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The FAHBench numbers from the AT article give plenty to make a very good estimate of performance. It looks like the 290x PPD will be right in line with a 780, but use 30-40% more power. Looks like a great gaming card and a terrible Folding card.

Even though this is an enthusiast board, it's built off a server foundation. The headers are designed for server fans (5w+ each), so running multiple normal fans (like the Noctuas that draw ~0.5w) is no problem.

The core 'worked' fine on AMD during the alpha testing (at the end, there were lots of problems early on), but tpfs were more than double compared to Windows, so they decided not to support AMD-Linux.

It's card dependent. The single biggest thing you can do for stability on core-17 units is underclock the memory. I have my cards at -500 (so net 5000). Memory speed has zero effect on tpfs and a huge effect on stability. I could barely overclock my titans at stock memory (6000), with the...

For folding, a 770 is a 680. You might be able to OC the 770 a little more than the 680 on average. 680's get 75-90 depending on how high you can OC and still finish 8900s.

It can also stall completely and not progress at all. I've had that, it went away when I lowered overclock.

Not even sure if he frequents these parts, but [H] now has a third billionaire. Grats dwdawg!

One can't.

Core_17 is hard coded to do a checkpoint every 2%, it's not adjustable (and separate from the global checkpoint setting). This 'feature' may or not make it out of beta (I suspect it will). Nvidia using a full CPU core is a driver issue. It won't change until NVidia changes the default...

Where did you get this info? In the manual, it states slots 1-4 are provided by CPU1 (1/3 run in x16 if 2/4 both empty, x8 otherwise, 2/4 run x8 always), which 5-7 are provided by CPU2 (5/7 run x16 always, 6 runs x8).

I don't think it matters. I've tried getting fancy and splitting/pooling slots based on CPU, assigning GPU core to particular CPUs, and have never gotten any improvement (but in many cases managed significantly worse) in performance. I've never used a display for my linux box, but I know...

He has said that, and I'm not sure where it came from, because no one I know of during the internal test of the linux client saw any speed advantage (on Nvidia, AMD is a CF in Linux).

GPU boost works in linux (on every card I've tested). There's no appreciable difference between windows and linux in terms of TPF (clock for clock). So, all things being equal (OS costs not among them...), windows makes more sense for a dedicated GPU box just because of the ease of...

I know the 16 dimm slot SM 2P boards say they will run with 128gb worth of UDIMMS (16x8Gb), but I wouldn't count on it. That's asking a lot of the memory controllers (and note speed is limited to 1333 in that arrangement).

I use that motherboard and do bigadv with 4 GPUs in linux. How many cores you give the GPUs depends on how many you have, and how fast they are. Core_17 has a decent amount of overhead, but the total amount of overhead depends on how fast your cpu is (not an issue in the scenario you're...