You are testing from the plug and showing watts used for entire system not just the video card why not list the computer specs in the description? Damn dweeble.
amd radeon hd 6870 1gb the best thing ever , my bro has it and its amazing no sound almost and very cold :D anybody who says else can piss off , cuz i know
Can anyone explain to me how the watts work to a "noob"? Like, does it have to do with the computer or does it have to do with your outlets and other thinks in your wall?
650W is the minimum to get 4x PCIe power connectors on a PSU, so that's what I'd recommend. It'd still have ample room for many HDDs/SSDs, fans, and what not.
Friend think that master coller source Epode d 500-pro silent wat is sufficient for a configuration,,, a shappire 1g 6870 256 bit GDDR5 and a 545 X2 phenom II DVD 3g 4g memory motherboard is ddr3.la a biostar ta790gxa3 +
@XenonCAE I would highly recommend you to upgrade the PS (power supply) to a 500w at least. To be safe i would say a 650 would be perfect. Also, i do have the gigabyte 6870 and its an awesome card thus far. You need "2 six-pin connectors" to run that card. If you have a 450w power supply you have the risk of your whole system being really slow, and blowing your Power supply.
If I get a P8P67 Motherboard, i7 Quad Core 3.4GHz Sandy Bridge, Sapphire Radeon 6870, 8GB 1600Mhz Memory and a 500GB Hard Disk. Am I safe with a 500W PSU?
@diablo9987 are you sure.. i have a 4870 (520 Watt standard PSU) and im upgrading cuz 6870 is almost twice as fast and only uses a watt more XD im just scared of the case room BUT the power connectors are on the side and not near the HDD Brackett :) which would save me space (please say yes...)
@DrOrtmeyer you should be fine as long as you don't have like 5 hdd's 5 optical drives and like 100 fans. i wouldn't go lower than 500w though just for some head room but 450w would be able to do it to. so you should be fine
hey whats up? , can i make u a question? can i use 2 6870 msi on my system with a OCZ 600w steahstream2, my system is a phenom x6 at 4.2ghz 1.42v in a m4a89gtd/pro with 2 hd 1tb, can i do this crossfire in my system with my powersuply? thanks a lot, ur channel is awesome!!!
@JasonJustPlayin2 Are you serious? My Xfx 6870 dual fan edition isnt louder then my 2 case fans wich is antec true quiet...Maby you got the reference cooler, then its probobly loud!
i have a 550 watt 80+ corsair psu with an amd phenom ll x4 965 at stock speeds 4GB RAM 1 500 HDD 1 BD drive 1 DVD drive can i run a 6850 or a 6870 with my setup
i want to buy a xfx radeon HD 6850! and i have a 460w PSU. will i be able to run that card? and i have a xfx630i motherboard! the card will cover the sata ports but i am thinking of using right angled sata cables will it work? plz advise
i want to buy a xfx radeon HD 6850! and i have a 460w PSU. will i be able to run that card? and i have a xfx630i motherboard! the card will cover the sata ports but i am thinking of using right angled sata cables will it work? plz advise.
i want to buy a xfx radeon HD 6850! and i have a 460w PSU. will i be able to run that card? and i have a xfx630i motherboard! the card will cover the sata ports but i am thinking of using right angled sata cables will it work? plz advise.
@rakke12 I'm using an Antec 550Watt PSU atm and 2 cards I'd say would be really pushing the PSU especially if your also running it with a newer 125+ watt CPU and not to mention if you do any OCing, so a good 750+ would be a perfered PSU for a 2 card setup. :)
@rakke12 A 550 wont do 2 cards of this caliber and a 125W CPU at the same time the power needed is more then what the PSU can put out, all your do to your system is make it either crash, reboot or fry the PSU so like I suggested before a 750W or better is needed for a duel card setup. Average high end GFX card runs at 190+ Watts times that by 2 (380Watts just for them) then another 125-130 (505-510watts) an thats just counting 2 cards an 1 cpu an not the rest of the system so no a 550W wont work
Wow, that's quite low power consumption on a graphics card that outspeed nVidia's £500 cards, and on a quad-core overclocked processor too.
At Ebuyer you can get this card for 150 to 200 pounds maximum. And no one really needs to have more than one of these cards, unless for something really special.
can i get some feedback on this is the 5830 better then the 6850?? i mean the 6850 is newer so it will have more updates and stuff which means it wont get old as fast right?? so should i go with the 5830 or the 6850??
@casanova1135 The 6850 and the 6870 aren't as strong as some of the older HD5ks (Mainly the 5870) but they hold there own in everything I've seen them ran in, and they're better optimized with new features and better tessellation. But if your looking to get a new HD6k card I'd get the HD6870 its not a much more then some of the HD6850s so might as well :P.
@Sphoxros Thank you for the help, I was mostly just wondering which would be better in terms of the 6850 vs the 5830 I doubt I could afford much more then that mostly in the 200$ range
The HD 68xx series isn't meant to replace the 58xx series. It's meant to replace the 57xx series. The 69xx series is meant to replace the 58xx series.
57xx series cards will continue to be sold because of their huge popularity until they're eventually replaced in Q1 of next year. This is the same thing that happened with the 48xx series (specifically the 4850), if you remember.
@Atheismrulez You seem to forget that both the 6850 & 6870 are 256 Bit cards the 5700s are all 128 Bit that alone means that any 6800+ is far better in terms of performance then any of the 5700s... so yes they are replacing the 5ks...the 6950 and 6970s are to replace the 5850s and 5870s and the 6990 replaces the 5970. So telling casanova1135 to pick up a HD6870 if he could was the right thing to suggest. I don't mean to sound like an ass but what you just said did not make much sense. :P
Yeah... you're not the one that's making sense. The next generation of cards is supposed to be faster than the previous--that's how it goes for any product. The most obvious way for AMD to make the 6800 series better than the 5700 series it is said to replace is by giving it higher memory bandwith and more stream processors.
Second, he was asking if the 6850 was a good alternative to the 5830. All I did was answer that; he never asked about the 6870.
