http://folding.stanford.edu/English/WinGPUGuide
http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=3336
My first thoughts are:
Do not mix drivers from different video manufacturers in one system.
There are lots of cards that will provide for great folding. I would rather see you buy two ATI 4870 X2 cards that we know will work together, and that provide the power to hit your high resolution requirements.
Of course, it's your weekends and evenings that you'll be giving up!
Please keep us posted. We will be waiting for your GPU folding farm to hit the numbers page.
Thanks texas,
good links and I’m sure I’ll be using them a great deal, but it’s got to do more than fold. This will also be my new primary work at home and gaming machine.
Priority one is having these three monitors active on one machine, providing for fast (or at least really good, considering...) full screen 2560x1600 frame rates on the 30” monitor, while still having the two 24” ones active and reasonably well powered themselves, on either side.
It will be used to run Lotus Notes, SameTime, various office suites, instant messengers, Dragon Naturally Speaking, electronic and mechanical design tools, photo and presentation tools, VoIP, video/web conferencing, and dozens of constantly open browser tabs and windows, not to mention games, DVDs and BluRay’s. (Pretty much like I do now, but with three monitors on one machine, instead of two on one machine and one on another...)
When I’m not otherwise keeping it engaged, I’d like it to also fold it’s little heart out...
I’m prepared for plenty of installation and configuration pain, but in the end, it has to deliver on my requirements.
It may be that CrossFire/SLI are not quite ready to do three monitor support the way I want. Would it be a better idea to get a GeForce GTX 280 or 285 for the 30”, and leave the two 24’s on a 9800GT each with no SLI enabled on any? Will a GTX 285 and a pair of 9800GTs play well together with no SLI involved? (I already have the two 9800 GT’s..)