Agreed, stick with the Founders Edition. Don't give NVIDIA any basis for
their emerging narrative that GeForce GPUs can't be used for HPC because
with deterministic code, they can...
Admitting that most people (Google included) are utterly incapable of
writing efficient deterministic code, but that's a different conversation.
On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 2:50 PM, Ross Walker <ross.rosswalker.co.uk> wrote:
> Short answer, In my experience: NO! Stick with the Founders edition.
>
> The custom cards tend to have fancy looking heatsinks which do not work
> well in multi-GPU configurations, have many more failure points and are
> often engineered for looks ahead of function and longevity. The exception
> to this would be water cooled systems.
>
> The custom cards also tend to be overclocked - especially the memory - and
> this leads to incorrect results, unstable behavior and/or early failure.
>
> Now if you want to play Crysis at 4K in stereo at 120FPS then by all means
> go for the luminous blue overclocked card.
>
> All the best
> Ross
>
> > On May 18, 2017, at 6:00 AM, Hadházi Ádám <hadadam.gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Dear All,
> >
> >
> > We are about to build a new MD workstation with 3 x GTX 1080 TI GPUs.
> >
> >
> > - Do you think it is worth to buy more expensive (custom) cards than the
> > Founders Edition for greater reliability/better cooling/longer lifespan?
> > (E.g. Asus ROG STRIX/TURBO series)
> >
> >
> > Our machine would be running 24/7 (~ 90-95% load)
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Adam
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