@Atheismrulez lol well they actually do have more bandwidth and stream processors so I donno why you ever compared any of the HD6800s to the HD5700s ? An just to clerifiy a HD6850 has 960 stream processors and the HD6870 has 1120 which both have more then any of the HD5700s which only have 800 so all they are really is a HD4890 on a 128 bit memory bus with less bandwidth so no HD5700 can compare to a HD6800. :P
What AMD did when going from the HD 4800 series to 5700 was to make the die cheaper to produce and making it more efficient. Now that's changed. Manufacturing costs now allow them to focus more on performance, which is why the 5700 to 6800 series jump has a much higher impact than the 4800 to 5700 jump.
@Atheismrulez The actual specifications are more important then anything on hardware no matter what it is. A 128 bit card will never perform as well as a 256 bit card not even when there OCed the total bandwidth just isn't there. An to note my HD4890 has the same bandwidth as a HD6850 (128GB/s) where as the 5700s have (73-76GB/s) so really a HD4870-HD4890s still better in terms of performance then a HD5770 or 5750 only difference is shader model, DX11, Tessellation and improved physics etc.
I got a core2Duo OC to 3.80 GHz. Currently I have a 5770 with 4GB Patriot G series RAM 1166MHz. I really want this card. Could I run this card on my current system?
@GoldenMurderer Power supplies are the most efficient at around 40%-50% load so you would need at around x2 the amount of the power required for the PSU (not to mention that it would damage the PSU if it's constantly at high load). No offense but recommending a 500w-600w PSU for 400w required is not a very good advice, you should instead have around a 800w-900w PSU.
@Atheismrulez Btw, it's common knowledge that Power Supplies are the most efficient at around 40%-60%, YOU !@#$ING DOUCHEBAG. Don't be such an ignoramus, poopie-head. It's often even on the manufacturer's page, such as Corsair's. For example, the HX520W is 82% efficient at around ~20% usage, while it's around 85% efficient at 50% usage, then it goes down to 81% efficient at 100% usage, which usually gets unstable and it's not recommended to run it at 100%, and some PSU may not even work.
The fact that they're most efficient at 40-60% load doesn't mean shit in terms of how much power they can provide. Any high-quality power supply will be able to supply 90-110% of its rated power. Stop misinforming people. You don't need a 1000 watt power supply to run two Radeon HD 6870s when the whole system power consumption with an overclocked processor will be around 500-550 watts.
Except for the part where I said a HIGH-QUALITY power supply. High-quality PSUs from Corsair, XFX, Seasonic, Silverstone, Thermaltake, PC Power & Cooling and OCZ can deliver 110% of their power without burning.
Oh, wait... you removed your comment. Maybe you accepted you're wrong.
You don't need a 800-900W PSU for two 6870's, let alone one. Stop talking shit. AMD themselves say that a 500W is enough for one 6870 and 600W is enough for two 6870's in Crossfire. Hell, it's even enough for two 6950's. I'm running a 550W with my 6870 Phenom II x4 system and I have no issues at all.
You're the idiot if you think you need an 800W PSU to run a 6870 or even crossfired 6870's. I have the proof right in front of me. 550W PSU running a 6870 in a quad core system just fine with no power outages. So YOU STFU you fucking idiot troll.
@gamewizard rofl, how about you try reading something. I never said that you NEEDED anything, I said: 1) Power supplies are the most efficient at 40%-60% load 2) Constantly using it at a high load will wear out the power supply faster and 3) It's not a bad idea to get a power supply that does more than the bare minimum, because you can keep upgrading without getting a new PSU.
@gamewizard I would like to see the power out puts of your PSU, I'll almost bet all of them are under volting. Get your meter out record the data and show me. your the kind of idiot that buys a power supply from new egg and a year later is bitching that the psu fried your system from power surges and under volting not to mention losing the PSU on top of it.
Been running my system for a year with no problems yet, and I don't have a test meter and can't be bothered to buy one and make a video just for you. Why does AMD recommend such low wattage PSU's if they can't handle their cards? Do you think you know more than their highly paid engineers do?
@gamewizard so basically from what you just said you know more than the manufacturers of psu's. who all of which in the high end recommend running a psu @40 -60%.
and that you recommend hack building a computer by running a psu at roughly 75%+ and people who don't know better end up losing $ because you think you know better than the manufactures recommendations.
good call buddy, you just made yourself look really frigging stupid.
Why does AMD recommend a 500W PSU then? I think AMD knows better than you do what PSU is required to run their own products. The only one who looks stupid is you. You can go to AMD's website and see that the power supply they recommend for the 6870 (and the 6950) is 500W. Like I said, one year in operation with a 550W PSU with no problems. What proof do you have to back up your claims?
Of course the PSU manufaturers want you to buy a higher wattage PSU because they make more money off of them. You're the stupid one for believing the manufacturers hype and spending more money for a PSU than you really need. AMD recommends only a 600W for CROSSFIRE 6870. There's no way you need an 800-900W for a single card. I hardly ever turn off my computer, so the one year I have been using it is under constant power so I have all the proof I need of what wattage PSU to use.
@gamewizard like i said do a voltage test of the out put of the PSU, they recommend a larger PSU because that is where they are most EFFICIENT! which holy shit saves you money, now gee you keep running your mouth and sticking your foot in it, gee I wonder if less heat in the PSU also makes it last longer to? HMM again the PSU manufacturers prove you wrong again, but okay keep flapping your jaw you know better than the manufactures of the PSU's.
It does NOT save you money because your computer still draws the same amount of power whether it comes from a 500W PSU or a 1200W PSU. You save NOTHING by buying a PSU that puts out more wattage than you require so just shut the fuck up and go away you troll.
umm stupid, would you care to look at that statement again please? umm cause now your foot is so deep in your throat, I am afraid that your choking. so running a 550 watt psu at 75%+ load and getting 81% efficiency is better than running a 800 watt psu at 50% load and getting 85%+ efficiency . dude you are so clueless it isn't even funny.
just keep building those hack jobs you call a computer.
You're the stupid one. 2 identical computers will draw the same amount of power regardless of what the wattage of the power supply is. The power draw is determined by the components in the computer, NOT the power supply. The only difference is that the higher wattage PSU can supply more total power if you add more components to the system.
