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Need a video card for the future.

nashathedog said:
I had an average level (Bronze rating) 850 watt psu that I was going to use to run a pair of 290x's but I didn't get a second card for other reasons in the end.

The thing is AMD recommends using a 600 watt psu with one Grenada chipped card.
We know Grenada uses more power at load than Hawaii did from reviews that test this so why would you risk it ?

If something did go wrong you'd have to lie about your psu or risk being told it's your own fault for not following the guidelines.
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Thats AMD being over cautious, most people who post here and places like this know what is written on the box of the PSU is not necessarily what you get out of it, it may well say 600 Watts on the box but what you get from the 12v rail is actually only 350 Watts if you end up with something like one of those CiT PSU's, most people don't know this, not everyone who builds PC for themselves post here.

The 390 uses 220 to 250 Watts, put two of them together its 500 watts, a true 750 PSU is plenty.
 
humbug said:
Thats AMD being over cautious, most people who post here and places like this know what is written on the box of the PSU is not necessarily what you get out of it, it may well say 600 Watts on the box but what you get from the 12v rail is actually only 350 Watts if you end up with something like one of those CiT PSU's, most people don't know this, not everyone who builds PC for themselves post here.

The 390 uses 220 to 250 Watts, put two of them together its 500 watts, a true 750 PSU is plenty.
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That's all well and good when running at stock, it's when you start to overclocking they sup juice.
 
Geeman1979 said:
I've had a 290X pulling 500w overvolted at 1.5v. Once you start adding voltage they can drain wattage.

I'd rather have plenty left in the tank than be border line with no room to move.
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1.5v? that's beyond extreme. why have the volts so high?
 
It is if he wants to get the best performance out of the cards by adding voltage even for a 24/7 clock. That's when they sup juice, granted it won't be 1.5v for a 24/7 clock.
 
Geeman1979 said:
It is if he wants to get the best performance out of the cards by adding voltage even for a 24/7 clock. That's when they sup juice, granted it won't be 1.5v for a 24/7 clock.
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I don't why you keep driving at this, 1.5v is utter madness, i ran mine at 1.25v - 1120Mhz, with that it pulled 270 watts, 1.5v your talking at the very least top of the line AIO Cooling if not LN2.

You run anything at 1.5v its will sup juice like crazy, anything, actually try that on Maxwell and watch it go up in smoke after a few days.
 
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humbug said:
I don't why you keep driving at this, 1.5v is utter madness, i ran mine at 1.25v - 1120Mhz, with that it pulled 270 watts, 1.5v your talking at the very least top of the line AIO Cooling if not LN2.
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It was neither, it was on air. That's how good the Lightning coolers are.

Point being, giving yourself plenty of leg room gives you the option to max your cards later down the line.
 
TimAhKin said:
I don't want to OC my GPU. Maybe I will OC my CPU but that's it. :)

Which 390 has the best cooling?
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Why not? call yourself a PC Hardware enthusiast? :p you should be overclocking even if you don't need to (which lets be honest it doesn't really make a lot of difference) but you should be doing it just because you can, because anyone can buy a GPU but yours should be that bit more than what just anyone can buy.

I like the look of the MSI Gaming but i don't really know.
 
My last AMD video card was HiS Radeon 4850. Now I don't know, PowerColor, Sapphire, etc. .. Maybe one of them stands out, who knows? :)

@humbug: I have plenty of stuff to overclock and at least for the moment, I don't really need it.
 
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