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by tftio
Mon Jun 08, 2015 7:16 am
Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
Topic: Advice on building an i7/Titan X machine for CUDA developmen
Replies: 4
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Re: Advice on building an i7/Titan X machine for CUDA develo

Pappnaas wrote:i am not overly familiar with the demands for CUDA, but did you check if a XEON cpu would suit you far better than your i7?
CUDA is nVidia GPU only, so the big processor is really there for feeding the Titans and running the various non-GPU bits of the project.
by tftio
Sun Jun 07, 2015 7:25 am
Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
Topic: Advice on building an i7/Titan X machine for CUDA developmen
Replies: 4
Views: 3977

Advice on building an i7/Titan X machine for CUDA developmen

My new gig has me doing a lot of (single-precision, memory-bound) CUDA programming, and I need to -- for the first time in maybe 15 years -- put together a custom PC for day to day usage. The two components I cannot compromise on are a beefy i7 and one, possibly to become two, 12GB Titan X video car...