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PSU for a 1950pro card?

SkeeterUK

SkeeterUK

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I have a akasa paxpower 400 true watt psu. Will it be enough cos this psu cost me 45 quid ish about jan/feb this year and for me i got it so i had a good quality psu and it would last for awhile i.e more than a year or two. As for me 45 quid on a psu is extremily expensive. So with luck i will hopefully hear a ati 1950pro wont need any more than a 400w psu.
 
Aye, you should have no problem at all, the Akasas are pretty powerful PSUs.

The only snag is some of the earlier versions didn't have a 6 pin graphics power connector so (if yours is one of those earlier ones) you'd need an adapter (2x molex to 1x 6 pin) for a PCI-E X1950 Pro.
 
Well ill explain a bit my system and intentions.

amd 64 3500+ venice stock
asus a8v deluxe rev 2.0 (agp mb)
asus v9999 GE (6800 256mb card)
audigy 2 zs
2gb geil value ram ddr400

Now the pci-e versions of the 1950pro are 135 ish from ocuk. Now it may not be the fault of ocuk but their agp equivelent is about 158 quid. So it is my intention to just buy a cheap 20-30 quid mb that has pci-e 16x slot. That way i think it works out cheaper than getting the agp version and also the mb will be more future proof.

Now by all accounts i believe its known the 1950pro is a hell of a card and is cheap (pci-e version anyhow). And i supose i havent looked for alternatives but i think nvidia equivelent is more expensive.

The 1950pro is about 50-80% better than the 6800 i currently have. At least it better be.

The cpu i have is good enough i believe. I maybe should have sold it just before am2 cpus came out but well i missed the boat. But it is fast enough i think and when i move to a 64bit os it will help even more.
 
Tbh if it was me I'm not sure it'd be worth the hassle of fitting CPU/HS again and rebuilding my PC (possibly reinstalling Windows too), especially since when you next upgrade (most likely to a DX10 card), the 64 3500+ is gonna be rather long in the tooth and your probably gonna switch to a Core 2 Duo. £158 isn't that bad considering the premium usually attached to AGP cards.
 
Hmm supose ** right. Erm does anyone know a good time to get one the agp cards as in if and when sales are on etc. Then i might get it cheaper than 158ish.

Does ocuk do january and febuary sales?
 
That PSU will be fine, locutus12 on these forums was running an X1900XT based system with that same PSU and a friend of mine is running the same rig I am on an Antec 380W PSU.

As said the X1950Pro consumes significantly less power, it will be great.
 
SkeeterPSA said:
{snip}As for me 45 quid on a psu is extremily expensive{snip}
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A good PSU is expensive for a reason, sort of like why a X1950 doesn't cost the same as say a X1650! & I'm not just talking about Watts (though that also has an effect on prices).

But like everyone else has said, it should be fine :)
 
I'd be inclined to say it would bottleneck slightly more. If memory serves, the X1950Pro is on par with the X1800XT which is slightly faster than the 7800GTX which I used to own. This was alongside a 3500 Venice. I used to run at 1152x862 or something like that. I remember quite a bit of bottlenecking taking place. If you're running at 1280x1024 + then I'd imagine it to be ok, especially with 2GB.
 
Still considered to be a high end card tho yeah. I mean 600 core and 1400 ram is very high and not many cards cept new 8800 series goes more than these figures yeah?

Only thing i can think of why its cheap is because of the 8 pixel pipelines compared to say my 6800 card 12 or other cards higher pipeline amounts.

I mean its the best card you card you can get for agp sub 155 quid (ish) yeah?
 
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SkeeterPSA said:
{snip}Only thing i can think of why its cheap is because of the 8 pixel pipelines compared to say my 6800 card 12 or other cards higher pipeline amounts{snip}
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Those are Vertex shaders! The X1950PRO has 36-pixels pipelines, otherwise it would have be no better than a X700 (see here) :cool:
 
in some ways the x1950 pro AGP or PCI-e isn't that big an upgrade over a well clocked 6800, it does however have an increased number of fragment pipelines which give it a big boost in shader intensive games and double the vertex operators... so a game like oblivion would probably run much better but other games don't be suprised if its not such a big difference...
 
SkeeterPSA said:
So it is my intention to just buy a cheap 20-30 quid mb that has pci-e 16x slot. That way i think it works out cheaper than getting the agp version and also the mb will be more future proof.
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Sorry to throw a spanner in the works but, Stick to this plan.^^

In your own words you can buy the pci-e version and a new motherboard for cheaper than the agp version.

Also, your current mobo will fetch up to £30 second hand, making your pci-e upgrade even cheaper. :)

Nevermind about the peeps who'd rather buy the agp version becouse pci-e meens they 'may' have to reinstall windows :lol:
 
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