And just in case you need further explanation, which you seem to, if you total up the power draw of all the components attached to your motherboard and they add up to 400W, they will draw 400W from both a 500W PSU and a 1200W PSU. The power draw of those components is not going to magically drop to 300W just because you put a 1200W PSU in the system. Does that make it clear enough for that piece of rotting meat you call a brain?
@gamewizard the power supplies loses efficiency as you pull more power from the unit. if you run a 500 watt psu and are pulling 75% of it's power your losing the efficiency of the ability of that unit to convert ac into dc.and as the unit gets hotter you will lose even more of that efficiency. and quite possibly running that computer at a under voltage state and causing voltage spike risking more than just the psu.
@ShadowwwLFS because they are most efficient and keeps the temps down in the PSU making it last longer, but yet again another moron that knows more than the manufacturer.
gee heat kills electronics don't it retard? so if your constantly pushing it to the limits whats going to happen to it? it's going to BURN OUT!!! go look in new egg and all the psu's pushed to the max and they are complaining because the PSU burnt up!!
@juggernautxtr nice to see you have power to close cases. Oh wait, good PSU's don't overheat even on >100% load (yeah, PROPER 1000W (for example) PSU can handle as much as 1200W). Too bad your knowledge is from mid-1990's when all PSU manufacturers did was scammed people.
@ShadowwwLFS shows how much knowledge in electronics you have period, anybody that has a clue to what happens to caps when they get hot knows what happens, and running a power supply at 100% also is a drain on the pocket book period. 25%+ loss in efficiency is a hell of a lot of power.
you morons keep thinking the way you do. keep up the total ignorance I'll be laughing, when your complaining about your pocket book being drained and having to replace PSU'S every couple years.
@juggernautxtr cool story. Too bad caps in proper PSUs are not chinese enough to get hot from high load. Also, I have a server box with 250W OEM (supplied-with-case) PSU and it gets loaded almost fully - but it's still alive after 6 years of 24/7 use (motherboard died, three HDDs died - but the PSU is still fine). What am I doing wrong?
@ShadowwwLFS want me to open this XFX 650 watt for your stupid ass and show you the made in china caps?
you lost quite trying to argue something you haven't got a foggy frigging clue on.use some common frigging sense you moron and quite trying to prove your point YOU FUCKING LOST!!!!!
@juggernautxtr since when XFX makes decent PSUs? While SeaSonic (and Corsair PSUs, which are made by them) are good, and so are hec ones - XFX ones are NOT.
@GoldenMurderer I dont see a graphics card in that list, if your not doing any serious Oc'ing then theres no reason a 350 or 400 will work. So yes a 520W will work more that well enough.
@bekhouwe8888 Hahaha, what a fool, it's even on the manufacturer's page, fool! You just don't know what you're talking about, yet pretend like you do. How sad.
Linus could you edit the video description to give us a list of your mobo, cpu, RAM and with their speed and voltages?
I'm a little concerned that I went 100w too low. I bought a XFX 750W black edition 80+Silver, and I'll be running a MSI 890FX-GD70 mobo, with 16gb G.Skill ECO (1.35v)1600 RAM (4x4gb) and crossfired MSI 6870s, Lite-ON 24x dvd-rw, and Samsung 1TB 7200RPM Spinpoint F3 HDD. I'm also using a corsair H50 push/pull & shroud cooler, and wish to OC. Am I okay 0_o?
@Jeltissimus GPU encoding, at the moment, has way worse quality at same bitrate than CPU encoding, particularly due to support of just 1 ref. frame when encoding using GPU. CPU encoders are capable of 16 ref. frames, which increases encoding efficiency by like 40%.
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What do you do with all the cards you don't use? Do you throw them away? can you give me one, you know as a gift for my...my... my interest in your old stuff.
@lizardmannnn damn i bought the 1055t with the GTX 480 but i don't get decent fps. CPU is overclocked to 3.5ghz. I heard that AMD + AMD(ati) do better together?
@points2shopPROOF They never do cuz intel has much faster interface to the graphics card, with the release of the intel sandy bridge and January its supposed to be so optimized that it will gain 15 fps when using the game gpu... cant wait for that Ima buy it so fast
You are testing from the plug and showing watts used for entire system not just the video card why not list the computer specs in the description? Damn dweeble.
NowLifeStarts 3 days ago
amd radeon hd 6870 1gb the best thing ever , my bro has it and its amazing no sound almost and very cold :D anybody who says else can piss off , cuz i know
sharkman96 1 week ago
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i have a 500w psu can my psu handle this gpu and is this one better than hd6770 ?
must654 1 month ago
I got the MSI twin frozy (however its spelt) and the cockroaches in the walls make more noise than the GPU
nuggz503 1 month ago
im the kind of guy to render videos while gamming :P
mageminer70 2 months ago
Can anyone explain to me how the watts work to a "noob"? Like, does it have to do with the computer or does it have to do with your outlets and other thinks in your wall?
x1FPR1x 2 months ago
HD 6850 or HD 6870??
jobo104 2 months ago
@jobo104 6870. You'll get the best bang for your buck.
GethAreAwesome 1 month ago
can i run crossfire with 600w??
mindharvester 2 months ago
Lol, i have 850w PSU !
StormAce96 2 months ago
i have 250w power supply and 6870. nice.
xvaltsux 3 months ago
if anyone cares to respond, will this gfx card work with a coolermaster gx 650w psu, 4bg of 1600mhz ram and an fx-6100?
wodka450 3 months ago
Yes.
KeygenOSCracker 3 months ago
Will a Raptor R450P be able to run the MSI R6870-2PM2D1GD5
faffa14 3 months ago
so i dont need a tower? lol
zak4829 4 months ago
I'm gonna do:
Phenom II x4 955 Black
6870 Xfire.
what kind of wattage should i take? 600-700?
napoleon950 4 months ago
@napoleon950 500+ should be fine.
MrFictive 3 months ago
@napoleon950
650W is the minimum to get 4x PCIe power connectors on a PSU, so that's what I'd recommend. It'd still have ample room for many HDDs/SSDs, fans, and what not.
