Video card comparison

Humboldt · Post by **Humboldt** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 5:14 pm

Have an old AGP Radeon 8500 that works fine. Just remembered a coworker gave me a PCI Visiontek 9250.

Not much point in swapping the cards is there? The Visiontek has twice the memory but I'm assuming any advantage there would be lost using PCI instead of AGP.

Is this correct?

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 5:38 pm

I would assume theres not much of an improvement adding in the visiontek. Is there a game you want to run better that you play or is your system fine as is?

Humboldt · Post by **Humboldt** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 5:45 pm

YARDofSTUF wrote:I would assume theres not much of an improvement adding in the visiontek. Is there a game you want to run better that you play or is your system fine as is?

No gaming, just wondering if it would fold faster. My system folds like old people screw.

Is that right, that even though it would have twice the memory the PCI would negate the benefit of more memory?

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 5:48 pm

Eh, theres more factors involved but the 9250 isn't a speed demon either.

You aren't doing GPU folding on old cards like that anyway so it won't effect folding.

Humboldt · Post by **Humboldt** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 6:03 pm

thanks.

I guess it makes a good paperweight

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 6:19 pm

Humboldt wrote:thanks.

I guess it makes a good paperweight

Or a spare incase the 8500 dies.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 8:13 pm

I don't think there are drivers that support folding for most older cards anyway.

you need to set up something like this

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Humboldt · Post by **Humboldt** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 9:23 pm

Sava700 wrote:I don't think there are drivers that support folding for most older cards anyway.

Not trying to use the GPU client program, just figured that an improved video card might help my regular f@h a bit.

Humboldt · Post by **Humboldt** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 9:32 pm

Damn, I'd love to build something like that.

I wonder what he's spent on video cards alone.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 9:33 pm

Humboldt wrote:Damn, I'd love to build something like that.

I wonder what he's spent on video cards alone.

most if not all were prob donated by the respected companies..but can you imagin the noise and the heat from them things?

Humboldt · Post by **Humboldt** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 11:34 pm

Should look at the stats in the video and look him up

299,645 ppd average.