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StewieTheGreat

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just wondering how many PPD your are getting from a gtx 460 and what overclocks are you running?

I was thinking about upgrading from my GTX 260s that are currently pulling between 7500 and 9000 ppd depending on the WU,since the price of the 768MB is down to about $135 with rebates.
 
At stock speeds you will get around 9k+

With a bit of OC on the shaders over 10k is not hard.

You wont get a huge boost to ppd on the upgrade, however if you game as well it would be a good upgrade.
If your looking for a ppd boost, upgrade to a X6 and run SMP for about 13k ppd on top of your GPU production.
 
StewieTheGreat said:
just wondering how many PPD your are getting from a gtx 460 and what overclocks are you running?

I was thinking about upgrading from my GTX 260s that are currently pulling between 7500 and 9000 ppd depending on the WU,since the price of the 768MB is down to about $135 with rebates.
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You are seeing 9K PPD on a 260?!? Mine heavily o/c'd would stay right @ 8K PPD max...

I went replaced it with the Gigabyte 460 GTX that has custom cooling/twin fans and am runing @ 801/1603/1800 for a little over 11K PPD on 6800s....

 
I see about 10.6k PPD with the newer 6800 and 6811 GPU units, about 10k with 10632, and about 13k with the 912 and 925-point units. I'm using a 768MB card overclocked to 800MHz. My GTX 260s do about 8700PPD at best, averaging around 8-8.5k.
 
My 460 1gb at 850/1700/2100 pulls 11.5k pretty consistently, haven't really paid much attention to which WU's it is getting as its in my Fiance's machine.

My overclocked GTX 280 pulls a consistent 8500k, I find it troubling that 260's are pulling equal or more units. :(
 
my 260 pulls 7-8k ppd with a heatly OC to 1512 shaders......not sure how stewie is getting 9k....
 
W.Feather said:
my 260 pulls 7-8k ppd with a heatly OC to 1512 shaders......not sure how stewie is getting 9k....
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Well that makes me feel better, Stewie must be folding under LN2 with a 1ghz oc :D
 
I get 11K+ppd on my 850\1700 core\shader OC on those horrible 6800s.

In the good old days (pre P6800) it would pull in 17K ppd.

So if you think 7500-9000 to 11000-17000 is a good upgrade then $135 (less whatever u get for those 260), is definately not too much $$$$.

Are you running SLI? 460SLIs are nice. Mind you so are 260SLIs.

Not a must if it was me, but a nice to have.
 
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W.Feather said:
my 260 pulls 7-8k ppd with a heatly OC to 1512 shaders......not sure how stewie is getting 9k....
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It was just giving rough numbers,but right now they are pulling like 8840 and 8970.

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I was just wondering what the ppd on the 460s was cause when I was looking around last night I seen some posts of people pulling like 17kppd like speedy said I didnt think that was right,but it seems like it was true but is not the case right now.

So it looks like an x6 would be a better investment for now.
 
R-Type said:
Well that makes me feel better, Stewie must be folding under LN2 with a 1ghz oc :D
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not quite 1ghz

GPU 1 is 626 on the core and 1656 on the shaders

GPU 2 is 626 on the core and 1584 on the shaders

1512 is for sissies! J/K,guess I just got some above average cards or something.
 
StewieTheGreat said:
It was just giving rough numbers,but right now they are pulling like 8840 and 8970.

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I was just wondering what the ppd on the 460s was cause when I was looking around last night I seen some posts of people pulling like 17kppd like speedy said I didnt think that was right,but it seems like it was true but is not the case right now.

So it looks like an x6 would be a better investment for now.
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Yes, think it is, specially when you take into consideration the power usage.
 
you have some good cards......i would clock mine higher (will do a nice bit higher) but its in a dual GPU system with an OC'd 9450, all on a measly Antec ECO NEO 520w......2 molex to PCI-e connectors are being used ;)
 
People were getting 17k on 460's with older WU?! I feel robbed.

To paraphrase Blazing Saddles: "Where all the work units at??"
 
yeah older WUs I was getting 14k+

I havent run my gpu client in awhile though because of heat/stress issues
 
I just stuck two brand new Evga GTX 460 768MB in my basement HTPC to replace a 9800GX2.

I have them overclocked at 900mhz/1800mhz at 1.1v

Getting 11,682 ppd exactly
 
jebo_4jc said:
I just stuck two brand new Evga GTX 460 768MB in my basement HTPC to replace a 9800GX2.

