CUDA Cards - What To Look For When Buying For BOINC?

[Go3Team]

I bought a GTX 550 TI a few weeks ago to upgrade my system. Since then it's been going through W/Us like crazy. I'd like to buy another but specifically just for W/Us and running another monitor that won't see any gaming. What do I look for, when trying to get the best performance out of a CUDA card?

CUDA cores?
Memory?
Shader Clock?

This is what I am looking at, at the moment (gave myself a $250 budget)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130662

Thanks.

 

[heezer7]

I think overall more cores = better. Not 100% sure myself though. GTX 560 Ti 448 Core version on sale right now. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...ction-_-cables-_-na-_-na&Item=N82E16814127615

 

[dkizzy]

I bought a GTX 550 TI a few weeks ago to upgrade my system. Since then it's been going through W/Us like crazy. I'd like to buy another but specifically just for W/Us and running another monitor that won't see any gaming. What do I look for, when trying to get the best performance out of a CUDA card?

CUDA cores?
Memory?
Shader Clock?

This is what I am looking at, at the moment (gave myself a $250 budget)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130662

Thanks.

I'm about to pick up a 670 so if you're interested in an asus DCII 560ti card (no box) let me know. I have accessories for it. Currently I have two in SLI but there is strong interest in the first card so both are technically available now.

 

[JeremyCT]

Are you most concerned with points/watt, points/$ (as in cost of the card itself, ignoring power costs), or points/day?

It's been a little while since I ran the numbers for GPUs, but the answer might be different depending on what you're looking for.

 

[BrotherJohn]

Bang for the buck new, I recommend:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125412

It's a Folding fool, I get 15-17K ppd depending on the work unit.
OC's easily, runs quiet and lower on temp than some others.

 

[Go3Team]

I went with this one, I guess we'll see how it turns out:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130687