ATI X1900 XTX with Gigabyte DS3 and Intel E6600?

[Anogar]

I'm kind of paranoid about my inexperience costing me several hundred dollars in the event that I buy components that don't work together. Maybe that's unreasonable. Anyhow.

I have a Gigabyte DS3 board with an E6600 that I'm currently using. At the moment I have an nVidia 6800GT. It runs just fine, but I want more.

I'm a fan of nVidia, but the (Here's the X1900XTX at Newegg.) X1900 XTX just seems like such a damned good deal! So, I think I'm going to get one. I'm going to need to upgrade my PSU, so I think I'm going to get this PSU:

Hiper 580W Power Supply

Would that work out? Are the infamous ATI driver issues worth braving for that awesome video card?

Thanks for the help!

-R

 

[Anogar]

I think that maybe the Hiper Power Supply doesn't meet the 38Amps at 12V requirement?

Output +3.3@30A,+5V@36A,+12V1@20A,+12V2@18A,-12V@0.8A,+5VSB@2.5A

Is that an issue, you think? I saw a thread about how PSU requirements can be kind of exaggerated.

 

[Polish3d]

The three parts you have in your title I have, and they work fantastic!

 

[Anogar]

Ah, cool. What power supply do you have? Do you think the Hiper I linked would be okay?

 

[morgash]

that hiper is an amazing piece of engineering and will have more than enough power. since it is SLI certified it could actually run 2 x1900's in corssfire if you wanted it to. you won't see any problems out of that one for a long time.

Morgash

 

[Anogar]

Sweet, thanks so much for the answer. I'll go ahead and buy the X1900XTX and that Hiper then.

 

[MrWizzard]

I had the 3 parts in your title. But I recently swapped out the x1900xt, it ran fine, but I wanted more, 7950GX2.

You will be fine with the x1900xt, plenty of power.

EDIT: oh the etagen 530w can handle the power of both cards just fine, it's about 100 now I think.

EDIT 2: oops you have a x1900xtx, nm I only had the xt, why not wait till the 1950 comes out. That 1900xtx is a power hog.

 

[Anogar]

Well, the X1900 XTX just got its prices cut pretty significantly, so it's relatively cheap. Do you think that it will hog too much power for the power supply I linked to handle it? My system isn't that loaded:

It's got the parts I mentioned, plus 2G of RAM, a single 7200RPM Hard Drive, a single DVD drive, 4 fans, a floppy... I think that's it.

 

[MrWizzard]

No you should be fine with that PS, I am running a 530W and am fine, from what I heard about that PS you should be fine.