GTS450

Biffa · 13 Oct 2010 at 11:43

Looks like overclocked these babies are pulling in 13-14K PPD, for around £100 and only 100W they might be worth switching your older 8800/9800/GTS250 type cards to. Run at 55°C under load as well which can't be bad.

No waterblocks so not for my main rigs, but looking good for any aircooled guys

Biffa · 13 Oct 2010 at 15:19

Yeah but the 450 can run GPU3 properly, also the 450 has 192 stream processors vs 128 on the 250.

Biffa · 14 Oct 2010 at 00:24

Make sure you run it with -advmethods and if folding on cpu as well assign it a core to the gpu

Biffa · 14 Oct 2010 at 08:40

I agree, you need to assign one thread on the cpu for one Fermi, with two that thread has to be a real core not a HT core, and with 4 you need two real cores.

Biffa · 14 Oct 2010 at 15:55

Linux has taken a bit of a back seat recently with lower points in A3 WU's and no bigadv ability because of a bug.

Biffa · 15 Oct 2010 at 12:36

I did notice the 430, its probably a good replacement also, but only 30 squid cheaper than the 450 I think unless I was on a REALLY tight budget I'd go for the 450 minimum.

Also with that tiny fan, overclocking it might get a bit noisy

Biffa · 18 Oct 2010 at 12:54

Nice one! Always better to get a model up

Biffa · 10 Nov 2010 at 18:23

Sweet! What Projects are they running?

HAve you set -advmethods on? That gives even more PPD

Biffa · 10 Nov 2010 at 19:31

No its where you put the command line arguments, think its the last tab, the Advanced tab, at the bottom where it says "Additional Client Parameters" put -advmetnods -verbosity 9