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Posted by: THE SALTY CHIP
How do you power all of this?

I thought they were 7990s at first but they're apparently four 580s. Still pretty ridiculous.

The same way you power a workstation that has 6+ Quadro cards in it, two PSUs. I presume they would do the same if need be.

  • 12.09.2012 6:41 AM PDT
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They don't think it be like it is...


But it do.

Any good mouse with green LEDs? My blue one doesn't exactly match my other stuff. Was looking at the Deathadder...

  • 12.09.2012 6:43 AM PDT

Who the hell do you think I am?


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Posted by: THE SALTY CHIP
How do you power all of this?

I thought they were 7990s at first but they're apparently four 580s. Still pretty ridiculous.

The same way you power a workstation that has 6+ Quadro cards in it, two PSUs. I presume they would do the same if need be.
Yeah, I was thinking he would be using two, but I don't know where that guy will be fitting both of them.

And I'm pretty sure there aren't any motherboards in existence with 6 PCIe x16 lanes.

  • 12.09.2012 6:44 AM PDT


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Posted by: THE SALTY CHIP
Wait a minute, are those four 7990s?...

There's now way you can power all of those, it should be impossible. Just one of those cards draws at least 400W.


Uhh no

When you calculate the initial power taken from a GPU you factor in all the other parts

1 GPU could be about 650 watts

But that also powers the processor, hard drive, ram, etc

Adding another could be probably another 200-300 watts

So then you would only need about 800-900

You can also downclock them

If you add another 400-600 watts, that would only be 1200-1400 watts

They sell 2000 watt PSUs you know
I'm not sure where you're getting these numbers. The GPU doesn't power the whole system, the CPU does. The GPU just processes the graphics since that's what the GPU was built for. To power not only the main board, CPU, water cooling radiators and the fact that each of those 4 graphics cards takes three 8-pin connectors, you would likely need two 1000W or 1200W PSUs.

Even if it didn't take more than 2000W, there still aren't any power supplies with more than like, 6 8-pin connectors at the most. Let alone 12 of them.


I worded it badly

a setup with 1 GPU would be about 650 watts for this card

Most set-ups like this are probably paired with 1000 watts and 400 watts, total 1400, or whatever else combination you want to do

Some full cases have 2 PSU mounts for 4-way crossfire/SLI

Ones even larger than that are probably not for consumer use


[Edited on 12.09.2012 6:50 AM PST]

  • 12.09.2012 6:49 AM PDT


Posted by: superbunnie
Any good mouse with green LEDs? My blue one doesn't exactly match my other stuff. Was looking at the Deathadder...

Razer mice are quite reliable

although expensive

You did say you wanted green LEDs

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Posted by: THE SALTY CHIP
How do you power all of this?

I thought they were 7990s at first but they're apparently four 580s. Still pretty ridiculous.
That's just ridiculous.

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Posted by: superbunnie
Any good mouse with green LEDs? My blue one doesn't exactly match my other stuff. Was looking at the Deathadder...

Razer mice are quite reliable

although expensive

You did say you wanted green LEDs
No price? Like I said, I was looking at the Deathadder with its new rubber grips and green LEDs.

  • 12.09.2012 6:55 AM PDT

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Posted by: superbunnie
Any good mouse with green LEDs? My blue one doesn't exactly match my other stuff. Was looking at the Deathadder...
You can get the CM storm sentinel advance II (or Zero-G for cheaper). It allows you to change the LED colour based on your mouse profile.

  • 12.09.2012 7:07 AM PDT

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670 or 7970?

  • 12.09.2012 11:04 AM PDT

I got these cheeseburgers man....

7970 is better at higher resolutions, better for multi-monitor setups, and can overclock a lot better. The 670 has CUDA, Physx and all that jazz. The 670 is a great card, just ask Salty, but I think it's just a matter of preference.

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But it do.

The 7970 is potentially more powerful than a 680.

  • 12.09.2012 1:12 PM PDT

Okay, I'm pretty sure my fan controller is busted. NZXT will mail you one for free, right?

  • 12.09.2012 1:19 PM PDT

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Posted by: superbunnie
Any good mouse with green LEDs? My blue one doesn't exactly match my other stuff. Was looking at the Deathadder...

Whatever you do don't buy any Razer product.

Coming from my Blackwidow, Imperator, Onza TE experience. They have trash support, trash quality, and -blam!- annoying drivers. And reliable? Maybe. But you don't get what you pay for.

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  • 12.09.2012 1:41 PM PDT

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Posted by: superbunnie
Any good mouse with green LEDs? My blue one doesn't exactly match my other stuff. Was looking at the Deathadder...

