GTX 480

[Salavat23]

Really?

You completely read that out of context.

Oh so not doing all the research means a company earns the right to walk all over you and sell you an old product with a shiny new coat of paint as a new product; got it.

If you can't spare a minute or two, or even bother reading the specs on the box, then you get whats coming to you.

That's like buying an old house without ever going inside of it. Or buying a new house and not looking or the floor plan.

....has nothing to do with this. Apples to oranges.

We're talking about the same concept. Link the two together, doesn't take a rocket scientist, although maybe one might help.

Intel builds crippled Kingstons. Name others.
Intel, Indilinx, Samsung, now SandForce. 4 MLC makers. Indilinx provides chips to several companies, as does Samsung. Intel is Intel only except for a few Kingstons (V series of which has no TRIM support). SandForce is brand new and OCZ only ATM.

There are plenty rebrands out there. The point of my statement was to make an analogy, not for you to cling onto the quantity of ssds out in the wild.

...apparently they do otherwise they wouldn't be saying shit about it.

How often do you see a silent release from Nvidia?

Stay on topic. The automobile industry and SSDs have nothing to deal with Folding or GTX 480s.

Neither does your whining about Nvidia's rebranding strategy.

EDIT: Apparently, you edited your post quite of few times, so some of the quotes don't match up to the time when I was replying.

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

Overclocking isn't everything and I have a Skulltrail to prove it. It doesn't OC that much better than my Supermicro boards unless you run very expensive processors that are 3GHz or higher stock, which can take high voltages. Beyond the ~$400 mark, a motherboard quickly succumbs to the Law of Diminishing Returns, regardless of feature set. That has been my experience.

Most dual-socket boards are built for the enterprise market where having lots of threads in one machine is much better than having lots of threads in different machines. When you put it that way, it doesn't sound too much different from FAH. Besides this, most dual-socket boards aren't designed for overclocking. Even if the eVGA board OC's as well as any other single-socket board, it is still a huge step up.

True, but what I meant was with all those PCI-E slots, most folders will not be buying this board to run native Linux and WINE to take advantage of it. Don't get me wrong, I love Linux and wish I was more versed in it, but it just doesn't make sense to me from a folding standpoint. Those PCI-E slots are begging for heavy GPU use and I cannot justify dumping ~$700 on a dual-socket board to run Linux in order to fully exploit its CPU potential. This will completely change once -bigadv will be released in Windows A3, but until then this board is not the best buy for a folder's budget.

I thought we were getting a Linux GPU client?

In any case, it is possible to run GPU clients under WINE, isn't it? And even if there is a performance hit, then you can run Windows A3. Granted, you don't get the huge amount of ppd from SMP as from bigadv, but you still get a shitload.

Intel builds crippled Kingstons. Name others.
Intel, Indilinx, Samsung, now SandForce. 4 MLC makers. Indilinx provides chips to several companies, as does Samsung. Intel is Intel only except for a few Kingstons (V series of which has no TRIM support). SandForce is brand new and OCZ only ATM.

Indilinx provides controllers.

You lost me there. You type out the quote tags...??

Yes. As in, I type:

[*quote]insert text here[/*quote]

 

[APOLLO]

I thought we were getting a Linux GPU client?

Tobit and Evil can answer this question better. I really don't know.

In any case, it is possible to run GPU clients under WINE, isn't it? And even if there is a performance hit, then you can run Windows A3. Granted, you don't get the huge amount of ppd from SMP as from bigadv, but you still get a shitload.

I'm dying for an A3 -bigadv possibility. It will save on RAM and see better performance under a native environment when running simultaneous GPU clients. I just can't wait and if it will be released within a few months time, say before June, I just might change my tune.

 

[Tobit]

I thought we were getting a Linux GPU client?

Vijay hinted to this but there is nothing even close to a GPU client for Linux at this time. -bigadv for A3 will be here long before a native Linux client.

 

[nitrobass24]

Vijay hinted to this but there is nothing even close to a GPU client for Linux at this time. -bigadv for A3 will be here long before a native Linux client.

Which totally shocks me.

CUDA runs just as good on linux as it does on Windows....actually better.
If you buy Tesla Rackmount systems they only work on Linux

I just dont get it

 

[APOLLO]

CUDA runs just as good on linux as it does on Windows....actually better.
If you buy Tesla Rackmount systems they only work on Linux.

Wow, I didn't know this.

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

Which totally shocks me.

CUDA runs just as good on linux as it does on Windows....actually better.
If you buy Tesla Rackmount systems they only work on Linux

I just dont get it

CUDA may, but what about OpenCL? Because I thought that was what they were porting the GPU client to.

 

[zero2dash]

So do the CUDA drivers yield better PPD than the Forceware drivers?
(And likewise do the CUDA drivers work ok when gaming?)
Just trying to figure out if I should DriverSweeper the Forcewares and install the CUDAs.

 

[nitrobass24]

No

They are just for Teslas

If you have a Desktop GPU or a Quadro use the appropriate drivers