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Former Member
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The 7970 looks pretty awesome on paper at least.
It seems to be the King of computing. Not so sure about AMD's drivers though... Have a look at Milkyway@home they have a pretty good grasp of whats good for DP. http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/forum_thread.php?id=2457 The only reason I don't go for AMD right now is because I run Linux and Linux & AMD don't always play nice together.  |
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Bearcat
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I got CCC to work on Ubuntu 10.4 provided I used HDMI. Doesn't like display port. PITA to configure. Ended up giving up and installed win7. Might try it again after 12.4 has been out a bit and the kinks are worked out.
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Jim1348
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 13, 2009 Post Count: 1066 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I would HIGHLY reccomend buying Intel. Always. Why? I second that. If you want to see grief, just check the disk drive forums when a new SSD comes out and people with the AMD chipsets are wondering why they crash and get corrupted all the time. And that is apart from the video card problems. |
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Jack007
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Wish I had read this article before I bought
----------------------------------------a GTX 670... Luckily i have 3 other computers to consider upgrading video cards for :) Oh I have a GTX 560 so I'll leave that alone, but now going to research the ATI cards and see what I can come up with, maybe pick it up today  |
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kateiacy
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I see I never reported back in this thread on the Radeon HD 7750. I have been crunching on it for a couple of weeks now and am very satisfied. I had no trouble with installing and running the Catalyst driver and AMD APP SDK under Xubuntu 12.04. The 7750 is about 3 times as fast in crunching as the similar-powered Nvidia GT 430 that I used to have in the same machine.
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Former Member
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Hello kateiacy
Reference: kateiacy [May 27, 2012 12:17:54 AM] post Hardware-review sites I have visited regarding the HD7750 are singing the same tune for these cards: a very power-efficient card for both gaming and GPU-computing, with the highest-performance-per-watt at their market-segment. What is stopping these card from doing a slam-dunk for the market-segment they are in -- is the price. The way I see it, slam-dunk or not -- it's the same 2-points for the win, and your lower electricity-bills will continue to confirm that win! As for the OP's mention of the AMD FX-8120, the performance and the power-efficiency for those chips disappoints. I'd recommend the Intel i5 or i7 instead -- for CPU-computing. ; |
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BSD
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The AMD HD7770 might just fit the bill: "Now the 7770 board consumes roughly 80 Watts when gaming. In idle, roughly 10 Watts, and when your monitor shuts down it will throttle down even further towards 3 Watts. That's impressive stuff." -- guru3d.com "AMD isn’t hitting particularly amazing price points, it’s not doing anything amazing for performance, but it is doing everything that the previous generation of cards from both companies could do at significantly lower power. As a result, efficiency improves and you get a lot more performance per watt consumed." -- tomshardware.com ; Just ordered a MSI R7770-2PMD1GD5/OC "Cape Verde" to replace the invalid WU "Cedar" GPU from Newegg. It's low wattage and with two cooling fans, that will keep the heat and noise down.  Hopefully I can get on some of the valid HCC WU fun before they are gobbled up.  Edit: spelling  [Edit 1 times, last edit by BSD at Oct 28, 2012 7:48:19 PM] |
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Former Member
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Just ordered a MSI R7770-2PMD1GD5/OC "Cape Verde" to replace the invalid WU "Cedar" GPU from Newegg. It's low wattage and with two cooling fans, that will keep the heat and noise down. That MSI card looks awesome!.. but I'm biased towards efficiency and it just happens that the HD7770 and HD7750 are two of the most energy-efficient GPU cards available now and -- judging by the looks at my done HCC-GPUv6.56-WUs even beat some of the higher-end* AMD cards Pitcaim and Tahiti -- looks to be compute-efficient as well! Hopefully I can get on some of the valid HCC WU fun before they are gobbled up. Notes: *Currently BOINC measures the CPU-time of a done GPU-based-WU, so the performance of the CPU obscures the true GPU-only performance-metric of a GPU crunching a GPU-based-WU. ; |
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