I have them overclocked at 900mhz/1800mhz at 1.1v

Getting 11,682 ppd exactly
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Did you have to mod something to get up to 1.1v? Every voltage tool I have seen tops out at 1.087v.

I think you are definitely past the efficient scaling inflection point on the frequency/voltage curve at that point though. My 460 does 850/1700 at 1.025 and the EVGA FTW cards do the same speed at 1v. Gaining an extra 50mhz for an extra 100mv (and 30-50W of extra power consumption per card) does not seem worth it to me.
 
StewieTheGreat said:
1512 is for sissies! J/K,guess I just got some above average cards or something.
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Must be because the shader step above 1512Mhz is a bigger than average jump on the 200-series GPUs, if I remember correctly, and your cards are running many steps above that.
 
Well lets see mine is runnning at 882.3 Core, 1000 memory, and 1760 shader. Stock voltage on this card was 1.037 according to GPU-Z.

I am getting about 10 to 11k ppd. All on 6811's. It is the only wu I have seen in the last two weeks since I installed this card.
 
R-Type said:
Did you have to mod something to get up to 1.1v? Every voltage tool I have seen tops out at 1.087v.

I think you are definitely past the efficient scaling inflection point on the frequency/voltage curve at that point though. My 460 does 850/1700 at 1.025 and the EVGA FTW cards do the same speed at 1v. Gaining an extra 50mhz for an extra 100mv (and 30-50W of extra power consumption per card) does not seem worth it to me.
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you are right on both counts. I'm only at 1.087v.

And my 900mhz OC was seriously quick and dirty. I had pulled into the driveway only 15 minutes earlier and had them installed, overclocked, and folding. I saw one of the review sites had their 460 gaming stable at 930mhz at 1.087v so I went for 900.

This morning, one of the GPUs had probably crashed, since it was downclocked to ~400 mhz. So, I borrowed your settings before heading out the door.

I call it the shotgun approach to overclocking.
 
oh, at 850mhz I'm seeing 11,200 ppd on 6800.

Also, at the "balls out" 900mhz/1.087v overclock my UPS was reporting nearly 500W power draw.

At the more conservative 850/1.025 OC I'm only reporting 440W draw. Although one of the stupid fans is still getting loud in an annoying up/down fluctuating pattern. Probably the top card since it's sucking up the heat from the lower card.
 
jebo_4jc said:
oh, at 850mhz I'm seeing 11,200 ppd on 6800.

Also, at the "balls out" 900mhz/1.087v overclock my UPS was reporting nearly 500W power draw.

At the more conservative 850/1.025 OC I'm only reporting 440W draw. Although one of the stupid fans is still getting loud in an annoying up/down fluctuating pattern. Probably the top card since it's sucking up the heat from the lower card.
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is that 440W draw just for one card?
 
Zink said:
Stock clocks.
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Hi, I'm new to folding and I was just wondering how a x3440 is getting 26k ppd, which is over 5x more than a q6600 @3ghz (~5k ppd). Surely hyper threading doesn't make that much difference?

Plus, to add to the thread my gtx 460 @840mhz (stock volts) is netting 11.3k ppd.

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Zink said:
Hi, I'm new to folding and I was just wondering how a x3440 is getting 26k ppd, which is over 5x more than a q6600 @3ghz (~5k ppd). Surely hyper threading doesn't make that much difference?
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No, it doesn't. The non-linear bonus point system exaggerates the actual performance of i7 over previous generations of processors making them appear several times better. I can assure you that your processor does not produce 1/5th the science of an i7.
 
Zink said:
It's actually overclocked.
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Ah, that makes more sense (It looked as though it was vanilla clocks). Still it is a huge jump in performance! Looks like I need to rope some extra resources in to get into the top 100 (first target is to break 1m points within the next two months). I can see why this gets so addictive, but it's for a good cause..

Cheers, Guys!
 
Wiseguy2001 said:
Ah, that makes more sense (It looked as though it was vanilla clocks). Still it is a huge jump in performance! Looks like I need to rope some extra resources in to get into the top 100 (first target is to break 1m points within the next two months). I can see why this gets so addictive, but it's for a good cause..

