How good are the budget GPUs?

JamesM · 27 Sep 2012 at 09:21

How good are the budget GPUs at crunching the numbers?

For SETI@Home so i'm talking Nvidia here.. Like the GT630, GT640, GTX 650, 550.

Is the 560Ti-448 a decent cruncher as they can be had for £150 at the moment

Biffa · 27 Sep 2012 at 17:20

Better with the 560 series than anything under a 660 in the new series

JamesM · 28 Sep 2012 at 09:28

Ok cheers, will look into that.

Out of interest I seem to be having issues with bonic in that sometimes it will only run the CPU, other times it will just run the GPU. I have Lunatics 0.4 installed and it just doesn't want to play ball.

Any ideas?

Biffa · 28 Sep 2012 at 15:50

when it stops running on the gpu its may probably be because the driver has crashed, you have to restart the client if this is the case.

Mind you with the problems b0rkeley are having it could just be that the CPU wus take longer and you run out of gpu ones faster.

JamesM · 28 Sep 2012 at 16:35

cheers, sorry for all the questions!