I have gone for a GTX460 (as far as my budget goes
) and i have a question, can i use my gtx280 at the same time? i know the memory wont be pooled but the cores will, if i understand correctly.cheers
Dave.
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I have gone for a GTX460 (as far as my budget goes ) and i have a question, can i use my gtx280 at the same time? i know the memory wont be pooled but the cores will, if i understand correctly.
cheers
Dave.
I have gone for a GTX460 (as far as my budget goes
) and i have a question, can i use my gtx280 at the same time? i know the memory wont be pooled but the cores will, if i understand correctly.cheers
Dave.
Last edited by Deejay on Mon Aug 02, 2010 4:19 am, edited 1 time in total.
Win7 64/Phenom II x6/8gb mem/GTX280 --- Win7 64/Phenom II x4/8gb mem/8800GTX
Yeah you can use both, but mixing the gtx2xx series with the gtx4xx series probably wont scale well. You might want to leave the 285 for display ro though it on ebay to help buy a second 460.
System 1: EVGA gtx470 1280Mb and MSI gtx470 1280 in Cubix Xpander for Octane, AMD 945, 4Gb Ram
All systems are at stock speeds and settings.
All systems are at stock speeds and settings.
I believe gtx285 despite older architecture is more powerful card than poor 460.havensole wrote:Yeah you can use both, but mixing the gtx2xx series with the gtx4xx series probably wont scale well. You might want to leave the 285 for display ro though it on ebay to help buy a second 460.
Intel C4Q , 4G ram, GTX 285,
Might be theoretically slower, but you don't get the fermi architecture, which does have some speedups in octane. Scaling with octane with fermi cards is about 1.8-1.9x per gpu added whereas with the gtx2xx series it is much less. Somewhere in the 1.65x range.
System 1: EVGA gtx470 1280Mb and MSI gtx470 1280 in Cubix Xpander for Octane, AMD 945, 4Gb Ram
All systems are at stock speeds and settings.
All systems are at stock speeds and settings.
It can be a risk....but gtx280 is kinda enough for now isn't it... ?
460 is really poor choice. I think it's worth saving that money and wait a bit more...
If really nothing else comes until Christmas( kinda possible...) atleast the 2giga version of atleast one Fermi card should come.
460 is really poor choice. I think it's worth saving that money and wait a bit more...
If really nothing else comes until Christmas( kinda possible...) atleast the 2giga version of atleast one Fermi card should come.
Intel C4Q , 4G ram, GTX 285,
460 a poor choice? Sli's 460's are faster then a single 480 by a staggering 25%. Check out the benchmarks. Not to mention you can get two 460's for less then a single 480. The main issue is that it takes up an additional two slots. I would be interested in quad 460 2GB hydros but they don't exist. For me, I'm buying a quad sli- 4x480 hydros in an EVGA SR2 or Cubix. I wish Cubix did liquid cooling.
Win7-X64 | Cubix 2x GTX 480 + QuadroFX 4600 PhysX | Dual-Quad W5590 | 12GB
Due to input and output cooling pipes plugs, I think that you can't put two GTX 480 Hydros side by side on a SR2 motherboard. You will have to leave a gap for the pipes, and so only two GTX480 Hydros will fit on the SR2, and you will need a large case.
I'm also amost sure that these cards don't fit in the Cubix boxes, due to the same reasons : As an example, there are only 2 cm between the cover and the upper side of a GTX260, in the Cubix Xpander Pro 2, and this card has no pipes.
Look at the image here :
http://www.generation-nt.com/acheter/ev ... 71204.html
I'm also amost sure that these cards don't fit in the Cubix boxes, due to the same reasons : As an example, there are only 2 cm between the cover and the upper side of a GTX260, in the Cubix Xpander Pro 2, and this card has no pipes.
Look at the image here :
http://www.generation-nt.com/acheter/ev ... 71204.html
French Blender user - CPU : intel Quad QX9650 at 3GHz - 8GB of RAM - Windows 7 Pro 64 bits. Display GPU : GeForce GTX 480 (2 Samsung 2443BW-1920x1600 monitors). External GPUs : two EVGA GTX 580 3GB in a Cubix GPU-Xpander Pro 2. NVidia Driver : 368.22.