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Timo
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21 Oct 2019 15:50:55 UTC
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    hi everybody, 

    hope I'm in the right forum here. 

    I currently have a ~2 year old system, but my graphics card is a bit older. here are some specs:

    Windows 10

    SSD(270 GB) and HDD (1TB)

    Asus maximus hero VIII Mainboard 

    Intel i7 6700K @4 GHz

    8 GB DDR3 (?) RAM

    Gigabyte R9 390 (8GB RAM) 

    550 W PSU fully modular from Corsair 

     

    I'm using my computer mainly for gaming and some office work. when I'm not home I let einstein@home run. have not been for a long time but I started again a few weeks ago. 

    Lately I've been thinking that some more fps wouldn't be bad and a new card wouldn't hurt computing performance either. 

    so to come to my question: do both mentioned cards work again? have been reading about some issues.. 

    second question: wich one to get? gaming wise it isn't a big difference, price is about 100 euros difference. what difference should I expect in computing for Einstein? 

    wich one is better for the future/I will be able to use for more time? 

     

    also I'm thinking about buying the rx and using it together with the r9 for Einstein. would that even make sense considering I have to buy a new PSU..? 

     

    have a nice day 

    Timo

     

    Edit: I'm always using 2 monitors, one for gaming, one for watching tv. at the same time. so it would give me another fps boost, if I connect the tv-monitor to the r9, so the rx has just one monitor to handle?

     

    Keith Myers
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    Can anyone confirm that the

    21 Oct 2019 16:57:06 UTC
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      Can anyone confirm that the 5700 actually works here on Einstein.  It doesn't on Seti and both projects use OpenCL. As far as I know the OpenCL for the 5700 is still broken for compute.

       

      QuantumHelos
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      Dual wield the VII Super

      21 Oct 2019 18:16:24 UTC
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        Dual wield the VII Super NGX

         

        https://is.gd/ProcessorLasso

        archae86
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        So far as I've heard users

        21 Oct 2019 23:42:22 UTC
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          So far as I've heard users have reported no success in using Navi cards at Einstein.  I don't believe anyone knows what the problem actually is.  There is an "All things Navi" thread here you may wish to review.

          Timo
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          archae86 schrieb: There is an

          24 Oct 2019 6:23:18 UTC
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            archae86 wrote:
            There is an "All things Navi" thread here you may wish to review.

            I'm following it. no updates tho

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            using 2 monitors, one for

            31 Oct 2019 9:41:24 UTC
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              using 2 monitors, one for gaming, one for watching tv. at the same time. so it would give me another fps boost, if I connect the tv-monitor to the r9, so the rx has just one monitor to handle?

              Having 2 GPUs for 2 display outputs will not increase your FPS (at best slightly decrease idle power).

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              Timo wrote: Gigabyte R9 390

              1 Nov 2019 16:27:36 UTC
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                Timo wrote:
                Gigabyte R9 390 (8GB RAM) 550 W PSU fully modular from Corsair
                Your R9 is capable of 640 double precision flops compared to only 314 FP4 flops for the much newer RTX-2080
                Suggest you add the milkyway project as your board is capable of running up to 5 concurrent MW tasks efficiently.  The MW project has a idle time of a couple of minutes after the last result gets uploaded so you can set the Einstein resource to 0 so it gets a task when Milkyway is idle.  Unlike most (all?) other projects, MW makes extensive use of double precision float hardware on a GPU.

                 

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