Jigglyass Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814500087 I was thinking getting this, since ive sold my PSP which i had no use for it along with all my PSP games i have enough to buy that thing... I currently have a 8800GT Besides GTA i play Crysis ect so this would be sort of beneficial... Should i get it, its really good price... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nemesi5 Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 Wow, I say go for it! It would improve a lot especially since the 8800GT is bottlenecking that wonderful Q9650 of yours. Get it & tell us your results! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john88z Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 The card is good just not the manufacturer. Go for evga or bfg. Stay away from xfx, zotac, and paliet. no flame war intended, just from personal experiences they are not very reliable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FenixDelta753 Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 The card is good just not the manufacturer. Go for evga or bfg. Stay away from xfx, zotac, and paliet. no flame war intended, just from personal experiences they are not very reliable. I've got a Zotac mobo I know it may sound redundant, but you need to make absolutely certain that you will have a big enough PSU because those GTX's are very power hungry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jigglyass Posted May 15, 2009 Author Share Posted May 15, 2009 I have Zotac 8800GT AMP! Their customer support is awesome, i had to RMA my card not long ago... They are very informative and nice, i have no problem whatsoever buying another Zotac product. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nemesi5 Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 The card is good just not the manufacturer. Go for evga or bfg. Stay away from xfx, zotac, and paliet. no flame war intended, just from personal experiences they are not very reliable. now how is xfx bad? Their customer support is great and zotac has good customer warranty. About paliet, probably bad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FenixDelta753 Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 The card is good just not the manufacturer. Go for evga or bfg. Stay away from xfx, zotac, and paliet. no flame war intended, just from personal experiences they are not very reliable. now how is xfx bad? Their customer support is great and zotac has good customer warranty. About paliet, probably bad I agree with both of you, I've owned both Zotac and XFX products and i am satisfied with both of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SyphonPayne Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 I don't know about Zotac/Palit, but EVGA and XFX have been nothing but good to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Box5 Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 I've got a 260, I think with your setup you'll love it. Its been a great card for me, and should be a nice boost over that 8800. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jigglyass Posted May 15, 2009 Author Share Posted May 15, 2009 I have a 500 watt PSU, says it should work fine... Did the calculations, at peak it would consume 410 watts... Should work... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FenixDelta753 Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 I have a 500 watt PSU, says it should work fine...Did the calculations, at peak it would consume 410 watts... Should work... Yea but you have a quad, which should consume a fair bit of power alone, plus the GTX's need 2 power connectors usally, meaning that they eat power. I think that you should invest in a 6 or 700 watt PSU. Also, is your PSU a name brand like Antec? or is it some generic brand? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SyphonPayne Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 I have a 500 watt PSU, says it should work fine...Did the calculations, at peak it would consume 410 watts... Should work... Yea but you have a quad, which should consume a fair bit of power alone, plus the GTX's need 2 power connectors usally, meaning that they eat power. I think that you should invest in a 6 or 700 watt PSU. Also, is your PSU a name brand like Antec? or is it some generic brand? I run a Q6600 @ 3.2GHz, Overclocked GTX 260 Core 216, 2 hard drives, 4 sticks of RAM (6GB total), X-Fi Fatal1ty Pro sound card, charge multiple PS3 controllers, have 2 cameras hooked up via USB, and a DVD drive, all on a 520-watt Corsair PSU (520HX.) Works just fine. Wattage doesn't matter so much as amperage on a PSU, and how quality the PSU is. Of course, there's no way a 500 watt cheapass PSU could handle that though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FenixDelta753 Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 I have a 500 watt PSU, says it should work fine...Did the calculations, at peak it would consume 410 watts... Should work... Yea but you have a quad, which should consume a fair bit of power alone, plus