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To: texas booster

Still got 4 CPU’s bangin’ away out here on the Left Coast.

Little by little does the trick.

Looking to configure a new system for the home office, though, so I will likely add an NVIDIA GPU to my folding ranks in the next couple of months. Still researching configurations to achieve optimal preformance/$$ ratio. I can accept that I probably won’t hit it dead-on, but I’d like to get close as far as my selections for the MB/CPU/GPU triad are concerned.


76 posted on 08/18/2008 10:29:01 AM PDT by HKMk23 (LIGHTS ON FOR DRILLING NOW! ...and wind, and solar, and nuclear, 'cuz it's not "either...or".)
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To: HKMk23
It is certainly a moving target.

I favor the new Penryn Quad processors, as long as it is not my checkbook that is paying for it.

The ATI cards are supposed to have price decreases in the next month, which will put pressure on NVidia to lower prices ...

I also think that a new installer for SMP for Windows will be out by then.

A single quad core system with a fast GPU should be able to run SMP and a GPU kernel and get 7,000 ppd.

At least in theory.

77 posted on 08/18/2008 10:39:39 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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