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Old Feb 26, 2009, 08:53 PM   #1
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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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Old Feb 26, 2009, 08:54 PM   #2
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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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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.
Does folding also need all that bandwidth then? 3Dmark says nothing about folding.
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Does folding also need all that bandwidth then? 3Dmark says nothing about folding.
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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Old Feb 26, 2009, 09:02 PM   #6
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Does folding also need all that bandwidth then? 3Dmark says nothing about folding.
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.

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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.

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x8 slots have no affect on folding. X4 might, but I have no experience with that application.
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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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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?
He is gonna wish really hard for it
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I'm mainly asking out of curiosity, though it would be possible today.
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yes it does its rendering on the cards it uses the entire bandwidth
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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Old Feb 27, 2009, 04:10 AM   #15
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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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here...... 8 threads, 6gb, 8 gpu's...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...k=asrock%20x58

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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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One of those with seven water cooled GTX 285s would be absolutely astounding for PPD/hardware density!
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One of those with seven water cooled GTX 285s would be absolutely astounding for PPD/hardware density!
also 4 watercooled GTX295's would give 8 folding GPU's on that board..... nice.
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