Folderchat: The weekday thread

KarmaKiller · January 29th, 2009, 05:41 PM

780 does offer 16x across all three PCI-e slots.

As far as the 16/8x in SLI configs, it does hurt performance some, but most say it's not horribly noticeable. My take, if your spending that much on GPU's, I would want every shred of performance I can get from it.
In all honesty, you can pick up a nice 750i board that will handle 16x across 2 PCI-e slots. Those are really great bang for the buck. The only reason you would need a 780i is, 1) your gonna run Tri-SLI, 2) you need another PCI-e slot for RAID/sound/etc card.

BUT, you may also look at open boxes too. Or even forums. There are lots of people getting rid of their 780 board for I7 supported boards, normally going around $160 or so.

nunyadam · January 29th, 2009, 05:48 PM

YEAH! We have a New Gov in Illinois!

KarmaKiller · January 29th, 2009, 05:52 PM

Blago finally get the boot?
Gonna go read some news now..

batmeat · January 29th, 2009, 10:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dchw_dude

Wow, really? I just downloaded the Linux Binary . . and I have been running it from the console. Even its very first WU never made it out. *sigh. Back to the wiki . . .

I've never folded on a linux box, but out of curiousity, which linux distro are you using? That may be part of the problem.

ShyguyXPC · January 30th, 2009, 02:10 AM

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Originally Posted by KarmaKiller

780 does offer 16x across all three PCI-e slots.

As far as the 16/8x in SLI configs, it does hurt performance some, but most say it's not horribly noticeable. My take, if your spending that much on GPU's, I would want every shred of performance I can get from it.
In all honesty, you can pick up a nice 750i board that will handle 16x across 2 PCI-e slots. Those are really great bang for the buck. The only reason you would need a 780i is, 1) your gonna run Tri-SLI, 2) you need another PCI-e slot for RAID/sound/etc card.

BUT, you may also look at open boxes too. Or even forums. There are lots of people getting rid of their 780 board for I7 supported boards, normally going around $160 or so.

so 750's are capable of 16x 16x or 16x 8x?

if thats the case, may grab one of those then, I remember seeing an Open Box 750i on newegg not too long ago for like $75 or so.

will have to check that again here. (I think I also saw a 750i board yesterday that had 3 PCIE 16x slots, 2x 2.0 & 1x 1.0, or the other way around, I forget..., one slot was a full 16x, the other two were 8x 8x when run in SLI...)

KarmaKiller · January 30th, 2009, 06:19 AM

They support 16x 16x.

MAEN crew!
FRIDAY!!

ShyguyXPC · January 30th, 2009, 09:28 AM

ok, got me thinking, trying to keep things realistic in prices/budgets, etc...

Karma, off hand do you think my OCZ 700W GameXStream should handle a GTX285 (2x 6 pin PCIE), and would using just one in a single 16x PCI-E 1.0 slot be ok, or would it be wiser to use a 2.0 slot based board?

thinking I could just get the fastest 285 I can find, throw that in, use my current PSU & Mobo for a single card setup...

as it stands, if I could do that, here's what My list of parts would look like:

Newegg.com - EVGA 01G-P3-1287-AR GeForce GTX 285 SSC Edition 1GB 512-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card - Desktop Graphics / Video Cards

Newegg.com - G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Desktop Memory (2 of these kits for 8GB total, DDR2 1066, since my boards standard is 800, figured it'd give me some head room for OCing the Q6600 down the road)

Newegg.com - Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 64-bit for System Builders - Operating Systems

Newegg.com - 3Dconnexion 3DX-700029 Silver/Black 2 Buttons USB Optical SpaceNavigator PE - Mouse

Newegg.com - WACOM MTE450 5.8" x 3.7" Active Area USB Bamboo Pen Tablet- Black finish - Tablets

Total comes to just over $761...

depending on what I have left to pay off on the car, it might leave just enough to buy a small netbook for on the go use as well.

KarmaKiller · January 30th, 2009, 12:36 PM

your 700w will handle it fine. If a 600w can handle a GX2+8800gt, I would think you have plenty of headroom.
And you better let me test out that 285 for ya first. You can just have it shipped to my house.

nunyadam · January 30th, 2009, 02:54 PM

I hope your sitting Down Karma, this might scare you.
I Just did a fresh install of Windows. Yes a clean full Windows XP install, no more old files.
I went so far as to splurge and buy myself a new Seagate 500 gig Sata drive, and yes it was checked out it is not one of them that had the bad Firmware.
presently working on all the windows updates. next up back to the folding.

I wonder how much better it will run now. We shall see.

nunyadam · January 30th, 2009, 03:35 PM

More updates, but GPU is running.