GPU Folding for my 5870?

[ddrueding]

Doesn't look like it's there yet, I need to run ATI's latest beta drivers to get the card to work at all.

 

[P5-133XL]

Try adding the "-forcegpu ati_r700" (No quotes) parameter

 

[P5-133XL]

The sad thing, according to those that have them, is that it still won't out-produce an average Nvidia card.

 

[ddrueding]

Well, as winter is coming in, I'll probably start folding with my two workstations. Both are roughly the one in my sig, one with a 5870 and one with a GTX295.

 

[Pradeep]

Finally installed 7 64bit and got the gpu client running on the 5770.

 

[ddrueding]

Anyone play with one of these yet?

 

[Mercutio]

Anyone play with one of these yet?

I see a 40 or 60mm fan on that heatsink looking bit over the north bridge, which leads to the obvious question: Why would anyone WANT to play with that?

 

[ddrueding]

Because fans are easy to replace, and 7 PCIe 16x slots could do some very neat GPU processing stuff?

 

[Mercutio]

That's an almost $500 motherboard with a fan that has at best a 12-month lifespan. Something like that might be more interesting if a reputable vendor gets around to building one with a proper cooling arrangement.

 

[ddrueding]

Some people think ASUS is OK. Same $400.

 

[Pradeep]

Surely another 5970 in Crossfire with your existing, would give you four way equivalence in two PCI slots, leaving plenty available for I/O without pissing away $400+ on a single socket mobo?

 

[ddrueding]

Surely another 5970 in Crossfire with your existing, would give you four way equivalence in two PCI slots, leaving plenty available for I/O without pissing away $400+ on a single socket mobo?

But then you are giving up the option of quad 5970s for the equivalent of 8-way performance

 

[Pradeep]

I don't think you can crossfire more than two of the x2 type cards, it's four GPUs max AFAICT. So up to four single GPU cards, or two double GPUs.