the GTX's need 2 power connectors usally, meaning that they eat power. I think that you should invest in a 6 or 700 watt PSU. Also, is your PSU a name brand like Antec? or is it some generic brand? I run a Q6600 @ 3.2GHz, Overclocked GTX 260 Core 216, 2 hard drives, 4 sticks of RAM (6GB total), X-Fi Fatal1ty Pro sound card, charge multiple PS3 controllers, have 2 cameras hooked up via USB, and a DVD drive, all on a 520-watt Corsair PSU (520HX.) Works just fine. Wattage doesn't matter so much as amperage on a PSU, and how quality the PSU is. Of course, there's no way a 500 watt cheapass PSU could handle that though. Right my point exactly (also what matters is the amount of 12v rails and the amount of amps on each of them) but if he has a cheap ass Chinatown special 500 or even 600 watt, chances are that the amount to good 2-300 watter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SyphonPayne Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 I have a 500 watt PSU, says it should work fine...Did the calculations, at peak it would consume 410 watts... Should work... Yea but you have a quad, which should consume a fair bit of power alone, plus the GTX's need 2 power connectors usally, meaning that they eat power. I think that you should invest in a 6 or 700 watt PSU. Also, is your PSU a name brand like Antec? or is it some generic brand? I run a Q6600 @ 3.2GHz, Overclocked GTX 260 Core 216, 2 hard drives, 4 sticks of RAM (6GB total), X-Fi Fatal1ty Pro sound card, charge multiple PS3 controllers, have 2 cameras hooked up via USB, and a DVD drive, all on a 520-watt Corsair PSU (520HX.) Works just fine. Wattage doesn't matter so much as amperage on a PSU, and how quality the PSU is. Of course, there's no way a 500 watt cheapass PSU could handle that though. Right my point exactly (also what matters is the amount of 12v rails and the amount of amps on each of them) but if he has a cheap ass Chinatown special 500 or even 600 watt, chances are that the amount to good 2-300 watter. Yeah. In which case if his PSU is a sh*tty brand yeah definitely a good idea to invest in a 600-700 watter, since PSUs are cheaper nowadays. If I was to need a new PSU right now I would also go for at least 600 watts, such as the Corsair 620HX. Or even a Corsair 850TX (850 watts) but I prefer modular PSUs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FenixDelta753 Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 I have a 500 watt PSU, says it should work fine...Did the calculations, at peak it would consume 410 watts... Should work... Yea but you have a quad, which should consume a fair bit of power alone, plus the GTX's need 2 power connectors usally, meaning that they eat power. I think that you should invest in a 6 or 700 watt PSU. Also, is your PSU a name brand like Antec? or is it some generic brand? I run a Q6600 @ 3.2GHz, Overclocked GTX 260 Core 216, 2 hard drives, 4 sticks of RAM (6GB total), X-Fi Fatal1ty Pro sound card, charge multiple PS3 controllers, have 2 cameras hooked up via USB, and a DVD drive, all on a 520-watt Corsair PSU (520HX.) Works just fine. Wattage doesn't matter so much as amperage on a PSU, and how quality the PSU is. Of course, there's no way a 500 watt cheapass PSU could handle that though. Right my point exactly (also what matters is the amount of 12v rails and the amount of amps on each of them) but if he has a cheap ass Chinatown special 500 or even 600 watt, chances are that the amount to good 2-300 watter. Yeah. In which case if his PSU is a sh*tty brand yeah definitely a good idea to invest in a 600-700 watter, since PSUs are cheaper nowadays. If I was to need a new PSU right now I would also go for at least 600 watts, such as the Corsair 620HX. Or even a Corsair 850TX (850 watts) but I prefer modular PSUs. Sounds like a good idea even if his is a good 500 watt PSU because if you updated your GPU and then have a PSU that will just get you by, that leaves very little room from upgrades later on when the next i7's come out or a new wave of phenoms come out or whatever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SyphonPayne Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 I have a 500 watt PSU, says it should work fine...Did the calculations, at peak it would consume 410 watts... Should work... Yea but you have a quad, which should consume a fair bit of power alone, plus the GTX's need 2 power connectors usally, meaning that they eat power. I think that you should invest in a 6 or 700 watt PSU. Also, is your PSU a name brand like Antec? or is it some generic brand? I run a Q6600 @ 3.2GHz, Overclocked GTX 260 Core 216, 2 hard drives, 4 sticks of RAM (6GB total), X-Fi Fatal1ty Pro sound card, charge multiple PS3 controllers, have 2 cameras hooked up via USB, and a DVD drive, all on a 520-watt Corsair PSU (520HX.) Works just fine. Wattage doesn't matter so much as amperage on a PSU, and how quality the PSU is. Of course, there's no way a 500 watt cheapass PSU could handle that though. Right my point exactly (also what matters is the amount of 12v rails and the amount