GTX 460s - Who is getting some for folding?

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Looking at the price and GFLOPs rating of the new GTX460 they look like they could be great value folding units. I know GFLOP isn't the b all and end all of PPD rates, but it at least looks promising.

Anyone planning on getting some? Would be interesting to see how the PPD stacks up against the 465 and 470.

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Biffa said:
It might be a bit of a nightmare as it seems a lot of companies are using different board designs. If there is a standard Nvidia board then there will probably be blocks for it.

But definitely this looks to be the next GTX260 for folding on. You'll have to overclock the nuts off it to catch a GTX470 and then power use starts to match the card you are trying to catch, but even highly overclocked its some 70W or so less :)

So yeah probably a great card as they removed stuff from the card not really used for folding/boinc.
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Yeah, very true. Although I'm sure some of the 800MHz factory OC versions will give the 470 a run for its money. Tempted to get a pair of EVGA standards and flash them to Superclocked vBios.

Hopefully HeX can give us some info if his card turns up today.
 
That is true, but price is the other factor. 800MHz factory clocked 460s are £200 where as stock 470s are £260+. Even if the 460s are slightly slower, they may still workout as the best ppd/£ cards.

Guess we need hard data, hopefully there will be some in the coming weeks.
 
Nice, can't wait to see what they can do.

edgedemon said:
3 x 460 = 1008 CUDA cores
2 x 470 = 896 CUDA cores
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Looks promising, cheapest pricing atm:

3 x 460 = £455.81
2 x 470 = £519.98

littlepuppy said:
Ordered 3 x 460's (MSI) as they have solid caps....
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Most do tbh. Palits do for example and they are the cheapest.

You using yours for Folding@Home littlepuppy, when they arrive?
 
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Which manufacturer was this?

Water does make the cards last longer, but if they have decent warranties it isn't a huge issue, bar the noise of course.
 
picnic said:
Does GPU memory quantity make a difference here, 1GB better than 768MB? I'm guess not for folding/seti stuff.
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I wouldn't of thought so, gaming performance is better on the 1024MB version as the memory bus is larger. The 768MB version has the same number of CUDA cores and clock speeds (the latter depending on OC ofc) so they should fold basically the same. I certainally can't see the extra price being reflected in folding performance, so stick to the 768MB and put any extra cash towards a factory overclocked one or the makes with longer warranties.

Biffa said:
So only for reference design cards.
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Some good news then, have to keep an eye on who is using reference designs as more reviews of individual cards come out.
 
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Looks like 3 x GTX 460 would be the better buy then over 2 x GTX 470. Similar PPD but the 460s are cheaper.

Did it state if those GTX 460s were at stock or overclocked Biffa?
 
Very nice, guess the only other considering factor is the energy consumption. From what I've read this is where it could fall down.

Furmark:

GTX470: 390 x 2 = 780w
GTX460: 304 x 3 = 912w

Approx 17% more

Another review stated (3DMark06):

GTX470: 341 x 2 = 682w
GTX460: 248 x 3 = 744w

Approx 9% more

These figures are using the 768MB card which consumes around 20-25w less.
 
Ok, worst case:

2 x GTX470

215W x 2 = 430w
430/1000 = 0.430*24 = 10.32KWh/day
10.32 * 365 = 3766.8
12p x 3766.8 = /100 = £452.02/year

3 x GTX460

150w x 3 = 450w
450/1000 = 0.450*24 = 10.8KWh/day
10.8 * 365 = 3942
12p x 3942 = /100 = £473.04/year

Approx 4.7% more expensive to run 3 x GTX460s than 2 x GTX470s

The prices, both the 12p per unit and the total price per year won't be accurate, it was using the maximum power-draw values from a review I found. But it does give some indication.
 
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I was really just trying to compare the cards on their own, ignoring the system but I guess you are right the values are too large.

Any idea where to get the correct single card values? Where did you get 155 and 232?

nVidia website states the GTX460 as Maximum Graphics Card Power (W) 160 W but doesn't state if that is 768 or 1024mb. Nothing on the 470 page though.
 
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Just noticed this one the Koolance website:

Jul 13, 2010
Cooling for NVIDIA's GTX 460 Coming Up
Koolance is currently working on a full coverage video block for the new NVIDIA GTX 460. Additional updates will be posted here when available.
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