There is only one store i am going to buy through and it doesnt have any more 5850's sadly.
Also, the 6950 is cheaper for me than it's 5870 counterpart, and according to the wiki it does 314 mhash/s at stock although it uses 200w.
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In all honesty, just another 5850. Dual GPU cards draw close to 300W. May be hard to find a 5850 these days though.
The limit is pretty much the money and my PSU.
I have a Chieftec 600 watt PSU, of course it will never actually supply that much, it has 4 rails, and all of them supply 58 amps and it says on the sticker 576 watts max.
My rig is
Phenom 955BE - 125 watt TDP, but slightly downclocked and undervolted so it doesn't use up too much juice.
5850 which usually has a max TDP of 151 watts, it's memory is downclocked to 500 and overclocked to 765Mhz outputting 290mhash/s with some tweaks on Phoenix's side.
If we add them together 125+180(if we assume that much is used up by the overclock of the card) and say 20w for other peripherals = 325 watts so that leaves me with room for 230w max for a card.
Now it's you!
I have a Chieftec 600 watt PSU, of course it will never actually supply that much, it has 4 rails, and all of them supply 58 amps and it says on the sticker 576 watts max.
My rig is
Phenom 955BE - 125 watt TDP, but slightly downclocked and undervolted so it doesn't use up too much juice.
5850 which usually has a max TDP of 151 watts, it's memory is downclocked to 500 and overclocked to 765Mhz outputting 290mhash/s with some tweaks on Phoenix's side.
If we add them together 125+180(if we assume that much is used up by the overclock of the card) and say 20w for other peripherals = 325 watts so that leaves me with room for 230w max for a card.
Now it's you!
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