Whatever you do don't buy any Razer product.

Coming from my Blackwidow, Imperator, Onza TE experience. They have trash support, trash quality, and -blam!- annoying drivers. And reliable? Maybe. But you don't get what you pay for.

My Deathadder is really good. Just saying. I've never had to contact Razer before.

  • 12.09.2012 1:46 PM PDT
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Posted by: superbunnie
Any good mouse with green LEDs? My blue one doesn't exactly match my other stuff. Was looking at the Deathadder...

Whatever you do don't buy any Razer product.

Coming from my Blackwidow, Imperator, Onza TE experience. They have trash support, trash quality, and -blam!- annoying drivers. And reliable? Maybe. But you don't get what you pay for.

My Deathadder is really good. Just saying. I've never had to contact Razer before.
Yeah. My Deathadder and Anansi are still perfect.

  • 12.09.2012 1:54 PM PDT


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Posted by: superbunnie
Any good mouse with green LEDs? My blue one doesn't exactly match my other stuff. Was looking at the Deathadder...

Whatever you do don't buy any Razer product.

Coming from my Blackwidow, Imperator, Onza TE experience. They have trash support, trash quality, and -blam!- annoying drivers. And reliable? Maybe. But you don't get what you pay for.


I did

Blackwidow still standing for a year

Clicks as if it were good as new, clean it every day and all the macros work fine

  • 12.09.2012 3:12 PM PDT


Posted by: Postwarbean85
Okay, I'm pretty sure my fan controller is busted. NZXT will mail you one for free, right?


Did it work before

Or maybe you wired it wrong

Can't get mine to work either, but I don't really care

I don't need it

  • 12.09.2012 3:13 PM PDT

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Posted by: Ferrari DuDe856
Posted by: superbunnie
Any good mouse with green LEDs? My blue one doesn't exactly match my other stuff. Was looking at the Deathadder...

Whatever you do don't buy any Razer product.

Coming from my Blackwidow, Imperator, Onza TE experience. They have trash support, trash quality, and -blam!- annoying drivers. And reliable? Maybe. But you don't get what you pay for.
So much this. Razer has absolute shi­t support and the quality of their products is pretty bad. Their only reliable item is the Deathadder. The Onza is great but 50% of them are broken (look on Amazon). Everything else, such as their Blackwidow, is overpriced and cheaply built.

For the person who wants green LED's, get the Logitech G9x MW3 for $45 and use alcohol to remove the MW3 logo.

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Posted by: TopWargamer
670 or 7970?
At this point of time, 7970.

  • 12.09.2012 4:00 PM PDT


Posted by: SuicidalSplatter
7970 is better at higher resolutions, better for multi-monitor setups, and can overclock a lot better. The 670 has CUDA, Physx and all that jazz. The 670 is a great card, just ask Salty, but I think it's just a matter of preference.
Is there really any difference between cuda cores and stream processors.

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7970 is better at higher resolutions, better for multi-monitor setups, and can overclock a lot better. The 670 has CUDA, Physx and all that jazz. The 670 is a great card, just ask Salty, but I think it's just a matter of preference.
Is there really any difference between cuda cores and stream processors.
CUDA is entirely different.

CUDA is to accelerate video editing, 3D rendering in supported applications as well as to do PhysX processing.

  • 12.09.2012 4:23 PM PDT

Okay so, I'm using this old monitor to test my system to see if it POSTS (It does) because I don't my new on yet.

When I plug the VGA cable into the IO port on the Mobo it works and it displays on screen.

When I plug it into my EVGA GTX 660 FTW Sig 2, nothing happens and the monitor is just in standby.

Here's the list of all the information you should need:

>The BIOS is set up to use PCI Express.
>I have to use a VGA to DVI converter o plug into GPU
>The PSU is plugged into the Card.
>The video card is not detected, and in the BIOS it doesn't pop up at all.
>I tried both PCI-E x16 slots

Is it a dead card or is something set up wrong. I do not believe it is a seating issue.

[Edited on 12.09.2012 5:46 PM PST]

  • 12.09.2012 4:47 PM PDT


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Posted by: Postwarbean85
Okay, I'm pretty sure my fan controller is busted. NZXT will mail you one for free, right?


Did it work before

Or maybe you wired it wrong

Can't get mine to work either, but I don't really care

I don't need it
It worked before, but none of my fans work now.

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You should check the power cables for the graphics card.

  • 12.09.2012 5:58 PM PDT

The cables are definately correct.

I dont need drivers for it just to basically display, do I? Because Windows, isnt installed.

  • 12.09.2012 6:56 PM PDT