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must have been a power outage sometime today. I should be more diligent in checking when I get home! So I decided to go for it and loaded up Titan1 with ALL 4 Titans! Pics should be below. And of course nothing worked right, couldn't get the console to connect to the client, couldn't get all 4 cards running... Long story short had to remove and reinstall the client which means I'm starting with 15's instead of 17's so it might be a day or so to get back up to 600k ppd. But it is up and running! And why bother with a 780 drop for the Titan you know you want one!
I found out about about 9 pm that everything was down.
You mean I should get my 4 or 5 260-275 and 1 480 up and running! It's been a couple of years since I ran them. They are a little dusty, but ya know, points!
And why bother with a 780 drop for the Titan you know you want one!
do what you gotta do. i'm still running a 260 and 465. i've got like 5 other 260s just laying around collecting dust. drives me nuts to see them like this.
not that i see some 780s for around $650, the price is enticing. i'll leave the titans to you for now
sweet. i'm actually rearranging all my cards to see what i can squeeze out. just got 3 x 260s folding. now gonna see if i can get this 465 going with the 780.
who knows, i may even get a couple in this old mac pro folding in windows. bringing out all the stops lol
sweet. i'm actually rearranging all my cards to see what i can squeeze out. just got 3 x 260s folding. now gonna see if i can get this 465 going with the 780.
who knows, i may even get a couple in this old mac pro folding in windows. bringing out all the stops lol
uh oh! I may have to break out another old mobo and some 275's! Dang, that would mean playing with Ubuntu again or getting another win key... hmm, I'll do some more reading on Ubuntu+GPU's.
I think I have decided to go with more Titans, or their next iteration, down the road instead of a 4p. I'm getting over 600k ppd on the 4 I have now and I don't know what I would get from a 4p; of course that would depend on how much I was willing to spend. For $4000 I know I can get 600k ppd, I might spend more on a 4p and not get as many ppd. The electric bill might be against me though; a 4p would not draw as much juice as 4 Titans for sure. Well shoot, now I'm not so sure, hmm, have to think about it some more.
If you can return the 7850 maybe try out the 760? I haven't seen any hard numbers on it but the purchase price sounds enticing. really though people are saying that power wise you'd make it back with a titan over a 7970 within a year... (and I think they're assuming you can get a 7970 for about $330)
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1776564
my 660ti makes about 65 K pod. on Core17.
I stopped running my 560 ti cards because they were only getting about 22 K ppd, like your 7850... really not worth the power.
my 7970 makes about 90 K ppd when clocked to 1075.
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if you can get a used unit like you did with high end chips -- definitely the way to go for PPD if you weren't planning on gaming as well...
just got my power bill -- yowza! the big rig is pulling more than 500 W and is not worth it if it's running 8101s. the rig with 2 7970s is pulling 330 W and makes more points than the big rig
yeah i'm gonna return the 7850 and try the 760. it's basically a 660 ti.
i also just picked up a 7970. decided to to go with it. this is all i'm gonna get for awhile though. we'll see how it goes.
yeah my power bill was high last month, and this month will be just as high if not higher. and i just got back to back 8101s.
oh good -- let us know how the 760 does since it is cheaper than the 660ti cards...
and also tell us about the 7970 when it's running!
congrats on both new cards!
that power bill is a killer
I'll one-up you on the tale of woe with the 8101s -- I also got 2 back to back and because of a power outage during the night I only got the base points (22 K) for one of them
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OK you got me beat on that; with averaged Time-of-Use and delivery charges and account charge and all that extraneous crap it's about 14.5¢ per kWh.
and about 1600 kWh per month
so yeah, it still hurts!!
thanks. well i got the 7970 running with 2 old 260s, and it's not good. only 40k ppd with 8900. i'm thinking about just stopping the 260s and see if that helps. maybe even removing them to give more air and space.
i'll get the 760 later tonight and will report how it does once i have it going.
are there any decent cards that don't require a power connector?
oh and on the power bill, even though i only pay about 9.8 cents per kwh, i went through 3166 kwh last month !
what's the avg TPF on 8900 with the 7970? I was getting 4 min 13 sec per frame when I was getting 90 K ppd per 7970.
I'd say remove the 260s -- they might be interfering with the 7970. (I had problems with nVidia and AMD on the same mono near the end, before I gave up on that.)
fastest nVidia that doesn't need a power connector is the GT 640 -- have one in my Mac Pro where it works great; haven't tried folding with it but I strongly suspect that it is not worth it.
I'm glad I don't have Christian's power rates but I wish I had yours
PS low points for me today; took everything except the bigadv rig offline to swap stuff around. Put the 7970s into a HAF XB lanbox and.... temps were no better. sheesh. while I was swapping cards I notice that one of my 7970s had an 8 pin and a 6 pin connector and the other one had two 8 pin connectors. wtf? I'll have to look into this a bit. same part numbers (but they were both open box units)
