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Count down to GPU folding...3 days

marty9876 said:
Smells there.
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It is all the dead Deer

The PSU list to avoid seems to be missing the ones I have shooting flames out there butts all over the country.
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Tell davidhammock it's his list :p

Though curosity compells me to ask what PSu's are they that have the flaming shits?
 
Spectre said:
Though curosity compells me to ask what PSu's are they that have the flaming shits?
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Don't ask me--I've just heard stories.
 
Spectre said:
Though curosity compells me to ask what PSu's are they that have the flaming shits?
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HEC?

I'll look when I get back.
 
Spectre said:
Interesting...if you can get me a model number as well.......and any death photos.
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The smell it the kicker... I don't open, under warranty. I'm about to pull FAH off all production due to this issue. Switched PSU's but have 250+ of these out there.
 
marty9876 said:
The smell it the kicker... I don't open, under warranty. I'm about to pull FAH off all production due to this issue. Switched PSU's but have 250+ of these out there.
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Are these OEM systems? Or whitebox?
 
Should be interesting to see how well my x1950xtx can fold... :cool:

If I run it 24/7, is another question...
 
The main reason they have decided not to support nVidia cards at the moment is a) branching capabilities, and b) ATi supports 32bit datatypes, while nVidia only supports 24bit, which, without some extra work-around (which would slow things down), would mean less accurate science.

Unfortunately, I dont beleive pre-X1X00 series cards will work either (x800s/x850s.. etc.), which sucks because I have 2 or 3 boxes with x800xls in them (and they're cheap to get at ~$120 CDN per card.)..

It's cool to be talking about pixel shaders per dollar though, at 5 and 10 dollars a pop.. really its like talking about the price of CPU cores per dollar, in a sense.. as that is the role they'll be playing, in a less scalar, more-vector sense of course ;)

 
marty9876 said:
The smell it the kicker... I don't open, under warranty. I'm about to pull FAH off all production due to this issue. Switched PSU's but have 250+ of these out there.
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Ah, the truth comes out.... This sucks!
 
marty9876 said:
The smell it the kicker... I don't open, under warranty. I'm about to pull FAH off all production due to this issue. Switched PSU's but have 250+ of these out there.
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yea but how many are yours???????????
same old threat....pull machines
wa wa wa wa :rolleyes:
 
kaleb_zero said:
The main reason they have decided not to support nVidia cards at the moment is a) branching capabilities, and b) ATi supports 32bit datatypes, while nVidia only supports 24bit, which, without some extra work-around (which would slow things down), would mean less accurate science.

Unfortunately, I dont beleive pre-X1X00 series cards will work either (x800s/x850s.. etc.), which sucks because I have 2 or 3 boxes with x800xls in them (and they're cheap to get at ~$120 CDN per card.)..

It's cool to be talking about pixel shaders per dollar though, at 5 and 10 dollars a pop.. really its like talking about the price of CPU cores per dollar, in a sense.. as that is the role they'll be playing, in a less scalar, more-vector sense of course ;)

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Nivida GPUs have supported FP32 since the GeForce FX, it's the reason that the GeForce FX performs so poorly in source Engine games in DirectX 9 mode. The branch prediction is the big bonus for ATI cards...GeForce 7 cards can fold, it's just that they require significantly more code optimizations in the code of the folding client to overcome the lack of branch prediction and fold at the same level as an ATI GPU that has branch prediction.
 
hrmm, this makes me want to go out and buy that dual opteron (or was it xeon?) board i saw with 3x PCIx16 slots...

mmm, dual dual core cpu's and 3x ATi video cards!
 
FLECOM said:
hrmm, this makes me want to go out and buy that dual opteron (or was it xeon?) board i saw with 3x PCIx16 slots...

mmm, dual dual core cpu's and 3x ATi video cards!
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3x dual GPU card thingies
 
FLECOM said:
hrmm, this makes me want to go out and buy that dual opteron (or was it xeon?) board i saw with 3x PCIx16 slots...

mmm, dual dual core cpu's and 3x ATi video cards!
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Can it actually run three cards though? I know there are boards starting to surface with 3x x16 slots with two for GPU and one for Physics.... but I guess I have never really questioned if that 3rd slot could power another graphics card (just not in xfire).
 
Any word as to whether the GPU client will support crossfire? And if so, what kind of performance gains could be seen?
 
FLECOM said:
hrmm, this makes me want to go out and buy that dual opteron (or was it xeon?) board i saw with 3x PCIx16 slots...

mmm, dual dual core cpu's and 3x ATi video cards!
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Why stop at dual core........
Dual Quad core is more to the point.
Quad Quad would be just a little over the top .............. :D

One thing that will be interesting to see is how many CPU cycles the GPU client needs.

Luck ........... :D
 
Tigerbiten said:
Why stop at dual core........
Dual Quad core is more to the point.
Quad Quad would be just a little over the top .............. :D

One thing that will be interesting to see is how many CPU cycles the GPU client needs.

Luck ........... :D
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I am guessing as many as the slave process for FAH on a CPU, aka not many.

I am WICKED excited about this stuff :D
 
who is on press release duty for tomorrow? I'm gonna be out and about most of the day.
 
Folding@Home on ATI GPU's: a major step forward

Partially, it says:
We will make a formal announcement of the client at the ATI Stream Computing Event in San Francisco on Friday September 29, 2006 (this is open for press personnel, not for the general public), and then (assuming everything looks reasonable), start an open beta for the console client on Monday October 2 with the GUI GPU client (with real time visualization) to follow.
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AtomicMoose said:
Where's Ben?
:)
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standing by to text me the news... ohh wait, I left him locked in the dungeon again. Whoops.
 
marty9876 said:
standing by to text me the news... ohh wait, I left him locked in the dungeon again. Whoops.
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Help me!!!

I'm pretty sure somebody else will see the PR before me. ;)

 
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