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February 07, 2012, 12:53:19 PM |
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I'm currently running 2 overclocked 6870s on an 1155 Pentium G620 system. I'm using an OCZ ZT 750 Watt power supply. I'm buying a 5970 this week, and I'm worried that my power supply won't support it. So would the OCZ PSU support 1 6870 OC & 1 5970 OC(selling 1 6870 due to the fact that my mobo only has 2 slots for GPUs)?
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February 07, 2012, 02:34:27 PM |
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You shouldn't have an issue. Do you own a Kill-a-watt unit ( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16882715001)? If not I would suggest purchasing one. It makes tweaking your system to draw less power much easier. I have 3 x unlocked 6950's generating 1050 Mhash/sec and the whole system is drawing 460w. |
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February 07, 2012, 05:56:36 PM
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I'm currently running 1 5970 overclocked a little on my only computer (i7-920, got an SSD, 5 hard driver, 6 sticks of RAM, and like 6 case fans - not exactly energy efficient like some dedicated mining rigs people here have) and Kill-a-watt shows me pulling about 460w max or so while mining.
Site I checked says the 6870s pull about 150w so with a 750 you should have a little headroom still after getting your 5970.
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February 07, 2012, 09:00:21 PM |
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Easily.
I'm currently running 1 5970 overclocked a little on my only computer (i7-920, got an SSD, 5 hard drivers, 6 sticks of RAM, and like 6 case fans - not exactly energy efficient like some dedicated mining rigs people here have) and Kill-a-watt shows me pulling about 460w max or so while mining.
Site I checked says the 6870s pull about 150w so with a 750 you should have a little headroom still after getting your 5970.
That's definitely good to here!  Also, I'll look around for a Kill-a-watt.  |
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February 09, 2012, 06:32:25 PM |
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@humanage What motherboard do you have?
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February 19, 2012, 12:46:04 AM |
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@humanage What motherboard do you have?
MSI P67A-G43, sorry for that late response, didn't get a notification for this message. Edit: Also, I'll only be using a Pentium G620 with 4GB of DDR3 on the mining rig. I'm not sure if that would still be able to pull 2x 6870s running at 820MHz Core/300MHz Memory. :/ Anyone try on the OCZ ZT 750 Watt PSU? I'm currently running a single HD 5970 with an Accellero Extreme cooler. |
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February 19, 2012, 03:51:02 AM |
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Just get a KW PSU  |
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February 19, 2012, 06:59:02 AM |
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Should be fine. Unless its like a 6 rail PSU lol
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February 19, 2012, 01:35:03 PM |
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Just get a KW PSU I'm sorta on a tight budget. :/ Should be fine. Unless its like a 6 rail PSU lol I think it's a single rail. |
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February 20, 2012, 09:54:16 PM |
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Self bump. Would my OCZ 750w actually be able to push 2x 5970s at 820MHz Core/300MHz memory? Just confirming.
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February 21, 2012, 12:19:01 AM |
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Provided you don't waste power by e.g. by CPU mining Litecoins, easily.
A 5970 shouldn't pull more than 250 W with its memory underclocked.
With 120 W for the rest of the system, the PSU load would be 82,7% - not unreasonable for a high quality PSU such as the ZT 750W.
Make sure that the CPU power save options (such as SpeedStep or C1E) are enabled in the BIOS.
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February 24, 2012, 11:43:06 PM |
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Provided you don't waste power by e.g. by CPU mining Litecoins, easily.
A 5970 shouldn't pull more than 250 W with its memory underclocked.
With 120 W for the rest of the system, the PSU load would be 82,7% - not unreasonable for a high quality PSU such as the ZT 750W.
Make sure that the CPU power save options (such as SpeedStep or C1E) are enabled in the BIOS.
Okay, so I got my 2nd 5970 today, running both @ 820MHz Core/300MHz Memory with the CPU having power savings enabled. No problem with my OCZ ZT 750 Watt handling this, getting 1400mh/s. |
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