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Indeed a good question. The 6811's are not to fond of the OC'ed 768 version of the 460 GPU's but I (and many others) had the same problem on a 1 GB OC'ed 450 so my guess it is more down to the stress on the GPU then the amount of memory. I do not buy a 480/580 just to fold, then rather upgrade the CPU to a hex and stop GPU folding.

The GTS 450 is only 128 bit, which actually makes me want to know the answer to my question all the more. Memory bandwidth did not seem to make that much difference with the cards before the 400 series. I'm just wondering if it does now, or at least with the big WU's.
 
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Gary, it looks like your HFM is configured to show the program authors stats in the bottom of the window, this is why your name on each of the clients is yellow. You can go into Preferences->Web Settings and input your information so your clients aren't highlighted and the bottom bar shows your stats.

Thanks bro... i also had a 460 showing up as (0) under my user name and checked the client and found i was folding anonymously on that gpu:banghead: But, it's worked out now and my production should be up!:rockout:
 
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The GTS 450 is only 128 bit, which actually makes me want to know the answer to my question all the more. Memory bandwidth did not seem to make that much difference with the cards before the 400 series. I'm just wondering if it does now, or at least with the big WU's.

450s are nice folding cards imo

and now that the 512mb is out its even cheaper lol :D
 

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111frodon is putting some nice points on the board today. Congrats on the -bigadv.

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Just bought a nice open box k9a2 platinum... 115$, and newegg.ca had a phenom 940 black for 99$!!! Seems like i'm gonna need some gpus... Only 4 cards now, and 7 pci-e slot to fill (x58 sli+k9a2)... Someone willing to give a hand?
 
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and now that the 512mb is out its even cheaper lol
They are coming out with a 512mb version of the gts450?
 
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well atleast in denmark they are lol

Gainward
and Zotac both has 512MB versions here that is 25-40% cheaper than the 1gb
 
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Gainward and Zotac both has 512MB versions here that is 25-40% cheaper than the 1gb

Ok thats cool I would like to see some folding results on those cards..
 
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Dammit, I haven't been on my PC much so I didn't notice till last night. I had my 5870 shut down for a few days. My sig is updated with what my folders/crunchers will be like when everything is up. So far I still have the 295/8800/5870 folding. Once I am able to get the PC's up and running it'll be what is in my sig which should result in more PPD and enough for my "crazy folders" badge. :)
 
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:( Having some issues with my new dedicated folder... Gunna be out of the points for a day or two. Always hated nVidia chipsets.
 
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Ok thats cool I would like to see some folding results on those cards..

if all goes well ill get one of them next month along with 2x275s

btw, any change of you showing that dimastech bench?

im gonna get it the 1st, but would love to see yours :D
 
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btw, any change of you showing that dimastech bench?
Sure I will take pics when I get home.
 
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Here are a few pics of the Dimas tech bench. Got 3 video cards installed in it now on a Gigabyte UD3R board i7 960 @ 4.2GHZ 12GB of GSkill tridents 2000mhz. The 480 is watercooled, the Asus GTS450, Zotac GTX460 all folding 24/7. Also here is a crappy pic of the speeds the 480 is running now. Got it stable @ 850/1700/1850 on 1.025Volts. Temps never get above 45C on the 480. The Zotac is the hottest running card out of the three and it gets up to between 54c to 61c depending on the WU it's running.
With all three cards running folding@home and the cpu doing SMP no -bigadv this rig puts out 45,000 PPD depending on the WU's it gets. I shut off the -bigadv because it would not get a WU. Going to turn it back on during the holidays.


Edit: got 2 samsung 1TB drives in Raid-0 and 1 samsung 1.5TB for backup.
 

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that is very nice, im gonna get one when i get money the 1st, just wanted to see it from a real person rather than a review

ill be doing water on mine aswell, should be fun :D
 
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Well, bad news guys. Seems this EVGA 750i FTW doesn't want to recognise my HDD... I've searched and i have two choices:

- Get an Asus, Gigabyte or DFI board with 2 or more PCI-E slots and intel chipset
or
- Figure this one out

Anyone who thinks they can help, this is pretty much the story:

Just got one of these for a dedicated folder and i've run into a pretty major issue. I've decided to use my 'Media' drive as an OS drive aswell as storage, so i partitioned it to 40GB/650GB in my main PC. Then i removed it and attached it to my new build. Booted and it can't see the drive. I check the drive and it's spinning.

Read up on this and there seems to be an issue surrounding the SATA ports on this particular board? So, i thought i'd try flash it. Downloaded the latest drivers from EVGA and put them on a freshly formatted USB.

Booted again, but holding ALT+F2 and it looks for drivers, but can't see them...

Anything i'm doing wrong?
 
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what are you trying to flash... you mean updating the bios? Check the usb format and see what format the board requires

Is your bios seeing the hdd?
 
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that is very nice, im gonna get one when i get money the 1st, just wanted to see it from a real person rather than a review
ill be doing water on mine aswell, should be fun
I like mine because its easy to work on. I got an Enermax Revolution 1000 watt PSU in it and it will run anything I decide to put in it. The water setup is easy to do since its all outside of the case. I have a 4/120mm fan dual pass rad setup cooling the heatkiller block and a koollance waterblock on the 480. with a swiftech variable speed pump. Great setup and will play any game out there today @ good FPS NP.
 
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what are you trying to flash... you mean updating the bios? Check the usb format and see what format the board requires

Is your bios seeing the hdd?

Nope, cant see it no matter what SATA port i put it in. And yea, apparently i should flash it, but im not sure ho with these older boards and no Floppy.
 
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And yea, apparently i should flash it, but im not sure ho with these older boards and no Floppy

you can use your usb stick like a "floppy" make sure your stick is Fat32... does your board have an onboard flash utility? If not then you will have to get all the program(s) to flash it... check with evga and see how they flash bios... I'm gonna google this and try to find out too.
 
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Gosh Tex. How many is that for you now? Just seen you picked up another one. I see all lol.
 

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well friends,

today as i round out my 5mil stone i regret to inform you of some not so great news,

after 2 months of struggling with a plethora of personal and financial difficulties i am forced to sell off all but my main computer.

i am very sad to do this because PCs are something i love a great bit but i suppose its time to move on.

this doesnt mean you wont see me around here offering up my help but after i sell everything off i wont be around too much for a while.

im glad that i contributed what i could and someday i will be back again, you can count on it.

much respect to everyone :toast:
 
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