Gtx 295?

[Lowrez]

When are you gonna start folding there Yukon?

[YukonTrooper]

When are you gonna start folding there Yukon?

What's up, buddy? How's Blitz? I've been out of the loop for awhile now. I'm doin' the full-time student/part-time employee grind. It hurts some days. I still get on the forums, though.

Anyways, I'm crunching for Team Canada right now. I'm thinking about coming over to Xtreme and offering up some cycles. I'll probably keep my GPU on SETI@Home Beta and dedicated my Nehalem to WCG or something.

What are you running these days?

[Kondik]

Basically , I'll give my short review based on 1 Week experience with Quad SLI or Dual GTX 295

Stock ASUS models. Very good cards, the person that put the exhaust on the top was a moron. If it blowed the air from the front, it would be amazing.

Quad Sli in W7 impossible, that's not Microsluttering , that's LeapFrameFroggin' , folding is fine if you have enough dummy plugs, which I don't have.
The -gpu 2 Client usually finds it funny and folds on the same GPU as -gpu 1 client, briliant.

As for the OC , is not worth it, the card is fast as hell everywhere.

Don't Stick the two GTX 295 together without at least 2 cm gap between them. I was using it on eVGA X58 and I had to move the 2nd GTX 295 to the 5th slot instead of 3rd , because i was looking at three digit temps [ celsia ] . As they were positioned in slots 1 and 5 , temps fall down to mid 70's ~ 80's

Gaming is fun if the Game supports it fully ... Crysis Warhead was a charm ... 1920*1200 4x AA 16x AF 50 ~ 60 FPS stable
Prince of Persia ... boy that was a pixelated crack ... sync issues like hell.

All issues Are simply driver based, I tried 3 drivers some problems went away new occured.

The technology is great but the drivers are immature, SLI is fine Tri SLI is fine Quad SLI = I felt like nvidia Betatester.

But for 3Dmarks is fine, I presume noone buys dual GTX 295 just for the fun of it ... like me

I'm going to refund both cards and grab me a nice pair of eVGA GTX 285

[p2501]

Why are you also refunding the second card? More framebuffer? Or bc you can run SLI on 285 on other drivers?

[nebj00la]

I just replaced my XFX GTX295 with an EVGA GTX295. I was getting too many NaN's on the XFX (on one particular GPU), and the screen was flickering while using photoshop.

I'll keep everyone posted.

[Kondik]

Why are you also refunding the second card? More framebuffer? Or bc you can run SLI on 285 on other drivers?

Nah , I returned both GTX's and got me a nice pair of EVGA GTX285 , they are SUPER silent , fan on 60% and 80 degrees ! You can barely hear them.
+ More Framebuffer + More Rops + Eats much less.

May I present you ... Dual 240 SP eVGA solution

http://www.ninjutsu.tym.cz/gtx285.jpg

[p2501]

I just replaced my XFX GTX295 with an EVGA GTX295. I was getting too many NaN's on the XFX (on one particular GPU), and the screen was flickering while using photoshop.

I'll keep everyone posted.

You do that, I hope I don't get the same problems. Though they say all good things go by three, don't they?! Maybe I will need to try a third card, who knows.

Nah , I returned both GTX's and got me a nice pair of EVGA GTX285 , they are SUPER silent , fan on 60% and 80 degrees ! You can barely hear them.
+ More Framebuffer + More Rops + Eats much less.

May I present you ... Dual 240 SP eVGA solution

http://www.ninjutsu.tym.cz/gtx285.jpg

Holy PPD galore! 80 degrees with these clocks also sound reasonable, don't they? Congrats man!
It's possible to reach 89something on the 295, but 92something?! We'll see!

[Kondik]

Holy PPD galore! 80 degrees with these clocks also sound reasonable, don't they? Congrats man!
It's possible to reach 89something on the 295, but 92something?! We'll see!

You bet ... and EVGA releases new OC utility soon able to Add Volts directly to the deepest core of the VGA ... anyone care to see 480 Shaders on 1850 MHz ?


That would be epic .... Download a WU chew for 30 minutes and spit
Chew and spit chew and spit ... I'm getting into this

[skycrane]

i hope these 295 dont go the way of the 9600gso i had a month or so of great folding to do, then BAM !! we get these monster WU and the gso sucks now.....

[Kondik]

Sky you know G200 are the Cherry on the top of the cake , eventhrough it's just polished and refurbished G80 it still rocks because it's huge & massive [ Do i smell Russia ? ] + complex ... and when Complex WU's come the low end cards die more rapidly than the complex hot expensive bastards. And GTX 295 is just slightli crippled GTX 280 so it can ulneash the full power and bite in the hard ass WU's ... but the weaker cards can't because their teeth are to small to penetrate the "orange peel" ass

If they came up with WU's that even the G200 series would chew hard ... ati is doomed

[p2501]

i hope these 295 dont go the way of the 9600gso i had a month or so of great folding to do, then BAM !! we get these monster WU and the gso sucks now.....

Don't fear, these 295's have a lot in them. On air with shaders bumped to 154something (didn't write it down before refund) you get around 6500PPD for one part of the card. So I think 13K PPD for one card both big WUs is still something.

Tomorrow, with a little bit of luck, I'll get my XFX + new PSU, so I'll start playing with it then. Let's see if this card will see shaders at 1600-1700 on air. RT soft volt mod FTW.

