Its not really the Motherboard you should look at when it comes to 2 GPU's The only thing u need to worry about for your motherboard is that it supports 2 GPU's
That shit is pretty obvious dont you think. Hence why i did not mention it. If you want 2 run 2 graphics cards u need 2x x16. Also another fact would be that if you use Sli or Crossfire the second card is simply there for backup and mostly uses just 20 % of its capacity to assist the primary card. Could be different now i don't know that. And what ever you where talking about ive got no idea. All i know is that PCI-E x16 is for graphics cards. never heard of any PCI-E x16 slot that would make a graphics card run slower than supposed to.
btw the mobo you suggested to fara is trash because it has 3 PCI-E x16 slots but only 16 lanes overall. which means either 16/0/0 or 8/8/0 or 8/4/4. pretty pathetic for a mobo with 3 slots, dont you think, mister all knowing master PC pimper? funny.. you just said that you know how to select a motherboard because you know what PCI-E x16 means :'(
As i understand it right now, the mobo on this list does 16 lanes 16 lanes and 4 lanes eitherway ill let bikedriver bitch at me again about that if im wrong.
Sorry to go offtopic, but couldnt resist. :P Here it goes again. BikeDriver vs WildStyleZx89, the tech war. :D
And google is also your best friend.
.. I know there are some nerds ..
haha he called you nerd, wild nerd ;D
looks fine to me besides this:
he doesnt need 16 GB ram, neither a 750 watt PSU nor such an expensive mobo.
RAM:
the choice is alright but 8 GB ram will be fairly enough to run any game in the next 5 years. when games come which need more RAM there will be DDR4 already so its waste of monies (even if ram is cheap nowadays he will never need more than 8 GB in the next 5 years)
buy instead:
Kingston HyperX DIMM 8 GB DDR3-1600 Kit
~50 instead of ~100 monies
PSU:
he decided not to do SLI so a PSU around 500 watt will be fairly enough too :)
buy a
be quiet! Pure Power L7 530W
i use the same. i even did a SLI with radeon 5770 and it worked fine.
~ 60 instead of ~100 monies
MOBO:
he doesnt need 4 PCIe x16 slots. he (and we too) decided that SLI is not needed. so there is no absolutely no point in buying an expensive motherboard. buy something for around 90 monies. for example:
GIGABYTE GA-970A-UD3. as long as you neither want to do SLI nor overclocking bullshit then you wont need anything more expensive. the motherboard has 16/4 lanes so for SLI its useless but for single graphics card its awesome.
~ 90 instead of ~230 monies
i would buy some SSD with the spared cash (~230 € monies). for example:
OCZ RevoDrive3 PCIe SSD 120 GB
that costs around 300 monies but it is totally worth it. trusted me:)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
have fucking fun! :)
| Task | Item | Power | Price |
| PSU | be quiet! Pure Power L7 530W | +530Watt | 60€ |
| CPU | AMD FX 8150 | -125 Watt | 220€ |
| RAM | Kingston HyperX DIMM 8 GB DDR3-1600 Kit | -10Watt | 50€ |
| SSD | OCZ RevoDrive3 PCIe SSD 120 GB | -10Watt | 300€ |
| Motherboard | GIGABYTE GA-970A-UD3 | -10Watt | 90€ |
| Current Graphics Card | GTX550 Ti | -120Watt | 0€ |
| Your old HDD/DVD etc. | - | -50Watt | 0€ |
| Overall | Mega PC | +205 Watt | 720€ |
Made me crack up when you said lets make it short and post an entire review xD
so they recommend a 450 Watt power supply (probably with a safety of 150 free watts) for a single GPU. faraday is going to go single GPU so why not buy a 530 watt PSU?
"because it will live longer." yea sure but why should it? the 530 watt PSU is not going to run on 100%. maybe 60-70% but not more. you are still making up that those 550 gtx uses 300-400 watt. thats utter bullshit and im NEVER going to believe that. why are you trying so hard to talk faraday into taking the more expensive PSU?
so they recommend a 450 Watt power supply (probably with a safety of 150 free watts) for a single GPU. faraday is going to go single GPU so why not buy a 530 watt PSU?
"because it will live longer." yea sure but why should it? the 530 watt PSU is not going to run on 100%. maybe 60-70% but not more. you are still making up that those 550 gtx uses 300-400 watt. thats utter bullshit and im NEVER going to believe that. why are you trying so hard to talk faraday into taking the more expensive PSU?
The CPU comes ontop of that and the other parts aswell, HDD, fans, DVD/Bluray drives and RAM.
The CPU comes ontop of that and the other parts aswell, HDD, fans, DVD/Bluray drives and RAM.
no it doesnt.
the 400 watts recommended are apparently for the entire PC not for only the graphics card.
and you never sent me an official link where it says that the GTX 550 Ti only uses 300-400 watt.
it is uttttttttttttttteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr bullshit
so a GTX 550 is using like 400 watts.
a GTX 595 probably about 100000 watts.
8 of them in a octa sli or whatever it is called will then use around 80000000000 watts, then you will need a gigiantic round solar reactor around the sun to produce that power only to power your 8 graphics cards.
i definitely didnt miscalculate and now SHUT THE FUCK UP. :-*
530 watts will be enough period.
then what are the
116 W Maximum Graphics Card Power (W)
seriously dude: are you mentally retarded?
1200 watt powersupplys are for:
a) dumb retards who think that a single GTX 550 will use about 400 watt.
b) rich retards who want to use two high end dual GPU graphics cards.
nobody in the world with a 1200 watt PSU will use GTX 550. i do know that a GTX 590 will use like 300-400 watt if on 100%. unlike mid-end graphics cards those mosters are only designed for performance, not for effectiveness.
4 GTX 550 with 800 watt? seems pretty legit to me.
as i said i did 2 Radeon 5770 with 530 watt. worked well. oh btw i had 5 HDDs, DVD and a sound card running too.