Atheismrulez 3 months ago
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1100T CFX 6870 (Sapphire) 8 gigs of 1887Mhz corsair ram, a 2TB HDD, think i can run this on a CM GX750 Watt?
AvioxAraxi 4 months ago
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AvioxAraxi 4 months ago
Well how much power does the card take not the computer and the card just the card.
Logan800 4 months ago
you have one video of you doing the same thing but useing nvdia?
MrGateKing 4 months ago
Is this perfect combo with the amd phenom x4 975BE?
StormBringerRider 5 months ago
what was that case that looked like a shelf called i want 1
DJKPPoA 6 months ago
i think this was the most useful video i have ever seen on you tube.
Specs:
Q9550 Core 2 Quad
4 GB Trancend 800 MHz now upgrading to 8GB
600 Watts Iball Sprinter
Asus P5Q PRO
MSI 4870 1GB Now upgrading to ATI HD 6870 1GB after watching this video.
very helpful thanks i was confused in 6870 and 6950 but now i know what to do. :)
msi48701gb 6 months ago 3
Friend think that master coller source Epode d 500-pro silent wat is sufficient for a configuration,,, a shappire 1g 6870 256 bit GDDR5 and a 545 X2 phenom II DVD 3g 4g memory motherboard is ddr3.la a biostar ta790gxa3 +
davidsalazar0412 6 months ago
@Doltbum Depends on your amps and rail/s.
IIIlllll 6 months ago
how strong needs to be the psu to run two 6870 in crossfire
CROMAT30 8 months ago
@CROMAT30 600 Minimum
DwaightSkiiHD 7 months ago
i5 2400S 65w
HIS hd6870
4gb ddr3 1333
1 ssd
1 2.5" hdd
1 slimdrive dvd
would the silverstone sg05 w/ 450w psu be able to run these??
qwwqqe 8 months ago
i have xfx 6870 BE crossfire 4 gb ram phenom x4 965 running on a corsair hx850w perfectly .
tanaii1 8 months ago
i have i5 650 3.2ghz
8gb ram 1333mhz
ATI HD 5670 1gb
450W power supply..
im plaing to buy Gigabyte ATI HD 6870
can you guys tell me if i can still run it?
XenonCAE 8 months ago
@XenonCAE I would highly recommend you to upgrade the PS (power supply) to a 500w at least. To be safe i would say a 650 would be perfect. Also, i do have the gigabyte 6870 and its an awesome card thus far. You need "2 six-pin connectors" to run that card. If you have a 450w power supply you have the risk of your whole system being really slow, and blowing your Power supply.
vivaramones1 8 months ago
@vivaramones1 Alright thank you.
getting at the least 500watt.. it cost here about 70euro...
with 450watt
If i take off power of DVD CDROOM drive will it work then?
i barely ever use cd atm.. i just stick it back in and change grafic back to ati hd 5670 will it work?
XenonCAE 8 months ago
I've got 480, will it be fine, im not really gonna play anything super advanced, if you understand what i mean.
apaboy50 9 months ago
If I get a P8P67 Motherboard, i7 Quad Core 3.4GHz Sandy Bridge, Sapphire Radeon 6870, 8GB 1600Mhz Memory and a 500GB Hard Disk. Am I safe with a 500W PSU?
Hotives 9 months ago
@Hotives Ofcourse it will run just fine. A full system with 2 6870s in crossfire use about 500watts in full load.
MYsterYmarcus 9 months ago
@THEGODZSPEED yeah, but it would be a very good idea to get more, any power fluctuations and your system will blow (overclocking etc)
ToLiveIsToDie11 9 months ago
So a 500W power supply would be enough for this card, right?
Dany1148 9 months ago
@THEGODZSPEED THE AMDF SITE SAYS MAX POWER DRAW 151 WATTS
DrOrtmeyer 9 months ago
@THEGODZSPEED ya its fine the company's usually go way over for there own safety and save them the complaint problems (possibly lawsuits?)
diablo9987 9 months ago
@diablo9987 are you sure.. i have a 4870 (520 Watt standard PSU) and im upgrading cuz 6870 is almost twice as fast and only uses a watt more XD im just scared of the case room BUT the power connectors are on the side and not near the HDD Brackett :) which would save me space (please say yes...)
DrOrtmeyer 9 months ago
@DrOrtmeyer you should be fine as long as you don't have like 5 hdd's 5 optical drives and like 100 fans. i wouldn't go lower than 500w though just for some head room but 450w would be able to do it to. so you should be fine
diablo9987 9 months ago
@RENATAUMN
U you be pushing it i think
But just have a look, google power supply calculator
989TROY989 10 months ago
hey whats up? , can i make u a question? can i use 2 6870 msi on my system with a OCZ 600w steahstream2, my system is a phenom x6 at 4.2ghz 1.42v in a m4a89gtd/pro with 2 hd 1tb, can i do this crossfire in my system with my powersuply? thanks a lot, ur channel is awesome!!!
RENATAUMM 11 months ago
How big of a power supply do I need to run x2 6870s? I have one but I want to add another one. My power supply is 700w modular.
xTHETRAINx 11 months ago
I cannot hear the video becuase of my HD6870 fuck
JasonJustPlayin2 11 months ago 20
@JasonJustPlayin2
Why you cant here him. HD Sound on A Graphicscard ?
Yes but when you dont now it to make them run shut up.
UnlogischeLogik 11 months ago
@JasonJustPlayin2 is it that loud
Jahbrown01 6 months ago
@Jahbrown01 yes fucking beast
JasonJustPlayin2 6 months ago
@JasonJustPlayin2 Are you serious? My Xfx 6870 dual fan edition isnt louder then my 2 case fans wich is antec true quiet...Maby you got the reference cooler, then its probobly loud!
KlemzeTV 3 months ago
@JasonJustPlayin2 What? Mine's about a foot and a half away from my head and it's next to silent...
omg123596 3 months ago
@omg123596 mine is about 2 fett from my head and its very loud
JasonJustPlayin2 3 months ago
@JasonJustPlayin2 you can use nvidia to cook.
m0cahacker 1 month ago
oww 400+ watts that overkill too much for mid-high end pc
stigyo92 1 year ago
someone plz tell me, shall i buy the 6870 or 5870?
