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Message 5416 - Posted: 9 Jan 2009 | 10:16:13 UTC

I'm sure someone out there has one - so, spill the beans, how does it perform?

.......... I don't want to break the news to the Wife that I have to find out first hand!

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Message 5417 - Posted: 9 Jan 2009 | 10:33:25 UTC - in response to Message 5416.
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I'm sure someone out there has one - so, spill the beans, how does it perform?

.......... I don't want to break the news to the Wife that I have to find out first hand!

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They only cost $499 USD. Just follow this link and click on the Buy It Now button... LOL

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Message 5418 - Posted: 9 Jan 2009 | 11:00:32 UTC - in response to Message 5416.

I'm sure someone out there has one...

It's on it's way...with a little luck it'll arrive by tomorrow... ;)

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Message 5427 - Posted: 9 Jan 2009 | 20:07:52 UTC - in response to Message 5418.

...... $499 - I wish!

c. £425 in the UK - we pay too much for everything.

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Message 5430 - Posted: 9 Jan 2009 | 21:46:18 UTC - in response to Message 5427.

...... $499 - I wish!

c. £425 in the UK - we pay too much for everything.

P.


Even tea ... why do you think we became so objectionable ...

I mean, why do you think we aren't objective ...

Wait a moment...

Why we objected ... thats it ... why we objected ... even back then we knew that we would have to pay too much for video cards ...

Besides, it is so hard to fake the accent all the time ... and to misspell words by adding even more unneeded letters ...

You need to start a revolution ... no representation without taxation ...

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Message 5432 - Posted: 10 Jan 2009 | 1:47:26 UTC

Give me liberty or give me death! (and less expensive computer parts)

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Message 5433 - Posted: 10 Jan 2009 | 7:38:30 UTC - in response to Message 5432.

....... suddenly I feel the need to remind you that 4 July is our independence day as well!!!!!!!

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Message 5436 - Posted: 10 Jan 2009 | 11:14:16 UTC - in response to Message 5427.

...... $499 - I wish!

c. £425 in the UK - we pay too much for everything.

P.


$795 to $1146 (AUD) here. One AUD approx 0.4635 GBP or 0.7031 USD.

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Message 5437 - Posted: 10 Jan 2009 | 12:35:10 UTC

You need to start a revolution ... no representation without taxation ...


Ya, because look how great we have it here, Taxation with Representation, it doesn't get any better than that ... ;)

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Message 5438 - Posted: 10 Jan 2009 | 12:36:24 UTC - in response to Message 5436.

...... $499 - I wish!

c. £425 in the UK - we pay too much for everything.

P.


$795 to $1146 (AUD) here. One AUD approx 0.4635 GBP or 0.7031 USD.


LOL ... I'll wait until the 45n with DDR5 Cards come out ... :)

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Message 5440 - Posted: 10 Jan 2009 | 12:40:22 UTC

Looks like they're going directly for 40 nm :)

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Message 5456 - Posted: 10 Jan 2009 | 17:34:30 UTC - in response to Message 5440.

We are interested to know how much is the real power consumption and working temperature with the 295GTX. We would like to set up 4 on the same machine.
Can anybody provide this info if they bought one?

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Message 5608 - Posted: 14 Jan 2009 | 12:27:28 UTC - in response to Message 5456.

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We are interested to know...the...working temperature with the 295GTX.

Some experiences: when I started crunching with the stock adjustments the temperatures soon went beyond 80°C, accompanied by computation errors, so I had to stop the test. Unfortunately nvclock won't work yet, so I modified the GPUs BIOS to adjust the fan settings. Now they are configured to run at 100% and the temperature is around 53°C - 55°C with inner case ambient temps of 38°C to 40°C (both measured by the GPUs sensors). I think this should be a healthy temperature for 24/7 use, especially when compared to a 9800 GX2 which showed about 5°C more in the same case.

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Message 5609 - Posted: 14 Jan 2009 | 13:05:43 UTC
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Unfortunately nvclock won't work yet


Have you tried EVGA Precision yet to see if it works with the 295 Card ??? I use it on my 260-280 Cards & it works fine.

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Message 5611 - Posted: 14 Jan 2009 | 15:50:13 UTC - in response to Message 5609.
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Thanx for the hint...but I'm running LINUX on all my active GPUGrid rigs...

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Message 5614 - Posted: 14 Jan 2009 | 16:04:41 UTC - in response to Message 5611.

Thanx for the hint...but I'm running LINUX on all my active GPUGrid rigs...


Yeah, it won't work with Linux ...

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Message 5633 - Posted: 15 Jan 2009 | 10:34:22 UTC

UL1, are you able to run 2 Wu's @ a time with your 295 Card ??? Prying Minds want to know as the Rumors are spreading you'll be able to run 8-9 Wu's a day with it.

