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On 09/08/14 18:10, bad apple wrote:
RS are now selling the parallella cards - not GPU but 32GFlops for Â99 and only 5W.I'm doing some shopping for a "stepping stone" graphics card - my needs are decidedly more workstation orientated than gaming orientated, although I realise there is obviously quite a high degree of crossover. My already powerful main PC has a strong but now very aged Nvidia 8800 GTX that needs replacing with something decent enough to get me through the interim period between now and a few more months down the line when various ludicrously cutting edge and expensive technology has stabilised and filtered down enough to be kind of affordable instead of bank account crushing (PCIe attached SSD storage, graphics cards with g-sync, DDR4 RAM, etc). When I order the new box in probably Q4 this year it will be a monster: dual Xeons, ~256Gb RAM, multiple 4k displays and probably a Â2500 AMD FirePro W9100 so I don't want to get anything too pricey now as it will be replaced within a few months anyway. But I don't want to half-arse it either, as whatever I buy will remain in service in backup machines for years and years to come. So I'm looking for advice - I know some of you are dual booters and gamers with decent high end kit, whereas nearly all of my friends are pure Windows gamers so can't give me any advice on Linux compatibility and support. The drivers particularly give me cause for concern on Linux, especially as brand new decent graphics cards typically have patchy support even on Windows for the first few months (at least). I'm leaning towards an AMD R9 290X: massively powerful, OpenCL supported, fantastic for GPGPU number crunching, not insanely expensive or power hungry (although admittedly still pretty expensive and relatively power hungry). I don't care about Windows support, gaming performance, power consumption or price particularly. Noise is perhaps significant - some system fan noise is actually quite pleasant (the soundtrack of my life is humming computers after all) but screaming full tilt monster fans on 24/7 would not make me a happy man: been there and done that with G5 Mac Pros and many SGI workstations (setenv -p fastfan 1). So, any recommendations people? Anyone got a high end GPU on their Linux box they want to recommend? Or perhaps even more importantly, anyone got a high end GPU on their Linux box they want to specifically warn me off? Either way, I want to order this thing before long as my first 4k display arrives next week and I need something to drive it with. Cheers
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