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Hyper 580w Modular enough for 4870x2??

DrMekon

DrMekon

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PC running with AMD 5000+ BE, 2gb Ram, 1 hard drive & 1 dvdrw... would the psu be enough for the dual graphics card..??

Otherwise the bargain £250 4870x2 just turned into £300+ :(

Although I could always bag the 4890 :D for now :D
 
Honestly I think that with your present cpu a 4870 x2 would be seriously bottlenecked.

e.g I tested a 4870 x2 with an e8500 at stock and then oc'ed to 3.8 at 1680x1050.

When playing crysis the gains in raw fps were significant, I think you should aim maybe for 4870/4890
 
lol.. thats quite funny, as Im on my second one, replacement for the first that just died, but luckily never exploded!!!

Think I may go for the asus 4890 and start savin for my new rig later on in the year...

Thanks
 
My Hiper 580M is now well into it's third year - never had a single problem.

Famous last words...but whether I've just been lucky and even having read the aforementioned thread can't quite see where the negativity comes from.
 
You have to remember that when all these hipers were going bang, they were obviously selling bucket loads due to the cheap price.

I myself had one which is now in a system I built for one of my mates, and it's still going strong.

At the end of the day the more you sell of something, the more units are likely to fail, hence the more bad comments you'll get from people that have had them and consequently failed.

The problem is you never hear from the people that have them and are working fine, because let's face it you're not going to make a great song and dance about a psu that works.

I bet there is loads of machines with the hiper type R's that are still plugging away.
 
With hipers the thing to watch for is the amount of hot air that starts drifting out of the box when the psu fan gives up. To be fair, it lasts a few more hours before blowing up and taking out half your components (from personal experience)
 
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