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How to reanimate GPU?

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Richard Haselgrove:

--- Quote from: Jason G on 18 Feb 2011, 07:22:55 pm ---For my 2 cents worth, your time is more valuable to ATi card users right now than to rescuing some 2 generation old card.  Hopefully the dudes putting together a kitty toward a newer one will insiist on a Youtube video of violent destruction of the dead one...and ship you a newer one ... Then you'd have your remaining older one & a current generation one to work with, which I can vouch for helps a lot.

Jason

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I second that thought - time is far more important, and valuable, than hardware disection.

If you have the time, use it more productively by thinking about what class of card would be most useful for current and (near) future development testing. The pace of change is too fast to ask for "the best". Work out what would be most useful for now, to you, and give the fundraisers a clear steer. Otherwise you'll end up with a boxful of gamers' review cast-offs - they may help, or they may be a waste of silicon.

Raistmer:
AFAIK 6xxx is actually 2 families now, 68xx - Barts  and 69xx - Cayman.
Barts quite similar to Hd5xxx while Cayman is different beast. Looks like Cayman is new ATi architecture VLIW4 with what they will go. Future development should target it IMHO. For today's mainstraem smth from HD5xxx family would be enough though they missed all FERMI-like features that will allow few kernels to run simultaneously.
So I think "low-end" Cayman (if low-end is applicable here at all ;D ) more preferable than high-end GPU from prev generations, but it all depends on what will be achievable anyway.

Claggy:
Agree with Jason and Richard i do, broken card not worth spending much time diagnosing failure,
look to future, make sure you get card that suits your development purposes,
at least you're still got one example of old generation card,

Claggy

skildude:
the 6950 as I suggested on the seti forums should be adequate.  Its the same card as the 6970 with part of it streaming processes hobbled. 

SciManStev:
I will kick anything needed to get the best available. This is an opportunity that can't be passed up. If Jason's 480 melts down, then we'll get him a 590. For what you all have done for us, we can deliver back!

Steve

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