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Smuuth
03-30-11, 11:59 AM
Would like some of your expert advice. Should I go with a 5870 or ???
Crazybob's Son
03-30-11, 12:46 PM
Should I go with a 5870 or ???

I would say that depends on your budget and what you want to do with it.

The ATI cards get great credit in MW/DNETC but have limited projects that will run on them. Then you have the decision of if you want to go with the regular GPU cards (5800/6900 series) or Dual-GPU cards 5900 series

The Nvidia cards have more projects that they will run on (i.e. Gpu Grid, Collatz, Primegrid, Seti, etc) but I don't think they pay out as much as the ATI cards.
Smuuth
03-30-11, 01:18 PM
I would say that depends on your budget and what you want to do with it.

The ATI cards get great credit in MW/DNETC but have limited projects that will run on them. Then you have the decision of if you want to go with the regular GPU cards (5800/6900 series) or Dual-GPU cards 5900 series

The Nvidia cards have more projects that they will run on (i.e. Gpu Grid, Collatz, Primegrid, Seti, etc) but I don't think they pay out as much as the ATI cards.
My budget is $300-400.
For CUDA projects, I run primarily Primegrid Proth Prime Search (sieve) and Milkyway, with occasional forays into Collatz. I have CUDA enabled on Aqua, but have never seen any work from it.
Slicker
03-30-11, 04:16 PM
My budget is $300-400.
For CUDA projects, I run primarily Primegrid Proth Prime Search (sieve) and Milkyway, with occasional forays into Collatz. I have CUDA enabled on Aqua, but have never seen any work from it.

The attempted CUDA at AQUA and quickly gave up as it just didn't work very well for their algorithm.
rgathright
03-30-11, 05:07 PM
Would like some of your expert advice. Should I go with a 5870 or ???
I suggest...
$359
MSI N570GTX Twin Frozr II OC GeForce GTX 570 (Fermi) 1280MB 320-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127564)
http://images17.newegg.com/is/image/newegg/14-127-564-TS?$S300W$
c303a
03-30-11, 06:36 PM
Or this one that is oc ed already. http://www.compusa.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=7283219&CatId=3669http://www.compusa.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=7283219&CatId=3669 Price in cart is $339.99.
Smuuth
03-30-11, 08:34 PM
The attempted CUDA at AQUA and quickly gave up as it just didn't work very well for their algorithm.That explains it.

Thanks to everyone for the suggestions!
:D
DrPop
03-30-11, 11:33 PM
You simply cannot beat CUDA credits from PG right now. Hands down, at least right now, a high end Nvidia CUDA card will beat anything out there for top credits. However, this is ONLY with one project. All the other GPU projects - an ATI/AMD board will smoke a NVIDIA for credits. So it has to be your choice on that, what you like to run. ATI does awesome at DNETC, Great at MW, and Good at Collatz.
NVIDIA does PHENOMINAL at PG; only fair to middling points from everything else.

*NOTE* this could change at any time, based on what the developers of the code for various projects do in the future.

If you want an ATI card, I'd either get a 5850 ( or 2!) a 5870 ( or 2).
EDIT: for comparison purposes, you're looking at just over 300K / day @ DNETC on the 5870 O/Ced.

If you want max credits by running PG, I'd get a CUDA card - Joker recently had awesome success getting a $150 GTX 465 and BIOS modding it to a GTX 470. Over 500K per day just from that card alone! On your budget you could easily get 2 of those, and increase our RAC by 1Mil / day! :D