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Message 22878 - Posted: 2 Jan 2012 | 23:56:09 UTC

I only have 100 dollars to spend so there aint alot of options. I think 460 has more cores, i think. Thingh is i already have a 460. So choice is yalls lead me in the righht direction.

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Message 22879 - Posted: 3 Jan 2012 | 0:19:54 UTC - in response to Message 22878.

460 sli comes to mind but im leaning towards the 550 since i dont have a motherboard for sli yet.

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Message 22880 - Posted: 3 Jan 2012 | 0:40:58 UTC - in response to Message 22879.

yea well google is helpful says it will cost 1/3 more electricity but will run twice as fast so im going with 460. thank yew.

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Message 22885 - Posted: 4 Jan 2012 | 3:00:52 UTC

I have a GTX460 that runs in one system and a GTX550TI in another, both slightly clocked over stock. The 550 take about 30% more time to do a unit than the 460.

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Message 22908 - Posted: 6 Jan 2012 | 15:54:51 UTC

For 100$ the GTX460 maybe the best value.
Or thing about a GTX280/285, these cards have a good performance too for gpugrid.
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Message 22913 - Posted: 7 Jan 2012 | 11:24:49 UTC - in response to Message 22908.
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GTX280/285: If you can get a used one cheaply they're still powerful, but probably less power efficient due to the older process technology. They're drawing way more power than the budget cards as well, so case cooling and PSU have to be able to handle them.

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