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After seeing the PPD that some of you are getting with nVidia's latest generation, would it be safe to say that a 100K PPD machine is possible? Could max out on clients with eight GTX 295's!
My question is, would having a high-end card in an x4 or x1 slot degrade performance noticeably? |
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yes putting them in an X4 or X1 slot kills them it has since the 8 series
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Yes it would. See fitseries machine thread. A 16X to 8X made 3dm vantage went down 1000 points. If it went to x1 then probably will bottleneck up to 5000points.
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No but i'm just trying to point out that putting it in a 4x/1x will degrade performance a lot.
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yes it does its rendering on the cards it uses the entire bandwidth
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I was hoping that with the number of boards out there with an x16/x4 or x16/x1 configuration, someone here had experienced a drop in points, and if so, how much?
My thought was that the behavior of the Folding client was different than that of a game and might not require a full x16 slot to keep pace. Thanks for the replies so far. |
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Guys unless you know for a fact you should not post. You can run any card 4X for Folding without any hit in performance.
However for benching and gaming that is not the case. I know this for a fact. |
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Ok, you can max out on cores with 8 295's, but where are you going to find a board with 8 PCI-E slots, regardless of speed? Maybe a server board, I guess, do any exist?
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my dream folding rig as of now would include eVGA x58 core i7 965 3x GTX 285's 3gb DDR3 1066 o.c. to 2GHz
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I'm mainly asking out of curiosity, though it would be possible today.
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F@H doesn't move large chunks of data (like 3D apps move texture and mesh data). We're back to that old argument where PCI "bottlenecks" an Ageia PhysX card.
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There is one thing people seem to forget, pcie 2.0 is double the bandwidth of pcie 1.
So with a chipset that allow only 8x/8x for crossfire its still 16x... |
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hey fits whats with the extra mounting hardware? dosn't the dark night come with aretention bracket and bolts?
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DK doesnt come with 1366 mounts.
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oh ok i see, goodthing i said somehing and you corrected me i would have been enraged if i were to order this before hand! i plan on this the 3gb DDR3 1066MHz the eVGA x58 and a 920 in late march
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Like Cyber said, F@H only uses the GPU to crunch numbers. PCI-E bandwidth plays no part in this. So you could have PCI 8*** cards crunching and it wouldnt matter. Just more ppd for you.
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HOLY CRAP!
you better believe im getting one of these!
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HOLY SHHHHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEE!
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One of those with seven water cooled GTX 285s would be absolutely astounding for PPD/hardware density!
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also 4 watercooled GTX295's would give 8 folding GPU's on that board..... nice.
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