Pemalite said:
disolitude said:
@Pemalite
I just noticed your PC specs in the sig. That's some impressive stuff... You have to be pushing close to you PSUs power limit with the 3 7970s and overclocks on the CPU (and GPU I presume). I remember my old rig which ran dual watercooled and OCd GTX 580s and OCd i7 950 to 4.0 was pulling 900 Watts.
This monstrosity... http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=130806
Last time I do GPU watercooling that's for sure. :)
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Almost at the limit, but still got some wiggle room left, I wouldn't dare run furmark though. :P
Corsair HX/AX PSU's can actually out-put more wattage than they are rated for, GPU's are at stock.
And being a C2 Core i7 3930K I was able to hit that clock at only 1.25 volts, at idle it's even more efficient in the range of 20-30 watts.
Even at 4.8ghz, it's still more efficient than my old AMD FX processor at 4.6ghz.
I have pushed it to 5.2ghz, but I need to push the volts to 1.42, and shit starts to get hot to the point where my Corsair H100 can't keep up.
If I did hit the wattage wall, the Corsair PSU would just shut off, but it's been flawless for almost a year now.
Besides. When you drop in a 3rd graphics card the amount of power your graphics set-up consumes doesn't automatically increase by 33% it's substantually less as the scaling isn't that great with tri-fire so the cards are never utilised 100%.
One thing it does eliminate though is micro stutter.
I do suggest you read this though: http://www.anandtech.com/show/2624
Anandtech debunked allot of Power supply myths, more often than not people buy a PSU that exceeds their needs by a large margin.
Also about a week ago I finally ditched my 3x Asus 1920x1080 TN panels for 3x glorious 2560x1440 Dell IPS panels, crap never looked so epic! But. No Crysis for me at max. :P
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Makes sense... Yeah Corsair has quite a reputation for quality PSUs. Besides your PSU does come with 6 PCIe connectors so they obviously intended it for 3 way SLI/Crossfire.
I can only imagine how nice games look at that res. One of these days when I decide to rebuild my gaming rig it will be very hard for me to decide if I want 3X IPS and 2560x1600 or TN and 1980x1080 and 120 hz. Right now I have a single 120hz monitor and it sure does make a difference, but WQXGA and IPS is beautiful too. May just go with a tripple projector setup, if I have room... I have to buy a house first though lol.
As far as Crysis, it sure looks nice but as a game I find it overrated as a game. I think that at that resolution and tripple monitors you could actually benefit from going quad crossfire/SLI.
