crunching and was wondering which series would be the best value?
I know the final choice would be somewhat project-dependent so I would be grateful if you could advise as to which models to consider from both camps.
It will be yet another addition to my credit card debt so looking for VALUE, lower end to midrange......not the £400 monsters :D
So guys (and Patty :p: ), what is the best crunching bang per buck in the GPU department?
Feedback much appreciated.
P.S. I am also allowing for psu upgrade if needed.
Help me hunt down The [H]orde :D
Addendum: I figured it was more relevant to post in this section.
I'm sorry to hear about your family's loss....I read your thread on the WCG forum, so I assume that you are interested in a project that will offer some benefit to the medical community (as opposed to math, astronomy, etc).
Right now the only one that I am aware of is GpuGrid (http://www.gpugrid.net/index.php)...and it's currently Nvidia only.
Based on that, I believe that the 260 and 275 are currently the best bang-for-buck cards right now. :up:
:welcome:
Chumbucket843
10-21-2009, 11:42 AM
i wouldnt buy a 260. thats the card everyone has problems with and i also have this problem. it even says so on their home page.
OldChap
10-21-2009, 12:18 PM
Lower to midrange? could you put some numbers on what you are willing to spend?....There are often members selling, is that something you'd be interested in? An overclocked gts250 will do maybe 5500ppd folding a 260 192 maybe a thousand more depending on wu. if you are only running these (1 or 2) the cost of a psu can be reasonable but as you go to 3 cards and or bigger cards then psu's get expensive too
I can only offer these numbers as a guide as they are all I have used and then only folding you might get some detailed info from Dak who has run this kind of cards on gpugrid too.
At the top end a 295 will do 36k ppd on gpugrid in my experience, but as has been mentioned my 260's don't work on grid
glennpat
10-22-2009, 01:48 PM
If you like Boinc points with an ATI HD 4850 on Milkway you get about 80,000 points per day. I have it on a Q6600 and with the GPU and CPU under load the boxs takes a total of 240 watts. I have MSI R4850-2D1G OC which after rebate is $105 right now. I have had it for a little over a week. I plan on buying another HD 4850 when I see a good deal.
I have a GTX 260 on GPU Grid and if I remember right it was taking a lot more watts.
jcool
10-22-2009, 02:04 PM
Yeah, Milkyway is crazy on ATI GPUs, my 5870 generates like 200k BOINC alone, lol. I just run that project because there's no other (comfortable) use for them... so if you wanna crunch for medicine get an NV, like everyone said it's GTS 250 ir GTX 275 for hassle-free and comfortable GPUGrid crunching.
Renemity73
11-14-2009, 08:24 AM
Are you able to run the gpu client on a quad core rig with the cpu already running the smp client?