Being that it's a SLI Card nobodys said yet if you can run 2 at once ... ???

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Message 5634 - Posted: 15 Jan 2009 | 10:45:33 UTC - in response to Message 5633.

It's the same as with an 9800 GX2: you can run 2 WUs at the same time...

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Message 5635 - Posted: 15 Jan 2009 | 12:27:09 UTC - in response to Message 5634.

It's the same as with an 9800 GX2: you can run 2 WUs at the same time...


Okay, Thanks for the Info ... :)

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Message 5636 - Posted: 15 Jan 2009 | 12:34:02 UTC - in response to Message 5635.

Hi UL1 - what are you thoughts with the card now it is up and running - are you getting the performance you expected - does it get through as much as a pair of 260s !

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Message 5637 - Posted: 15 Jan 2009 | 13:13:51 UTC

Don't tell him UL1, he's my main competition on our Team ... hahaha ... Just kidding, I'd like to know that myself ... :)

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Message 5639 - Posted: 15 Jan 2009 | 13:55:26 UTC

Made a quick comparison: Burdett's 260s are clocked at 1475000/1497000KHz and need about 25.000+/- s for an 3232-WU, Time per step is ~29ms. The 295ers are running at stock (-> 1242000KHz) and need about the same time...
When overclocked the times will get better... ;)
Ratm I'm very pleased with these cards: they're running cool and are very fast; I'd buy them again...

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Message 5640 - Posted: 15 Jan 2009 | 14:27:22 UTC - in response to Message 5639.
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.... Hmmm - may get one then, before PoorBoy buys them all!!!!!

.... and that's running 2 WUs concurrently?

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Message 5641 - Posted: 15 Jan 2009 | 14:30:13 UTC - in response to Message 5639.
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Do you know about power consumption?

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as a matter of fact a 295 seems to be two 280 rather than two 260-216
http://www.gpugrid.net/result.php?resultid=218144

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Message 5644 - Posted: 15 Jan 2009 | 15:04:00 UTC - in response to Message 5641.
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I´m interested in power consumption also, my 9800GX2-computer draws 260 watts when crunching two WUs and 75% CPU on other BOINC-projects, taskman shows ~90% load (Q6700@stock/1,2V, P43, 1x HDD, no DVD-ROM, 550watt PSU, 18146). No statistics yet on this computer, I changed different GTX 260-cards from board to board, dont be confused.

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Message 5648 - Posted: 15 Jan 2009 | 17:56:12 UTC - in response to Message 5641.

as a matter of fact a 295 seems to be two 280 rather than two 260-216


Yes, it's got the full 240 shaders per chip as the GTX 280, but has the clocks and memory interface of the GTX 260 (surely to keep power consumption and PCB length and cost in check).

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Message 5710 - Posted: 17 Jan 2009 | 8:20:46 UTC - in response to Message 5648.

Regarding power consumption: when switching GPUGrid from standby to full throttle the display showed only 100 Watts more...

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Message 5717 - Posted: 17 Jan 2009 | 11:54:33 UTC - in response to Message 5710.
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100 W for both GPU cores used by GPUGRID?
How much is the total system power consumption?
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Message 5745 - Posted: 18 Jan 2009 | 13:49:30 UTC - in response to Message 5717.

GDF wrote:
100 W for both GPU cores used by GPUGRID?

Yes...


GDF wrote:
How much is the total system power consumption?

430 Watts...

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Message 5787 - Posted: 19 Jan 2009 | 19:50:11 UTC

Has anyone a gtx295 crunching two WUs at the same time under windows Vista 32 bits?

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Message 6695 - Posted: 16 Feb 2009 | 22:49:34 UTC - in response to Message 5787.

Yes on 32-bit but no on 64 bit.

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Message 6806 - Posted: 20 Feb 2009 | 7:37:11 UTC - in response to Message 6695.

How?

Multi-GPU Mode has been disabled but only crunch 1 WU.

anything else to set?

OS: Vista32
Driver: 182.06


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Message 6808 - Posted: 20 Feb 2009 | 7:48:02 UTC

With vista you have to extend the desktop (or so I have read) ... try that ...

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Message 6935 - Posted: 23 Feb 2009 | 14:29:33 UTC - in response to Message 6808.
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I personally didn't have to extend the desktop to get it to work.

As to how that's an interesting question. I did a totally new install of Vista 32 installed 181.22 from my eVGA driver CD, not the downloaded ones, and it worked straight away.

Also remember the protected check-box on the install of BOINC (using 6.4.5).

Unlike the hours I spent on the 64-bit version to no avail.

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