GPU Questions

[capreppy]

For 3 x 9800GX2 (or for that matter GTX285 or GTX295), what is the OS of choice?

 

[Zero82z]

Windows XP. I believe Vista has issues running more than 5 GPUs.

 

[Tigerbiten]

I could not get Vista Home Premium working with 3 or more 9800GX2 cards.
It counts all 3 outputs per card as valid and max's out out at 8 outputs.
So I could only load the drivers for 5 GPU cores.

XP only counts 2 outputs per card and so will run 4x 9800GX2's.

Luck ............

 

[capreppy]

Thanks guys. Well I guess I need to go and get some WinXP licenses.

The box will have 4GB of RAM. With a 32-bit OS, how much of that will the OS actually see with 3 x 9800GX2's onboard? Would I need to go to a x64 OS (WinXP x64)? If I did that, am I going to run into driver issues? or can I just stay with WinXP x86?

I do plan to run WCG and I'd like to be able to give it "some" memory to run.

 

[Kendrak]

I think 2 GB will be plenty. The OS will only see 3GB and even then I think it be a waste.

 

[capreppy]

I have a bunch of 2x2GB sticks laying around so 4GB is just using what is laying around

 

[Tigerbiten]

You'll only see somewhere between 2Gb and 3Gb of ram with a 32 bit OS.
But as the nVidia client only needs ~100 meg to run it, thats fine.
And with the latest 180.60 or better drivers, almost zero CPU time.

Luck ..............

 

[capreppy]

Hmm. That sounds perfect

 

[capreppy]

Additional question.

Can I use WinXP Home SP3? or do I need WinXP Professional SP3?

 

[Kendrak]

Additional question.

Can I use WinXP Home SP3? or do I need WinXP Professional SP3?

Origami Master is using windows Media Center so make of that what ever you want.

I haven't heard anything on needing anything more than basic version.