ooohhh.......so there might be hope after all.
I think I am going to wait and see what the pennies are like just after the festive period and look to snap up another 470 before they vanish into the halls of posterity.
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ooohhh.......so there might be hope after all.
I think I am going to wait and see what the pennies are like just after the festive period and look to snap up another 470 before they vanish into the halls of posterity.
All PSUs with 80+ certificates have to output their quoted power. With an average 850W PSU being 80% efficient under full load, this would total at over 1060W taken from the wall socket.
GTX480 SLI use 850W in Furmark, I fail to see why an average rated PSU wouldn't withstand such load under any but the most extreme conditions (in which said PSU would have to be faulty).
GTX480 SLI use 850W in Furmark, I fail to see why an average rated PSU wouldn't withstand such load under any but the most extreme conditions (in which said PSU would have to be faulty).
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Before launch is irrelevant, as numbers were leaking all through the evening before. Only then did he begin to cave. It was the level of smugness and confidence up to that point, and the eventual explosion of the fallacy then the backpedalling that grates. If he's have gone "D'oh! My bad, I'm a muppet!" I don't think I'd have minded as much. It was the single most inflammatory post made by anyone during the days before launch bar Martini's lolfest.How was that a facepalm? He declared there was a problem before products were launched. Regardless of how you take it A) he was lying B) he was telling the truth .... he still said it was wrong before launch.
Bottomline is, if people wanted verifiable results they should have waited for reviews before purchase. Lol with OP
Besides, I'd never adocate setting expectations based on this or any other forum. You use your own judgement. If I'm honest, I took this thread as a p*** take.
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It happened to me actually, running furmark with an overclocked i7 and 470s hosed my mobo and PSU by overloading it.
Not the best picture in the world but you can se the 24pin ATX connector has melted into the socket, a classic sign of dual gpu's overloading the PSU. That was with an 850CM Coolermaster.
Not the best picture in the world but you can se the 24pin ATX connector has melted into the socket, a classic sign of dual gpu's overloading the PSU. That was with an 850CM Coolermaster.
is it considered cool to make random crap up now or something?
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It happened to me actually, running furmark with an overclocked i7 and 470s hosed my mobo and PSU by overloading it.
Not the best picture in the world but you can se the 24pin ATX connector has melted into the socket, a classic sign of dual gpu's overloading the PSU. That was with an 850CM Coolermaster.
Nasty, happens to the evga classified 760 board aswell, boards that are fitted with an extra 4 pin molex such as the asus ramapge III & evga classified 3 don't suffer from this problem.This is the reason nvidia have changed the 5 series cards to clock down when they reach 300w of power draw.Just waiting for evga to start sending out a pci-e power adapter which fits in any pci-e 16x and provides extra power and allows the use of the slot that it is inserted into.
^^^furmark is the biggest culprit and other programs that place unrealistly high demands on psu card and Mobo.
Ppl should test their cards with what matters, ie games.
Edit: In regards to op, I "nearly" pressed buy on two 6970 after seeing certain benchmarks from somebody that allegedly had a 6970 with new drivers....
Ppl should test their cards with what matters, ie games.
Edit: In regards to op, I "nearly" pressed buy on two 6970 after seeing certain benchmarks from somebody that allegedly had a 6970 with new drivers....
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^^ Me too, then i posted questioning benchmarks because none of them made sense to me with different numbers site to site on the same games. I don't know whos site to trust anymore 
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It was because of a few reasons.
Most people expected 1920SP cards, and even a 1920 SP version of Cypress would give the GTX480 a real tough time. This and the fact the GTX 580 was only a little faster than a GTX480, made a 1920SP HD6970 look odds on to beat a GTX580.
Everyones thinking was sound, it was just the lower SP count dropped a spanner in the works.
Thinking was sound my a**e!
The moral of the story here kids is dont believe what these speculating muppets post until you can see the real reviews!
The tell-tale signs were there way before the launch.
Nobody delays a product launch because it is better than expected. They either had performance or manufacturing issues.
The early German benchmarks, which although not run in lab conditions, did have provenance.
Nobody delays a product launch because it is better than expected. They either had performance or manufacturing issues.
The early German benchmarks, which although not run in lab conditions, did have provenance.
I know. And the grief people gave me when I bought the 850W psu on these forums saying "why?", "total overkill", "you'll never need that much power" and people are now saying you really need 1000W psu's
In this case I think it was a little of both, not sure what to make of those threads suggesting they had to buff the power connector to fit the cooling as I only glanced at them and didn't do any research.
Judging from the number of 470 heatsink replacement threads over the last two months its was more like £400 for 470 sli with no warranty.
Now that#s a bit harsh. I would always watercool my cards whatever they were and have done for years.
Total cost with EK full waterblocks was £390 and they don;t go over 42C
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Running sli 470's with an i7 @4ghz with 2hdds, (adding a 3rd soon), blu ray drive, xonar dx pcie soundcard, fan controller and 8 fans, 6 on controller, 2 on a pwm splitter cable, psu is a corsair hx 850w. The cards are ran daily at 751/1502/1684, had them at 800/1600/1700 for benchmarks. Ive got a power meter arriving soon as im curious to know what the total system use is.
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