Who Needs To Spend $200+ for 15K PPD?

[chrisk]

Originally Posted by Photograph

I'm in the process of completely rebuilding my folding rig to be more efficient and was planning on replacing my two GTX 260's (One Core 192 and one Core 216) with four GTS 430's but I think two GTS 450's makes a lot more sense. Any thoughts?

Looks like 430s are good for ~7 to 8k:
[MPC] GT 430 - Folding Results - PPD/Power Usage - Overclock.net - Overclocking.net

But I'm in the 'more cores' camp (I suspect some WUs will show up that will scale better), so I would go with 450s or even 460s, unless you are on a strict budget or need single slot cards.

[sswilson]

I had this discussion with SKYMTL (Fermi cores/output) last night. At the moment the 611 WUs (10632) appear to be the only fermi GPU3 WUs that accurately reflect the folding capabilities of Fermi cards. All other WUs (912/925 pointers) seem to depend almost solely on GPU/Shader clockspeed which unfairly favours the GTS 450 cards WRT PPD.

Since the 10632 units are "test" units which are being used to get a handle on Fermi architecture/performance I'm sure that future WUs will tend towards the 611 units rather than the 912/925 units and thus will scale better on higher end cards.

That said... I'm personally betting on the GTS 450 cards being the PPD darlings for at least 6 months. ;)

[Photograph]

I went with a pair of PNY 450's, thanks for the input guys and expect big numbers soon

[Photograph]

Originally Posted by Kilauea

Or you can grab this PNY one for 102.49 before MIR.

Thanks for posting that Kilauea, looks like I ordered my cards just in time as they are sold out now.

Originally Posted by _dangtx_

nice, but i think a few ppl here are not exactly of pny's rma services and customer support,. might be mistaken though

I've heard that their RMA department is usually pretty helpful, but I have seen a few people have issues but nothing like the P.I.T.A. that is the XFX RMA department.