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I went to the dark side

filibusterman

filibusterman

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I had to bite on a cheep HD XFX XXX 5850. At the 270 range it beats anything i could find even close nvida has to offer. I still wish I didn't sell my 260 core 216 for so cheep now that their prices have skyrocked. I guess I will have to crunch projects that don't use CUDA so I don't feel guilty.

Maybe when I finish all of my games I can get a cheep fermi but with the proposed benches for that platform it looks like they are going to have to offer some dual core cards to beat ati.

I am here cpu heavy waiting for cheep crunching cards!!
 
I'm still on the fence. I'd like something cheap (<$100), fast, and low-power. As far as nVIDIA goes, a GT240 is the most efficient card I can find power-wise, but it has Linux driver issues. So, I hear, do most ATI cards. 🙁

If I could find clear Brook+ documentation and a Linux emulator, I would build a GPU app for PrimeGrid, and then I could decide on an even playing field. 🙂

As it is, I'm hoping nVIDIA prices come down when Fermi gets released, and I'm hoping that's by the end of this month.
 
milkyway and collatz conjecture are two good ati gpu crunchers... you should be able to get over 130kppd on either projects... it looks like collatz is paying out more... i'm still testing that theory.. I was getting over 300kppd with my 5870 and 5850 combined on collatz
 
I could never bring myself to buy an ATI again. Too many driver issues too many times. Never again will I go through that crap.
 
Fullmetal Chocobo said:
I could never bring myself to buy an ATI again. Too many driver issues too many times. Never again will I go through that crap.
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the drivers have been pretty good lately... in the last two years, I've only had problems with the 9.12 drivers

I've got both nvidia and ati... the nvidia 196.21 and the ati 10.2 drivers have both been good for me... i was lucky in that i missed nvidia's recent driver fiasco... i would have probably fried half my cards.. i do have two cards that are on water.. so i wouldn't have effected those
 
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I'm still using the beta 196.34 drivers which don't seem to overheat my 9800 gt at the moment but it is the low power one that doesn't use the p6 power connector. It may be ken that I saw post instructions on how to install CUDA drivers on Linix but that was a bit over my head for my lazy butt to research. Once i get my ati card I may have to shift the 9800 over to ubuntu and will have to reconsider!

dajeepster, thanks for the suggestions with regard to good crunching projects for ati cards!
 
I've installed the CUDA SDK. I have only an Intel graphics chip (and a GeForce 6100 on another machine), and I really have no idea about CUDA drivers.
 
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