Cheers, Guys!
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I'm similarly new, the folding definitely has that addictive feel like an RPG leveling grind. I'm currently projected to hit 1M on the 22nd of this month, but I have a GTX 470 at home that arrived today so that will change...:cool:
 
Just got my evga gtx 460 in the mail yesterday. Was so pumped about going from 9k ppd on my old gtx 260 to 14k ppd with the new card. But it looks like the same day I got my card the 6800 work units came out and they were the only thing you could get and Im kinda bummed.

Maybe in a few weeks a different work unit will come along and the ppk will go back to what it was.

Current evga 460gtx is at 850/1700/2000 Sitting at 11.1k ppd.
 
Good effort, with that extra gpu you should get to 1m in about two weeks!

If you asked me a week ago what I thought about all those people with multiple SR2's loaded with octa-core's. I would have said they their crazy, now they seem like well-rounded individuals (I don't know what that says about me).

I'll see you at the top :)
 
yummycheese said:
Just got my evga gtx 460 in the mail yesterday. Was so pumped about going from 9k ppd on my old gtx 260 to 14k ppd with the new card. But it looks like the same day I got my card the 6800 work units came out and they were the only thing you could get and Im kinda bummed.

Maybe in a few weeks a different work unit will come along and the ppk will go back to what it was.

Current evga 460gtx is at 850/1700/2000 Sitting at 11.1k ppd.
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yup. just like any RPG, sometimes the good stuff gets nerfed

Wiseguy2001 said:
Good effort, with that extra gpu you should get to 1m in about two weeks!

If you asked me a week ago what I thought about all those people with multiple SR2's loaded with octa-core's. I would have said they their crazy, now they seem like well-rounded individuals (I don't know what that says about me).

I'll see you at the top :)
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lol. welcome to the addiction
 
R-Type said:
I'm similarly new, the folding definitely has that addictive feel like an RPG leveling grind. I'm currently projected to hit 1M on the 22nd of this month, but I have a GTX 470 at home that arrived today so that will change...:cool:
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you gonna keep your GTX280 around for physx/folding? :)
 
jebo_4jc said:
you gonna keep your GTX280 around for physx/folding? :)
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Yep. I had a physx card and got rid of it because it was a worthless feature for me, but now I will use that as my thinly veiled attempt to justify keeping a 200W gpu in my PC as a 2nd card :D. I'm shooting for 50k total ppd on the current crap WU's, if the good times return I will be doing even better. Then in January its 2600k time, 8 threaded Sandy Bridge goodness overclocked to the limit.
 
Freshly stalled in a secondary pc, this is it's first WU. (one of these, thanks lassiterb)
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Three things:

1) The cooler on this card rocks. The card in my last post is one of these; whoever designed the cooler and display outputs must have gone full retard or something. On 6800s it sticks to 98C with the noisy fan maxed at 3k rpm sounding like a hair dryer even from another room. On the other hand the stock GTX 460 cooler spins at 1.5k rpm even on this EVGA SC card and is not noticable over my other fans. The card is at 58C.

2) The CPU is an Athlon X2 at 3000mhz and cpu utilization is sitting at 20% on average from the GPU3 client.

3) I just got my full cover block for the Zotac 1GB hairdryer in the mail. If the room that card will be folding in needs the extra heat this winter I should be able to leave that card folding at close to 1ghz. I can't wait to see how that works out.
 
Nice work.

One bit of advice though, the majority of users tend to prefer MSI Afterburner for overclocking as it gives you full voltage control. This should let you bump the overclock even higher on your 460.
 
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Sounds good, everything is at stock clocks for now because the PSU can only provide 20A of 12V and each of the PCIe adapters used comes of one of the units only 2 molex connectors. But it is running.
 
Zink said:
Sounds good, everything is at stock clocks for now because the PSU can only provide 20A of 12V and each of the PCIe adapters used comes of one of the units only 2 molex connectors. But it is running.
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Wow, I have mine running in a box with a 400w FSP unit with two 18A rails and thought I was pushing it. You must have a quality unit there.
 
WU 6800

GPU's symmetrically clocked, both @ 820 or 840
11,103.7 @ 820/1640 w/ SMP running
11,328.0 @ 840/1680 w/ SMP running

GPU's asymmetrically clocked, one @ 820 and one @ 840
11,103.7 @ 820/1640 w/ SMP stopped
11,328.0 @ 840/1680 w/ SMP stopped

Using: FAH GPU Tracker V2 3.38, EVGA Precision v2.0.1, ForceWare 260.99, BIOS 70.04.13.00.74
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