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ATI SETI performance V Nvidia ???

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Guys

Wondering if someone has tried SETI crunching with a 5850 or the likes. I've been Nvidia for years now and am thinking of upgrading from my 8800gt to a gtx285. The 5850 seems like a more future proof card but I don't have any ATI experience of SETI or F@H.

I do use the gpu acceleration in photoshop and I know it works with Nvidia. Again any ATI users using gpu inn photoshop.

Thanks
 
For F@H the nVidia cards are the better ones, for SETI, I don't know, but I'd assume it'd be the same as the F@H situation.

For photoshop, it uses OpenGL, so it doesn't matter what brand you have, I've got 4850s and Photoshop GPU acceleration works fine for me.
 
Seti doesn't run on ATi cards yet, there was a beta hybrid project that ran some part of Astropulse WU's on the GPU but it was still 75% CPU.

On BOINC Milkyway@Home and Collatz run on Ati GPU's oh and folding@Home.
 
Hey, I don't mean to hi-jack this thread but for your gpu to help in photoshop do you need to do something/install anything or is it automatic?
I've got a h4670:$ if that matters? and i realise how silly this question probably is..
cheers xx
 
crisbduck said:
Hey, I don't mean to hi-jack this thread but for your gpu to help in photoshop do you need to do something/install anything or is it automatic?
I've got a h4670:$ if that matters? and i realise how silly this question probably is..
cheers xx
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Automatic providing you've got CS4.
 
You need to go to the performance section of preferences and make sure the Enable OpenGL Drawing is checked
 
Pooh said:
You need to go to the performance section of preferences and make sure the Enable OpenGL Drawing is checked
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Odd, a popup message asked me if I wanted to enable OpenGL drawing when I first started CS4.
 
It should do it automatically but I found out over the years to take nothing for granted.

It's a very quick check.

You can run into problems if you're opening a lot of images at once and you've enabled the option.

I did disable mine for a while.
 
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