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Another question: any of these three graphics cards can run on a pc with an AMD FX- 8350 processor and with a power supplie of 850 Watts 80 + Gold? I worry consumption can be plotted Asus first listed , I'm not sure that the power supplie is able to supply it with the processor working at 100 % capacity .
Thank you all.

I was reading the other day and found that the difference between Gold power supplies and Bronze ones is the heat they put out. Gold ones put out less heat then Bronze ones, I ALWAYS thought it had to do with the quality of the unit, but it doesn't, at least not in the way I thought.

Hello
Another question: any of these three graphics cards can run on a pc with an AMD FX- 8350 processor and with a power supplie of 850 Watts 80 + Gold? I worry consumption can be plotted Asus first listed , I'm not sure that the power supplie is able to supply it with the processor working at 100 % capacity .
Thank you all.

I was reading the other day and found that the difference between Gold power supplies and Bronze ones is the heat they put out. Gold ones put out less heat then Bronze ones, I ALWAYS thought it had to do with the quality of the unit, but it doesn't, at least not in the way I thought.

The reason the Bronze put out more heat than Gold is because they are not as electrically efficient, and Platinum is more efficient than Gold so there is another drop in heat output there as well for a given load. The better the quality of the power supply, the more of the electrical current that is put to use powering your computer and the less that is converted to/lost as heat. This should decrease the total power you're drawing from the wall over time. That's my understanding of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/80_Plus

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In my opinion EVGA are the best graphic cards around, and they work with any motherboard.
But perhaps you can pay a bit of extra money and then get a 750Ti?

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For GPUGrid a GTX660Ti is faster than a GTX660.

An 850W Gold+ PSU should be capable of supporting a GTX660Ti (150W TDP).

I ran two GTX470's on a system with a 550W PSU for a year without issue. The reason being that GPUGrid WU's don't use the full 215W. More like 70 to 75% (301W to 322W). The rest of the system probably used ~100W, so that kept me a bit under the 80% PSU Wattage rating mark. Going over it tends to challenge the PSU more and efficiency drops off.

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I want to get a Nvidia GTX 750 or GTX 750 TI graphics card or Maxwell equivalent to GTX 660 or GTX 660 TI, but the seller does not include them in the list of graphics cards available, I have to choose one of the three that are in the list, if I could choose a graphics card made ​​in 2014 would invest a little more, but I am forced to buy a graphics card made ​​in 2012, as will be for one year, because in 2015 I plan to buy a new pc, I'll buy the EVGA GTX 660 now, which has the lowest price.

Does anyone know if the graphics card EVGA GeForce GTX660 2GB DDR5 PCI-E Dual ACX have two fans as Asus, MSI or Gigabyte equivalent?

I am asking many questions. :)

Thank you all for the help.

Hello

I want to get a Nvidia GTX 750 or GTX 750 TI graphics card or Maxwell equivalent to GTX 660 or GTX 660 TI, but the seller does not include them in the list of graphics cards available, I have to choose one of the three that are in the list, if I could choose a graphics card made ​​in 2014 would invest a little more, but I am forced to buy a graphics card made ​​in 2012, as will be for one year, because in 2015 I plan to buy a new pc, I'll buy the EVGA GTX 660 now, which has the lowest price.

Does anyone know if the graphics card EVGA GeForce GTX660 2GB DDR5 PCI-E Dual ACX have two fans as Asus, MSI or Gigabyte equivalent?

I am asking many questions. :)

Thank you all for the help.

Yes, the EVGA card with ACX cooling has two axial fans as opposed to a single radial fan. These fans are typically quieter than a single radial fan, but will dump more heat into your computer case.

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Change of plans, what you think about the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX660 TI 2GB PCI-E? the price difference is minimal with respect to the EVGA.


Thank you all for the help.

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Change of plans, what you think about the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX660 TI 2GB PCI-E? the price difference is minimal with respect to the EVGA.


Thank you all for the help.

skgiven has put together a good chart of the relative performance of various cards on this project. Looks like the 660Ti outperforms 660 as one might expect.

http://www.gpugrid.net/forum_thread.php?id=1150&nowrap=true#35696

GTX660/Ti aren't so bad. It doesn't matter that they were introduced in 2012, as even the current GTX760 and GTX770 use the same chip, just in a different configuration. Apart from GTX750/Ti anything you can buy today from nvidia is either Kepler (just like GTX660/Ti) or even still a Fermi (some low end models). And if in a year the bigger Maxwells are far better than the card you're getting now you can still sell it as relatively new.

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I wasn't trying to do an evaluation, just provide the names of some other gpu projects.

