1090T drop in upgrade

[Bradtech519]

Thinking of getting two more cores going.. Might go ahead and sell the 965BE to make up some costs.. Along with going to linux 64bit for crunching. Think I will see a decent little pump in SIMAP etc? I got a quad core Xeon running right now and my home rig shut off to order something with better airflow. My Maxtop Signature series was great a great design in the old days of Athlon XPs and early A64s.. Not so much now with beast GPUs generating heat. Well with my zalman on my 5850 my cpu idles hotter than my cpu now :lol

 

[Sunny129]

i'm kinda in the same shoes as you right now, only i'm in no hurry to make the switch...i have a 965BE in one rig and a 1090T in another. i also want to add another GPU (or 2 or 3 :biggrin to my distributed computing repertoire. and so i think my 4-core rig could use the extra 2 cores. while i know it would help w/ my MW@H, S@H, and E@H GPU crunching (as well as give my CPU tasks an obvious boost), i have no idea what it'll do for your SIMAP tasks...particularly b/c you'll be using 64-bit Linux, and i'm only familiar with 32-bit WinXP Pro. ones things for sure though - going from a 965BE to a 1090T won't slow things down from a distributed computing perspective. i say go for it.

 

[Bradtech519]

i'm kinda in the same shoes as you right now, only i'm in no hurry to make the switch...i have a 965BE in one rig and a 1090T in another. i also want to add another GPU (or 2 or 3 :biggrin to my distributed computing repertoire. and so i think my 4-core rig could use the extra 2 cores. while i know it would help w/ my MW@H, S@H, and E@H GPU crunching (as well as give my CPU tasks an obvious boost), i have no idea what it'll do for your SIMAP tasks...particularly b/c you'll be using 64-bit Linux, and i'm only familiar with 32-bit WinXP Pro. ones things for sure though - going from a 965BE to a 1090T won't slow things down from a distributed computing perspective. i say go for it.

Yeah, I'm on a 790X chipset currently. So I don't think I'd get an advantage of the Turboclock or whatever it's called on the 1100T where it will jump from 3.3 to 3.7 Ghz.. I could just OC the 1090T and be done with it and save some cash. I figure the 965BE will go for 110-130 on ebay. So I'll be out around 50-60 bucks for two new cores. Not bad considering I used to be out a lot more just to get a speed bump on one.

 

[Sunny129]

don't worry about Turbo Core or whatever its called...its overrated. you're better off just disabling it and overclocking all the cores at once to a constantly OC'ed frequency (as opposed to the temporary, short bursts of OC's here and there that Tubro Core would give you). the 1090T should be good for a constant 3.7GHz OC on the stock voltage anyways...