SuperGodzill 1 year ago
Any idea if the Msi R6870 has linux drivers ?
usedforlife 1 year ago
Can 550W run the 6870, Core i5 760, DvD drive, 4gb ram, 500 gb hard drive, and 6 case fans?
Please, anyone asnwer
TwisterNuts642 1 year ago
@TwisterNuts642 i think so
using192 1 year ago
i just wonderd, my rig is:
AMD Phenom II 965 (Quad 3,4Ghz)
Corsair Dominator 8Gb(4x2gb 1600mhz DDR3)
Asus Crosshair IV formula
XFX AMD Radeon 6870
Corsair TX 750w
do i need more power from the powersupply to get 100% From dual 6870s?
i planned on buying 2 Graphics cards... but i dont know if the power holds it :s
MegaTafe 1 year ago
ok so i got a
AMD X6 1075T at 3.2 Ghz
8 gigs of ddr3 at 1333
7200, 500 gig hdd
and a 530 watt psu could i run the 6870 smoothly??
helloworldinthenet 1 year ago
@helloworldinthenet
i borrowed a 550w intill the 750w arrived...
it runned all fine and smoothly :)
(though you have a more powerfull CPU, so idk)
MegaTafe 1 year ago
Nice Power Consumption review man, but u need to activate ur windows
Raziel0066 1 year ago
I just got this with a quad core and supprisingly we have the same cooler and ram with ths card.
Darksiegify 1 year ago
i have a 550 watt 80+ corsair psu with an amd phenom ll x4 965 at stock speeds 4GB RAM 1 500 HDD 1 BD drive 1 DVD drive can i run a 6850 or a 6870 with my setup
icracksyouup 1 year ago
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i want to buy a xfx radeon HD 6850! and i have a 460w PSU. will i be able to run that card? and i have a xfx630i motherboard! the card will cover the sata ports but i am thinking of using right angled sata cables will it work? plz advise
malik11223344 1 year ago
i want to buy a xfx radeon HD 6850! and i have a 460w PSU. will i be able to run that card? and i have a xfx630i motherboard! the card will cover the sata ports but i am thinking of using right angled sata cables will it work? plz advise.
malik11223344 1 year ago
i want to buy a xfx radeon HD 6850! and i have a 460w PSU. will i be able to run that card? and i have a xfx630i motherboard! the card will cover the sata ports but i am thinking of using right angled sata cables will it work? plz advise.
malik11223344 1 year ago
lol I got a core 2 duo @3.80 and the xfx version of this bitch. fukin rapes
AsianPerson3 1 year ago
i think on a 550 PSU u can run 2 cards
rakke12 1 year ago
@rakke12 I'm using an Antec 550Watt PSU atm and 2 cards I'd say would be really pushing the PSU especially if your also running it with a newer 125+ watt CPU and not to mention if you do any OCing, so a good 750+ would be a perfered PSU for a 2 card setup. :)
Sphoxros 1 year ago
@Sphoxros i got AMD Phenom II x4 945 oc 4.0 Ghz with H70, it should be just fine ^^
rakke12 1 year ago
@rakke12 A 550 wont do 2 cards of this caliber and a 125W CPU at the same time the power needed is more then what the PSU can put out, all your do to your system is make it either crash, reboot or fry the PSU so like I suggested before a 750W or better is needed for a duel card setup. Average high end GFX card runs at 190+ Watts times that by 2 (380Watts just for them) then another 125-130 (505-510watts) an thats just counting 2 cards an 1 cpu an not the rest of the system so no a 550W wont work
Sphoxros 1 year ago
Compare that to last generation, where:
5800: Enthusiast
5700: Performance
Get it now?
Atheismrulez 1 year ago
Wow, that's quite low power consumption on a graphics card that outspeed nVidia's £500 cards, and on a quad-core overclocked processor too.
At Ebuyer you can get this card for 150 to 200 pounds maximum. And no one really needs to have more than one of these cards, unless for something really special.
Edge0fPain 1 year ago
if im gonna use a 5870 crossfire setup, will an 850watt silver plus be enough to handle them?
kengie2 1 year ago
@kengie2 YES!!!!!!! .
sharkie541 1 year ago
can i get some feedback on this is the 5830 better then the 6850?? i mean the 6850 is newer so it will have more updates and stuff which means it wont get old as fast right?? so should i go with the 5830 or the 6850??
casanova1135 1 year ago
@casanova1135 The 6850 and the 6870 aren't as strong as some of the older HD5ks (Mainly the 5870) but they hold there own in everything I've seen them ran in, and they're better optimized with new features and better tessellation. But if your looking to get a new HD6k card I'd get the HD6870 its not a much more then some of the HD6850s so might as well :P.
Sphoxros 1 year ago
@Sphoxros Thank you for the help, I was mostly just wondering which would be better in terms of the 6850 vs the 5830 I doubt I could afford much more then that mostly in the 200$ range
casanova1135 1 year ago
@Sphoxros
The HD 68xx series isn't meant to replace the 58xx series. It's meant to replace the 57xx series. The 69xx series is meant to replace the 58xx series.
57xx series cards will continue to be sold because of their huge popularity until they're eventually replaced in Q1 of next year. This is the same thing that happened with the 48xx series (specifically the 4850), if you remember.
Atheismrulez 1 year ago
@Atheismrulez You seem to forget that both the 6850 & 6870 are 256 Bit cards the 5700s are all 128 Bit that alone means that any 6800+ is far better in terms of performance then any of the 5700s... so yes they are replacing the 5ks...the 6950 and 6970s are to replace the 5850s and 5870s and the 6990 replaces the 5970. So telling casanova1135 to pick up a HD6870 if he could was the right thing to suggest. I don't mean to sound like an ass but what you just said did not make much sense. :P
Sphoxros 1 year ago
@Sphoxros
Yeah... you're not the one that's making sense. The next generation of cards is supposed to be faster than the previous--that's how it goes for any product. The most obvious way for AMD to make the 6800 series better than the 5700 series it is said to replace is by giving it higher memory bandwith and more stream processors.
