Thijsiez Posted June 18, 2010 Share Posted June 18, 2010 Hey y'all im planning to buy a Zotac 9300-I-E. I want to combine it with some hardware laying around (Q8400 and Radeon HD3870x2). My question is if I can use the Radeon for my graphics and at the same time use the GeForce (with CUDA) for accelerated password cracking? if this can be done, do i need a special distro or just use BackTrack 4? Thijsiez Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr-Protocol Posted June 18, 2010 Share Posted June 18, 2010 (edited) Hey y'all im planning to buy a Zotac 9300-I-E. I want to combine it with some hardware laying around (Q8400 and Radeon HD3870x2). My question is if I can use the Radeon for my graphics and at the same time use the GeForce (with CUDA) for accelerated password cracking? if this can be done, do i need a special distro or just use BackTrack 4? Thijsiez If I'm not mistaken, ATI GPU programs are faster than the CUDA architecture. CUDA just has more support/popularity. Keep in mind, when pass cracking/brute forcing you will cap out the CPU as well (at least with BarsWF). I'm not sure what you would possibly want to have that setup for? If you wanna brute force it is going to take up a lot of GPU and CPU power. Are you thinking you can play PC games while pass cracking/brute forcing? Bad plan if so. You can use Windows software or Linux software for such things. BarsWF is made for Win/nix. Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery is for Windows and you need to buy license for X ammount of clients. They come in 20, 50, 100, 200+ or something. I have a 20 client version. Edited June 18, 2010 by Mr-Protocol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thijsiez Posted June 18, 2010 Author Share Posted June 18, 2010 with graphics i mean just making whats on my screen and use the other card (nVidia) to crack a password (im not a real gamer, you know). btw, thnx for the reply Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted June 18, 2010 Share Posted June 18, 2010 Nvidia disables CUDA if you have an AMD GPU installed on the same system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thijsiez Posted June 18, 2010 Author Share Posted June 18, 2010 well that sucks :@ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infiltrator Posted June 19, 2010 Share Posted June 19, 2010 well that sucks :@ Unfortunately that's how they work. Unless you build a second cheap computer for password cracking only. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infiltrator Posted June 19, 2010 Share Posted June 19, 2010 If I'm not mistaken, ATI GPU programs are faster than the CUDA architecture. CUDA just has more support/popularity. Keep in mind, when pass cracking/brute forcing you will cap out the CPU as well (at least with BarsWF). I'm not sure what you would possibly want to have that setup for? If you wanna brute force it is going to take up a lot of GPU and CPU power. Are you thinking you can play PC games while pass cracking/brute forcing? Bad plan if so. You can use Windows software or Linux software for such things. BarsWF is made for Win/nix. Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery is for Windows and you need to buy license for X ammount of clients. They come in 20, 50, 100, 200+ or something. I have a 20 client version. What's the default number of client's it support without having to buy licenses? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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