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Send message Joined: 14 Mar 13 Posts: 2 Credit: 23,562,700 RAC: 0 Level  Scientific publications   
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Hello hello! I have been considering adding a Tesla to my setup (specifically a c2050), and I was wondering how well the Teslas perform with the GPUGrid tasks. Thank you, Brobdingnag  
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 skgiven Send message Joined: 23 Apr 09 Posts: 3968 Credit: 1,995,359,260 RAC: 0 Level  Scientific publications    |
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. FAQ - Recommended GPUs for GPUGrid crunching FAQ's HOW TO: - Opt out of Beta Tests - Ask for Help |
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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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Send message Joined: 26 Jun 09 Posts: 815 Credit: 1,470,385,294 RAC: 0 Level  Scientific publications
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In the Netherlands these old Tesla's cost still between 2000 and 4300 Euro! While a Titan can be obtained for 849 Euro, which is also a lot faster and you can put a monitor on it if you want/need to. (a Euro is approx. 1.32 USD). Skgiven and flashawk are absolutely right. Greetings from TJ |
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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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 Send message Joined: 17 Aug 08 Posts: 2705 Credit: 1,311,122,549 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications |
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. MrS Scanning for our furry friends since Jan 2002 |
Retvari Zoltan Send message Joined: 20 Jan 09 Posts: 2380 Credit: 16,897,957,044 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. 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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