Enabling Tri Fire!!

[up2nogooduk]

Is my coolermaster M850 psu Good enough to run tri-fire ?
http://www.coolermaster.com/product.php?product_id=2543

Also, to enabling tri-fire, (1x 5970. 1 x 5850)
Do you just turn AI on standard ? not sure what the advanced does ?

Never really knew what that AI was mainly for anyway

Cheers.

 

[up2nogooduk]

Yeah should be the same as enabling xfire so AI on standard, regarding PSU, below quote from guru3d regarding tri-fire Power requirements.



I would say an 850 watt PSU may be cutting it fine, more so with an overclocked i7/i5

Oh bugger that, not gonna spend another £150 + for a new psu
But the single 5970 would be fine ?
Do you know what the advanced does on the AI ?

Thanks a lot.

 

[up2nogooduk]

Yeah 5970 is the fasted GFX card on the planet so it's all good there

A bit more research regarding CCC AI and maybe you should leave it on advanced, if you get any corruption go back to standard.

Thanks for that mate
But disabling A.I will turn the crossfire off correct ?
I would have thought there be a setting saying crossfire enabled/disabled

So my PSU will run the 5970 just fine.
If i did go nuts and went for the tri-fire, what PSU would you or someone recomend ?
I guess the 480 would need a good 1500w to run SLI ?

Cheers

 

[up2nogooduk]

Yeah no AI=no xfirex, you can aways use GPU-z to see if it's on or not and you also get the xfire logo in games when it is activated. For tri-fire PSU, I would say 1000 watt will do the job.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-012-CS&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=1084

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-192-CM&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=1103

Cool, thanks for that
I'm liking the the look of the Cooler Master one.
So if you tried you run cards on a underpowerd psu, what would go wrong ?
How much watts are some guys running on the GTX 480 sli by the way ?

well im soon going to run a 5970 with 5850 in tri fire

will tell youy my results

When you doing that mate what PSU will you be running with them.

Thanks for you're help