9800GX2...Does it worth buying?

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Sutaru Tsureku Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 6 Apr 07 Posts: 7105 Credit: 147,663,825 RAC: 12	Message 1159076 - Posted: 5 Oct 2011, 14:45:25 UTC - in response to Message 1158630. Last modified: 5 Oct 2011, 14:48:43 UTC Hey there I've got an amazing deal on a 9800GX2 and about to get it solely for Seti@Home. My concern is whether it can provide some good points per day or not. Currenly i'm crunching solely on my i7 950 @ 4.2Ghz. I also have 2x6870s but i don't like to hassle with BOINC to get them crunch. Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance... What is the prize for the 9800GX2? Used one? This is a 2x PCB grafic card, two chips and only one heatsink. They will reach high temperatures. So you would need to set the fan @ 100 % for to cool down the chips. And the result is, that it will sounds like a jet with continuously active afterburner. ;-) It's very easy to crunch on ATI/AMD cards. Usage of the Lunatics Installer V0.38 and you are fine. I have a few infos about in my profile. *- Best regards!* -** Sutaru Tsureku, team seti.international founder. - Optimize your PC for higher RAC. - SETI@home needs your help. - ID: 1159076 ·

Cosmic_Ocean Send message Joined: 23 Dec 00 Posts: 3027 Credit: 13,516,867 RAC: 31	Message 1158640 - Posted: 3 Oct 2011, 22:16:02 UTC They are actually pretty reasonable. They're obviously not a GTX2xx/4xx/5xx, but looking through the top ~600 hosts, there's a handful of 9800GTs and GTXs with over 10k RAC, though CPU is contributing a bit to that as well. http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=5712423 http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=5401825 http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=5829901 http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=5469203 http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=101528 http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=6011510 Linux laptop: record uptime: 1511d 20h 19m (ended due to the power brick giving-up) ID: 1158640 ·

soft^spirit Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 6497 Credit: 34,134,168 RAC: 0	Message 1158636 - Posted: 3 Oct 2011, 22:01:24 UTC - in response to Message 1158633. If your power supply will handle it, yes the 9800 is well worth running. Power is not the issue. My power supply is powerful enough to crunch on two 9800GX2 (4 GPUs in total) in same same time. What i wonder is RAC. my 9600 was good for about 5-7K before I retired it. 9800 is substantially more powerful. Janice ID: 1158636 ·

Nautilus Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 19 Jun 06 Posts: 44 Credit: 990,423 RAC: 0	Message 1158633 - Posted: 3 Oct 2011, 21:54:57 UTC - in response to Message 1158632. If your power supply will handle it, yes the 9800 is well worth running. Power is not the issue. My power supply is powerful enough to crunch on two 9800GX2 (4 GPUs in total) in same same time. What i wonder is RAC. ID: 1158633 ·

soft^spirit Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 6497 Credit: 34,134,168 RAC: 0	Message 1158632 - Posted: 3 Oct 2011, 21:49:39 UTC - in response to Message 1158630. If your power supply will handle it, yes the 9800 is well worth running. Janice ID: 1158632 ·

Nautilus Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 19 Jun 06 Posts: 44 Credit: 990,423 RAC: 0	Message 1158630 - Posted: 3 Oct 2011, 21:38:02 UTC Last modified: 3 Oct 2011, 21:38:46 UTC Hey there I've got an amazing deal on a 9800GX2 and about to get it solely for Seti@Home. My concern is whether it can provide some good points per day or not. Currenly i'm crunching solely on my i7 950 @ 4.2Ghz. I also have 2x6870s but i don't like to hassle with BOINC to get them crunch. Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance... ID: 1158630 ·

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