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Antec Aria and 6800 ultra?

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bluesdoggy

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I'm shooting to parlay some christmas love from the family into a little different setup for my pc environment. Right now i've got a huge full tower case with 4 hds, 2 optical drives, sound card, tv tuner, 6800 ultra and p4 3ghz northwood with a gig of ram. I would like to split things up into two systems, a 4 hd based system that is a combo web/media/file server and a small sff sized system as my main desktop. I want to put an amd64 939pin chip in the sff box and would like to include 1 optical drive, no floppy, 1 300 gb hd, and my 6800 ultra. I realize i'm not going to achieve this with a conventional biostar or shuttle system, but i was thinking it might be possible with the Aria. I've googled and searched the forums for info on anyone doing this but to no avail. is the 300 watt psu in the aria enough to drive such a rig? The big thing of course is being able to supply enough juice to the 6800 ultra. I really want to move into a smaller box like this, but hate giving up my dual dvi and moving down to a 6800gt to do it.

Suggestions, info are greatly appreciated. If there's a product i should be considering (like an aria sized box that can accomodate a fullsized atx psu) please let me know
 
i've read a post at some forum where someone was able to install a gt into one without fitting issues. My main concern is the demands on the power supply really.
 
I don't think you'll have a dedicated feed for the card. If someone else was able to get the GT to fit, why not just go with that over the ultra? Put an Arctic Cooling unit on it (if it will fit with that) and oc it a nudge, IF you really need to... If you go with just one hard drive, as you mentioned, one optical, and the GT, you SHOULD have enough juice from the power supply... Of course, it might be a good idea to contact both Antec and your card maker to see if the ultra even has a snowball's chance in hell of working. If not, find out about the GT version... A few email's and maybe a few days and you'll have more reliable answers on your hands.
 
the main reason i wanna use the ultra is the fact i've already got it. In my infinite wisdom i bought a PNY 6800 ultra and am having issues getting it to work in my system. I just spent around 1 hour and 15 minutes on the phone with one of their tech support gurus who told me my power supply (Antec neo 480 watt) doesn't have the amp rating on the 12 volt rail (it has a 32 amp max) that it needs to reliably power the card. This seems like bullshit to me, but i'm honestly not sure and will probally end up breaking down and buying another damn supply with a higher 12 rail current rating (how much higher than 32 amp can you reasonably get? 36 A... maybe?) and trying that before i do anything else. Pretty much precludes using the 300 watt aria supply though.
 
I'm powering my 6800GT with that same power supply... Of course, I'm also giving it a dedicated feed... Did you give that a twirl? If you can't even power the 6800 on your own rig with it's own line, forget about putting it in the Aria...

I think PNY is just trying to pass a load of meadow muffins off to you as blueberry muffins... I'm using an eVGA 6800GT and it's happy as can be with it's own feeding line from my NeoPower unit...

BTW, what else do you have running off the 480W Neo unit?? I have everything you see in my sig running in the same tower... I can't imagine you have that much as well... I don't know of many people that do... I'm itching to get optical drive #4, when they start shipping... :shocked:
 
I've got a PNY 6800 ultra..not GT, makes a bit of a difference. I'm inclined to think they are full of poo though... i've actually got a background in computer and electrical engineering and can't see this card requiring more than 32 amps of peak available current.

To answer your question, yes i am giving it two dedicated individual rails.

My load out is as follows:

PIV Northwood 3.0 ghz
1 gb (2x512) LL corsair ram
2x 250 gb maxtor diamond max pata hds
1x 160 gb western digital special edition hd
1x 200gb sata seagate drive
1x sound blaster sb live! Audigy
1x Hauppauge pvr 250 pci card
1x Dlink 802.11g wireless pci card
1x Lite-On Dual layer dvd +/-rw
1x 52x Lite-On cd burner

and of course, the good ole antec neopower 480

 
Hmm... come to think of it, I haven't heard of anyones experiences in trying to put a GF6800Ultra into an antec aria case...

I am however running a Leadtek GF6800 Ultra card on a vanted ion2 350watt psu though 😱
the card isnt even getting 2 dedicated plugs, both are being shared with dvd burners.

I have:
2xNEC 8x dvd burners,
1x160gb seagate NCQ sata drive
1x74gb raptor
2x512mb mushkin pc2700
Audigy 2
tiny crappy usb 2.0 pci card
card reader
1x80mm fan

I think what makes it all possible for my 350watt psu to power this stuff is because
I'm running a pentium M 2.0ghz cpu with an Aopen 855 motherboard.
with the cpu using 1/4th of the power that normal desktop cpus use, I guess the rail is pretty much free for everything else...
 
I have an Aria and I dont think you'll be happy with your setup inside of it. I modded mine and was not able to achieve a cool and quiet pc. I had:

P4 3.0c at stock voltage and speed with a thermalright sp-94 and zalman 80mm slim fan (3000 rpm)
Biostar microATX mobo (don't remember the model atm but it's an sis chipset)
2x512 kingston pc3200 ram
1 160gb Seagate 7200 rpm hd
1 office max special 2.4x dvd+r
1 BFG 6800 OC (pipes and vertex shader enabled but stock speed otherwise)

I did a lot of modifications to the aria.
Swapped out the Antec 38cfm fan for an Averatec 78cfm fan (2000 rpm) and bypassed the thermal sensor.
Drilled about 30 14" size holes in the psu for added air flow.
Cut a 92mm hole in the bottom of the case for additional air flow and added an enermax adjustable 92mm fan (no filter).

I was able to run that way pretty well but it wasn't quiet. I ordered a VGA Silencer to replace the 2 60mm fans on the 6800. It makes the 6800 very quiet and it was the loudest thing in the machine. Sadly, the silencer won't fit with a cdrom installed.

I also tried dropping the voltage on the zalman and 120mm fans down to 5volts (with the adapter tha came with the zalman slimfan. At those speeds, it wasn't stable. Not that it mattered since the stock cooler on the 6800 is the only thing that would fit (even that was very tight as the heatpipe on the 6800 was about 2mm too high and the drive cage won't sit completely flush).

So, last night I did my final modification. I ordered an Antec Sonata.

My suggestions to you are to get a zalman 7000, trade your p4 for an Athlon 64, and look into the ATI cards as I think the cooling on them isn't as loud. One thing I should mention. I've been running a 9600 NP with passive cooling so my idea of loud might be different than yours.
 
You're getting a line of BS, my GT@Ultra is running perfectly on a loaded True380 PSU (18A 12V rail), there's no way an Ultra wouldn't run on a 480W NeoPower.
 
Originally posted by: MDE
You're getting a line of BS, my GT@Ultra is running perfectly on a loaded True380 PSU (18A 12V rail), there's no way an Ultra wouldn't run on a 480W NeoPower.
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