9600 GSO - Such a deal! <- Fold, NOW! No Reason not to.
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ah but for 2....
Yes, but the rebate is only good for 1 card, so if you want to get two cards, it's 180 + 150 = 330, but I think the code will apply for 2 cards, so that's 2 * 130 = 260. So definitely cheaper in bulk!
should be ok...
Well, the motherboard is in a cm cosmos, and I've filled out all the fan mounts in it, so there should be plenty of circulation. I have a mugen 2 on the cpu, a q9400, and that hasn't gotten anywhere near overheating. So, not too worried about it. But I don't know, I go back and forth, I'd kind of rather have gtx 275s, they're more compatible with ION boards, but these 260s are just so cheap! Think I'll see if any earth shattering rebates show up tomorrow.
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I'm still trying to update the BIOS on my MSI quad board. I've never seen a board with such immature and untested BIOS. On top of that, I got home, there was a power interruption while I was gone. The PC was not only stopped, but when I booted it all the config settings for GPU folding were gone. I set them and the thing tells me CUDART.DLL is missing (these cards were already working) and the last card has the wrong drivers, even though it has the same drivers as the other 2 cards.
Now I'm having fun trying to make a bootable Vista CD.
Now I'm having fun trying to make a bootable Vista CD.
power outages
Yeah, I had a power outage last week, must have only been for a minute or two, but I was asleep and the machines were off a for 4 or 5 hours. Had a crappy 15k day. And then restarting all the machines, pain in the ass. Having a good day today, though. Think I will order those 260 cards, no better deals lately.
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I was waiting to update the BIOS on my MSI K9A2 board, which I just completed today. With Vista 64 I'm still having problems, the latest is that it thinks its missing CUDART.DLL, even I have a copy of that miserable file in all 4 application and application data (work) directories. 8 copies and it can't find it. If I was Dick Cheney I'd tell it to fxxx itself.AZBrandon wrote:(deleted)
I need to write up what a fiasco it was updating the BIOS on my MSI board. I'll never buy one of their products again.
an update
Just an update, I finally got the 9600 gso folding along with the integrated 9300M on the motherboard, and neither seems to be going slow. Well, the 9300M is pretty slow most of the time, but it certainly doesn't seem to be going slower than normal. I expected it would be ok, many message boards seemed to imply that having integral multiple shader counts on multiple cards works, and the 9300M has 16 and the 9600 gso has 96, so that's a nice even multiple of 6. Still kind of gratifying to see it work, though.
it's back, kind of
So it looks like it's kind of back:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... _-14121320
Although this one is up to $40 after the rebate. Still a fairly good deal, though. Oh, but there's also a sale, if you use the promo code on this page:
http://promotions.newegg.com/NEemail/Au ... ding.html?
then it's back down to $35. Cool!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... _-14121320
Although this one is up to $40 after the rebate. Still a fairly good deal, though. Oh, but there's also a sale, if you use the promo code on this page:
http://promotions.newegg.com/NEemail/Au ... ding.html?
then it's back down to $35. Cool!
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While I have 2 myself and am with you for the most part I do have a small annoyance about these cards.
Of course within the price you really can't ask for more, but truth be told my cooler has no copper at all, and I don't think this one does either. It's not a deal breaker, but the entire card is pretty hot no matter how you look at it.
It also seems to me the fan can not be controlled by Riva Tuner, but it's not as bad as the XFX cards and their tiny fans.
I suspect what I will do to my Asus cards is what I did to my Asus northbridge cooler on my motherboard. Both are chunks of aluminum that are too hot. I won't replace them. Rather I will attach additional copper to them. I will probably epoxy pennies to the fins that go directly to the center. I may also change the fan to a Scythe 100mm 10mm thick fan that runs at 1000 rpm. I can use thermal epoxy on the pennies, but frankly why bother? A $4 tube of Phenoseal will do a great job.
Years ago I attached 2 small copper heat sinks to my rather large northbridge heat sink. With no other changes, no fans, temps dropped by 10C. Cost was less than $5.
The first card on all my PCs seems to run hotter as well.
