Sugeestions and opinions of what i should get?

[jimmy99099099]

I am upgrading my little Nvidia 9800GT to a SLI GTX 480. What would the single card equivelent be for the power of the two GTX's? Also a guideling in a reccomended PSU and mobo combo would be greatly appreciated. (Intel 1155 socket)

Cheers all!

 

[Bacon?]

For two 480's your looking at something like this:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-390-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=2261

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-017-SS&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=2383

I would hope 54A would be enough on the 12V rail?


Single GPU wise a good 500W and this card:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-017-SS&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=2383

Or a 7950 / 7970 for the same price / cheaper. Its worth noting not many BM's can be trusted because of the constant change in drivers.

 

[olivier renault]

I'd get a 850W PSU. These things are very thirsty.

 

[jimmy99099099]

Single GPU wise a good 500W and this card:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-017-SS&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=2383

Or a 7950 / 7970 for the same price / cheaper. Its worth noting not many BM's can be trusted because of the constant change in drivers.

Link is to the PSU.

I have a 750watt PSU in my system already but i dont have enough PCIE power pins. (6 OR 8) Does using too many molex to PCIE have a negative effect? Im not great on the PSU side of things, xD

 

[jimmy99099099]

My system specs are;
CPU
Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-2100 CPU @ 3.10GHz


CPU Speed
3.1 GHz

RAM
16 GB 1866 speed (Forgot measurements)

OS
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional Edition Service Pack 1 (build 7601), 64-bit


Video Card
Minimum: Nvidia - FX 5700, ATI - Radeon 9500


Pixel Shader version 4.0
Vertex Shader version 4.0
Dedicated Video RAM 1.0 GB

Sound Card
High Definition Audio Device


Free Disk Space
622 GB (1x 500GB 1x 233GB)
60GB Corsair accelerator series SSD

PSU
700 Watt (Alpine)

Case
Bitfenix Colossus Venom Edition (no window)

Mouse
Cyborg R.A.T 7

monitor
2x Samsung SyncMasterSA10 (HDMI, soon to be replaced)

Wireless NIC (PCI)

 

[Bacon?]

I would replace that PSU immediately as its a pile of dogs do. And I meant to link to a 670.

 

[jimmy99099099]

Ok cool. Thanks for the info. Just fo intrests sake how much power would i need for 4 way? My college gives the *******s out like candy so i may be able to grab 2 more!

 

[Bacon?]

4 way SLI!
First off can you board even do that?
This:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-025-SS&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=2383

 

[jimmy99099099]

My board atm cant. My board atm is a glorified gameboy!

Asus P8H61-MLE

Its only got 1 PCIE and only 2 RAM slots!!

 

[SkodaMart]

Worse case scenario:

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/GPU11/233

850 Watts

I upgraded from a 700 Watt PSU to 1000 Watt for GTX 470 SLi, I might have got away with it....just

 

[Bacon?]

I normally wouldn't bother with regular SLI as it costs for the PSU, heat (the 4 series get very hot), motherboard and driver issues.

Also the only motherboard I know of capable of doing 4 way SLI are X79's so you would need a whole new CPU as well.

Personally I wouldnt bother with a 480 SLI. To hot, too much power consumption.