"Future proof" ~1000W Branded PSU (£100ish)

[DaveJ-UK]

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[cmndr_andi]

May I ask what PSU you are currently running?

As for quad-fire 4870 - I wouldn't suggest going down that road tbh. The scaling for four GPUs is pretty poor. You would be much better off selling the 4870X2 and picking up a newer faster card if you feel the need for a performance boost.

 

[DaveJ-UK]

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[Redmint]

You'd be lucky to find a decent brand 1000w for that price.

There's this one for 900W:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-150-AN&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=

Or there's this:

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

Agree with Andy, from what I've read about quad fire you'll probably be wasting your money. Treat yourself to a new DX11 card when you can afford it. HD 6950 crossfire is looking pretty nice atm.

 

[DaveJ-UK]

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[NathWraith]

Quad crossfire is a bad idea, not only is it power hungry but also next to useless in games that don't support it and nigh on impossible to get the drivers to work correctly. I would steer clear of it!

 

[Redmint]

Well the 4870X2 is still a powerful card, if you're not bothered about DX11 on the new generation of cards and you're not having any framerate issues then you could wait with upgrading.

Looking around it seems that a 6950 should offer similar performance to the 4870X2 while using a fair bit less power though.

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/HIS/Radeon_HD_6950/27.html

 

[DaveJ-UK]

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[Mattyjw]

It might be the monitor there's another thread around where the cables or monitor are giving up the ghost, if there's another vdu you can borrow I'd give that a shot first of course new monitor would probably invite a new graphics card anyway.

 

[DaveJ-UK]

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