Zotac GT 430 PCI slot GPU info

[John P. Myers]

good to know , once i see how well they do maybe ill have to help out with the compitetion.
btw how many cards can u stick in one machine before it slows them down due to the pci bus

That depends on your CPU and which project your running on the GPUs. If you're going to fill every PCI slot with one of these, then you may need to question your power supply as well. These 430's don't use much power, but a bunch of them together may push the standard low-end power supplies to their limit.

You will probably find that not crunching any CPU tasks, allowing it to feed the GPUs only, will give you the best results. And credit-wise this is the best plan too, since the 430's will do much more work than your CPU.

[dave c]

my cards arrived but i havent been to the post office to pick them up yet , ill grab them in the afternoon when im on lunch from work
should be a really nice upgrade for my dell 3000's wish i would have known about these sooner as last month i just purchased some older geforce cards to stick in them so i could atleast watch movies and online videos , atleast i only paid like 14.95 for the geforce 6200 cards i bought

[dave c]

first run with a single zotac did not last long at all , with 0 overclocking i only made it 7 mins into the first collatz wu
froze the pc up solid , so i do a hard shutdown and put my hand on the card and the heatsink is red hot

i think i have a few problems here
#1 is the card sits upside down in my case ( heatsink on the bottom )
#2 is i had the card in the very bottom slot near the base of the case , i did this so i didnt have to rearange my other cards for the time being

im going to pull out my cd/dvd burner and put it back in upside down , and do the same with my harddrive so i can actually stick the tower upside down so the video cards heatsink is on the top
and then ill rearange my other pci cards so i can put them in a better slot

i did pull some fans of an old pentium 2 slot cpu/heatsink and they will screw directly to the zotac heatsink so i may add those , only problem is i have no 3 pin connectors to plug them in , so i may see if a regular case fan can be mounted on the heatsink sinc ei have a few that will plug into the normal power connectors from the psu instead of splicing the small fans into an unused plug


i will say this the collatz mini wu was estimated to finish in 35 minutes thats only 1 minute more then my ati radeon 6620g on my amd machine
so if i can make both cards work and run solo wu's i think i can pull down alot of credits a day

and i do love this card i did go on second life for a bit to test it , my old evga geforce 6200 would run only at minimum , the zotac is rated 5 out of 7 for video score and runs great in med high settings

[dave c]

gpu-z is reporting a temp of 65-67*c with the card running second life , havent tried to crunch with it yet as now that i changed its slot i need to update the drivers again
safe enough or should i go throw a fan on it?

[dave c]

updated to the latest drivers and within 5 mins of crunching temps hit 75*c and computer locked up again
any ideas guys?

[DrPop]

Hi Dave, honestly 75C is pretty normal for the GPUs I'm running. I've never owned that particular GPU, but mine (crunching) are all in the 80s and doing well. GPUs get much hotter than CPUs.

Not sure if the temp is locking you or something else. Did you try any other project or other type of WU? Which type of Collatz WU did you try, OpenCL or CUDA?

[dave c]

Hi Dave, honestly 75C is pretty normal for the GPUs I'm running. I've never owned that particular GPU, but mine (crunching) are all in the 80s and doing well. GPUs get much hotter than CPUs.

Not sure if the temp is locking you or something else. Did you try any other project or other type of WU? Which type of Collatz WU did you try, OpenCL or CUDA?

the wu's are mini colatz (cuda55)
whats another project i can try

ok on the temp i thought it was a lil high as my other computers sit right around 65*c when crunching

[Al]

I've got 2 430s (pci-e) and they can run in the 80 - 90c range without any issues. Like DrPop, I don't think it's a heat issue.

[dave c]

I've got 2 430s (pci-e) and they can run in the 80 - 90c range without any issues. Like DrPop, I don't think it's a heat issue.

im going to swap them into a different computer and see what happens , this computer has a 500w psu but im only using a single ide hd , single dvd drive , and its a very basic p4 2.8hgz machine so shouldnt be much power draw

i have another with a 650w psu ill see if that makes any difference but i doubt thats the issue either

i can also try playing a game that would drive the card pretty hard and see if that also causes it to lock up the pc

[dave c]

no change , what driver version are u guys using? bad cards maybe?