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[PiP]

Guticb, on Jun 25 2007, 06:50 PM, said:

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You hear wrong. A 380W FSP and below would even power that card.

It uses 300 watts at load. I've got a 300 watt PSU that's basically maxed out right now. 380 watts could NOT power it, especially at load.



Would the X1950XT fit in my case though? *crosses fingers*

There isn't a cats chance in that an X1950 consumes 300W. NO WAY NO HOW! It'd be 1/3 of the way to a 1 bar heater. What that graph shows is full system power consumption.

I'll dig up the actual value...


Edit: The XT-X consumes a peak of around 125W.

Edited by PiP, 25 June 2007 - 01:15 PM.

[Guticb]

That can't be the whole system consuming 300 watts. If that was the case, an E6700, 2 gigs of ram, and a 7900GTX OC would consume less power than my Pentium 4 @ 3.8GHz, gig and a half of ram, and X700 Pro (Currently maxing out a 300 watt PSU)

[PiP]

Guticb, on Jun 25 2007, 07:24 PM, said:

That can't be the whole system consuming 300 watts. If that was the case, an E6700, 2 gigs of ram, and a 7900GTX OC would consume less power than my Pentium 4 @ 3.8GHz, gig and a half of ram, and X700 Pro (Currently maxing out a 300 watt PSU)

X1950XT-X - 125W
E6700 - 52W (80% of the 65W TDP)
2 sticks of DDR2 RAM - 10W
Motherboard - 50W
Hard Drive - 10W

Total - 247W
add your drives ETC... and you have a 300W PC.


Maxing a PSU is a grey area:
>Your PSU may be crap, and only capable of 250W for example.
>Component ageing will reduce your PSU's power.
>that magic 300W is the total of each of the 3 main voltage rails, you may only be maxing the 12V rail, which could be as low as 180W.

Now are you quite finished trying to tell me otherwise?


To sum up:
A good quality 380W PSU would get the job done, but I would recommend that 450W FSP unit.

By all means get the OCZ if you want, it will make it through several generations of future upgrades. And it's very efficient (>85%).

Edited by PiP, 25 June 2007 - 01:43 PM.

[Guticb]

I did a bit of research, and this is what I'll do.

I'm getting this X1950XT by Sapphire.
I'm getting this 600 GameXStream by OCZ.

Both of these will probably be used in my first ever custom build. In that build, I'm going to reuse my old HD (250GB Barracuda), this PSU, Probably this video card, both my DVD drives, my monitor (19 inch F1903) and my keyboard and mouse, so there's not that much I'll have to buy!

Thanks for all the help guys! I found out on Neoseeker that the card will fit in my case by the way, so I'm all set! I'll probably use this thread if I need any help in the future, to avoid making yet another one.

Anyways, thanks again!

Edited by Guticb, 25 June 2007 - 01:46 PM.

[Jet_A_FuelGuy]

Those figures seem a little on the high side but a highly overclocked system with a X1900XT will consume around 300 watts.

An E6700 consumes 62 watts at stock.  A "Prescott" 3.8ghz consumes around 100 watts.

If your PSU is maxed out, it would have gone "poof" already.

[Guticb]

Jet_A_FuelGuy, on Jun 25 2007, 01:46 PM, said:

Those figures seem a little on the high side but a highly overclocked system with a X1900XT will consume around 300 watts.

An E6700 consumes 62 watts at stock.  A "Prescott" 3.8ghz consumes around 100 watts.

If your PSU is maxed out, it would have gone "poof" already.

It crashes whenever all the components are at 100% load. It usually won't let me run 3Dmark without crashing.

[PiP]

Jet_A_FuelGuy, on Jun 25 2007, 07:46 PM, said:

Those figures seem a little on the high side but a highly overclocked system with a X1900XT will consume around 300 watts.

"highly" would be the word for it.

If you used the highest voltmod, and pushed the clocks to the limit, you might double an X1950's power consumption to 250W, and you'd need water to deal with it. But 300W is impossible.

[Jet_A_FuelGuy]

@ PiP I meant system consumption!

@ Guticb That's bad :/

Edited by Jet_A_FuelGuy, 25 June 2007 - 03:21 PM.

[Guticb]

Yeah, I know. Good thing I never let it hit 100% though. I found out completely by accident (Left Aim running, had Xfire and Teamspeak up, had Folding@Home up, and tried to play Oblivion). I can easily do all those things, just not when I forget about Folding@Home still running.

[Guticb]

Sorry for the double post, but I've got an update.

I will be ordering both the Video card and the Power Supply on TUESDAY!!!!

[PiP]

The OCZ GameXtreme?

If so, good choice.

[Guticb]

PiP, on Jul 4 2007, 06:37 PM, said:

The OCZ GameXtreme?

If so, good choice.

Yup, 600 watt GameXStream!

I'm going to end up using it in my first ever custom build too, as well as a new case NZXT is making for my BF2/BF2142/CS:Source clan!

[Guticb]

AAAHH! Sorry bout the double posts, but I've got a quick question....

My X1950XT has a VIVO port. Now, I know VIVO means Video In Video Out, so does that mean I can hook up (for example) a PS3 to the video card and record footage from the PS3 to my hard drive, or possibly just take screenshots?

If so, AWESOME! If not, what can I do?

[learjet45dream]

According to the people who edit wikipedia, yes you can.


(link to the article)


I don't know about the whole screenshots and videos and stuff, but i think you should be able to.

[Guticb]

Yeah, I read through that. It mentions I can watch content from game consoles, but doesn't say if it can be recorded or if I could somehow get a screenshot. >_>

Wikipedia can be so helpful when it's actually got the information you're looking for.

[learjet45dream]

Guticb, on Jul 12 2007, 02:43 AM, said:

Yeah, I read through that. It mentions I can watch content from game consoles, but doesn't say if it can be recorded or if I could somehow get a screenshot. >_>

Wikipedia can be so helpful when it's actually got the information you're looking for.

Well, i don't agree 100%. I think it can be helpful when the people who edit it are telling the truth when they edit. I think there is probably a way capture video, and for screenshots, just try hitting the print screen button. That should work. Good luck!

[PiP]

So long as you connect the corect PS2 output to the correct adaptor through the VIVO wire thing, yes.