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7950 Crossfire Question
- Thread starter Samin
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Soldato
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Yes, but it is borderline I would say and I wouldn't go overclocking the cards much, if at all.
depends on how much overclocking you do, I had a tagan piperock 700W, it ran my spec in my cig fine not overclocked at all. and I only have 1 fan inside my pc, my cpu cooler fan, no extra controller cards or sound cards or fan controllers or anything that requires power. and if I overclocked my cards and cpu, it would just lock up. so it depends on how many extras ya got that require power.
I decided to get rid of that psu, and got my self a corsair 1000w, its the best most future proof decision iv ever made in buying any component in my history I think, iv always gon for a power supply that has "enough" for what I need, rather than going for the full fat overkill that will run anything no matter what I upgrade to. for the price iv paid for 450w.. 550w.. 600w.. then 700w psus in the past when upgrading my system, I should have just gone for a 1000w from the start haha, could have had enough money for a third 7950 probs
also this corsair 1000w is 100% silent. literally 100% silent, the fan doesn't even spin unless its under a lot of load, my specs in my cigs just manages to turn the fan on to its 100% silent lowest setting after 45 mins of gaming or so at full overclocks.
Also, it removed all my graphics cards coil whine
I decided to get rid of that psu, and got my self a corsair 1000w, its the best most future proof decision iv ever made in buying any component in my history I think, iv always gon for a power supply that has "enough" for what I need, rather than going for the full fat overkill that will run anything no matter what I upgrade to. for the price iv paid for 450w.. 550w.. 600w.. then 700w psus in the past when upgrading my system, I should have just gone for a 1000w from the start haha, could have had enough money for a third 7950 probs
also this corsair 1000w is 100% silent. literally 100% silent, the fan doesn't even spin unless its under a lot of load, my specs in my cigs just manages to turn the fan on to its 100% silent lowest setting after 45 mins of gaming or so at full overclocks.Also, it removed all my graphics cards coil whine
To give you some idea, others will come in and be a lot more knowledgeable about this.
I have a Sunflower 650 PSU.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-004-SF
Which runs two Sapphire 7950s in Xfire.
A I5 2500k at 4.4
P8Z68 Gen3 M/Board
8gig ram
4 SSD drives
2 SATA Drives.
3 cooling fans..
Mine runs great, was a bit worried about putting the load onto the PSU, but I have not had any problems what so ever and I have benched them hard in the past week..
I have a Sunflower 650 PSU.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-004-SF
Which runs two Sapphire 7950s in Xfire.
A I5 2500k at 4.4
P8Z68 Gen3 M/Board
8gig ram
4 SSD drives
2 SATA Drives.
3 cooling fans..
Mine runs great, was a bit worried about putting the load onto the PSU, but I have not had any problems what so ever and I have benched them hard in the past week..
