Hiper 580w Modular enough to power crossfire?

Tom|Nbk · 20 Aug 2006 at 00:39

can this psu handle two x1900xt's in crossfire?, here are the rest of my spec's

CPU: AMD 3800+ X2 2.0Ghz
Motherboard: Asus A8R32-MVP
Memory: 2GB Geil PC3200
GPU: Sapphire X1900 XT
Heatsink/Fan: Arctic Cooling Freezer 64
Hard Drive: Maxtor Diamondmax 10 300GB SATA 8MB Cache
Hard Drive 2: WD Caviar Special Edition 320GB SATA 8MB Cache
Optical Drives: Samsung TS-H552U Dual Layer 16x16x DVD +/-R/RW Black/Samsung TS-H492A 52x32x52x16 Black DVD/CDRW Combo
Sound Card: On-Board Creative 7.1
Case: Thermaltake Armor Black
PSU: Hiper Type R 580W

anyone using a 580w Hiper Type-r Modular?,

Thanks,

Cyber-Mav · 20 Aug 2006 at 00:52

dunno about hiper psu's. i own a type-r 480w model and its ok so far but mate recently bought a 525w hiper psu and it blew up straight away.

i find hiper to be just 1 notch above qtec. as for the crossfire setup it should be up to the task.

Tom|Nbk · 20 Aug 2006 at 00:54

Cyber-Mav said:
dunno about hiper psu's. i own a type-r 480w model and its ok so far but mate recently bought a 525w hiper psu and it blew up straight away.

i find hiper to be just 1 notch above qtec. as for the crossfire setup it should be up to the task.

its definetly not 1 notch away from q-tec from what i have heard these are top quality psu's and ive never had a problem with it my self, and ive clocked my system to the moon and back with it

, thanks for reply though

Cyber-Mav · 20 Aug 2006 at 00:56

dunno, but as the saying goes, you pay peanuts.. you get monkeys.

Tom|Nbk · 20 Aug 2006 at 01:49

Cyber-Mav said:
dunno, but as the saying goes, you pay peanuts.. you get monkeys.

did not pay peanuts its actually only just slightly cheaper than the tagan equvilant.

Foehammer2003 · 20 Aug 2006 at 01:52

Cyber-Mav said:
dunno, but as the saying goes, you pay peanuts.. you get monkeys.

... and if you pay monkeys you might just get a backflip

Tom|Nbk · 20 Aug 2006 at 02:02

can we stick to the topic at hand and all you trolls go back to your caves

, thanks

Foehammer2003 · 20 Aug 2006 at 03:08

Clicky

Because of the increased power consumption of the new high-power video cards the recommended minimum for +12V is 26A, for SLI 35A.

I think your PSU is rated at 20A on the 12V rail, so looks like it wouldn't be enough imo

Tom|Nbk · 20 Aug 2006 at 03:19

Foehammer2003 said:
Clicky

I think your PSU is rated at 20A on the 12V rail, so looks like it wouldn't be enough imo

gah, even though its sli rated?, i guess its a different kettle of fish with xfire

Foehammer2003 · 20 Aug 2006 at 03:25

Hmmm, actually i thought SLi was the more power hungry, well according to the PSU calculator your fine for pure wattage, it's all dependant on those rails though, I would have thought you would be better off getting a more powerful PSU just to be sure, instead of just scraping through, last thing you want is to find out after you got your x-fire up and running, that you need more juice

Zefan · 20 Aug 2006 at 03:26

Tom|Nbk said:
gah, even though its sli rated?, i guess its a different kettle of fish with xfire

Crossfire is hungrier on the old juice than SLi but give it a go anyway!

Tom|Nbk · 20 Aug 2006 at 03:28

Zefan said:
Crossfire is hungrier on the old juice than SLi but give it a go anyway!

yea i thought this was the case i wonder if anyone else is using a hiper with xfire

Tom|Nbk · 20 Aug 2006 at 03:43

http://www.hipergroup.com/English/products/hpu-4k580.html

heres a link to the official spec's of my psu,

it has dual 12v rails, and says my 1st rail is 20a and my 2nd 18a, ill keep looking around though

FrankJH · 20 Aug 2006 at 05:43

No way is it good enough for a FSP Sparkle FX600-GLN Epsilon 600W ATX2.0 PSU at the least I know my xfire setup is stable - (with 700w variety) but I wouldnt go with anything less than the 600w one as stated gaurenteed for Xfire

Hemp Knight · 20 Aug 2006 at 07:49

Tom|Nbk said:
yea i thought this was the case i wonder if anyone else is using a hiper with xfire

I did use a Hiper TypeR 580W with an X1800 crossfire setup once and it ran fine, for a while. But then one day I just kept having the machine switch itself off every time I tried to open a 3D app. I bought an FSP 700W Epsilon and the problem went away.

So tbh it might run an X1900 setup but I wouldn't be surprised if you ran into trouble with it a couple of months down the line.

Dirkscooby · 20 Aug 2006 at 14:40

I have a Antec neo 550watt psu and it works fine with 2 x1900xtxs in xfire.

Tom|Nbk · 20 Aug 2006 at 15:15

Dirkscooby said:
I have a Antec neo 550watt psu and it works fine with 2 x1900xtxs in xfire.

hmm do you have a link to the spec's of your psu and i can prehaps compare them to mine i really want to go xfire atm but i really dont fancy shelling out for another psu, this is only 5 months old

LoadsaMoney · 20 Aug 2006 at 15:38

600w at least id say for 2x x1900's, but im sure Gibbo says hes powered 2x of em on lot less so depends how good the PSU is i suppose, and what else you have connected.

Akhamar · 20 Aug 2006 at 16:13

The Antec neo HE 550 is way better for 12v than the hiper 580w.

Those hipers are deceptive, based on thier own spec sheet it'll do up to 30A on the 12v rails (not 20+18). That's not much more than my 480w single rail tagan which does 28A.

To compare the Neo HE 550 has 3 rails that say they can max at 42A on 12v (not 18+18+18). Although I think you'd be pushing the limits of the supply overall if you could pull that much from the 12v.

The neo HE 550 is also listed as good for crossfire up to and including x1900s.

J1nxy · 20 Aug 2006 at 17:36

Having tried a Hyper 580w or Neo HE 550 it is not enough to power a stable X1900 Crossfire system. I went for the Epsilon 700w which has been rock solid.

Steve