agp card worth while ?

knowlesy · 18 May 2009 at 19:04

is their an agp card that would be worth while folding on ?

ChrissyT88 · 18 May 2009 at 20:03

I think only the AGP card that can fold on the current client is the ATI 3850 (or any of the 3xxx series and above, but i dont think there are many agp cards), and to be honest, its output is pretty dismal. At a guess it may do a few thousand ppd if you are lucky, but others may know more. I dont think it really justifies the cost unless you can find one cheap. I dont think nvidia do an AGP card that will fold, but it needs to be an 8 series or higher card to run CUDA. Sounds like a good excuse for an upgrade to me!

What sort of CPU have you got...? Folding on a quad/dual is pretty good for points and probably a better use of leccy than an AGP card.

knowlesy · 18 May 2009 at 20:04

amd 939 its just an old machine which ill be using for a home server

ChrissyT88 · 18 May 2009 at 20:12

An old 939 with a dualie should turn out a few points on windows or linux (particularly linux). Even with a single core, running the normal client will slowly build up the points, particularly if it is on 24/7 (and wont use too much power). As i said, the AGP 3850 will fold just fine, but its expensive and pretty slow compared to a cheap nvidia PCI-E card.

knowlesy · 18 May 2009 at 21:37

would you rekkon a pcie and new mobo would be worth while ? i need more sata ports in all honesty as i only have 2 on this board

didgemaster · 18 May 2009 at 23:15

knowlesy said:
would you rekkon a pcie and new mobo would be worth while ? i need more sata ports in all honesty as i only have 2 on this board

Depends on your budget - members market or the like to get some good bargains I have just replaced a broken 8800GT for £34 all in! and that will churn out 4K-5K a day - Of course its your time you have to consider with the change of hardware do you have the time to spare to rebuild of your server

knowlesy · 18 May 2009 at 23:36

didgemaster said:
Depends on your budget - members market or the like to get some good bargains I have just replaced a broken 8800GT for £34 all in! and that will churn out 4K-5K a day - Of course its your time you have to consider with the change of hardware do you have the time to spare to rebuild of your server

thats TOP !!!! thats not bad at all i think ill do that if i spot a bargin

thanks guys, yeah i have loads of time and with acronis you can back anything up to anything, i just have a basic image of all my progs installed etc and everything else is off the os hdd

thank god for freebies when companies give them out !!!