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Message 53878 - Posted: 1 Apr 2012, 2:14:27 UTC - in response to Message 53553.  

currently i have 2 4670's but i am swapping those out with two 4850's so i will be able to run milky way. i chose the 4850's caz the wattage is lower than most of the others(110 watts each) the 4670 wattage is 70 each. i got a good deal.., is there a better card or is the 4850 a good choice? anyone?
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Message 53879 - Posted: 1 Apr 2012, 3:10:40 UTC - in response to Message 53878.  

with the 4670 i was having errors and i had to run 11-9 but runs 12-2 fine.
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Message 53880 - Posted: 1 Apr 2012, 3:24:38 UTC - in response to Message 53879.  

Milkyway@Home requires a GPU supporting Double Precision arithmetic.

Examples (these lists are not all of the GPUs which should work)
Nvidia:

GeForce GTX 590
GeForce GTX 580
GeForce GTX 570
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
GeForce GTX 560
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
GeForce GT 545
GeForce GTX 480
GeForce GTX 470
GeForce GTX 465
GeForce GTX 460
GeForce GTS 450
GeForce GT 430
Geforce GTX 295
Geforce GTX 285
Geforce GTX 280
Geforce GTX 275 (credits to Bruce)
Geforce GTX 260
Tesla S1070
Tesla C1060
Tesla M2090
Tesla M2070
Tesla M2050
Tesla S2050
Quadro Plex 2200 D2
Quadro FX 5800
Quadro FX 4800
Quadro 5000s, 5000s, 4000s
(Based on GT200 GPU)



AMD/ATI:

AMD Radeon 7970
AMD Radeon 7950
AMD Radeon 6990
AMD Radeon 6970
AMD Radeon 6950
AMD Radeon 6930
ATI HD Radeon 5970 (credits to kashi)
ATI HD Radeon 5870
ATI HD Radeon 5850
ATI HD Radeon 5830
ATI HD Radeon 4890
ATI HD Radeon 4870
ATI HD Radeon 4850
ATI HD Radeon 4830
ATI HD Radeon 4770
ATI HD Radeon 4830
ATI HD Radeon 38x0
(credits to cenit for the AMD documentation describing the products above)
ATI Firestream 9270
ATI Firestream 9250
ATI Firestream 9170
(credits to Cluster Physik)
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Message 53893 - Posted: 2 Apr 2012, 21:10:13 UTC - in response to Message 53878.  

The HD4850 is still fine, but getting really old. Sure, it doesn't consume as much power as other cards, but it's also slower. The chip is manufatured in dated 55 nm technology, which is inherently less power efficient than the 5xxx and 6xxx series in 40 nm.

Personly I sold my HD4870 some time ago to a gamer on a budget, as I figured it was not power efficient for 24/7 crunching any more.. for me, at least.

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Message 53894 - Posted: 3 Apr 2012, 1:29:11 UTC

If you want a powerful card solely for this project, get an ATI card. Nvidia artificially cripples double precision computing on their video cards to an insane degree, and they do not perform well here.
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Message 54477 - Posted: 21 May 2012, 3:52:19 UTC - in response to Message 53894.  

i finally settled for an HD5850 1GB DDR5 - seems to be a little more stable.
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