Sunday June 19 09:18 pm
AMD E-350 / GF GT 430 24/7 CUDA pc build - assembling
Assembling a small pc that is dedicated for 24/7 CUDA calculations. Although more potent gfx cards would be more energy efficient, I wanted to cap overall power consumption (yes, electricity is not for free :) ).
These components are used
- ASUS E35M1-l deluxe
- Gigabyte GT 430 OC
- 4 GB Corsair DDR3 @ 1333
- Be quiet! straight power E8-400W
- Seagate Momentus 7200 rpm 2.5 inch hard disk
- NoiseBlocker BlackSilent Fan XK2
It was very important for me to have a build that is as silent as possible, because I'm sleeping in the same room. And it worked so far :) The APU is passively cooled whereas neither the gfx card nor the power supply unit are really audible. The loudest part is the hard drive, but with some additional decoupling it should also be fine. The APU is capable of supplying the GPU with work, and the overall system does consume less power under load than my desktop pc in idle (~40W idle, ~75W when running Furmark, 60 to 65W when doing GPU calculations).
Although the APU only provides 4 PCIe 2.0 lanes to the dedicated graphics card, it is no bottleneck because it's not high-end. And one plus for the future is the integrated Radeon GPU, which can also be utilized with OpenCL tasks. The Geforce 430 itself seems to have about 1/4 the power of a GTX 460 1GB ... that's still enough :)
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