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cheapest nvidia card that supports CUDA?

tomos said:
sales? i called tech supp who said to fill in the RMA form. i've done that and the complaints form to clarify that i want a refund, not a replacement
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Sorry, I meant Tech Support. I was just wondering if you had contacted them to find out why it would happen.
Was it the card that was just crap?
 
who can say. i wont be plugging the thing back in though to find out if it's just a freak occurence.

waiting for a proper reply from them now
 
well, got my RMA number. will send it back tomorrow.

taken some pics of the damage if anyone wants to see
 
took these with my cam phone so very close pics are a little blurry. Seems that one of the pins for the connector on the graphics card has come off and is stuck inside the plastic. thank god it didn't take my mobo along with it!

i'll leave nvidia cards until they can do HDMI without extra cabling internally, like ATi can.

card in question


Burnt connector from graphics card - view 1


Burnt connector from graphics card - view 2
 
No offence mate but I can't for the life of me understand the logic in wanting to have 2x midrange graphics cards from totally different companies using different drivers, instead of 1 single higher end card??
 
either midrange card would do (for gaming). i want to have CUDA available so that left out ATi. i agreed to test some CUDA enabled programs for someone on doom9 (with the nvidia card being 2ndry to an ATi one). my plan in the end though was to sell the ATi card.

that's all moot now since unless i go back to the earlier plan of a dirt cheap nvidia card that cant be used for anything other than CUDA, it's ATi only for me from now on. That, or Nvidia sort themselves out and get a HDMI option that doesn't require additional cables that burn out like this one did. :o
 
as mentioned above any 8 series card will do the trick, i use neurons tools too to do the frame serving when im doing video encodes. works great on my 8600gt and 9600gso and my 8800gt.

also thanks to the new release of coreavc 1.9.5 today cuda accelerated hd decoding is working brilliantly.

for best results on the cheapo look for a 8400gs which uses the g98 core. that way you get vpu3 which is more powerful than the vpu 2 found in the 8800gt etc.
 
hmm, how wide is that card though? does it need a power connector?

i got that same email re: coreAVC. :)
 
No way an 8400gs needs a power connector. Power draw is only slightly more than half of what the PCI-e slot is rated for (40W vs 75W).
 
Cyber-Mav said:
as mentioned above any 8 series card will do the trick, i use neurons tools too to do the frame serving when im doing video encodes. works great on my 8600gt and 9600gso and my 8800gt.

also thanks to the new release of coreavc 1.9.5 today cuda accelerated hd decoding is working brilliantly.

for best results on the cheapo look for a 8400gs which uses the g98 core. that way you get vpu3 which is more powerful than the vpu 2 found in the 8800gt etc.
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Actually neither the 8800GTX nor the 8800GTS 320/640 support Pure Video 2. The G80 chips don't support it.
 
An 8400 won't be enough for Physx without slowdown - you need either an 8600GT and higher, or a 9500GT or higher.

My 9500GT does the trick just fine - I've only just finished playing Mirror's Edge, and hardly noticed any slowdown at all :)

If you need help setting up the nVidia card to do physx whilst using your ATI card as the primary, mail my trust email and I'll talk you through it :)
 
hiya mate, it's not for physx though. i just want to be able to mess around with CUDA if i can.
 
The 8400 is the cheapest you'll find for CUDA, but you may want to consider going slightly better. I recently acquired a pair of new 8600gts's, each under £30, from an auction site. That's about £10 more than the 8400gs for several times the performance. Plus the heatsink fell off the last 8400 I had, though I suspect that may have been something to do with me wedging it next to my 8800gtx, then taking off the fan because the noise annoyed me - I think I managed to melt the pins holding the heatsink in place :p
Thinking about it I don't even know if the card's dead, I just know it stopped working but that could be it turned itself off when it got too hot, and I haven't tried reattaching the heatsink. Anyone want a possibly working 8400gs? :D
 
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