I know. And I thought Jacobs list was pretty decent because it featured the - from my point of view - most useful projects. Call it unintentional evaluation by him, as he's surely not participating in projects he doesn't find as useful.

And I added that smiley to hint at "there is potential for quite some discussion here" without starting to go into details. Just trying to make people, who may not be as familiar with the projects contents, aware that there are large differences.

And I must confess that it's very important to me to warn people of Moo. There is absolutely no useful knowledge to be gained from running this project - and this is an objective fact. I accept the value of all other GPU projects to be up to debate and personal preferences.

MrS

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I know. And I thought Jacobs list was pretty decent because it featured the - from my point of view - most useful projects. Call it unintentional evaluation by him, as he's surely not participating in projects he doesn't find as useful.

To be honest, I like the scientific research of protein analysis. I prefer GPUGrid because they pay great credits, but I think I also equally prefer World Community Grid (they had a Help Conquer Cancer GPU project that was awesome), and POEM (which hardly ever has GPU tasks).

Those projects keep my GTX 660 Ti and my GTX 460 busy.

And then there's my GTS 240. It can't do much, for sure, but... it CAN do Einstein/Albert/SETI/SETIbeta (all 4 are projects that I'd normally not do). So, I have those 4 projects resource share set to 0 (so I otherwise won't get tasks, especially CPU tasks), and then whenever my GTS 240 needs a new task, it gets it from one of those 4 projects.

For those 4 projects, Einstein/Albert/SETI/SETIbeta, I used to have the resource share at 1, so server requests could get more than a single task at a time. And I also had GPU Exclusions in place to not ever crunch them on my 2 beefier GPUs... but then GPUGrid ran out of work recently, the main GPUs went idle, and I had a sadface. So... I juggled things around a bit, such that they are not excluded from my 2 beefier GPUs, but now use a resource share of 0, so they'll run on them if they can't get work from GPUGrid and POEM and WCG.

MilkyWay is another project that has GPU tasks, but I actually want to do some of their CPU work (I'm a BOINC Alpha tester, and MilkyWay is one of the only projects to offer MT multi-threaded tasks)... so I keep that project's resource share at the same as my other CPU projects, and then have it configured to not get NVIDIA work.

Oh, and because World Community Grid WCG actually has several sub-projects, I have its resource share set at 4 times any of my normal CPU projects, so they do 4 times the work/REC/RAC.

Oh again, one other note.. Because I am a BOINC Alpha tester, and VM work is still ongoing, I also go out of my way to attach to any of the VM projects, including: RNA World, Test4Theory, Climate@Home, and Beauty@Home. So, I am regularly crunching RNA World tasks (one of them is at 1250 hours, and still going strong!), and Test4Theory. I've actually helped file and solve some serious bugs with Oracle, to make the latest versions of VirtualBox work smoothly for our BOINC community.

With enough patience, and testing, and configuring... BOINC can run any project you want, in almost any way you want.

Are we having fun? Thanks for reading.

Are we having fun? Thanks for reading.

Haha, sure! And thanks for sharing.

MrS

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Hello

Finally I have a EVGA NVidia Geforce GTX 660 graphic card , now I have another problem: How am I supposed to register in the site of EVGA to download the EVGA Precision software? because every time I try it returns me a message saying "You must fill in all the required fields", It´s supposed that I have to complete all my data? because at the right of the data to be completed can be read "Optional" and for that reason I have not completed.


Tanks.

What fields did you fill in?

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I fill the fields Country, Desired Username, Password, Confirm Password and the Captcha.

You must populate every field except "App/Suite". Also, this thread has nothing to do with Precision-X. Finally, questions regarding Precision-X support should be directed to their forums, not here. Hope this helps, good luck.

I had once trouble with ordering at EVGA site via Internet Explorer, filled in several times, but failed. Then used FireFox and it worked at once.
The problem with IE was a restriction in the AntiVirus software, adding EVGA site to the "safe" list should have solved the issue.
Perhaps one of the above helps you.

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Is there any other way to get the EVGA Precision software http://www.evga.com/precision/ than signing up on the EVGA site? Is that ask me too much personal information , I did not give any personal information to get the Asus GPU Tweack.


Tanks. Excuse me for asking so many questions.

You may use garbage information. In fact, to test the login, I subscribed abcdefg@abcdefg.com up.
Signing up an account is the only way to get software from EVGA.

I have already completed the registration but the system did not send me the email with an activation code, i try again and tells me to use a new user name because he had chosen and was used. The only thing I'm missing to process Boinc project units is this software to control the EVGA video card.


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The only thing I'm missing to process Boinc project units is this software to control the EVGA video card.

You don't actually need that software to begin crunching on your new card. You only need it if you want to tweak the default settings (clock/memory speed, fan curve, etc.).