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2nd Attempt at a GTX 285

A bit more than I wanted to pay but I was getting a bit fed up loosing them for the sakes of £10 or £15 so I upped my max bid and won it for £190.

They go for anywhere from £175 for a plane jane 285 to well over £220 for factory overclocked examples.

It's a shame that Abode didn't see fit to make CS5 work with ATI cards as I would prob get a 5850 or 70 but whatd'ya gonna do ? Sure as heck 'aint gonna buy a Quadro FX4800 or FX5800.

I'll get myself a water block now and clock the nuts of this baby.

Is there a utility to mess about with the card voltages.

I know about the EVGA Precision utility for tweaking clock speeds but from what I can see you don't get the option of messing with the votlages.
 
coupe69 said:
Very pricey :eek:

It's a pity you haven't got access to the mm, there's a Leadtek GTX 280 going for £130.
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OUCH the worst thing is that Pooh satisfies the requirements of entry.

250 posts and 3 months or 100 posts and 1 year. :(
 
Pooh said:
Is there a utility to mess about with the card voltages.

I know about the EVGA Precision utility for tweaking clock speeds but from what I can see you don't get the option of messing with the votlages.
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On the 55nm gtx 285 you cannot change the voltages apart from the ones defined in the bios. Only the older 65nm cards can like the gtx 280.
 
kylew said:
OUCH the worst thing is that Pooh satisfies the requirements of entry.

250 posts and 3 months or 100 posts and 1 year. :(
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I thought that was the case as well and I tried to get access but when you look at the FAQs it just mentions the 250 post limit.

Access to the Members Market forum requires two things. Firstly, you will need to have over 250 posts and have been signed up for at least 90 days.
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To be fair though I had the change of getting some 280s on the bay but wanted a 285.
 
khemist said:
I sold mine for £160 on mm.
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Without wanting to be overly rude - how does that help ?

You could have sold it for £10 for all the use that was to me. I still don't have access to MM.

Maybe you should have put it on the bay and made some more money - bit of a lost opportunity ??
 
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The reason I need a Nvidia GTX 285 is because of CUDA for the Mercury playback engine in Adobe Premier Pro CS5.

It doesn't matter that ATI cards are cheaper or the 280's go for less than 285s.

The list of supported Nvidia cards by Adobe is

GTX285 £ less than 200
FX4800 £ thousand +
FX5800 £ thousands

That's why I needed a 285

I was going to buy a 5850 until I saw wher Permier Pro was going with CUDA
 
Not with CS5 if you're looking for some of the new CUDA base accelerated effects.

See here

http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/performance/

Accelerated rendering
The Mercury Playback Engine doesn't just deliver blazing performance and a fluid editing experience. By more optimally using your entire system performance, it also accelerates rendering and encoding, reducing the time required to deliver content to your clients. The only thing we can’t help you decide is what to do with all of the free time you'll now have.

Mercury brings performance gains on all of the GPUs supported today in CS5. If you're upgrading your system today and want to get the most out of your configuration, the following graphics cards offer significant additional acceleration by the Mercury Playback Engine:

•GeForce GTX 285 (Windows and Mac OS)
•Quadro FX 3800 (Windows)
•Quadro FX 4800 (Windows and Mac OS)
•Quadro FX 5800 (Windows)
•Quadro CX
Adobe is planning to support additional cards in the future, including some of the new NVIDIA solutions based on the upcoming Fermi parallel computing architecture.
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