I am thinking of buying my first Fermi card. I have a 900W PSU which is more than enough. Anything else I should know before buying one, it seems that it is standard. I just need Compute Capability 2. I like to use all of the concurrency that CUDA has to offer.
Alexander.
35 degrees trying to keep my hardware as cool as I can but sometimes this happens. Please erase the multiple posts. Apologies.
no u dont need anything else,i have it running wiz a 600W PSU wiz no problems,but if u plan to use it for games i would advice to put some money into cooling it,the default fan speed is 40% which is very quiet but also under stress the card (GTX480) can reach 105degrees,if u turn the fan to around 80% it reaches 80degrees but then the fan is noisy…consider that if u are a gamer
No I do not play games :-). Designing some physics for them like playing with PhysX SDK is just my way of gaming for the time being. I will use it just for CUDA. In order to add some value in the purchase since Nvidia has not created a GPU dedicated solely for CUDA I will use also Cg.
Need to sell also my GTX-275 first for this purpose. Recycling. I can’t have both they are incompatible in technology. It is like saying they belong to two different worlds and don’t like each other, as in life. Of course in life you don’t sell, first you try to re-engineer if that fails (due to anorthodox competitors sabotazing your product, this is the only thing that can go wrong with my engineering ;-) then you try to fix it to the way it used to be and find another model.
Best,
Alexander.
with 900W PSU you could use both cards and with 275 used for display you could try to debug on fermi, it could be very useful in CUDA programming ;)
I have 470 and 260, and was planning to sell 260 - but as soon as i make them running both I changed my mind.
currently moved from cuda to opencl, so I can’t use fermi debugging, but it is still very useful for testing performance on diffrent gpu’s;]
I see, use the GTX-480 as a server. There is no decrease I believe in performance if I use just GTX-480. The GTX-275 is close to the Fermi card in peak wattage consuption so I wont take any chances imagine a power drop off in a crucial experiment. It will never happen I know but just to be on the safe side.
For instance I will create by December the head of a famous person with all of its expressions (except the tongue, this is unbelievable complex and the degrees of freedom are very high ;-) I think I can handle it with the Fermi card, experiment with lighting with skin complexion. For instance a nice project since this person is in movies is to extract its facial characteristics and embed them in the actual 3D model. No need for wires. It is a nice experiment. There is also a GPU-based neural network trend (i think there is I saw it recently) and this is the perfect time to do it.
Best,
Alexander.