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Did anyone here swap out a 290 for 970?

almighty15 said:
8pack would disagree.
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8Pack isn't going to come running to your defence, besides that he uses external VRM sets so the board does not explode in his face.

Reviewers have the system power pull at 300 to 350 Watts, why is yours 250 to 300 watts more?

Kaap's entire system, with an overclocked 5690X or whatevery it is.... and all the rest of Christ only knows what else is in his case, with 4 290X's at 1230Mhz. The whole thing pulls 1600 / 1700 Watts.

With what you are trying to make white his system would be pulling about 2500 Watts or more.

My entire system with an overclocked FX-8350 and a 20% overclocked 290 never pulls much more than 400 Watts

again, whats so special about your rig?
 
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humbug said:
Not a chance, the GPU's board isn't even capable of running that much power, the VRM's phase on the is 450 Watts max, you would only ever pull anywhere near that with an extreme LN2 overclock.

Every reviewer has the system power at around <350 Watts with a 290 in it.

Kaap's 4 290X's running at 1250Mhz pull about <350 Watts each....

But wait a minute, almighty says his system pulls more than 600 Watts with one 290, oh no.... everything we know and understand is wrong, repeated facts tried and tested over and over again are null and void, the laws of physics no longer apply, almighty is putting the record straight.

I think you looked at your KW meter and doubled the readout because it was nothing spectacular and not conjunctive to your constant dramatised rhetoric effect.
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almighty15 said 600W total for his system, you are the one that jumped to conclusion of 500W for the 290 alone and then went off on one, a modern CPU can easily pull 150-200W if overclocked particularly if it's AMD.

Lets imagine almighty15 added three more overclocked 290X cards at 350W each then, 600W(overclocked CPU/rest of system/290)+350W+350W+350W that works out at 1650W which is basically around what kaaps found. You seem to be just arguing for the sake of arguing because someone dared to equate 290 with a high power consumption.

BTW AMD never published a TDP for 290 and there is a well known variance between chips (coincidence? I think not), if you get a bad chip it will pull more power than average at any given clock. Oh and guess what, 290's are likely to be the poorest chips, hence them being downgraded. Reviewers are likely (and there was a big furor about it when 290X released) to be sent the best samples.
 
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humbug said:
8Pack isn't going to come running to your defence, besides that he uses external VRM sets so the board does not explode in his face.

Reviewers have the system power pull at 300 to 350 Watts, why is yours 250 to 300 watts more?

Kaap's entire system, with an overclocked 5690X or whatevery it is.... and all the rest of Christ only knows what else is in his case, with 4 290X's at 1250Mhz. The whole thing pulls 1600 / 1700 Watts.

With what you are trying to make white his system would be pulling about 2500 Watts or more.

My entire system with an overclocked FX-8350 and a 20% overclock 290 never pulls much more than 400 Watts

again, whats so special about your rig?
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I've found reviews that show over 400w for a system so god knows what reviews your looking at.

And whats so special about mine? The clock speed for one, not many were 24/7 stable at 1250Mhz, most review samples went 1100-1150Mhz.

And secondly, voltage ;)
 
Tonester0011 said:
I pulled well over 600w on my rig with a single 290, I also done over 600w with a single 780ti. Stock system I pulled roughly the same CF 290 lol
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mmj_uk said:
almighty15 said 600W total for his system, you are the one that jumped to conclusion of 500W for the 290 alone and then went off on one, a modern CPU can easily pull 150-200W if overclocked particularly if it's AMD.

Lets imagine almighty15 added three more overclocked 290X cards at 350W each then, 600W(overclocked CPU/rest of system/290)+350W+350W+350W that works out at 1650W which is basically around what kaaps found. You seem to be just arguing for the sake of arguing because someone dared to equate 290 with a high power consumption.
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Cheers gents
 
almighty15 said:
I've found reviews that show over 400w for a system so god knows what reviews your looking at.

And whats so special about mine? The clock speed for one, not many were 24/7 stable at 1250Mhz, most review samples went 1100-1150Mhz.

And secondly, voltage ;)
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There is one in this thread just a cople of pages back. Anand, 370 Watts entire system.

So again, what makes yours so special that its pulling 250 Watts more than that, mine and everyother 290 Rig?
 
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You have an 8320 bug, get a wall meter shove a decent amount through both chips and your system will do 600+ easy....

My 4790k will do 200w when clocked. You can't add up wattage for system like you do, sheesh you moaned at Kaap for using a wall meter as it's not 'accurate' enough. **** knows how you think your way is.
 
Once you start overclocking the cpu, gpu and adding extra voltage, power consumption will rise. Add in the various other components, (which will differ across everyones system). This means that comparisons between one guys rig and someone elses are a bit pointless
 
humbug said:
There is one in this thread just a cople of pages back. Anand, 370 Watts entire system.

So again, what makes yours so special that its pulling 250 Watts more than that, mine and everyother 290 Rig?
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I agree with the others, you're just looking for an argument because someone has said something negative about a precious AMD card :roll eyes:

Why don't you ask Tonester0011 why his 290 was so special too.
 
Tonester0011 said:
What is it ranger and what V?
Won't load for me, shifty European mobile net.
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What volts? As in what volts is fed to my house? Its a 230v grid, and its a video of me recording my clocks, Metro LL benchmark and the wattage meter which shows around 550~ at 1272/1400 +200mV on GPU and 4.8 on my 4820k at 1.35v
 
Rangerjr1 said:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/wi56qgxvsx414yg/20150112_200022.mp4?dl=0

Here you go guys, done with my 1000W 80+ gold PSU. Not as high as Almighty said, but not as low as Humbug is implying.

Metro LL Benchmark all maxed 1440p.

Edit: that vibrating noise is my 360 controller not my vibrator or anything :O
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Only 50 watts in it and you have a lower clocked, more efficient CPU then me which would more then make up for the extra 50 watts.

So in my eyes that video backs up my 600w claim.
 
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