So I'm enrolled in the International Baccalaureate programme and one of the conditions for graduation is something called CAS. Creativity, Action and Service. So I was thinking, I could do a service to the world community by organizing fund-raising events to fund a school F@H super rig Of course it will join team G3D Now assuming we raise about $2k, what would be the best rig to make for folding. I was thinking i5 750 and quad 295s, note this is gonna hopefully be running 24/7
Second hand is hard to find. I was thinking dual 295s would do the trick, maybe even three. I'm assuming the third doesn't need to be connected via sli bridge to work in F@H
unless you will be folding with the cpu. I think you might be better using the MSI K9A2 Platinum with Phenom II X4 to save funds for the GPUs. correct me if Im wrong.
personally, as long as the processor will be able to fetch the data to gpu for folding, a low power, a single core will be enough. as long as you didn't run the folding on cpu too.
I think those are great ideas. Definitly put the processor on lower priority than the GPU's to save money produce as much PPD as possible. I would still say get the fastest CPU you can get with the money you have left over and run at least run one SMP or CPU client, every bit of PPD counts! 4 295's (unless you're talking about 2 295's, with a total of 4 GPU's) will cost about $1860 new, it will probably cost you more than $2k for a complete new system with 4 physical 295's... What components can you salvage to use for the project?
Newegg isn't the only online store Depending on the CPU you end up with I would consider running just GPU clients; if the CPU is running SMP then it will lower the PPD of the GPUs and could hurt total PPD. Way too many acronyms..
No i mean dual 295s. Not 4. I was thinking of just getting an i7 920 and run both GPU and CPU clients... I mean why not ?
imo, 4 of 250 or 260 would be cheaper than two 295s. just wire two PSUs together to power them. with the AMD platform. Hopefully he could find it if he choose this route
Where would you find a better deal?? I don't think that the GPU clients will slow down because of the SMP client. I'm running quad sli with 4 gpu clients and 2 smp clients without any slow down what-so-ever. I've tried just running the GPU clients and just running the SMP clients individually and I always get the same PPD. In my opinion you should run all the clients in order to max out your PPD as much as you can...hell, that IS why you're buying this computer! If you are really worried about the SMP client slowing down GPU output you can always just set the SMP client to lowest priority and the GPU clients to highest priority that way when the GPU clients need the CPU for something they will have priority and if the CPU needs the GPU's for some it will have to wait. In the end the GPU clients will still have max PPD while the CPU client will at least produce some PPD for you, which is better than nothing!
