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On Wednesday 02 March 2016 15:33:27 James wrote: |
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> Peter Humphrey <peter <at> prh.myzen.co.uk> writes: |
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> > It's approaching time to invest in a new system, and I'd like the |
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> > panel's views on which make of graphics card to choose: AMD, nVidia or |
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> > Radeon. Does anyone here have an opinion to offer? |
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> Perhaps you can define some more parameters as to your budget constraints, |
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> power limitations on the main power supply and exactly |
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> what is your target use of the video (gpu+memory) resources? |
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Budget seems unlikely to influence choice of graphics card maker. The three I |
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mentioned are all offered by my preferred system builder, Armari. I don't |
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know what you mean about limits to power. You snipped the application area, |
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which as I said is scientific computing using GPUs as well as the CPU. |
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> Noise (dB) restrictions? Air or water cooled? hardware (slot) |
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> availability? |
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I'm just interested in the comparative performance of the three makes of GPU |
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at this stage. I can fill in the rest of the spec once I know which to go for |
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- unless one make is ruled out by excessively noisy coolers or something. |
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Not just the computing power, though: Gentoo support will be important over |
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the life of the system. If the life of this current box is any guide, that |
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could stretch to 10 years. Well, maybe. |
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> New mobo or an upgrade to an existing mobo? |
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It'll be a new system, as I said. |
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> Dual windows booting for windows gaming? etc etc..... |
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I'm not interested in Windows or gaming. Certainly not the kind of rapid-fire |
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games that spotty youths seem to go for. |
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Rgds |
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Peter |
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