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**ANOTHER DEAL OF THE CENTURY - THIS TIME ITS ATI's TURN!**

Wow - sounds a great deal.

If I can't solve the problems with my 5770, and especially if I manage a refund then, by all accounts here, the 5850 sounds the way to go!
 
Cleeecooo said:
yep :)
Personally i would go for the XFX or Corsair. Go for the best you can afford to save you upgrading in the future. If you can, go for a 1kw.
Search for the silverstone ST1000P. It's around £160. I have it and it is amazing
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Sounds like you're failing at logic here. He'll save more money getting an efficient but smaller rated unit. He'll double save on the bills. 700W is as far as I would go with his setup in mind. Power requirements want change until specifications for PCI-E change which is not happening any time soon, meaning that he won't need to worry about his PSU at all (unless he goes nuts with his future rig).
 
Quick Question - will the price change when these cards are released? Is this a special pre-order price only?


edit: n'mind.... must read original post properly.
 
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Just ordered one of these (5850), hope the noise is not to bad compared to the Accelero Cooler on Ati 1950 Pro graphics card which broke last week.
 
Muppet: Your Jeantech Storm 700w has this on the 3x rails:

12V1=16A
12V2=25A
12V3=17A

100W 8A for CPU/mobo/RAM/HDD Etc = 12V1
150W 12.5A 1x 5850 = 12V2
150W 12.5A 1x 5850 = 12V3

Just make sure you dont overload the 12V3 rail with HDD's etc...

Does this look about right?
 
Muppet:

On second thought....You might be better off doing this considering your i7 @3600 probably pulls 150W(12A) by itself......throw in some fans/HDDs/RAM and some capacitor ageing at 25% and you need to watch where you plug those cables into!....

I'd recommend this....

150W 12.5A 1x 5850 = 12V1
275W 23A for CPU/mobo/RAM/HDD Etc = 12V2
150W 12.5A 1x 5850 = 12V3
 
Muppet: Sorry....Just found this....

12V1 is rated at 16A and powers the motherboard, CPU1 and first PCI-E plug.
12V2 is rated at 25A and powers CPU2, the second PCI-E and S-ATA plugs
12V3 is rated at 17A and powers the Molex plugs.

28A 3.3V rail, 30A 5V rail, 0.5A -12V and 2.5A 5VSB rail round off the specification.

Anyone care to comment on CF working with 2x 5860s?
 
Readweever thanks for that info . I think there is pci-e for the graphic cards I can't remember . I've got a 600 watt dark power pro but I don't know if this will be enough either and I can't really afford it at the moment but I couldn't resist that deal
 
Cleeecooo said:
AAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!! MY 480 SOC is dead. Should i return it and get two of these instead???
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Why am I not suprised you killed it after all that mess with your 6970 ?

Please don't start a million threads about damaging another card now like you did here when you borked the 6970.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18227332

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18226549

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=18138232&posted=1#post18138232


and as you stated on one of them threads you seem to always get cards that don't work or fail ... You seeing a pattern now where the real problem is ?

I told you on one of the threads buy a console or get someone to build it for you and then don't fiddle with it. But you didn't listen....



I have not had a single graphics card fail on me .. and i'm going all way back to 3dfx voodoo's here and some earlier basic vga ones without 3D features.


You are clearly frying them and trying to overclock and overvolt them too much or worse handling them without care when installing them.



I hope OCUK see this and remember the headaches he caused before by RMAing the 6970 and was tested ok but for some magical reason wouldn't work for him, but for some strange reason again he was using it and was just not happy with it's temps.


I wouldn't supply you with cards in first place and if I did you would get no warranty from me after the events you have stated in the past with graphics cards. Sorry but don't go sending it back to OCUK and then asking them for 2 5850's and then you damage both again and then something new will come out and again you will ask them to replace them with whatever offer is on then... there is too many coincidences when you cards magicaly become "faulty" , when there is a deal like the 480's at the time your 6970 suddenly started to go wrong, now the deal with the 5850's and suddenly the 480 has died.. Anyone else seeing this ?


Read this .... what he states..


http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=18186465&postcount=43
 
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