Building new rig and Raid 0

I think it is at your own cost. Like I say 750w may be enough. The 7970s (which this cards was based on) were pretty power efficient... Considering.
 
The card(s) won't run at 100%.. and if you stress them (100% load) your PC may shutdown..

As it's a good quality PSU, it won't explode. (if that was your concern) :)
 
I know I know, but I had a thumping headache yesterday and was not in the best of moods so if anything bad happened Im sure it wouldve wound me up even further!

Anyway hopefully today :)
 
lol you have wayyy more pacience than me mate haha i would have ripped the box apart and had it all buit up before id have finished the yummy haribo you get with it lol. When i ordered my 7950 i finished my night shift and stayed up so i wouldnt miss the postie haha. looking forward to seeing the final build !
 
Hehe. Well the Haribo has long been eaten Im afraid.
Guess Im a little more patient these days, as I certainly would have done what you said in earlier years!

Incidentally, I purchased the R9 280, but I didnt do any indepth research.
Whats this card equivalent to in the 79XX series exactly?
 
Hohum. I see.
I wonder how these crossfired fair against a 7950?
E: Ds - another question, my 850W PSU came with module cables.

1. One cable is a single piece that has an 8 pin (that goes into the PSU) and the other end is also an 8 pin that says CPU on it. But the PSU already has the big chunky 24pin mobo connector and the secondary 8 pin (which also splits into a 4 or 6 pin I think)? So what is this single piece of cable that is 8pin to 8pin?

2. There were 2 cables for the graphics card, but not a third one, (thinking about a third GFX card for crossfire), how do I go about getting one?
 
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280X Xfire vs a single 7950.. Double to 2.5x FPS i'd say..

Scaling on Xfire is pretty good on the new drivers, so performance (in some things) are almost 100%.
 
Doomedspeed said:
280X Xfire vs a single 7950.. Double to 2.5x FPS i'd say..

Scaling on Xfire is pretty good on the new drivers, so performance (in some things) are almost 100%.
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Nice nice nice, thats what I like to hear.
So hopefully if I go Eyefinity, performance should be similar to what Im gaming at on a single monitor?

(Asked some Qs above Ds btw :))
 
Cavallino said:
E: Ds - another question, my 850W PSU came with module cables.

1. One cable is a single piece that has an 8 pin (that goes into the PSU) and the other end is also an 8 pin that says CPU on it. But the PSU already has the big chunky 24pin mobo connector and the secondary 8 pin (which also splits into a 4 or 6 pin I think)? So what is this single piece of cable that is 8pin to 8pin?

2. There were 2 cables for the graphics card, but not a third one, (thinking about a third GFX card for crossfire), how do I go about getting one?
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1) Are the cables labelled atall, The 8pin you're talking about will be the EPS connector. This provides some powerto the motherboard CPU socket. The connector is located top left (looking at the board) of the CPU socket.

The 24pin is another motherboard power connector (should be very easy to work out where that goes :)). The other cable you talk about is a 6+2 pin (8 pin) PCI-E cable.

Your cards take a 6 pin and a 8 power connector each..


2). You'll need 3 x 6 pin PCI-E cables and 3 x 8 pin PCI-E cables, six cables in all..

Cavallino said:
Nice nice nice, thats what I like to hear.
So hopefully if I go Eyefinity, performance should be similar to what Im gaming at on a single monitor?

(Asked some Qs above Ds btw :))
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I'd say so.. :)
 
Doomedspeed said:
1) Are the cables labelled atall, The 8pin you're talking about will be the EPS connector. This provides some powerto the motherboard CPU socket. The connector is located top left (looking at the board) of the CPU socket.
The 24pin is another motherboard power connector (should be very easy to work out where that goes :)). The other cable you talk about is a 6+2 pin (8 pin) PCI-E cable.
Your cards take a 6 pin and a 8 power connector each..
2). You'll need 3 x 6 pin PCI-E cables and 3 x 8 pin PCI-E cables, six cables in all..
I'd say so.. :)
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Hmm maybe I didnt explain well.

1) The PSU already has two fixed cables coming out of it, 1 x 24pin and 1 x 8pin. But the box included another cable which has an 8pin on one end and another 8 pin on the other end (labelled "CPU").
So I am just wondering why are there effectively TWO 8 pin "CPU" cables and does the modular cable need to be plugged in?

2. You said I need 3 x 6 pin and 3 x pin for PCI. I.e. each card takes 6 and 8 pin?
(I couldve swore there were both 8 pin).

But how do I get a third PCI cable (the box only included two cables with 2 x 8 pin connectors on each).
 
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