Seasonic OEM for a lot of companies and xfx seem to be the only ones with the issue, buying an xfx product means you get xfx support while buying a seasonic product means Seasonic support, my antec supply is seasonic OEM but my warranty is with antec. The extra £40 may be worth it like Gigabyte over Sapphire.
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Real world power consumption measurements from triple 7970's
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Seasonic OEM for a lot of companies and xfx seem to be the only ones with the issue, buying an xfx product means you get xfx support while buying a seasonic product means Seasonic support, my antec supply is seasonic OEM but my warranty is with antec. The extra £40 may be worth it like Gigabyte over Sapphire.
Pretty much just rehashes the website info about how you dont need to worry about where you plug stuff in with "Easy Rail"
http://xfxforce.com/en-gb/Products/...SU/1250W-Black-Edition-Full-Modular-Gold.aspx
I agree warranty is also important but both PSU are clones and both come with 5 year warranty, any hardware fault will be identical with both, however customer service and support may vary, but whats stop me reading up the seasonic forums for a solution
Nice post 
My current rig is :
(yes i know it should be Eyefinity as opposed to Surround, but meh)
I had to go for the Enermax as my Corsair HX1000 wasn't upto the 3 x 7970
It was fine with 3 x 670s but it crapped out as soon as the rig was under any kind of stress / benchmark - swapped for the Enermax and hasn't missed a beat since
Can't be more specific on the power draw than that im afraid, but there you go
Top stuff Stu
My current rig is :
(yes i know it should be Eyefinity as opposed to Surround, but meh)
I had to go for the Enermax as my Corsair HX1000 wasn't upto the 3 x 7970
It was fine with 3 x 670s but it crapped out as soon as the rig was under any kind of stress / benchmark - swapped for the Enermax and hasn't missed a beat since
Can't be more specific on the power draw than that im afraid, but there you go
Top stuff Stu
This is why i get annoyed when people just throw Watts around when suggesting PSUs. 800W is enough - *posts a quad rail 800W PSU*.
I experienced the same sort of thing first hand years ago with an OCZ ModXStream PSU, it was doing my nut in, i learned the hard way.
I experienced the same sort of thing first hand years ago with an OCZ ModXStream PSU, it was doing my nut in, i learned the hard way.
All this talk of PSU's got me wanting to push my rig to teh max power wise and since I have just picked up a nice new power monitor - tonight was the night! Read it and weep!
Just to ensure its as accurate as my old one, I plugged them in together... no problems there as you can see.
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Running kombuster at the max it will do, with all shaders etc on and the cards fully overclocked to 1275/1950 with 1.290v / 1.800v just to see how much power this thing could draw in a worst case scenario....
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And the cost to leave it running like that for 1 month.
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£135 per month! Jees.. you could buy a car on HP for that!
More useless info from this test here.
Just to ensure its as accurate as my old one, I plugged them in together... no problems there as you can see.
[/URL]Running kombuster at the max it will do, with all shaders etc on and the cards fully overclocked to 1275/1950 with 1.290v / 1.800v just to see how much power this thing could draw in a worst case scenario....
[/URL]And the cost to leave it running like that for 1 month.
[/URL]£135 per month! Jees.. you could buy a car on HP for that!
More useless info from this test here.
So you think on average we are running our GPUS flat out 100% 24/7 for a month.
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I've spent according to my power meter £85 in 5 months.
That's with two 7970s and a less powerful 3770k.
Unless you're folding/mining 24/7 you wont spend anywhere near that kind of money...His actual gaming wattage was half that of the stress wattage...#
Edit: Just looked and his folding figure is £63 a month.
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2/3/4 cards wouldn't matter unless you played kombstor all the time. Folding 24/7 would worry me but I am sure Folders know what they are doing.
Spot on post Final8y.
Another daft post WeeHamish
So let me work this out,
He says "£135 per month! Jees.. you could buy a car on HP for that!"
And i say you could get a new card every 3 month for that?
But im the one isolated out and called daft?
Ok then greg and rusty please dont quote me again, im sick of the stalking and posting stuff from days back just to try and make yourselves look clever on the forums :\
Greg i see your coming to Newcastle soon? If you PM me id like to meet you in person, your a cool guy
He says "£135 per month! Jees.. you could buy a car on HP for that!"
And i say you could get a new card every 3 month for that?
But im the one isolated out and called daft?
Ok then greg and rusty please dont quote me again, im sick of the stalking and posting stuff from days back just to try and make yourselves look clever on the forums :\
Greg i see your coming to Newcastle soon? If you PM me id like to meet you in person, your a cool guy
Soldato
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So let me work this out,
He says "£135 per month! Jees.. you could buy a car on HP for that!"
And i say you could get a new card every 3 month for that?
But im the one isolated out and called daft?
Ok then greg and rusty please dont quote me again, im sick of the stalking and posting stuff from days back just to try and make yourselves look clever on the forums :\
Greg i see your coming to Newcastle soon? If you PM me id like to meet you in person, your a cool guy
He never used it as a reason never to have more than single card setups though...
So let me work this out,
He says "£135 per month! Jees.. you could buy a car on HP for that!"
And i say you could get a new card every 3 month for that?
But im the one isolated out and called daft?
Ok then greg and rusty please dont quote me again, im sick of the stalking and posting stuff from days back just to try and make yourselves look clever on the forums :\
Greg i see your coming to Newcastle soon? If you PM me id like to meet you in person, your a cool guy
You seriously would like to meet me? Not sure what we would chat about as we have very little in common. Maybe chatting isn't on your agenda?
Main reason i dont go dual is because ive had 2 bad SLI setups lol.
The extra savings from power usage is just a little bonus not the main reason.
I am not at all surprised you have had bad experiences with SLI. Actually I expect you have had bad experiences with most of your systems.
Do you still work for HP?
Sorry OP for OT.
Morning guys,
Its well worth noting that these readings werer all done while running my benching drive so everything is setup for max performance and stability. Once you run these 7970's with more volts the power draw increases massively. If anyone cares, I can update this topic whith figures on my normal use drive that is not overclocked.
Its well worth noting that these readings werer all done while running my benching drive so everything is setup for max performance and stability. Once you run these 7970's with more volts the power draw increases massively. If anyone cares, I can update this topic whith figures on my normal use drive that is not overclocked.