Message boards : Graphics cards (GPUs) : The Power of Tesla
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Brobdingnag Send message Joined: 14 Mar 13 Posts: 2 Credit: 23,562,700 RAC: 0 Level  Scientific publications    | |
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 skgivenVolunteer moderator Volunteer tester  Send message Joined: 23 Apr 09 Posts: 3968 Credit: 1,995,359,260 RAC: 0 Level  Scientific publications    | |
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An NVIDIA C3050 Tesla is an old Fermi GF100 GPU (2years and 3months old). It's performance at GPUGrid is slightly less than a GTX470, so while it should work it's not a good investment. Something like a GTX660Ti, GTX670, GTX760 or GTX770 would be much a better buy. | |
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flashawk Send message Joined: 18 Jun 12 Posts: 297 Credit: 3,572,627,986 RAC: 0 Level  Scientific publications | |
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For the price of that card you could buy 2 GTX780's and help the project much more not to mention your score. It has 448 shaders and sucks down 238 watts, 3GB GDDR5 ECC on a 384bit bus, PCIe Express x16 2.0. It's a little behind the times, if you all ready own it, then go for it but I would recommend against buying such out dated technology especially at the going price of around $1500.00 US. | |
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In the Netherlands these old Tesla's cost still between 2000 and 4300 Euro! | |
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Brobdingnag Send message Joined: 14 Mar 13 Posts: 2 Credit: 23,562,700 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications | |
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Thank you all for your input. I posed this question during a time of worry, as I thought one of my GPUs (I'm running 2 GTX 590s) had died. I was thinking that maybe resorting to a more robust system (Tesla) would allow for a longer crunching life. Stupidly though, I turned my computer off, turned it back on, and all four GPUs appeared, fully operational. I've been building computers for years, and I am still amazed by such silly events. | |
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ExtraTerrestrial Apes Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester  Send message Joined: 17 Aug 08 Posts: 2705 Credit: 1,311,122,549 RAC: 0 Level  Scientific publications | |
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The GTX590 are rather extreme in everything: performance (for their generation, still pretty strong), cost, power consumption, noise, cooling requirements.. if you're in for a more robust setup I'd go for water cooling such big boys or cards with less power consumption (like GTX670 and similar ones), which are easier to handle with big air coolers. | |
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Retvari Zoltan Send message Joined: 20 Jan 09 Posts: 2356 Credit: 16,377,037,910 RAC: 3,484,664 Level  Scientific publications | |
Thank you all for your input. I posed this question during a time of worry, as I thought one of my GPUs (I'm running 2 GTX 590s) had died. I was thinking that maybe resorting to a more robust system (Tesla) would allow for a longer crunching life. Stupidly though, I turned my computer off, turned it back on, and all four GPUs appeared, fully operational. I've been building computers for years, and I am still amazed by such silly events. So am I. I suggest you to check all power connectors in that PC for burn marks, especially those pins which connected to the yellow cables (+12V). | |
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