Cheapaz Chips 2023 Planning Thread

[yosarianilives]

Okay this year Cheapaz has been slightly later than normal but there's also been a lot of related comps, you can think of the GTX 260 comp as round 1
Anyways it is finally time to pick a card for Cheapaz 2023! It has been suggested to pick a card with 128bit bus this time to avoid hunting rare cards that DON'T have ddr3 and I think thisis a good idea. Proposed generations are Geforce 8000, 9000, 200 series or AMD HD 3000, 4000, 5000 series). Vote on what generation you'd like to see and we will select an appropriate card after some precursory vetting to make sure this is a comp about mods and not ebay hunt skills  

[exaberries]

another tesla 2.0 comp would feel to similar, gts 250 excluded obviously

[RJGamesAhoy]

Would really love to see a 4000 Series one! don't have any cards, are plenty cheap overall, and should be fun!

[yosarianilives]

2 hours ago, exaberries said:

another tesla 2.0 comp would feel to similar, gts 250 excluded obviously

Good point, I like the idea of running team red now that we had a tesla comp. 

[RJGamesAhoy]

I think if HD4000 is chosen, RV740 is the play, generally complaints surround memory limitations and card varients, all 4770/4750 cards have GDDR5 from what i can find, the cards are also different than RV710, and repeating RV710 would be a poor idea i think.

[exaberries]

rv 740 does look pretty good to me, lots of ambient benching potential outside of the comp as well 

also cpu really shouldn't impact fps much in vantage (gpu) or cloud gate (gpu), even 03 seems to generally not care too much since 5.1 haswell has first place in front of 5.7 kaby

[Nuts and Volts]

So far AMD cards seem to be winning, I would love to see crossfire for the comp since more motherboard support it than SLI. PCIe lanes will barely matter for bandwidth.

[macsbeach98]

HD 5000 series seems easy enough for everyone.

[exaberries]

5770 has been done in 2020 though unfortunetly.... 

Edited April 1, 2023 by exaberries

[AKM]

HD 4770; no cooling restriction, no platform restriction - limit cpu speed to 5.0g or something

Vantage Perf GPU score

3DMark 03

Aquamark

Go go go

[exaberries]

1 minute ago, AKM said:

HD 4770; no cooling restriction, no platform restriction - limit cpu speed to 5.0g or something

Vantage Perf GPU score

3DMark 03

Aquamark

Go go go

sounds good to me

[nicegab]

I searched quickly ..HD 4750/4770 are not very easy to find at a good price.
very few cards for sale compared to HD4870.
if you want more people to participate you have to take cards that are easy to find.

[TheQuentincc]

31 minutes ago, nicegab said:

I searched quickly ..HD 4750/4770 are not very easy to find at a good price.
very few cards for sale compared to HD4870.
if you want more people to participate you have to take cards that are easy to find.

+1, HD47xx series are very uncommon, for instance there is like 8 cards total available in France.

Also, I think something like Cape verde for stage 1 and GM107 or GK107 for stage 2 would be fun as well.

[exaberries]

that pretty much leaves only 4870 or 5870 left then 

[macsbeach98]

5870 seems easy and cheap to find.

[Tech Tested]

I say HD 4870/4890. 

Cloudgate GPU
Vantage Performance
Heaven basic

Edited April 1, 2023 by Tech Tested

[Bones]

6870's are out there too, not bad on the pricing overall and looks to be enough of them to go around.

Edited April 2, 2023 by Bones

[exaberries]

4870 is decent, same with 5870, i'd suggest 6850 or 6950/6970 for 6000 series

for context though there is 2 4870s on ebay.ca, 1 5870, quite a few  6850, but not many 6950 at decent prices

 

I agree with cloudgate gpu and vantage gpu as benches, not a big fan but wouldn't hate heaven 

Edited April 2, 2023 by exaberries

[AKM]

HD 4870; no cooling restriction, no platform restriction - cpu freq limited to 5.03ghz ?

Vantage Perf GPU Score

Cloud Gate GPU Score

Aquamark3

Go go go

Heaven is gross, way too long. Only reason I suggest Aqua3 is it's quick to loop re runs.

[exaberries]

Just now, AKM said:

HD 4870; no cooling restriction, no platform restriction - cpu freq limited to 5.03ghz ?

Vantage Perf GPU Score

Cloud Gate GPU Score

Aquamark3

Go go go

Heaven is gross, way too long. Only reason I suggest Aqua3 is it's quick to loop re runs.

yeah heaven is kinda long, and heavy on the driver tweaks....

[Tech Tested]

Benchmarks should be platform agnostic. Doesnt seem in the spirit of a "cheap" comp if you need the latest platform to be competitive

6870 is a good alternative to 4870 imo. Bother are good options

[SolidStateAlchemy]

Country cup had an HD 3000 and an HD 6000 stage, so HD 5000 would fill in the gap. US ebay has a ton of 5870s on it for reasonable prices.

[yosarianilives]

8 hours ago, SolidStateAlchemy said:

Country cup had an HD 3000 and an HD 6000 stage, so HD 5000 would fill in the gap. US ebay has a ton of 5870s on it for reasonable prices.

I think good chance we go with this. Nobody seems to want tesla arch this time lol

[yosarianilives]

Okay so I'd say poll is probably not really gonna change much. I'm going with 5000 series. Gonna look at benches and see what a good spread is, also find a start date

[yosarianilives]

I'm thinking HD 5770 and benches of 3dm05, 3dm11 graphics score, and vantage. Please share thoughts on this