[User50]

Hi everyone,

I'm simply wondering if my system requirements, PSU in particular, are well enough for a 7970 GPU specifically this one from XFX:

http://www.ncix.com/products/?sku=67172&vpn=FX797ATDFC&manufacture=XFX&promoid=1312#Specifications

If you guys recommend a better manufacturer let me know, I am putting performance ahead of price.

Thank You

Graphics Card

-HD 5870 XFX 1GB GDDR5 memory

AMD Catalyst Driver Version, and Driver History

-Catalyst version 12.6

Operating System

- Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit / Service Pack 1

Motherboard or System Make & Model

- Asus P7P55D-E PRO

Power Supply

- Corsair TX750W

- http://www.corsair.com/en/tx750w.html

Display Device(s) and Connection(s) Used

- Dell ST2410(HDMI)

CPU Details

- i5-750 2.66GHz Quad Core

System Memory Type & Amount

- Corsair Dominator 8GB DDR3 4 X 2GB

Additional Hardware

- Antec 900 case

 

[huzzug]

you are better of going with either
http://www.ncix.com/products/?sku=79472

or
http://www.ncix.com/products/?sku=67343

the XFX card have had issues with users with not being able to O/c or a bad cooler

You might wanna overclock you i5 to~3.5Ghz to ensure it does not bottleneck the card

 

[w-moffatt]

^^ Agreed with above, i have the sapphire single fan edition and the temps hover around 75-79 degrees whilst i knows thats fine personally its to hot for my liking. You'll be better off with a twin thermo fan edition...

Your PSU will be absolutely fine, i know people running x-fire 7970s off a 750w psu as long as you have enough voltage going to the x-fire cards (1 you will definitely have enough) its all good!