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Can my motherboard handle a 4870 ?

Scott_EFC

Scott_EFC

Scott_EFC

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Hi ,

I'm back to PC gaming after a five year break and have just bought a new PC. The graphics card I got with the PC is the main thing letting it down I think ( 8600 GT ) , processor is Q6600 and 3 GB Ram. Have been reading and reading and already realised I need to update the power supply from 300W , so have ordered a 500W PSU. My motherboard is an ASUS IPIBL-LB . From what I have read the 4870 needs two PCIE power supply units to power it ? Am worried about ordering one from Overclockers and finding that it's useless as my motherboard doesn't cut it ! Things have moved on a bit since the last time I was putting cards in and out of a pc ! Would be extremely grateful for any advice. Thanks. :)
 
You should consider clocking that CPU a little as it'll make a good bit of difference coupled with the new card ;)
The power supply should come with adequate power leads, if not you should get some molex converters with the card.

According to this it has a PCI-E Lane at x16 which should be fine, not sure it thats PCIE v2.0. Minor performance hit compared if it isn't but a worthy upgrade nonetheless. What PSU have you gone for?
 
Thanks a lot for that Sweeney. I can't clock it via bios unfortunately as it's a HP PC and they keep the FSB settings locked in the bios , unless I want to use something like Clockgen or SoftFSB. I ordered a 500w PSU ?
 
No worries.

Ah i see :(, oh well, perhaps if budget, time, will power and patience allow; a nice wee motherboard upgrade is on the cards? ;)

Yeah i was asking which actual psu, Enermax, Corsair, OCZ etc?
 
That should work fine, what PSU did you buy as 500w might be cutting it fine.
Is your Q6600 the G0 or B3 stepping.
 
To be honest the I think I may have made a mistake as ordered a Sumvision 500W ATX Power Supply Unit , cheap but everyone seems to mention Corsair / Enermax and to stay away from cheap PSU's.

RJC , I'm not sure. It's incredibly confusing for someone new to it all , there's not just different processors but now different versions of the same processor !!
 
Download CPU-Z and run, this will show details of your cpu, upload this to image shack or photo bucket and post the picture here.
There are 2 versions of that CPU the G0 is the newer vs and has lower wattage 95w compared with b3 which is around 110w +.

The PSU looks very cheap and personaly would not trust it to power that system.

http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php - link for CPU-Z
 
I'm running 2 Corsair PSU's the 620W & 520W both have been excellent.
Thanks for the picture, your running the G0 stepping which is the 95w cpu :)
 
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