650W-750W high quality unit.
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** SINGLE GTX 580 3GB VS SINGLE 7970 3GB REVIEW BY OcUK **
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650W-750W high quality unit.
Key points here!
$475 is FOB board partner cost price.
So you have:-
$475 then add following:-
Board partner profit margin
Shipping Cost
Exchange rate conversion
Distributor profit margin
Shipping from distributor
Etailor/Reseller profit margin
VAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Finally massive shortage on stock, demand higher than supply, price = higher!
I'd look at 850W minimum. I have a 850W running 2 5870's and their power consumption is in the same ball park.
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/508?vs=511
My Xeon rig here with three in Tri-Fire pulls 800W max at the socket.
So I'd say two cards in a SandyBridge type PC, 650W would be cutting it, 750W would be fine and 850W would be more than enough.
I'd only advice 850W or higher if your going to clock the hell out of the whole system, have many HDD's and maybe add a 3rd later.
True, I went with an 850 to be on the safe side as the system is overclocked quite a bit (1 of your pre overclocked i7 D0 bundles) and thought it was a good PSU to replace my old 650W non modular as cable management isn't my strong suit.
Looking at the link provided would seem to back up what you say, as that is showing total system load and not just GPU load as I had thought at first glance.
Looking at the link provided would seem to back up what you say, as that is showing total system load and not just GPU load as I had thought at first glance.
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So i'm now looking at one of these as i've had enough of the 6970 issues i've been having. I actually thought i could play Skyrim maxed with good fps but i get low 30s in some parts!!!
I've got a Antec Truepower 650w so hopefully this will be ok to run one of these?
I've got a Antec Truepower 650w so hopefully this will be ok to run one of these?
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£500 minimum. More than likely £550.
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Yes.
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£500 easy. Get ready people 
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I have to say Gibbo has to be the best tech salesman on the planet, just over a week ago some were bemoaning that the 7970 didn't offer enough of a performance increase over it's predecessors and now Gibbo has got he's hands he has shown just how good the chip really is!
AMD should pay Gibbo a consultancy fee for all of he's promotional efforts.
AMD should pay Gibbo a consultancy fee for all of he's promotional efforts.
+ I think he's the buyer so there could be some red faces if they got stuck with a lot of very expensive GFX cards 
Soldato
Amen to this. Atleast with any new cards, we can get Gibbo to put them to the test. Saves all the upcoming new threads about new cards on the horizon and the flame wars
I still think they are not fast enough for a "next gen" card, but if the pricing is now sub £400 the overall package looks better.
The 5870 was much faster percentage wise over the previous gen NVidia GTX285, and the GTX480 was much much faster than the previous gen AMD card, the 4890. I know that the 7900's cloxk very well, but so will the 28nm competition. IMHO, the 5870 was a bigger srep ahead than this, but we will only know for sure once Kepler arrives.
Amen to this. Atleast with any new cards, we can get Gibbo to put them to the test. Saves all the upcoming new threads about new cards on the horizon and the flame wars
This is the plan!
I am going to clock the hell out of those 580 Classified's when they arrive next week.