How about if I bought one of those low end Cuda cards from you? Was it the 460? That may help you be able to get your dream card.Originally Posted by DrPop
If it would give me half as good of love as my wife I would buy it right this second!
Man, what a deal, you guys don't understand how tempting this is; the 5970 has been my dream cruncher since it came out. It is literally the most efficient GFLOPS / Watt cruncher in the world. And I so value efficiency. . .
Ah. Thanks. Let me sleep on the possibilities. . . I was not prepared to shell out more this month, but sometimes it just works that way. I doubt I will see a new one of these anywhere else. It is still more efficient than anything in the 6xxx series, or anything NVIDIA has to offer. I was considering waiting for the 7xxx series, but a new dual GPU card in that series will cost more than double this deal. Hmmm...
Ah dang it all to heck, mate. It's 2 AM and you've got me up reading everything I can get my hands on. This is a major hard decision because 5970 new for $299 is a steal. But, the new 7000 series coming out very soon is supposed to have like 21+GFLOPS /Watt!
What to do...what to do...
As always, I check my PM box everyday... hoping someone will offer me a used NVIDIA card.
Just my way of helping you heavy hitters upgrade!
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I would not buy this Card being it's a 59xx Card, I don't remember what but something about the 59xx Cards that made them unsuitable for BOINC, the 58xx & 69xx Cards are faster with a slight edge to the 69xx Cards ... If you go look at the MOO & Collatz Top Computers List you don't see any 59xx Cards, there may be some but their way back in the list if there is any ...Hello Black Friday.
New unused Diamond HD 5970 $299.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814103195
It even says "Come bring me home Jed" on the page.
I know Bryan has a few of these and while not as effcient at Moo as 2 5870's it is taking up only one slot and will out crunch any single gpu card on Moo at this time. I think at this price it is something to consider. The newer cards will be much more, double or better when they come out.
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@ Steve - yeah, I understand what you're saying, and Bryan cautioned me not to buy a used one. But GFLOPS /Watt and GFLOPS /$$$, this is the best deal I've seen. You can easily O/C it to the speed of the 5870, because it's the same parts inside - just 2 sandwiched together. The issue is, they run hot, so from what I understand, you have to have really good airlow to run these things O/C and crunching 24/7. That's why I decided on that 10 slot Rosewill Thor V2 case; it had the lowest GPU temps in that Tom's test, due to the airflow.
But as you say, it is a slight risk over one of the newer ones, but surely they will be crazy expensive when they come out, at least initially!
I hear you, been mulling over it all day whether to get a few myself or not, very tempting but with the Newer Models on the Horizon I just don't know. At the worst I'm thinking I could sell them for what I paid for them if not for more in 6-8 month's for the price their selling for. I'd have some GTX 460, 470 & a 480 for sale if I bought some if anybody was interested in them, if not I'll just put them up on Amazon where I have a sellers Account already ...
EDIT: I broke down & ordered 4 of them before they ran out, needed a few more ATI Box's anyway so the deal was to good to ignore ...
Last edited by STE\/E; 11-25-11 at 07:09 PM.
Ste\/e, congrats.I hear you, been mulling over it all day whether to get a few myself or not, very tempting but with the Newer Models on the Horizon I just don't know. At the worst I'm thinking I could sell them for what I paid for them if not for more in 6-8 month's for the price their selling for. I'd have some GTX 460, 470 & a 480 for sale if I bought some if anybody was interested in them, if not I'll just put them up on Amazon where I have a sellers Account already ...
EDIT: I broke down & ordered 4 of them before they ran out, needed a few more ATI Box's anyway so the deal was to good to ignore ...I'm in awe.
While I can't match four, I did buy one to bring online for the team.
OMG that is insane grats....
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