Enough CPU grunt ?.

[theda]

Is my stock I7-920 with stock fan enough to run 2 gtx470 in sli.

 

[hunter315]

Yes, but the more important question is, is your power supply strong enough?

A bit of OCing might boost your performance a bit with two cards but you wont be getting to much of a bottleneck even at stock.

 

[theda]

Yes, but the more important question is, is your power supply strong enough?

A bit of OCing might boost your performance a bit with two cards but you wont be getting to much of a bottleneck even at stock.

I will be upgrading to a 1000w psu to cope with power demand. Just hoping not to have to overclock. Will also be upgrading CPU with aftermarket fan. Thanks for quick response.

Any other opions?.

 

[cowgod2007]

Yes, your cpu should be good enough not to be a bottle neck. And a 1000w psu should be more than enough.

 

[duk3]

Which 1000 watt PSU? This is important as some PSUs are much better quality than others.

 

[4745454b]

"but its 1000W, and it has heatpipes. How come it won't power my system?"

http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story&reid=187

1kW doesn't mean anything. Some manufacturers have no problems lying to you.

 

[mindless728]

"but its 1000W, and it has heatpipes. How come it won't power my system?"

http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story&reid=187

1kW doesn't mean anything. Some manufacturers have no problems lying to you.

wow, this is worse than the apevia warlock series

 

[mindless728]

lol, at least its pretty and works decently as a 500W...

though for $100, there are much better designs, especially considering the missing MOV and the fact that it uses passive PFC

 

[theda]

Which 1000 watt PSU? This is important as some PSUs are much better quality than others.

Power supplu will be either, Corsair or Thermaltake or Antec. From what i have read , these get good reviews and are all sli & Nvidia certified.

Thanks guys for all your responses.

Moderator can now close thread.

 

[kyle140]

It would probably worthwhile to even mildly overclock the 920 seeing as how easy they respond to overclocking Even at stock voltage you should be able to get at least a couple hundred more mhz out of it if not more. even if you are running the stock cooling solution there still is a bit of headroom at stock voltages.

I know with my X-fire 5870 the OC was noticable in frame rate increases and especially with the vantage score lol

 

[mindless728]

Was reading jonnyguru, and was suprised that this is actually a pretty nice deal:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182069&cm_re=Rosewill_Xtreme-_-17-182-069-_-Product

wow newegg still has that in stock, i bought that on 11/28/2007 for my last build (sold to a friend), good PSU and i got it for $85

 

[Mousemonkey]

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[theda]

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[theda]

Select the answer that you feel helped you the most and I will.

Thanking you kindly, peter.

 

[Mousemonkey]

Thanking you kindly, peter.

You're welcome.