of amps on each of them) but if he has a cheap ass Chinatown special 500 or even 600 watt, chances are that the amount to good 2-300 watter. Yeah. In which case if his PSU is a sh*tty brand yeah definitely a good idea to invest in a 600-700 watter, since PSUs are cheaper nowadays. If I was to need a new PSU right now I would also go for at least 600 watts, such as the Corsair 620HX. Or even a Corsair 850TX (850 watts) but I prefer modular PSUs. Sounds like a good idea even if his is a good 500 watt PSU because if you updated your GPU and then have a PSU that will just get you by, that leaves very little room from upgrades later on when the next i7's come out or a new wave of phenoms come out or whatever. True. Couldn't SLI with a 500 watt PSU no matter how good it is (unless it's SLI 8800GT or less probably.) I guess it all boils down to his current budget, and how much he is willing to spend at this time. If it's a good PSU, and not a shoddy one, he could choose to throw the 260 in and upgrade the PSU later, or he could upgrade the PSU now as well as throw in the 260, just to be more "future-proof." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jigglyass Posted May 15, 2009 Author Share Posted May 15, 2009 (edited) I own a Antec, basiq BP500U PSU This power supply never failed me, even through most insane torture tests for almost every computer component, i think it can handle it... Here is an image of the sticker that is on the PSU http://c1.neweggimages.com/NeweggImage/pro...-371-004-05.jpg I just dont have enough money to upgrade PSU and the card, and if im gonna upgrade the PSU ima get 1000 watt or something... Il probably downclock my CPU to 3.6GHz to make power consumption fall a little, i just want to keep my FSB and memory ratio at 1:1 Ive just used this PSU calculator http://extreme.outervision.com/PSUEngine Ive estimated that if i downclock my CPU to 3.6GHz, and ive set the system peak at 100% along with the card im getting my consumption should be 469 Watts, but lets face it il never have all of my computer components at peak at the same time... I have 30 amps on 3.3V and 5V rails then 18 amps on both 12v rails... Edited May 15, 2009 by JigglyAss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FenixDelta753 Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 I own a Antec, basiq BP500U PSUThis power supply never failed me, even through most insane torture tests for almost every computer component, i think it can handle it... Here is an image of the sticker that is on the PSU http://c1.neweggimages.com/NeweggImage/pro...-371-004-05.jpg I just dont have enough money to upgrade PSU and the card, and if im gonna upgrade the PSU ima get 1000 watt or something... Il probably downclock my CPU to 3.6GHz to make power consumption fall a little, i just want to keep my FSB and memory ratio at 1:1 Ive just used this PSU calculator http://extreme.outervision.com/PSUEngine Ive estimated that if i downclock my CPU to 3.6GHz, and ive set the system peak at 100% along with the card im getting my consumption should be 469 Watts, but lets face it il never have all of my computer components at peak at the same time... I have 30 amps on 3.3V and 5V rails then 18 amps on both 12v rails... Right, and his 500 watt will most likely work, but if he wants to do SLI, or upgrade his CPU then he has to get a PSU plus what ever hardware he is upgrading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jigglyass Posted May 15, 2009 Author Share Posted May 15, 2009 I highly doubt il upgrade to Core I7 anytime soon, might actually skip em since at Q4 2009 there are the 32nm CPUs are due along with DX11 cards, so il most likely revise and rebuilt from the ground up... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Creed Bratton Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 The card is good just not the manufacturer. Go for evga or bfg. Stay away from xfx, zotac, and paliet. no flame war intended, just from personal experiences they are not very reliable. XFX is probably the best manufacturer. And Plaiet, do you mean Palit? They are good too. Especially their 4850's... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quemical Posted May 16, 2009 Share Posted May 16, 2009 I've had an XFX 7800GT for 4 yrs now and have had no problems. They even have that double lifetime warrenty, in which they cover the next owner of the card, or something like that. After that 7800GT, i upgraded to a ATI Visiontek 4870HD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jigglyass Posted May 18, 2009 Author Share Posted May 18, 2009 So, yeah i bout this one yesterday, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814500101 should get it tomorrow, will post results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jigglyass Posted May 19, 2009 Author Share Posted May 19, 2009 20 more fps during regular driving round the city with same settings, gonna push high textures this time... Sooo worth it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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