Nvidia cars

[DrPop]

I thought the 460 cards were pretty sweet performance / watt? Maybe I'm remembering "wrong" from some reviews I read, but I seem to remember when that one came out, many were breathing a sigh of relief that not ALL NVIDIA cards were power hogs...I have no idea where it sits in points / day, though.

[joker]

Update. Got the GTX 465 today and it is indeed the Black version. Got it crunching PG with a slight OC (ok, a 100MHz bump in the clock speed) for the first couple of days just to burn it in. Used MSI Afterburner to up the fan speed and it looks like there is MASSIVE room for OCing. I will now have to research how to flash the BIOS to a 470.

[Fire$torm]

Update. Got the GTX 465 today and it is indeed the Black version. Got it crunching PG with a slight OC (ok, a 100MHz bump in the clock speed) for the first couple of days just to burn it in. Used MSI Afterburner to up the fan speed and it looks like there is MASSIVE room for OCing. I will now have to research how to flash the BIOS to a 470.

Yipeeeeee!!!

[joker]

Things went from great to poopy. After about 1.5 hours, the system with the GTX 465 in it crashed. Crashed as in froze. Reboot hoping it was just a bug. Lasted a whole 10 minutes then crashed again. Now it wont even load everything on boot up before it crashes. Tried safe mode........crash. Cant even reinstall drivers. Drop the 4870 back in and all is just fine. And to add injury to insult, my system with the 5830 and 5850 in it is going wacko as well. Keeps telling me about every 8-10 hours that the video drivers have "failed" and stops crunching. This may be the part where I fall on my sword.

[Fire$torm]

Things went from great to poopy. After about 1.5 hours, the system with the GTX 465 in it crashed. Crashed as in froze. Reboot hoping it was just a bug. Lasted a whole 10 minutes then crashed again. Now it wont even load everything on boot up before it crashes. Tried safe mode........crash. Cant even reinstall drivers. Drop the 4870 back in and all is just fine. And to add injury to insult, my system with the 5830 and 5850 in it is going wacko as well. Keeps telling me about every 8-10 hours that the video drivers have "failed" and stops crunching. This may be the part where I fall on my sword.

D@mn, what a major PITA. Sorry to hear it.
So like besides the routine checks, I would run CPUID's Hardware Monitor or similar on both boxes. Use it to check temps, voltages and anything else it can record to a log until the box poops out. Maybe run SysInternals Process Explorer at the same time just to see what is going on under the hood. I'm sure there are better tools for what I'm suggesting but these are the ones I know.

Good luck.

[c303a]

http://www.geforce.com/#/Hardware/GP...560ti/overview

Might want to check this new nVidia card. It is supposed to be in stores today at $149.

[c303a]

http://www.compusa.com/applications/...125&CatId=3669

Discounts already on the EVGA card or they have an oc'ed one for $159.

[dan]

I don't know about those cards but the 570 does between 550k-600k per day. Not sure of exact number because I have mine a little OC'd and its doing about 640k per day.

Interesting. I was running a GTX 580, until the fan died and was only gettting 100,000 a day. Must not of been running Prime Grid. When I get the RMA'd card back, I'll try it.

Thanks.

[Maxwell]

Interesting. I was running a GTX 580, until the fan died and was only gettting 100,000 a day. Must not of been running Prime Grid. When I get the RMA'd card back, I'll try it.

Thanks.

Yeah, give PrimeGrid (the PPS Sieve subproject) a shot - that 580 should get you ~680k/day there.

[dan]

Yeah, give PrimeGrid (the PPS Sieve subproject) a shot - that 580 should get you ~680k/day there.

Nice. With my 5870 running DNET, that should put me over a Million a day.

Thanks for the advice,

Dan