"Prices are expected to be around $1499 online!"

You do realize you can get TWO GTX590's from EVGA for that?

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Janice

"Prices are expected to be around $1499 online!"

You do realize you can get TWO GTX590's from EVGA for that?

Yep. The core and memory clocks are a bit higher than the 590 but for that price, get two 590's and do more crunching.

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I should correct myself. It looks like they stopped selling the twin pack air cooled. And the water cooled are $1799 for the two pack.

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Janice

it uses 3 pcie slots

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it uses 3 pcie slots

I believe that is only 1 PCI-E slot actually plugged into.

But 3 card slots in the back of the case for the cooling.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

I'm thinking if I could afford 2 of those, water cooled, I could OC the heck out of them, and find ET in a few minutes. Fortunately, I can't afford one of them, and of course I would need a whole new MB, CPU, and RAM as well. One could lay down a huge hunk of change, and end up with a mighty cruncher, and a powerful gamer.

Steve

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GPUUG Website

I'm thinking if I could afford 2 of those, water cooled, I could OC the heck out of them, and find ET in a few minutes. Fortunately, I can't afford one of them, and of course I would need a whole new MB, CPU, and RAM as well. One could lay down a huge hunk of change, and end up with a mighty cruncher, and a powerful gamer.

Steve

You can play games with these things?

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

You can play games with these things?

What's a "game"? Do I have to find my dictionary, again?

You can play games with these things?

What's a "game"? Do I have to find my dictionary, again?

I think it's something folks do when they are not crunching Seti......not sure.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Do you think that you ever have found something?

You can play games with these things?

What's a "game"? Do I have to find my dictionary, again?

I think it's something folks do when they are not crunching Seti......not sure.

If I remember correctly ... Yes that is what they were... Something we did before Crunching/seti@Home came along... LOL

It's sad that I've stopped playing a lot of PC games as I have to shut down Boinc to do so. The resulting RAC drop makes me a sad panda.

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brad@gpuug.org

It's sad that I've stopped playing a lot of PC games as I have to shut down Boinc to do so. The resulting RAC drop makes me a sad panda.

The SETI Crunching Disease is a Bad One.

I had it between 2002-2006.

Would of had a much higher WU Credit, but HDDs, MBs going bad and especially The Dreaded Win98SE going Pukey all conspired to take months of crunching time away.

I still ended up near The Top One Percent.

Now I don't care anymore. ET knows where I Live.

Some people want The Cure. Others don't.

I am Null and Void and a Darwin Barnacle

It's sad that I've stopped playing a lot of PC games as I have to shut down Boinc to do so. The resulting RAC drop makes me a sad panda.

Dear Panda.........
Your RAC is quite normal. Play your games and shut down Boinc if you must to do so.
You must enjoy life.
Just quite harassing Dear Heloise........

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It's sad that I've stopped playing a lot of PC games as I have to shut down Boinc to do so. The resulting RAC drop makes me a sad panda.

I play games on my PC all the time and BOINC doesn't interfere.

It's sad that I've stopped playing a lot of PC games as I have to shut down Boinc to do so. The resulting RAC drop makes me a sad panda.

I play games on my PC all the time and BOINC doesn't interfere.

Some rigs are more high strung than others......
My top rig is crunch-only, and would quickly be hamstrung if I tried to do much else on it.
Many folks do not have crunch-only rigs, and are doing this on their daily drivers or their only computers.

Extracting every ounce out of every CPU and GPU cycle available is gonna have it's cost on instantaneous availability of resources when you are trying to do mundane tasks.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Extracting every ounce out of every CPU and GPU cycle available is gonna have it's cost on instantaneous availability of resources when you are trying to do mundane tasks.

Mine must be the exception. I can do all sorts of things and not notice anything. I haven't tried to play an intense game for quite a while though. I would most likely have to stop crunching during that. Other than that I can be running Photoshop, doing a virus scan on a clients hard drive, sending email, and watching a video clip at the same time I'm crunching, and I'm not aware of any slow down.

Steve

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Crunching as a member of GPU Users Group.
GPUUG Website

Yours isn't the exception Steve, most of my machines can handle the crunching and gaming load and not break a sweat, all the way back to an old AMD K6-2. The only trick is to turn of GPU crunching while gaming.

Yours isn't the exception Steve, most of my machines can handle the crunching and gaming load and not break a sweat, all the way back to an old AMD K6-2. The only trick is to turn of GPU crunching while gaming.

Cool! I can see why turning off GPU crunching would be helpful. With the 98-99% utilization I am getting now, that would kill an intense game.

Steve

But if I ever get my hands on of couple of those water cooled Mars 2 cards, that may change. The 590's didn't interest me much because they were so restricted, but these beasts can be heavily overclocked. Come on lottery!!!!

Steve

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Crunching as a member of GPU Users Group.
GPUUG Website