Originally Posted by bubsterboo Quick Question. I bought one of these.
I'm having trouble powering it up. I have a OCZ 600w PSU. With two 6 pin power connectors. I get the red light on the 8 pin connector. Does that mean this thing won't work without an 8 pin connector, or my power supply isn't good enough?
Originally Posted by wuyanxu have you tested with Corsair Hx620w?? does the 6+2 PCIe wires fit? and will it be enough to power it?
We tried the card out with an Enermax DXX 1000W unit, an Enermax Pro 82+ 625W (that we reviewed today), a Corsair TX750W, a PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750W and a Thermaltake Toughpower 1500W unit. We haven't got an HX620 to hand unfortunately.
Great review.
well i have two personal conclusion. One bad and a good one.
The bad: Zero innovation in modeling this card, is disappointing the fact that when is great realese of the King of the 9 series is just for find out that the really big king of price/performance is the 9600 or even the 8800gt/gts of the past serie.
The good: Those who bought a 8800 a long time ago, still can proud of their purchase.
I really know that the G92 was a great thing, but stop!. There is no case put a new name or number when is the almost the same thing.
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I can get another good thing: may this year would be for AMD cards... waiting for rv700
Originally Posted by Tim S We tried the card out with an Enermax DXX 1000W unit, an Enermax Pro 82+ 625W (that we reviewed today), a Corsair TX750W, a PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750W and a Thermaltake Toughpower 1500W unit. We haven't got an HX620 to hand unfortunately.
was the Corsair unit's cable able to get into Gx2 socket?
I am a strong believer any SLI / Crossfire solution is totaly gimmick and totaly overkill useless waste of resources. It cost lots of money, takes up space on the motherboard, heats up te system, drains more power and needs more power, the benefits are minimalistic, the support is minimal, its only useful for games, and the game list that actualy uses SLI is 10% and the games that actualy need all the power is 1%. Its also useless on the long run because any overkill SLI / Crossfire will be surpassed by a more powerful less power demanding single card solution with the next gen dx XX functions anyway. And by the time games fully take advantage of the 'obsolete' hardware, there are new cards available with 60% more functions and power.
And then you have the insane situation that you want SLI on a new intel motherboard but you cant, because all of them are crossfire. Unless you take a 2 year old nvidia 'intel' motherboard that cant run new cpu's. Or have to wait till end 2008 the get a actualy new intel/sli board. You got all the sli power and you cant use it with the most powerfull cpu's.
The fact is that 'they' invent a desperade need for the consumers that isnt needed at all in the first place...
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u need 8 pin.
We tried the card out with an Enermax DXX 1000W unit, an Enermax Pro 82+ 625W (that we reviewed today), a Corsair TX750W, a PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750W and a Thermaltake Toughpower 1500W unit. We haven't got an HX620 to hand unfortunately.
well i have two personal conclusion. One bad and a good one.
The bad: Zero innovation in modeling this card, is disappointing the fact that when is great realese of the King of the 9 series is just for find out that the really big king of price/performance is the 9600 or even the 8800gt/gts of the past serie.
The good: Those who bought a 8800 a long time ago, still can proud of their purchase.
I really know that the G92 was a great thing, but stop!. There is no case put a new name or number when is the almost the same thing.
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I can get another good thing: may this year would be for AMD cards... waiting for rv700
Oh, I forgot to mention the Tagan too... that was one of the few that didn't plug in (oversized PCIe connectors, heh)
And then you have the insane situation that you want SLI on a new intel motherboard but you cant, because all of them are crossfire. Unless you take a 2 year old nvidia 'intel' motherboard that cant run new cpu's. Or have to wait till end 2008 the get a actualy new intel/sli board. You got all the sli power and you cant use it with the most powerfull cpu's.
The fact is that 'they' invent a desperade need for the consumers that isnt needed at all in the first place...