I am back in my time of need once more. I will be dropping on a temporary Job soon before I go to University, and I have decided to put some of this money towards my PC, as I won't be able to afford an upgrade when I get there. Currently I have:
I want to upgrade my GPU and I don't trust that my PSU can handle two R9 290's so that's out of the question. I don't really want to upgrade my processor as the difference in gaming will be pretty pathetic.
I am back in my time of need once more. I will be dropping on a temporary Job soon before I go to University, and I have decided to put some of this money towards my PC, as I won't be able to afford an upgrade when I get there. Currently I have:
I want to upgrade my GPU and I don't trust that my PSU can handle two R9 290's so that's out of the question. I don't really want to upgrade my processor as the difference in gaming will be pretty pathetic.
You all raise great questions. My R9 290 is at the stock clock speed for the R9 290 Tri-X. I should have mentioned the PSU (My Bad) however it is indeed a Novatech Powerstation 850Watt Black Edition, no V2. Thank you!
You all raise great questions. My R9 290 is at the stock clock speed for the R9 290 Tri-X. I should have mentioned the PSU (My Bad) however it is indeed a Novatech Powerstation 850Watt Black Edition, no V2. Thank you!
So, it's the non-V2, which means you practically have a 750W PSU due to the +12V capacity. That's still plenty for adding a 2nd 290, however I would love to find out how good or bad this PSU is before trusting it any further than I could throw it.
Hmmmm. I cant really do any extensive testing on it however, I've had it for around 4 years now and it handled my dual 560ti's just fine (I know they are nothing compared to R9 290's).
I'm not saying that you should. I'm saying that I'd love it if I could find someone on here who knows something useful about it, like what PSU Novatech used to create it, what its ripple is, what its voltage regulation is, what it has for capacitors, etc.
No, that's extremely inaccurate. I'll show you why. Use the calculator again, but this time click the calculator's built-in "Print" button. Take a screenshot of that printer-friendly page and try to save it in Paint as a .PNG image. You can crop it too, but it's not necessary.
Hah, I rushed through it all so my bad if some of its wrong. They are indeed SATA never had a SCSI drive and the SSD is NAND Flash, my bad. I usually have about 3 devices in charging yeah, I just increased it to 5 as sometimes I have my other half's devices charging as well.
Hah, I rushed through it all so my bad if some of its wrong. They are indeed SATA never had a SCSI drive and the SSD is NAND Flash, my bad. I usually have about 3 devices in charging yeah, I just increased it to 5 as sometimes I have my other half's devices charging as well.
I'm not saying that you should. I'm saying that I'd love it if I could find someone on here who knows something useful about it, like what PSU Novatech used to create it, what its ripple is, what its voltage regulation is, what it has for capacitors, etc.
I looked for the High Power Absolute Series on the original post of the thread below, but it's not there. I'm guessing that's a bad sign because they have other High Power units on there.
I admit that I would rather get a GTX 980 because I have always had better experiences with GeForce cards. Plus, the 980's power consumption is VERY low.
What games do you play & @ what resolution? Because @1080p, a single 290 shouldn't have any trouble maxing games.
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