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HD 2900 pro power reqs?

WotDa

WotDa

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Hey, in the market for a new card because I doubt my 7600 GT's abilty to play a few games at 1900x1200, so, it's become a toss up between the 2900 pro, the current 8800gts, the 8800gt or the new gts.

So, I currently have a 500w PSU, this used to power 7600GT's in SLI with 2 dvd drives, 2 HDD's some fans and a AMD 3800+ on a MSI K9N nForce 570 Platinum.

Will 500w be enough to power it, or do I need cough up more cash?

Thanks in advance. :)

(Yes, my knowledge of PSU's and GFX cards sucks..)
 
WotDa said:
Hey, in the market for a new card because I doubt my 7600 GT's abilty to play a few games at 1900x1200, so, it's become a toss up between the 2900 pro, the current 8800gts, the 8800gt or the new gts.

So, I currently have a 500w PSU, this used to power 7600GT's in SLI with 2 dvd drives, 2 HDD's some fans and a AMD 3800+ on a MSI K9N nForce 570 Platinum.

Will 500w be enough to power it, or do I need cough up more cash?

Thanks in advance. :)

(Yes, my knowledge of PSU's and GFX cards sucks..)
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Hi, what's the make and model of the PSU?
ChrisC
 
Why did you quote his post? lol.

If its a good make then it is likely it will run it. But otherwize maybe not. How old is it as well as what make and model?

Also i would suggest a new GTS over the pro as the new GTS's will probably beat the XT or be on par i recon.
 
chriscatt said:
Hi, what's the make and model of the PSU?
ChrisC
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Gah, this is like shooting myself in the foot. :(

Looks like the older generation of this.

:(:o

Edit: Age... Got it late summer 2006.

Edit 2: Time frame on the new GTS's? Within a week would be imba, but I guess that won't happen.
 
If you go for the pro I would get a new psu to be safe tbh. My old hiper 580w(non modular) couldn't run it without causing the card to hum/whir under load and just generally run unstable. My new Corsair Hx620 is rock solid and I now have no hum/whir issues. In Dx9 clocked to an XT the cards superb. :)

Still might be worth hanging on to see whats coming in a week or 2 though.
 
Looks like I need a new attack plan then.

So, because I'm a cheap ***, will this be ok?

:)

Don't have that much to spend on the PSU as I didn't budget for it, so meh.


Also, hai Fox. :)
 
wai hello there, a lot of people rate this one: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-005-CS&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=823 as being man enough to power a 8800gtx etc for a relatively small price. I went for the slightly bigger version just to give myself some expansion posibilites.

I'm afraid I don't know too much about the other psu's out there, maybe ask in the overclocking thread or the original 2900pro thread?

Other than that its a wait and see thing, the new cards should be much less power hungry, something out you want to play on it soon?
 
RuMp3l4$k1n said:
something out you want to play on it soon?
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Nah, my birthday is coming up soon, hence the 'rush' it's basically the only time of the year I have enough expendable cash. :p

Edit: Might get the HX520 then, seems to be up to the job if it can power a 8800gtx, modular too. :p
 
My HX520 doens't have any 8 pin connectors for pci-e, only 2x 6 pin.

I think the HX620 might though (not sure)

Matthew
 
All new ones in the market have a 8 pin connector. If you have a older one you can email Corsair and get one sent, just paying P&P.
 
500 w might be a bit on the light side.

A point to note, you don't need a 8 pin pcie connector to either get the card (2900 pro) to work or to overclock. Rivatuner will overclock it fine. The 8 pin unlocks ATi's own overclocking utility in the CCC.
 
Hi,

My brother has just bought a intel dual core setup with ati 2900 pro and the corsair 450w psu mentioned above. Would also like to know if this is up to the job of powering a system with the 2900 pro installed.

Thanks.
 
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