[tool_462]

Nice! Over 9k per card

[Kondik]

And the sad part is , they Aren't even OCed

[skycrane]

Don't fear, these 295's have a lot in them. On air with shaders bumped to 154something (didn't write it down before refund) you get around 6500PPD for one part of the card. So I think 13K PPD for one card both big WUs is still something.

Tomorrow, with a little bit of luck, I'll get my XFX + new PSU, so I'll start playing with it then. Let's see if this card will see shaders at 1600-1700 on air. RT soft volt mod FTW.

hell, thats why i got the 9800gx2, it was running 14kppd on the old wu's, now it sucks at about 5kppd

[coo-coo-clocker]

May I present you ... Dual 240 SP eVGA solution

http://www.ninjutsu.tym.cz/gtx285.jpg

HOLY UBER FOLDING CARD!

[p2501]

hell, thats why i got the 9800gx2, it was running 14kppd on the old wu's, now it sucks at about 5kppd

If it'll last a year before they release 1k-pointers or more then I'm lucky. I'm not planning long term here, I just like this card because it can do what I want it to, NOW. It's shines at folding atm, and it will be able to run StarCraft2 and Diablo3. That's what I want. Why should I think about a non-existent card for nonexistent WUs? There's no "last week" here.

[Kondik]

The funny thing is that the sandwitch solution GX2 wen't down but because of the low amount [ relatively ] of shaders, GTX 295 is a full proper Wu Grinder of Fah [ The ol' god of Wu's ] 240 * 2 shaders and folding doesn't give a flying f .... about ROP's
and it's viable for gaming also and easy to work with ... want to fold ? Nvidia Control Panel Disable SLI ... [ If you have only one card ] as I had it before http://www.ninjutsu.tym.cz/nuevo/Photo068.jpg it neede a little more work but still good ... the only downside on the QUAD solutin is it sucks at games that's why I throwed it out of the window ...

But Still one GTX 295 chews everything like marshmallows [ that yucky sticky candy ]

+ The new cards will come around Q4 09 or Q1 10 so until then GTX 295 will be the hammers of DNA blacksmiths
ATI is not attractive to ol' FAH so I don't even consider those. I'll have my dual 285 solution for Gaming until the new GT 300 series comes out ...

The i7's are the way to go to feed these hungry GPU's for gaming and for folding it doesn't matter , someone that only folds and has an eVGA 3 SLI or other 3 SLI capable board and buys 3 GTX's 295 doesn't really need to occupy the CPU with a client

For Gaming reasons is overkill but this is XS mofos ! Bigger , Better , Stronger , Faster .... Electric Bills

[skycrane]

i like the way you think... lol

[p2501]

It's Christmas again here, for the second time this year!



Things to note:

- that Antec PSU is one nasty heavy mofo, it's dead silent and it makes two or three clicking noises on start-up very much like expensive HiFi amps - me likes (review)

- either it is the mighty clean voltage that new PSU supplies (on the old PSU I had 4 adapters on the 8-pin plug ) or the card itself, but this new 295 is a _whole lot_ less noisy concerning whining and squealing

Clocks? We'll see, I will post here on my findings. At least it's up and running. Now I'm only missing water.

[Xello]

Don't Stick the two GTX 295 together without at least 2 cm gap between them

Was that during 100% load, folding or whatever?

Mine are practically touching and i haven't seen the hottest one go over 79c, which it reaches after half an hour or so on Crysis.

[Kondik]

Was that during 100% load, folding or whatever?

Mine are practically touching and i haven't seen the hottest one go over 79c, which it reaches after half an hour or so on Crysis.

In vantage when they were 'glued' together they hit 100 c + :/ but still I had Gaming issues and they went out of the case ... and in the Q4 I'll grab myself a G300 *getting wet*

[Xello]

In vantage when they were 'glued' together they hit 100 c + :/ but still I had Gaming issues and they went out of the case ... and in the Q4 I'll grab myself a G300 *getting wet*

You're the third person to report huge temps like that in the past few days, i must have 4 really good cores... I'm going to record some vantage temps in rivatuner just to double check this.

[p2501]

Okay, the card is behaves like it should. It's folding at 684/1512/1215 for 14 hours straight without any error. And both GPU are really close this time, go one step further on both and they start with NaN's. Before giving it a little more juice I think I'll let it settle a bit at these mighty fine clocks. Good thing I changed to XFX.

[Kondik]

You're the third person to report huge temps like that in the past few days, i must have 4 really good cores... I'm going to record some vantage temps in rivatuner just to double check this.

Well after I put the bottom card to the slot 5 instead of 3 the temps went down by 25 degrees ... But yes if yous are fine and others arent ... dark magic or just better cores ... lucky man

[p2501]

Question concerning the bundled FarCry 2 I've got with the card: what's with this pain-in-the-ass-DRM? Is there a way to get rid of it or install the game without it? I'd like to try it but certainly not when it practically installs a rootkit on my system.

Crysis part one has no rootkit, right?

Did I mention already btw? F$ck DRM! I'm considering this a corporate crime (if that word even exists) to be trying to invade my system with something I PAID FOR. Everyone who was part of inventing and implementing this in games should seriously go die off in the basement, morons.

Edit: Okay, now for something more on topic. Dunno if it's stable yet, but..



6800PPD for an 511 pointer: