Good and bad news yesterday...
My manager resigned and was escorted off site straight away (normal policy)
So I went and found my trusty old desktop that he took off me to upgrade, and I also bought my 8800Gt in from home and it is crunching away merrily again
OK, I now need a gpu for my ancient home rig, Im going to scour the bay of E for a 2nd hand ati gpu as I want to finally start crunching MW on more than my CPU
The problem is that my machine is a dell, and that means 305W PSU, though the PSU is a good one and is rated for 36A on the two 12V rails. It was fine running my 8800GT for the last 3 yrs crunching seti..
So I need a 2nd hand ati card, that ideally will fit in the power limits I have ( 26 amps and maybe 105W total draw) Im basing those figures on the 8800GT that was in there, as I dont think I have much headroom above that..
What series should I be looking at, I think the 38xx are to old now, what about the 48xx or maybe a 5830, as the power draw should come down a bit with each generation? Im going to start googling and see what I can discover, just thought Id throw this out there to see what others think..
My manager resigned and was escorted off site straight away (normal policy)
So I went and found my trusty old desktop that he took off me to upgrade, and I also bought my 8800Gt in from home and it is crunching away merrily again
OK, I now need a gpu for my ancient home rig, Im going to scour the bay of E for a 2nd hand ati gpu as I want to finally start crunching MW on more than my CPU
The problem is that my machine is a dell, and that means 305W PSU, though the PSU is a good one and is rated for 36A on the two 12V rails. It was fine running my 8800GT for the last 3 yrs crunching seti..
So I need a 2nd hand ati card, that ideally will fit in the power limits I have ( 26 amps and maybe 105W total draw) Im basing those figures on the 8800GT that was in there, as I dont think I have much headroom above that..
What series should I be looking at, I think the 38xx are to old now, what about the 48xx or maybe a 5830, as the power draw should come down a bit with each generation? Im going to start googling and see what I can discover, just thought Id throw this out there to see what others think..
