Advice on graphic cards

I am a recent convert to CUDA crunching having activated my ancient GF8800 in one of my machines. I am interested in adding a CUDA capable card to 2 more machines. I have no wish to spend a lot. So can anyone suggest a good card around £60-£100($90-$150). I have been looking at the GT210/220, are these worth it for CUDA?

Bernie
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If you have low power GPUs, then you are right.. this are 'green edition' GPUs? So the clocks are lowered and power consumption is less.

On the nVIDIA site, 2x PCIe connectors needed for '9800GT' (max. 105 W).
This would mean the GPU could get 225 W from the PSU..

A PCIe slot can deliver 75 W, a 6 pin PCIe connector 75 W a 8 pin PCIe connector 150 W, so currently max. 300 W for a graphic card.


Bernie..
Max. ~ 150 US$ this are ~ 116.- €, so..

A GT240 have a well (better) RAC/wattage ratio (compared to the older graphic cards).

A GT240 you could get for ~ 65.- € in Germany. Example: 'alternate.de' (scroll down to the GT240 GPUs).
I would go with a manufacturer OCed for example the 'ZOTAC GT240 AMP' (~ 77.- €).

I have manufacturer OCed from EVGA and GIGABYTE and well experiences (GTX260-216).
But from this shop, the GIGABYTE is lower OCed and EVGA no OC editon available.
After looking to the EVGA site, the 'SC edition'_(.pdf file) is also lower OCed.
So maybe go with the ZOTAC.. ;-)


BTW. A GTX460 you could get for ~ 160.- €. And 2+ WUs/GPU simultaneously.
But I guess double wattage if CUDA, compard to the GT240 (if you must look to the power consumption ;-).
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>Das Deutsche Cafe. The German Cafe.<

I have looked at all the useful info. Went to my local computer fair today and comparing price and other factors, went for a GT240 1GB ram at £65($100). Just set it up, seems to be about twice as fast as the CPU.

I have also fired up an older machine with an GF8600 GTS 265meg in.

So with the original GF8800 GT with 512 meg I now have a diverse selsction of cards to work with.

Will be interesting to compare these in a couple of weeks.

Bernie
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I would go for GT240, if you don't want/have to change your PSU.
But the butged is mostly deciding......
GTX260-216 is a good choice and a good RAC/Watt ratio.
I won't use 'older card's, f.i.9800GTX+, they are OK, but only compute factor 1.1
and factory OC'ed, so they (can)get extremely hot! Burnt one finger on it!
Or 8500GT, have just swithed one for a GTS250, much better and the 300Watt PSU, is enough.
(They can run, evenly loaded,, 90% of their rated power, I'tested a 350W PSU, with resistors/coils and capacitors, to emulate a PC's behavior as good as possible, but a steady load is most important, for the +12V I used car bulbs, as they come quite close to the current needed.)
And those 4 12V 5Amp bulbs sure gave a lot of light..
I'm gettin of trac, Graphic Cards we were talking about.;-)
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Knight Who Says Ni N!, OUT numbered.................

My (manufacturer OCed GTX260-216) 4x EVGA running since ~ 1 1/2 years and 1x GIGABYTE over ~ 1/2 year 24/7 with auto fan control, reached ~ 85 °C and everything fine.. ;-D

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>Das Deutsche Cafe. The German Cafe.<

I have looked at all the useful info. Went to my local computer fair today and comparing price and other factors, went for a GT240 1GB ram at £65($100). Just set it up, seems to be about twice as fast as the CPU.
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I have looked at all the useful info. Went to my local computer fair today and comparing price and other factors, went for a GT240 1GB ram at £65($100). Just set it up, seems to be about twice as fast as the CPU.
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LOL

It seems your Celeron is to slow to feed the GT240. 10,000 seconds for a
midrange WU - this GPU can do it in 1/10 of the time...

Thats the longest time for a WU done by a GPU i ever heard. ;-)

Helli

I have looked at all the useful info. Went to my local computer fair today and comparing price and other factors, went for a GT240 1GB ram at £65($100). Just set it up, seems to be about twice as fast as the CPU.
...

LOL

It seems your Celeron is to slow to feed the GT240. 10,000 seconds for a
midrange WU - this GPU can do it in 1/10 of the time...

Thats the longest time for a WU done by a GPU i ever heard. ;-)

Helli

You can insert URLs in messages? ;-D

'http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/result.php?resultid=1701427180'

Maybe the new CUDA app (x32f Preview, Cuda 3.0) is not well for GT240 GPUs?

I guess, this AR should not longer than ~ 1,200 secs. Max ~ 1,800 secs.

You used the Lunatics Installer V0.37?
After - you made manually changes?


I would test the app (V12) which was in V0.36 .. if this is faster, before I change the system.. ;-)
Or original MB 6.09..

I have made no manual changes, I had noticed that it was taking too long, this has always been a slow machine, so I will remove the GT240 and look for a better home. Waste of £65. Still that's life.