i buy for the future, my last psu, a thermaltek toughpower 750W lasted like 5 years hehe.
Wattage has nothing to do with that though, unless you plan on running a pair of 580's soon. Doesn't seem like that judging by your setup though
To give you an idea of just how little you really need: my last PSU was a CM RealPower 550W (the original, not the later "pro" which was in fact worse). That lasted me almost 5 years as well, from a Intel EE 955 3.46GHz power hungry monster with 6800GT to eventually an E8400 + 5870 (3 8800's/9800's in between, 8800 on the EE 955).
The EE 955 is one of Intel's worst CPUs ever, I never would've bought it myself; got it as a gift from Intel, it cost $999 at the time. I even had it running at 3.9 for a while; your i7-920 consumes about 50% as much power under load. Idle it'll be the same, but the EE's back then were absolutely terrible, power consumption under load went up almost quadratically - yet the RP550 handled it just fine. Granted, the 6800 and 8800 consumed a bit less than a 560Ti will, but overall it was still substantially more than your setup now.
Right now, I've been running my i5-760 at 4.2 GHz with a 6950 2GB unlocked (6950 voltages, 6970 clocks) on my "weak" Seasonic X-650 for 10 months; well the CPU anyway, got the 6950 back in December. You don't seem to overclock nor go for the fastest videocards, so you don't even reach 500W under full load.
Why do you care? Well, my PSU doesn't even spin up its fan most of the time and when it does, turning my chair still makes more noise. Yours will have its fan running constantly because you're not drawing enough power from it when you're on your desktop
Your choice of course, but it's such a waste of money in my opinion and I fucking hate the noise you get with bigger units
That wasn't my point Sin, sorry if it came across like that
I just think you could've either:
A) Saved yourself some cash
B) Spend the same cash on a slightly lower wattage, but higher quality PSU (less noise + heat + consumption - a PSU does not actually consume 300W when your system needs 300)
didnt adress that statement to you. You at least, as always i have to add, made at least some, valid, points. It was adressed to that no good troll difm, which i just should have ignored i guess.
And yes , maybe the psu is overkill, but then again, sometimes a bit overkill wont kill me, wont it
launched fine, set options (dx11 etc), restarted, works fine, i try to change resolution to 1280x1024, it crashes ... cant game since (tried reinstalling), sorry, cant be arsed for the moment to figure out how to fix this ...
I heard that the 560 isn't much faster than an (now) old 460. Is this true? I'll try to grab one asap if that's true since my 260's fan is losing RPM every month and warranty is off.
*EDIT*
Seems like most GTX460 are pretty OC friendly and you should be able to get past the GTX560TI clocks. In most cases this makes the GTX460 equal or about 10% slower than the GTX560TI.
Well, I guess I'm gonna save me 70-80€ and go with an GTX460.
*EDIT2*
Woohoo ordered an "GIGABYTE GeForce GTX460 OC" for 140€
I was thinking of getting dual of this later on since its not that expensive. Bought a new pc for my gf yesterday and (i7-2600k) with one of these. She wanna be prepared for BF3/Skyrim. We could have gone for a better one I suppose - but it was a matter of cost unfortunatly. Let's hope its any good (the pc will arrive next week)
shitloads of new stuff in my pc. Cant keep track of it all.
I heard that the 560 isn't much faster than an (now) old 460. Is this true? I'll try to grab one asap if that's true since my 260's fan is losing RPM every month and warranty is off.
*EDIT*
Seems like most GTX460 are pretty OC friendly and you should be able to get past the GTX560TI clocks. In most cases this makes the GTX460 equal or about 10% slower than the GTX560TI.
Well, I guess I'm gonna save me 70-80€ and go with an GTX460.
*EDIT2*
Woohoo ordered an "GIGABYTE GeForce GTX460 OC" for 140€
You sure you got the right one ? Link me to the model of the card.
Our review of the GeForce GTX 560 Ti highlights that it is, on average, 33 per cent faster than a GeForce GTX 460 1GB card.
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However, the GTX 460 1GB is a proven overclocker, with many cards running past the GTX 560 Ti's 822MHz engine and 4,008MHz memory speeds with consummate ease.
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Pitting two equally-clocked GTX 460 and GTX 560 Ti cards against one another shows that there's roughly a 10 per cent performance advantage in favour of the newer Ti. This is to be expected at the very least, as the newer GPU has additional shading and texturing units to call upon. But the very fact that a GTX 460 can get into the same frame-rate ballpark means that it remains an excellent buy.
BUT this is with a stock clocked 560ti, now you once start to OC it, its going to be a big difference again imo.
When we talk about GPU overclocking, the GTX 560 Ti is a real beast, especially ASUS’s GT 560 Ti DC2. The reference GPU is 822MHz and we can run many apps at 1000MHz, putting the GTX 560 Ti ahead of the GTX 470, the HD 6950 and even the GTX 480.
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Pitting two equally-clocked GTX 460 and GTX 560 Ti cards against one another shows that there's roughly a 10 per cent performance advantage in favour of the newer Ti. This is to be expected at the very least, as the newer GPU has additional shading and texturing units to call upon. But the very fact that a GTX 460 can get into the same frame-rate ballpark means that it remains an excellent buy.
Pitting two equally-clocked GTX 460 and GTX 560 Ti cards against one another shows that there's roughly a 10 per cent performance advantage in favour of the newer Ti. This is to be expected at the very least, as the newer GPU has additional shading and texturing units to call upon. But the very fact that a GTX 460 can get into the same frame-rate ballpark means that it remains an excellent buy.
nah i didnt, but i was editing while you were posting hehe
a benchmark doesnt necessarily require a high demanding (game/scene/whatever) but a comparable source of the above. Any current game does the trick and why not use something most people have at home anyway ? ^^
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Yeah well - I never thought of the speed improvement. I need a card that handles 3-4 screens.
Then why NVIDIA?
- Can't do monitor spanning on a single-GPU card (combining multiple displays into a "single" one)
- It has 2xDVI + 1xHDMI on a single TMDS as far as I know, meaning it only has one clock signal which can drive just 2 of those 3 ports at a time?
Yeah well - I never thought of the speed improvement. I need a card that handles 3-4 screens.
Then why NVIDIA?
- Can't do monitor spanning on a single-GPU card (combining multiple displays into a "single" one)
- It has 2xDVI + 1xHDMI on a single TMDS as far as I know, meaning it only has one clock signal which can drive just 2 of those 3 ports at a time?
You'll need two cards or an AMD card
I've got Ati already mate. Eyefinity. However, I do enjoy nvidia's stuff so I was hoping to change to it. Thats why I was thinking of getting 2x 560 cards.
shitloads of new stuff in my pc. Cant keep track of it all.
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