cyclometric

I bought a used 9800GX2 in the For Sale section, naively thinking I could use it on my main machine, but unfoturnately that is not the case (according to EVGA it has to be an Nvidia chipset or an Intel P55 or X58 -- my 790X-UD4P just won't work, though I still find it hard to believe...)

Anyway, I am stuck with the GX2 (there are worse things to be stuck with, I know) so I am resolved to build a standalone folding-box. I'd like the minimal parts, to run a flash drive memory version of Linux or whatever on it. For hardware, I'd like the GX2 be the real guts of the machine, with minimal everything else, but I am not sure what the requirements are in terms of memory, CPU, PSU, etc.

Does anyone have any ideas on what I should get? I don't care what it looks like, so I was thinking a refurbished or used case would be an easy start, but what are the bare minimum requirements to run a GPU-folding-only machine? I'm hoping I could do this for under $200, or less, even, if possible. I have a spare hard drive, DVD and flash drive already, so I'm looking for help of figuring out the mobo, CPU, PSU, and memory.

Thanks!

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el gappo

it will work in your current motherboard. have you tried?

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AvgWhiteGuy

It'll work in your mobo, you just can't SLI another card with it.

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blupupher

You can't sli with your board, but you can fold on it with the GX2.

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cyclometric

Yes, I have. See thread. I gave up finally. But if you think it should work and might have some idea on how I can get it going, that'd be great, I'd love to give it another shot, and then I can return the GTX260 I bought to use instead!

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cyclometric

Will it fold for as many PPDs as if it were in SLI? And do you guys think I can get it going on a dual monitor setup, without crashing Windows 7 x64? That seemed to be the challenge, I never even got around to getting it folding. . .

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AvgWhiteGuy

You might uninstall the drivers, run a driver cleaner/sweeper, and reinstall them. Might fix the problem.

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AvgWhiteGuy

You can run multi nvidia GPU's on an ATI board as long as you're not looking for SLI. I run three 260's on my K9A2 Platinum with no issues.

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el gappo

you shouldn't fold in sli anyway...

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AvgWhiteGuy

You can fold in SLI, wouldn't recommend it but I'm just saying that you don't need SLI to fold on multi nvidia cards on an ATI chipset.

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