Why? They can support a driver but refuse to support the OpenCL API on an outdated OS.

I have a PC running Microsoft Windows XP Professional x86 Edition, Service Pack 3, (05.01.2600.00)with a GT610 PCI no e. It crunches GPU with no problem. If they support OpenGL on that card using the same drivers as a Titan running Win 8.1 I would assume it also supports the OPs card.

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I'm thinking since I'm going to upgrade it to Win7, I might as well go ahead and upgrade the mobo and processor also. I'm currently playing around with different price options.

I would go with a LGA-2011; it has 40 PCIe lanes, quad channel DDR3 and can handle 4 PCIe 3.0 X16 Titans in SLI.

Also M$ will be supporting Win 8 for 3 years after Win 7 has gone the way of XP, until January 10, 2023 . That setup should be serviceable until M$ stops supporting Win10; if M$ is around that long.

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Why? They can support a driver but refuse to support the OpenCL API on an outdated OS.

I have a PC running Microsoft Windows XP Professional x86 Edition, Service Pack 3, (05.01.2600.00)with a GT610 PCI no e. It crunches GPU with no problem. If they support OpenGL on that card using the same drivers as a Titan running Win 8.1 I would assume it also supports the OPs card.

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I think you meant OpenCL and not OpenGL. At any rate, as I said to Guy, more than likely you had the OpenCL SDK installed with a previous driver back when OpenCL was still supported on XP and it has carried over through newer driver updates. It isn't necessarily the card that doesn't support it, but the API/SDK that is missing from the OP's machine. Likely he'd have to install an older driver to get it to work.

There may be a problem though if the older drivers that have the OpenCL SDK for XP do not support new cards, such as the Titan or GTX 7xx series, to install properly. In which case, there'd be no other options.

I'm thinking since I'm going to upgrade it to Win7, I might as well go ahead and upgrade the mobo and processor also. I'm currently playing around with different price options.

I would go with a LGA-2011; it has 40 PCIe lanes, quad channel DDR3 and can handle 4 PCIe 3.0 X16 Titans in SLI.

Also M$ will be supporting Win 8 for 3 years after Win 7 has gone the way of XP, until January 10, 2023 . That setup should be serviceable until M$ stops supporting Win10; if M$ is around that long.

You don't need SLi for crunching to start with and a card in a PCI-e 4x slot crunches just as fast as 1 on a PCI-e 16x slot.

The LGA-2011 platform also isn't very cost effective either (both my rigs support 3 cards anyway and they're 1150 & 1155 based).

As for Win8.x I wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole and I'm still building PC's here with Win7.

Cheers.

You don't need SLi for crunching to start with and a card in a PCI-e 4x slot crunches just as fast as 1 on a PCI-e 16x slot.

The LGA-2011 platform also isn't very cost effective either (both my rigs support 3 cards anyway and they're 1150 & 1155 based).

As for Win8.x I wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole and I'm still building PC's here with Win7.

Cheers.

I was thinking of an all around rig, not one just for crunching, that will be able to play games with triple 4K monitors; in your face PlayStation. Granted new from a retailer the LGA-2011 is expensive but it is also over 2 years old so it can be almost reasonable if one looks.

As for Win 8.1 with a few, now easy to use/find settings, the "metro" interface doesn't get in the way and a form of the start menu is back. Because of the way M$ handled the launch and now the 8.1 service pack it is not selling. It can be had legally for less than Win 7.

That is my opinion but granted it is not for everyone.

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It's not surprising to me why Win8.x isn't selling as it's just plain wrong.

On price, both win7 & win8 are the same here.

As for the other, mine are workstations 1st and crunchers 2nd, but my kids would love to play games on them (they're happy though with the hand me downs).

Cheers.