nolonger

So on the 9th I'm going to get my little brother a computer and upgrade my own. My initial plan was to get a 8800GT for him and a GTX 260 for me. Now I'm starting to take a look at prices and I could get two GTS 250's for the price of the 8800GT and the GTX 260. Another option is to get the GTX 260 and a 9600GSO. Which pair would lead to the most efficient folding?

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Daney

Most efficient folding?
9600GSO, 3 of them probably. So a GTX 260 and a 9600GSO would be great for folding.

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nolonger

I guess I could get three 9600GSO's for less than the price of a GTX 260 and a 9600GSO. Would that fold better? I could put two 9600GSO's in my computer, right? Even with the board being Crossfire.

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zodac

Yeah, if it's Crossfire you won't be able to SLI the cards, but you can use 2 of them in the same rig to fold no problem

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nolonger

Great! Now is it more PPD to have 3x 9600GSO's or 1x 9600GSO and 1x GTX 260? Would there be much of an increase in power consumption?

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zodac

9600GSOs get around 3.5-4k PPD. GTX 260 c216 can get around 8k PPD according to this chart:
http://www.overclock.net/overclock-n...iscussion.html

So it looks like a GTX 260 would be better (plus it's great for gaming ) but I'm not too sure about power consumption, so I'll let someone else asnwer that

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nolonger

Seems like I'll go with the 8800GT and GTX 260, best PPD for the money. Shouldn't be too expensive to keep these two setups running 24/7. Thank you for all the information!

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LuminatX

and remember you can always fold on your CPUs!!

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nolonger

Yea, already do, even though it's only 770PPD.

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goodolsen

I'm averaging over 8.5K PPD with my 2 9600GSO's running at a 1782 shader.

From the numbers I get and what I've seen the 260's get it might be about even between 3 9600GSO's and a 260 + 9600.

Also, the power consumption on the 9600's is pretty low, around 78W while folding 24/7.

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