Recent content by NHcarpenter

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    Quiet(er) GTX570 or HD 6970.

    The one on that link has a 6 & a 6+2 (which is 8) and that is fine. Mind you I am having a power issue with a 625w & yours is a 620w. You need to see what the actual 12v output is on your PSU and what the rest of you system is using. You can run a check with this calculator...
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    Quiet(er) GTX570 or HD 6970.

    I just bought that Sapphire & it also needs the 6 pin plus the 8 pin, so it's not just the Asus. I'd love to say it's great but I'm having an issue (I think it's PSU related - running a four year old 625w with some other fairly taxing hardware). Here are my own notes on performance between...
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    Looking for 850w-ish PSU, needs 10-pin EPS

    Helo again, a little add-on question Turns out that ten pin connection is a Lenovo thing (probably propreitary), Monday the service department at IBM that can actually sell parts opens. Hopefully I can buy the PSU from the next class up of thinkstaion; the C20 w/its 800w PSU. We'll see. In...
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    Looking for 850w-ish PSU, needs 10-pin EPS

    Hello All, I need to replace my AcBel 625w PSU, with something more powerful to accomidate new GPU (Sapphire HD 6770). I'm getting a computer freeze (lockup) after about 40min. of gaming. Everything else (diagnostics, drivers & temps) checks out so I think I'm just underpowered. The PSU calc I...