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**CL3P20** · 04-01-09

I fold with my modd'd 8800GS's and love them..I get ~4900PPD on average with each of them.. A 9600GT will never see PPD figures that high..not ever.

*My clock speeds for folding = 820mhz core/2052mhz shaders/ 1045mhz mem

omaryunus · 04-01-09

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Originally Posted by blupupher

Here are 2 8800GS for $68 each

Just PM'd him thanks alot for the link REP+

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Originally Posted by CL3P20

I fold with my modd'd 8800GS's and love them..I get ~4900PPD on average with each of them.. A 9600GT will never see PPD figures that high..not ever.

*My clock speeds for folding = 820mhz core/2052mhz shaders/ 1045mhz mem

mod'd as in how? volt mod'd? and wouldnt volt mod'd require WCing since it gets too hot? any info would be cool since I have one 9600GSO and now 3 8800GSs on their way

SSE4.1 · 04-01-09

Frys has PNY 9600GSOs for $50

CL3P2O's VMod instructions are here

omaryunus · 04-01-09

thanks for the link but rebates are no good for me since I live in Pakistan atm... they will reject the claim as soon as they see the postage

and thanks for the VMod link

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Maddog7771 · 04-01-09

It is just a rebranded 8800gs i have one and i like it for $60 you cant just might just build a folding farm with them

O and watch out some of the new ones have less stream processors

sreg0r · 04-01-09

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Originally Posted by omaryunus

9600GTs (estimated PPD = 4500 per card, 18k per system, 54k for all three)
PPD/$ = 36 PPD/$

9800GX2s ( estimated PPD = 12k per card, 48k per system, 144k for all three)
PPD/$ = 40 PPD/$

The GX2 is better but paying MORE than twice price its toooo much for me

Your figures aren't exactly accurate because you don't take into account the cost of all the other hardware. A single 4x9800gx2 box will be significantly cheaper than 3 4x9600's because you are saving money on 2 cases, cpus, motherboards, ram, power supply, hard drive, windows licenses, etc.

omaryunus · 04-01-09

@sreg0r

a case I dont need and as for the rest :

windows license I have from my dads office
hard drives I have a CRAP load of 80GB hdds which are enough for folding
ram are about $30 for 2 x 1GB so not a big problem
PSU is a slight problem but I would have to get 2 PSUs for the 4x 9800GX2s anyways
mobos are $100 each
I have one AMD AM2 cpu laying around here

so it really isnt THAT big of a jump and its still cheaper... 9800GX2s are AWESOME at folding its just that they are a MUCH bigger investment than I am willing to put in... and as I said it was too much for me I know it will be different for other ppl but for me 9800GX2s are uneconomical

EDIT: I got the two 8800GS so atm my inventory includes:

1 9600GSO
3 8800GS

thats one folding rig down 2 more to go

**CL3P20** · 04-01-09

I run my vmod'd GS's on air-cooling @ 735mhz core/1836mhz shaders/1009mhz mem.. average of 4100 PPD... the key to getting high PPD is raising the shader speeds.. keeping them as cool as possible will help you nail higher shader clocks.. but typically the 1836-1889 range is max with stock GPU voltage.

blupupher · 04-01-09

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Originally Posted by CL3P20

I run my vmod'd GS's on air-cooling @ 735mhz core/1836mhz shaders/1009mhz mem.. average of 4100 PPD... the key to getting high PPD is raising the shader speeds.. keeping them as cool as possible will help you nail higher shader clocks.. but typically the 1836-1889 range is max with stock GPU voltage.

Yea, I can only get to the 1836 strap, after that I start getting errors (even with temps < 70°C). I had even tried lowering my mem and core by 100 to see if that helped.

caraboose · 04-01-09

With the new 1888WUs I get around 4000 ppd, which is half of a GTX280 for about 400 bucks less.

Edit: both at stock clocks.

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