Second, he was asking if the 6850 was a good alternative to the 5830. All I did was answer that; he never asked about the 6870.
Think before you post.
Atheismrulez 1 year ago
@Atheismrulez lol well they actually do have more bandwidth and stream processors so I donno why you ever compared any of the HD6800s to the HD5700s ? An just to clerifiy a HD6850 has 960 stream processors and the HD6870 has 1120 which both have more then any of the HD5700s which only have 800 so all they are really is a HD4890 on a 128 bit memory bus with less bandwidth so no HD5700 can compare to a HD6800. :P
Sphoxros 1 year ago
@Sphoxros
What AMD did when going from the HD 4800 series to 5700 was to make the die cheaper to produce and making it more efficient. Now that's changed. Manufacturing costs now allow them to focus more on performance, which is why the 5700 to 6800 series jump has a much higher impact than the 4800 to 5700 jump.
Also, if you saw AMD's presentations:
6900 series: Enthusiast
6800 series: Performance
Atheismrulez 1 year ago
@Atheismrulez The actual specifications are more important then anything on hardware no matter what it is. A 128 bit card will never perform as well as a 256 bit card not even when there OCed the total bandwidth just isn't there. An to note my HD4890 has the same bandwidth as a HD6850 (128GB/s) where as the 5700s have (73-76GB/s) so really a HD4870-HD4890s still better in terms of performance then a HD5770 or 5750 only difference is shader model, DX11, Tessellation and improved physics etc.
Sphoxros 1 year ago
@casanova1135
The Radeon HD 6850 is faster and consumes less power than the 5830. It's faster in all benchmarks and games both have been tested in.
Atheismrulez 1 year ago
@Atheismrulez tyvm for the feedback i will use this
casanova1135 1 year ago
you use a lot of scenarios
pioneerz450 1 year ago
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I got a core2Duo OC to 3.80 GHz. Currently I have a 5770 with 4GB Patriot G series RAM 1166MHz. I really want this card. Could I run this card on my current system?
AsianPerson3 1 year ago
so a corsair hx750 would work for 2?
124Z312 1 year ago
whats the program you used to strease your cpu?
AntiVideosHD 1 year ago
@AntiVideosHD Prime 95
aliv101010 1 year ago
@aliv101010 download Link?
AntiVideosHD 1 year ago
MY PSU is 400W and I power up GTS 250, 2 7200 RPM HDDS athlon II x2 240 and 4GB Corsair dominator ram aiming for 700W PSU :)
mitko1251 1 year ago
Would you say a 520W PSU would support :
2x 7200 WD blue 1TB in raid 0
(later an ASUS EAH6870)
an AMD Phenom II x3 720
4 GB of DDR2 RAM
1x Combo SATA optical drive
(not sure if this matters or not) 3 80mm fans, 1LED and 2 120mm fans no LED.
Should I buy a new PSU or would 520W work well enough for this system?
GoldenMurderer 1 year ago
@GoldenMurderer Power supplies are the most efficient at around 40%-50% load so you would need at around x2 the amount of the power required for the PSU (not to mention that it would damage the PSU if it's constantly at high load). No offense but recommending a 500w-600w PSU for 400w required is not a very good advice, you should instead have around a 800w-900w PSU.
eatcarpet 1 year ago
@eatcarpet
That's not how it works, sorry. Do you even know what efficiency means? Don't go around misinforming people.
Atheismrulez 1 year ago
@Atheismrulez If I'm wrong, then provide evidence. Except that you can't. Sorry.
eatcarpet 1 year ago
@Atheismrulez Btw, it's common knowledge that Power Supplies are the most efficient at around 40%-60%, YOU !@#$ING DOUCHEBAG. Don't be such an ignoramus, poopie-head. It's often even on the manufacturer's page, such as Corsair's. For example, the HX520W is 82% efficient at around ~20% usage, while it's around 85% efficient at 50% usage, then it goes down to 81% efficient at 100% usage, which usually gets unstable and it's not recommended to run it at 100%, and some PSU may not even work.
eatcarpet 1 year ago
@eatcarpet
The fact that they're most efficient at 40-60% load doesn't mean shit in terms of how much power they can provide. Any high-quality power supply will be able to supply 90-110% of its rated power. Stop misinforming people. You don't need a 1000 watt power supply to run two Radeon HD 6870s when the whole system power consumption with an overclocked processor will be around 500-550 watts.
Atheismrulez 1 year ago
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eatcarpet 1 year ago
@eatcarpet
Except for the part where I said a HIGH-QUALITY power supply. High-quality PSUs from Corsair, XFX, Seasonic, Silverstone, Thermaltake, PC Power & Cooling and OCZ can deliver 110% of their power without burning.
Oh, wait... you removed your comment. Maybe you accepted you're wrong.
Atheismrulez 1 year ago
@eatcarpet
You don't need a 800-900W PSU for two 6870's, let alone one. Stop talking shit. AMD themselves say that a 500W is enough for one 6870 and 600W is enough for two 6870's in Crossfire. Hell, it's even enough for two 6950's. I'm running a 550W with my 6870 Phenom II x4 system and I have no issues at all.
gamewizard 1 year ago
@gamewizard stfu, you're an idiot.
eatcarpet 1 year ago
@eatcarpet
You're the idiot if you think you need an 800W PSU to run a 6870 or even crossfired 6870's. I have the proof right in front of me. 550W PSU running a 6870 in a quad core system just fine with no power outages. So YOU STFU you fucking idiot troll.
gamewizard 1 year ago
@gamewizard rofl, how about you try reading something. I never said that you NEEDED anything, I said: 1) Power supplies are the most efficient at 40%-60% load 2) Constantly using it at a high load will wear out the power supply faster and 3) It's not a bad idea to get a power supply that does more than the bare minimum, because you can keep upgrading without getting a new PSU.
eatcarpet 1 year ago
@eatcarpet
Your EXACT quote
"No offense but recommending a 500w-600w PSU for 400w required is not a very good advice, you should instead have around a 800w-900w PSU."
