12-26-2013, 11:09 PM
Thanks radix.
KT, not really, if I was going just for speed. This machine is for our team of very busy testers, and none of us have a lot of downtime for maintenance. We have a single AMD GPU at the moment, and we've had to really troubleshoot the system a number of times due to driver issues. Personally, as a gamer in my off hours, I feel the nVidia drivers tend to be less prone to issues and easier to get set up. Plus, I should still be able to brute force the entire 8 char NTLM space within a few days, and NTLM makes up about 75% of the hashes we typically crack. So when we designed the new system, we went with nVidia to increase reliability. That, and we got a deal on 4 eVGA GTX 770s. If speed were of the utmost importance, I'd have gone with AMD.
KT, not really, if I was going just for speed. This machine is for our team of very busy testers, and none of us have a lot of downtime for maintenance. We have a single AMD GPU at the moment, and we've had to really troubleshoot the system a number of times due to driver issues. Personally, as a gamer in my off hours, I feel the nVidia drivers tend to be less prone to issues and easier to get set up. Plus, I should still be able to brute force the entire 8 char NTLM space within a few days, and NTLM makes up about 75% of the hashes we typically crack. So when we designed the new system, we went with nVidia to increase reliability. That, and we got a deal on 4 eVGA GTX 770s. If speed were of the utmost importance, I'd have gone with AMD.