Cheapest GPU Card?

[Penfold]

I'm looking for the cheapest Video cards which can fold with GPU (CUDA ones??)

If there's cheap enough I'll buy a few to stick in some more machines. Any thoughts on which ones may be the best and cheapest?

Thanks

PEN

[Lexander]

I have been thinking the same thing. Oh and is there an AGP card that can use the GPU folding ?

[kregoron]

a list of supported GPU's can be found here
http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_learn_products.html

so something like a 8400GS would be cheapest i guess, tho there are a few smaller cards on the list but they are either mobile gpu's or onboard gpu's on motherboards

[delanvital]

Not exactly up to date, but the following ATI cards are also an option, depending on price today etc...

We now support several classes of GPU boards, including X1600, X1800, and X1900 series GPUs from ATI. At the launch, we supported X1900 series cards only. X1800 cards do not provide the performance seen in X1900's and so we strongly recommend X1900 class cards. X1900 and X1800 cards are actually quite different -- they have different processors (R520, R530 vs. the R580). The R580 in the X1900 makes a huge difference in performance -- its 48 pixel shaders are key, as we use pixel shaders for our computations. Also note that the card should have at least 512MB of RAM, otherwise the GPU client will put a huge load on the client machine (although we do note that the 256MB X1950Pro using PCIe does work reasonably well on current projects).

Linky

[kregoron]

Not exactly up to date, but the following ATI cards are also an option, depending on price today etc...



Linky

yes but sadly ATI cards doesnt have anywhere near the same processing power at folding as the nVIDIA cards does, so if the card is just bought for folding, the ATI cards arent a good option, in my oppinion

[Jabbs]

I'm looking for the cheapest Video cards which can fold with GPU (CUDA ones??)

If there's cheap enough I'll buy a few to stick in some more machines. Any thoughts on which ones may be the best and cheapest?

Thanks

PEN

I've been thinking the same and will check this out too :-)

[Jabbs]

So something like this would fold?

Inno3D 8400GS from ebuyer.com @ £26?

And would it therefore perform better (Counter-Strike Source) than my ageing GeForce 6800?

[kregoron]

no the 8400GS woulndt perform better then your 6800 in CSS, the 8400GS is aimed at the media centers and alike, it can run css, but your fps would be lower

LINKY

look at the bottom ones

you wouldnt need something around 8600GT or 8800GT/GTS/GTX to actually get higher fps with it

[Jabbs]

no the 8400GS woulndt perform better then your 6800 in CSS, the 8400GS is aimed at the media centers and alike, it can run css, but your fps would be lower

LINKY

look at the bottom ones

you wouldnt need something around 8600GT or 8800GT/GTS/GTX to actually get higher fps with it

Ah thanks for that link, helps a lot

[kregoron]

Ayntime m8, anymore questions ask away