You do NOT need an 800W-900W PSU for a system with a total draw of only 400W, which is what you said.
gamewizard 1 year ago
@gamewizard Duh, that's why I said power supplies are the most efficient at 40%-60% load.
eatcarpet 1 year ago
@gamewizard I would like to see the power out puts of your PSU, I'll almost bet all of them are under volting. Get your meter out record the data and show me. your the kind of idiot that buys a power supply from new egg and a year later is bitching that the psu fried your system from power surges and under volting not to mention losing the PSU on top of it.
juggernautxtr 1 year ago
@juggernautxtr
Been running my system for a year with no problems yet, and I don't have a test meter and can't be bothered to buy one and make a video just for you. Why does AMD recommend such low wattage PSU's if they can't handle their cards? Do you think you know more than their highly paid engineers do?
gamewizard 1 year ago
@gamewizard so basically from what you just said you know more than the manufacturers of psu's. who all of which in the high end recommend running a psu @40 -60%.
and that you recommend hack building a computer by running a psu at roughly 75%+ and people who don't know better end up losing $ because you think you know better than the manufactures recommendations.
good call buddy, you just made yourself look really frigging stupid.
juggernautxtr 1 year ago
@juggernautxtr
Why does AMD recommend a 500W PSU then? I think AMD knows better than you do what PSU is required to run their own products. The only one who looks stupid is you. You can go to AMD's website and see that the power supply they recommend for the 6870 (and the 6950) is 500W. Like I said, one year in operation with a 550W PSU with no problems. What proof do you have to back up your claims?
gamewizard 1 year ago
@juggernautxtr
Of course the PSU manufaturers want you to buy a higher wattage PSU because they make more money off of them. You're the stupid one for believing the manufacturers hype and spending more money for a PSU than you really need. AMD recommends only a 600W for CROSSFIRE 6870. There's no way you need an 800-900W for a single card. I hardly ever turn off my computer, so the one year I have been using it is under constant power so I have all the proof I need of what wattage PSU to use.
gamewizard 1 year ago
@gamewizard like i said do a voltage test of the out put of the PSU, they recommend a larger PSU because that is where they are most EFFICIENT! which holy shit saves you money, now gee you keep running your mouth and sticking your foot in it, gee I wonder if less heat in the PSU also makes it last longer to? HMM again the PSU manufacturers prove you wrong again, but okay keep flapping your jaw you know better than the manufactures of the PSU's.
juggernautxtr 1 year ago
@juggernautxtr
It does NOT save you money because your computer still draws the same amount of power whether it comes from a 500W PSU or a 1200W PSU. You save NOTHING by buying a PSU that puts out more wattage than you require so just shut the fuck up and go away you troll.
gamewizard 1 year ago
umm stupid, would you care to look at that statement again please? umm cause now your foot is so deep in your throat, I am afraid that your choking. so running a 550 watt psu at 75%+ load and getting 81% efficiency is better than running a 800 watt psu at 50% load and getting 85%+ efficiency . dude you are so clueless it isn't even funny.
just keep building those hack jobs you call a computer.
juggernautxtr 1 year ago
@juggernautxtr
You're the stupid one. 2 identical computers will draw the same amount of power regardless of what the wattage of the power supply is. The power draw is determined by the components in the computer, NOT the power supply. The only difference is that the higher wattage PSU can supply more total power if you add more components to the system.
gamewizard 1 year ago
@juggernautxtr
And just in case you need further explanation, which you seem to, if you total up the power draw of all the components attached to your motherboard and they add up to 400W, they will draw 400W from both a 500W PSU and a 1200W PSU. The power draw of those components is not going to magically drop to 300W just because you put a 1200W PSU in the system. Does that make it clear enough for that piece of rotting meat you call a brain?
gamewizard 1 year ago
@gamewizard the power supplies loses efficiency as you pull more power from the unit. if you run a 500 watt psu and are pulling 75% of it's power your losing the efficiency of the ability of that unit to convert ac into dc.and as the unit gets hotter you will lose even more of that efficiency. and quite possibly running that computer at a under voltage state and causing voltage spike risking more than just the psu.
juggernautxtr 1 year ago
@juggernautxtr Manufacturers of PSU's recommend running a PSU @ 40-60% cause higher power PSUs cost more -> they earn more money.
ShadowwwLFS 8 months ago
@ShadowwwLFS because they are most efficient and keeps the temps down in the PSU making it last longer, but yet again another moron that knows more than the manufacturer.
gee heat kills electronics don't it retard? so if your constantly pushing it to the limits whats going to happen to it? it's going to BURN OUT!!! go look in new egg and all the psu's pushed to the max and they are complaining because the PSU burnt up!!
case closed moron.
juggernautxtr 8 months ago
@juggernautxtr nice to see you have power to close cases. Oh wait, good PSU's don't overheat even on >100% load (yeah, PROPER 1000W (for example) PSU can handle as much as 1200W). Too bad your knowledge is from mid-1990's when all PSU manufacturers did was scammed people.
ShadowwwLFS 8 months ago
@ShadowwwLFS shows how much knowledge in electronics you have period, anybody that has a clue to what happens to caps when they get hot knows what happens, and running a power supply at 100% also is a drain on the pocket book period. 25%+ loss in efficiency is a hell of a lot of power.
you morons keep thinking the way you do. keep up the total ignorance I'll be laughing, when your complaining about your pocket book being drained and having to replace PSU'S every couple years.
juggernautxtr 8 months ago
@juggernautxtr cool story. Too bad caps in proper PSUs are not chinese enough to get hot from high load. Also, I have a server box with 250W OEM (supplied-with-case) PSU and it gets loaded almost fully - but it's still alive after 6 years of 24/7 use (motherboard died, three HDDs died - but the PSU is still fine). What am I doing wrong?
