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Another noobish question

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cbarbour71

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So I recently upgraded mobo/CPU and now I have 2 more PCI-e slots available. I now have a stock (for now :D) i5-2500k and HD5770. With just those, I get much better points just doing SMP. My question is, if I add my Nvidia 9600GT, would it be worth it. OR, if I were to pick up a pair of 450s or 460s, would that be worth the CPU hit?

 
450's or 460's yes, it would be like 16-20k PPD video cards alone. Probably add in like 7k PPD for 3 2500k cores. The 9600GT would have relatively the same hit as the the 450's/460's but would only make like 12k total including SMP. So maybe 15k straight SMP, 12k SMP+9600GT, or possibly 27k with SMP+ 2xGTX 460.
 
Update: 2500K (stock) running SMP doing 12k PPD, laptop 1500ish, PS3 god knows, E7200 @ 3.56 GHz running Ubuntu.

With the E7200, what kind of PPD should I see from it? Trying to decide if SMP would be better than running a GPU client on the 9600GT installed in it, at least until I can find a C2Q at a reasonable price.

 
for the E7200 you will get the best results doing the 9600GT + SMP folding .... hit wont be terible
 
GTX 460's are good for about 11k-12k each overclocked. There are some units (I forget the wu numbers)that they pull 16k on and finish in 30 minutes or so, but those units seem few and far between. GPU3 for nvidia doesn't seem to hit the cpu to hard the average for my older cpu's that run the gpu's is about 5-10% load.
 
The only issue I have with the E7200 box is it's running Linux, so no GPU client is available unless I've missed something.
 
Also your PS3 should generate about 1k PPD - not sure if its worth the cost of the electric
 
itsrickjames said:
You do lose the ability to overclock cards other than the first card. So I have been told/read, and that alone has kept me from trying this.
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couldnt you flash the BIOS for the card with higher clocks ?
 
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