VincentP: My PSu only had an output of 36 Amp on +12v rail
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It blew itself up last night after my CPU was under heavy load while GPU was also in use. I put in another cheap one until I sort out PSU demands. I may need to daisy chain a few together in future but those solutions are not ideal.
Sorry for the late reply. I meant Integrated GPU that some processors have. I have an Intel HD GPU built in (yes it is weak but good for desktop environment) but I am going to be building a new system this (New) year and starting with a better chasis to provide me with enough space for expansion and cooling. I don't want anything out of its case for the time being if I can help it for safety of my kittens, they tend to nibble thinner cables than thick ones. I also want to get away from air cooling and into liquid cooling.
Lucid Virtu
The technology is pretty neat, it allows you to launch apps specifically with dedicated GPU while using iGPU for desktop. So any application that requires intensive reosurces will be given them and desktop environment for just running windows explorer and word, etc can use Integrated GPU. That was my thought anyway, I never bothered using this so I am not sure how glitches or bugs may affect this. I am not sure if I will be using this now though and most of the processors I have been looking at lately do not have iGPU.
http://lucidlogix.com/product-virtu1.html
Once I start building my new rig I want to get more GPUs in the near future, maybe 7 in a single case (total cost of rig would be around up to $8,000+ going with AMD GPUs or double that or more with Nvidia) and I found a few nice motherboards that support this. Only thing is PSU issues because I do intend to utilize full load on all GPUs for some GPGPU computing.
I haven't yet decided if I will go with Nvidia or AMD Radeon. I know the 7990 outperforms Nvidia with OpenCL. My main challenges are PSU demands and liquid cooling solutions for GPUs. The energy use on the GPU side depends a lot on what brand they are, I've seen some 7990s rated at 750W while the one I have is only meant to use 375W. Will be interesting to see how much it really uses once I get a decent PSU.
I've never built any liquid cooling before and the kits available for GPUs are very limited. I am going to build this instead of using a server rack setup which I was originally considering to do for GPGPU financial computing. It seems Nvidia are better at double precision compuitng than AMD GPUs. I am not sure which cards to go for at this early stage but need ASICS that are good at crunching numbers and finding dynamic patterns from data that I define or instruct it to look for. Anyway, this is my project for 2014.