Best folding card for £100 (or less)

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Ok so I am soon to be turing my current rig into a folding box. The spec of my rig is as follows:-

6600 Quad (under water)
8800GT

I can currently put out around 10 - 11k ppd but I was looking into up grading the GPU but I don't want to spend to much in terms of money (as I have to try and save as much as possible for my new rig) so I was wanting to get some information on what is the best current folding card for around £100.
 
I was thinking that. If I was to up my budget to the 480 would I see a reasonable folding performance increase for the cash or should I just stick at a 460?

Also I have a ASUS P5Kc mobo would I see an increase in going SLI (not now but down the line in about a year)?
 
Might want to take/move this to the DC forum

Bittech graphs are a bit out of date. GTX460 ranges from around 11K to near 16K depending on work unit.

No better bang for the buck can be had on the GPU front.

But bear in mind, if you upgrade your rig to even a 2500/2600K you are looking at 30-40K from the CPU alone, which is better than you will get from any gpu alone and saves you a ton in leccy.

Of course you can always go CPU and GPU
 
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They change depending on what type of work unit stanford are handing out, i.e. what they want crunching with more priority. They tend to reward tougher work units with more bonus points, and that applies to GPU and CPU work. What you get with GPU's is the ability to run more than one in one boxen, but the detriment is that you get escalating power/cooling requirements that do not scale with the points returned. All this is just from my experience.

Of course other DC projects perform differently and reward differently because they are doing different types of science, on the BOINC platform there are even some science projects that give massive RAC (ppd) on AMD cards because they are stronger in floating point performance than nvidia cards.
 
I see I was askig about gpu's mainly following a bit-tech article saying that I would be better off build a gpu folding rig rather then a cpu rig. Also upping to a 2500k is a bit over my budget.
 
Nothing wrong with GPU's for folding, you still can get good return especially if you can't or don't want to upgrade your CPU/mobo/ram platform yet. I was just pointing out how its changed since bit-tech wrote that article, even the work units stanford send out have changed (i.e. more points) both for GPU's and CPU's and they continue to change all the time :)

So in answer to the original question:

GTS 450 for under £100 - don't even look at the GT640 its Kepler and is slower than the GTS450
GTX 460 for under £130
GTX 560Ti for under £150
GTX 560Ti 448 or GTX 570 for under £200

YOUR BASKET
1 x EVGA GeForce GTX 560Ti "448 Edition" Classified 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (012-P3-2068-KR) £199.99
1 x KFA2 GeForce GTX 570 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE NVIDIA GPU Keyring £199.99
1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 560Ti OC WindForce 2X 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £149.99
1 x EVGA GeForce GTX 460 Superclocked FTW 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (01G-P3-1363-KR) £124.99
1 x Gainward GeForce GTS 450 "Green Edition" 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £79.99
Total : £766.96 (includes shipping : £10.00).

 
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Nothing wrong with GPU's for folding, you still can get good return especially if you can't or don't want to upgrade your CPU/mobo/ram platform yet. I was just pointing out how its changed since bit-tech wrote that article, even the work units stanford send out have changed (i.e. more points) both for GPU's and CPU's and they continue to change all the time :)

So in answer to the original question:

GTS 450 for under £100 - don't even look at the GT640 its Kepler and is slower than the GTS450
GTX 460 for under £130
GTX 560Ti for under £150
GTX 560Ti 448 or GTX 570 for under £200

YOUR BASKET
1 x EVGA GeForce GTX 560Ti "448 Edition" Classified 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (012-P3-2068-KR) £199.99
1 x KFA2 GeForce GTX 570 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE NVIDIA GPU Keyring £199.99
1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 560Ti OC WindForce 2X 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £149.99
1 x EVGA GeForce GTX 460 Superclocked FTW 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (01G-P3-1363-KR) £124.99
1 x Gainward GeForce GTS 450 "Green Edition" 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £79.99
Total : £766.96 (includes shipping : £10.00).

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Thank you very much thats a great list you have provided, currently looking at possibly getting a 460 though just found out I'm out of money so I'll have to wait till my first pay check comes in. Lol
 
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