Of course within the price you really can't ask for more, but truth be told my cooler has no copper at all, and I don't think this one does either. It's not a deal breaker, but the entire card is pretty hot no matter how you look at it.
It also seems to me the fan can not be controlled by Riva Tuner, but it's not as bad as the XFX cards and their tiny fans.
I suspect what I will do to my Asus cards is what I did to my Asus northbridge cooler on my motherboard. Both are chunks of aluminum that are too hot. I won't replace them. Rather I will attach additional copper to them. I will probably epoxy pennies to the fins that go directly to the center. I may also change the fan to a Scythe 100mm 10mm thick fan that runs at 1000 rpm. I can use thermal epoxy on the pennies, but frankly why bother? A $4 tube of Phenoseal will do a great job.
Years ago I attached 2 small copper heat sinks to my rather large northbridge heat sink. With no other changes, no fans, temps dropped by 10C. Cost was less than $5.
The first card on all my PCs seems to run hotter as well.
know what you mean
Yeah, I know what you mean, when I moved the motherboard this was on out of my Cosmos and into my little micro ATX cube case, kind of like this one:
http://www.directron.com/xqpackbl420.html
but with less ventilation, the case got really hot to the touch. The power supply is sitting right on top of the card slots, so I figured there would be some ventilation through that, but not much, and the power supply got really hot. I pulled out the unused slot covers and took off the unused 5.25 and 3.5 bay covers off the front, and temperatures have dropped to much more reasonable levels, but still, the card can pump out some heat. Since the fan is really just circulating air from the case around it, without a direct vent in the back like most dual slot cards, it's definitely trickier to keep this thing cool. I thought the lower power would make it better for a small form factor build, but now I'm not so sure. It is pretty quiet though, have to give them that.
I've never though of adding metal to the heat sinks, that's an interesting idea. I may have to give that a shot. Things seem resonable for the time being, but who knows how long it will last.
http://www.directron.com/xqpackbl420.html
but with less ventilation, the case got really hot to the touch. The power supply is sitting right on top of the card slots, so I figured there would be some ventilation through that, but not much, and the power supply got really hot. I pulled out the unused slot covers and took off the unused 5.25 and 3.5 bay covers off the front, and temperatures have dropped to much more reasonable levels, but still, the card can pump out some heat. Since the fan is really just circulating air from the case around it, without a direct vent in the back like most dual slot cards, it's definitely trickier to keep this thing cool. I thought the lower power would make it better for a small form factor build, but now I'm not so sure. It is pretty quiet though, have to give them that.
I've never though of adding metal to the heat sinks, that's an interesting idea. I may have to give that a shot. Things seem resonable for the time being, but who knows how long it will last.
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Re: it's back, kind of
I overlooked something here. This is a 512MB memory card, ergo it has 48 stream processors, not 96. The 96 have 384 or 768 and a few XFX have 1.5GB, but at 1.5GB it can be either one.cordis wrote:So it looks like it's kind of back:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... _-14121320
Although this one is up to $40 after the rebate. Still a fairly good deal, though. Oh, but there's also a sale, if you use the promo code on this page:
http://promotions.newegg.com/NEemail/Au ... ding.html?
then it's back down to $35. Cool!
yeah, but...
Huh, that's strange, it's got '96 stream processors' written right above the picture, and the specs say 96 processors, so I wonder if it really has 96 or 48? Kind of confusing.
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Impressive move by Asus, but I don't understand the further development of such an old gpu. I wonder if it will average higher ppd.
Did you notice the entire thread is about doubting the claim? 96sp? Now there's no way to know if its 48 or 96. More reason to move to the GTX260. Just kidding.
If it gets a couple of hundred points more than the 384 version it's worth the extra cost.
Did you notice the entire thread is about doubting the claim? 96sp? Now there's no way to know if its 48 or 96. More reason to move to the GTX260. Just kidding.
If it gets a couple of hundred points more than the 384 version it's worth the extra cost.
single slot!
Now that is interesting, it's a little pricey compared to others, but it's a single slot card! That's probably the most shaders I've seen on a single slot card yet, although I have had hope for the new cards. Nice find!