R9 290 PPD in F@H ??

[Markfw]

I googled, but I don't trust it. What do you think ? I got it for $270

This is the card, a 290A not a 290X, there seems to be a difference.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150697

 

[Ken g6]

What don't you "trust"?

It's a regular 290, not a 290X. On one hand, 290s have a lot of shaders. On the other hand, they don't do double-precision well. Fortunately, I don't think that matters for F@H.

It's a good card. The price isn't the best I've seen, but it's not bad. A 970 would be better if you can find one for a decent price, and it would certainly use less electricity. But a 290's not bad.

 

[Markfw]

So whats the PPD, I actually haven't found it yet !

 

[kowalabearhugs]

Found this...

"The R9 290 GPU (GIGABYTE GV-R929OC-4GD Radeon R9 290 @ clock 1076 MHz) completed 6 WUs during the four days shown in the chart below. Average PPD = 151K PPD." via http://www.overclockers.com/forums/...-290-or-290X?p=7692559&viewfull=1#post7692559

 

[Pokey]

Mark,
My R9 290 gets in the neighborhood of 150,000 PPD depending on the project. Right now it is folding one of the 13000 proteins at 151,299 PPD. It is mildly OC'd.

I seem to never get the point production others get, but I am not a serious OCer either.

PS: The 290 and 290X are both Hawaii cores but they are configured differently, I know not how………… but the 290X appears to be the faster of the two.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Mark,
My R9 290 gets in the neighborhood of 150,000 PPD depending on the project. Right now it is folding one of the 13000 proteins at 151,299 PPD. It is mildly OC'd.

I seem to never get the point production others get, but I am not a serious OCer either.

PS: The 290 and 290X are both Hawaii cores but they are configured differently, I know not how………… but the 290X appears to be the faster of the two.

Wow, and back in the day, I thought the GTX460 1GB card was impressive with 12-16K PPD. (It replaced four 9600GSOs that had about the same output collectively.)

 

[Markfw]

so are those 290x or 290a gpu's ? I thought $270 for 150k would be great, if thats what I get.

 

[Pokey]

so are those 290x or 290a gpu's ? I thought $270 for 150k would be great, if thats what I get.

My card is simply a R9 290. Have not seen that designation before. I looked at the link and I think the A part is just part of XFX's model number. If you look at the next part of the description it is described as R9 290.

One other thing, I misspoke on PPD. The 150,000 is my stock output. With a mild OC, it is doing about 163,000 on a P13000 wu, fahcore x17.

 

[Plimogz]

That 'a' is just part of the XFX SKU; it's an R9 290 -- A Hawaii Pro by any other name would crunch as fast (as opposed to a Hawaii XT 290X, which would crunch slightly faster, but cost substantially more)

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These affordable 290s are making me want to upgrade my 7950s... Feels like about time.

 

[Markfw]

So, I got the card, but the drivers won't install. The people on the video forum are not much help. They say that because I run XP 32 bit I should upgrade my OS (works fine for nvidia)

Ideas ?

EDIT: supposedly it does not work with win XP, so I am SOL.

Damn AMD, never buy another,

 

[Pokey]

So, I got the card, but the drivers won't install. The people on the video forum are not much help. They say that because I run XP 32 bit I should upgrade my OS (works fine for nvidia)

Ideas ?

I'm running all Win 7 and I have not seen any posts re XP. It would not surprise me if the newer drivers do not work with XP.

But I did find out the AMD drivers can be "difficult". Have you run a display driver uninstaller like DDU to make sure all remains of the Nvidia drivers have been removed? If not, I would try that first.

 

[Markfw]

I'm running all Win 7 and I have not seen any posts re XP. It would not surprise me if the newer drivers do not work with XP.

But I did find out the AMD drivers can be "difficult". Have you run a display driver uninstaller like DDU to make sure all remains of the Nvidia drivers have been removed? If not, I would try that first.

The video forum raked me over the coals.... Its not supported in XP. but its hard to figure that out IMO.

So I do have a win7 box, but I have to setup F@H on it, and the cable is DVI-D only, so I had to order that. No more AMD cards for me. Down for at least another week.

See the roast here: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?p=36890758&posted=1#post36890758

 

[Pokey]

I only just got completely away from XP myself, but I like WIN 7.
I looked on AMD's driver site and the only thing I can suggest at this point is to try the auto-detect tool and see what it gives you.
I did find this statement though: "Another possible reason is that the graphics hardware or operating system has reached end of life and support has been discontinued." So you may have to go to a Windows 7 system to get it running. Just make sure you get the CCC 14.4 or later drivers. Also, if all you are doing is Folding (not gaming) I suggest doing a custom install and just select the drivers part of the package.