Originally Posted by rpm666  Folding easy? Crazy person! 
If you sold all of your current cards and replaced them with 9800GX2's I think you would just be running in circles. Sell two 5000PPD cards for one 10,000 PPD card that probably pulls as much power if not more? Seems like a lot of hassle for the same return. Unless I'm just completely wrong. |
Originally Posted by markt 2 gx2's would have double the return, wouldn't it? Also would make 2 slot mobo get the points of a 4 slot without having to buy psu ram cpu etc.I'm not doing it withou expecting to pay for the up grade. |
Originally Posted by rpm666 Ok, I read right over that - I thought you had said 4 slots on each board - so the GX2 would actually block a slot. But, if it's only two per board then you should probably go visit the for sale section.
Sorry about that. |
Originally Posted by markt Its alright, i just want to know if its a hassle getting both cores to do an instance of gpu. 
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Originally Posted by rpm666 I've read it's not as big of a hassle as one might think. Just disable SLI, dummy plug each DVI port that doesn't have a monitor in it, extend the desktop to each and set the appropriate -gpu 0/-gpu 1/-gpu 2/-gpu 3 flags for each card. |
Originally Posted by Sub1!me QTF. Folding on a GX2 is just like folding on two single-gpu cards in one machine, just make sure SLI is disabled and they are dummy plugged. I've since stopped folding on both my GPU cores and am only using one right now, but i can tell you that it wasn't too hard to setup. with my current overclock at 692 core, and linked shader, each of my GPUs on my card do 6000+ppd (only using one right now though, as i have SLI enabled), about 5500 PPD stock clocks(600 core). I saw a couple used ones going for around the 200-225us on e-bay a little while ago, so that could be a good deal if you wanted to go that route. That said, the 9800GTX+'s will out ppd them, but not by too much. But if you want to get 4 GPUs folding in your 2 slot rig, setting up a couple GX2's shouldn't be too hard, and should produce some nice PPD. |
Originally Posted by markt Attachment 87733 Attachment 87734 I went ahead and got it, 1 machine. 4 cards |
Originally Posted by markt Attachment 87733 Attachment 87734 I went ahead and got it, 1 machine. 4 cards |
Originally Posted by iandroo888 ah thx thx whats better? 8800GS or 9600GSO? considering the 8800GS and 9600GSO are the same price according to that site, i may go towards the 9600GSO because it has a bigger heatsink so i can turn the fan low making it quiet. |
