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Postby DX on Thu Jul 24, 2008 9:08 am

a 8600gt or ATI AMD FIRESTREAM 2U 1GB PCI-E DUAL DVI VIDEO CARD?
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Re: Whats faster?

Postby vicaphit on Thu Jul 24, 2008 9:21 am

Feel free to correct me if I am wrong guys, but I think the Firestream is a professional videocard for businesses running CAD programs and such. It probably won't be good for gaming.
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Re: Whats faster?

Postby DX on Thu Jul 24, 2008 10:10 am

Can the folding client be run on it?
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Re: Whats faster?

Postby Apoptosis on Thu Jul 24, 2008 10:17 am

right now NVIDIA is hands down faster than ATI in folding... I'd rather have a $70 GeForce 9600 GT than any of those cards from a F@H view point.
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Re: Whats faster?

Postby Zertz on Thu Jul 24, 2008 2:38 pm

vicaphit wrote:Feel free to correct me if I am wrong guys, but I think the Firestream is a professional videocard for businesses running CAD programs and such. It probably won't be good for gaming.


Correct.

Apoptosis wrote:right now NVIDIA is hands down faster than ATI in folding... I'd rather have a $70 GeForce 9600 GT than any of those cards from a F@H view point.


Can't wait for a new client that will make use of all 800 processors :)

Back on topic, both of those cards shouldn't even be considered. Your budget is sub-100$? You can fin d a 8800GT or 9600GT for that price!
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Re: Whats faster?

Postby DX on Mon Jul 28, 2008 8:46 am

It is for a kids computer and want to spend around 30.
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