ShadowwwLFS 8 months ago
@ShadowwwLFS want me to open this XFX 650 watt for your stupid ass and show you the made in china caps?
you lost quite trying to argue something you haven't got a foggy frigging clue on.use some common frigging sense you moron and quite trying to prove your point YOU FUCKING LOST!!!!!
juggernautxtr 8 months ago
@juggernautxtr since when XFX makes decent PSUs? While SeaSonic (and Corsair PSUs, which are made by them) are good, and so are hec ones - XFX ones are NOT.
ShadowwwLFS 8 months ago
@GoldenMurderer I dont see a graphics card in that list, if your not doing any serious Oc'ing then theres no reason a 350 or 400 will work. So yes a 520W will work more that well enough.
4g63fourlife 1 year ago
@GoldenMurderer your 520 will do no problem. Don't listen to eatcarpet with his "40-50% load bullshit"
bekhouwe8888 1 year ago 17
@bekhouwe8888 Hahaha, what a fool, it's even on the manufacturer's page, fool! You just don't know what you're talking about, yet pretend like you do. How sad.
eatcarpet 1 year ago
@eatcarpet What is on the manufactuer's page? A good 520Watt PSU is enough for an 6870. It's actually enough for almost any singlecard solution.
bekhouwe8888 1 year ago
what a mess...
TMXMASTER 1 year ago
Linus could you edit the video description to give us a list of your mobo, cpu, RAM and with their speed and voltages?
I'm a little concerned that I went 100w too low. I bought a XFX 750W black edition 80+Silver, and I'll be running a MSI 890FX-GD70 mobo, with 16gb G.Skill ECO (1.35v)1600 RAM (4x4gb) and crossfired MSI 6870s, Lite-ON 24x dvd-rw, and Samsung 1TB 7200RPM Spinpoint F3 HDD. I'm also using a corsair H50 push/pull & shroud cooler, and wish to OC. Am I okay 0_o?
EJL2004 1 year ago
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Boneshock123 1 year ago
Similar with this system would an 400w corsair ( told to be more like 450 w real power on 12v) be enough for a system like this?
Avataryoutuification 1 year ago
@Avataryoutuification no 400w will not be enough for the 6870. however it may be for the 6850.
Vartazian360 1 year ago
@Vartazian360 I'm not getting the computer.
Avataryoutuification 1 year ago
@Vartazian360 a very good 500w but 550w/650w is the best choice especially given the price isn't that horrible for say a corsair.
Foxx1981 1 year ago
i now have an hd 4850 1 gb. im thinking to upgrade should i get this or just stick with my current card??
obiwan544 1 year ago
I have a 500watt PSU and whenever I'd run something that put stress on the GPU my PC turns off. I have 2 SSD, 1 SATA, 1 EIDE drive, and a Core2Duo.
indemaTROY 1 year ago
of course nvidia wins in perfomance, always better drivers. but must wait better driver update for the new ati radeon 6000
icguilty 1 year ago
550W PSU Good for this card?
cjgan80 1 year ago
@LinusTechTips - We could do with some system idle readings or even underclocked readings - Please ?
shafnet 1 year ago
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rendering videos on cpu? LOL WHAT ABOUT THE GPU RENDERING
0vid0 1 year ago
can i overclock the 6870 high enought that it will be faster than the 5870 is it possible
urgettinghacked 1 year ago
3:25 rendering videos on cpu?
lol
Jeltissimus 1 year ago
@Jeltissimus GPU encoding, at the moment, has way worse quality at same bitrate than CPU encoding, particularly due to support of just 1 ref. frame when encoding using GPU. CPU encoders are capable of 16 ref. frames, which increases encoding efficiency by like 40%.
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lavernedi 1 year ago
Drink more coffee, talk faster and wip the camera around more please.
ARealWiseGuys 1 year ago
i just bought 5770cucore, best money/power card on the market
miksulder 1 year ago
@miksulder
NOT!
dikatris 1 year ago
@lan0073040 the HD6970 replace the 5870 as the high-end single-gpu card
ChrisStonehenge 1 year ago
who wuld want 2 gtx 480's in their system......maby a crazie person trying to cook their system.....
alzain16 1 year ago
hold SHEET....gtx 480....wtf......
alzain16 1 year ago
Though if you're using dual GTX480's, PSU fan noise isn't going to matter compared to the jet engines on the 480's :P
aqnd 1 year ago
What do you do with all the cards you don't use? Do you throw them away? can you give me one, you know as a gift for my...my... my interest in your old stuff.
CrissBlackHawk 1 year ago
dude i want one of those videocards on the table
lightingrings 1 year ago
Does this card do better with an AMD processor?
points2shopPROOF 1 year ago
@points2shopPROOF nope
lizardmannnn 1 year ago
@lizardmannnn damn i bought the 1055t with the GTX 480 but i don't get decent fps. CPU is overclocked to 3.5ghz. I heard that AMD + AMD(ati) do better together?
points2shopPROOF 1 year ago
@points2shopPROOF yup Nvidia does better with an Intel CPU and a AMD CPU does better with an AMD GPU
Electrotutorials65 1 year ago
@Electrotutorials65 that makes sense, but if you have am3 mobo with nvidia chipset it should be fine
Intz51 1 year ago
@points2shopPROOF They never do cuz intel has much faster interface to the graphics card, with the release of the intel sandy bridge and January its supposed to be so optimized that it will gain 15 fps when using the game gpu... cant wait for that Ima buy it so fast
lizardmannnn 1 year ago
@guythatkilldu Lol, Yea.
If this shit rapes so hard, i wonder what the 6900's got instored <,<
madzane94 1 year ago
This card owns for the price.. Linus has the best job ever!
madzane94 1 year ago
The 6870 is suppused to "replace" the 5770 so it's normal that the power consumption of the 5870 is a bit higher than the 6870 ..
barttttt13 1 year ago
@barttttt13 It ain't replacing the 5770.. It owns the 5770 in vantage, 5830 vantage, 5850 vantage and 5870 in some games... not vantage however.
6870 actually owns the gtx 480 in crysis.
P.S: 6870 = 250 bucks = EPIC WIN!
madzane94 1 year ago 8
@madzane94
ALL LIES
Noisiiv 1 year ago
HD 5570 1GB FTW
BHT70 1 year ago