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mfenn said:
The 550W Coolermaster has 2 12V rails of 16A each. The GTX 460 1GB has a 160W TDP which translates to 13.3A of 12V. The 550W would work, but it would (personally) make me uncomfortable.
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Probably you are looking at some wrong PSU. I am talking about Cooler Master GX Series 550W which has 44A on its +12V. Hopefully, this should be ok.
 
Hey Guys
Now that I am going for GTX 460 on AMD3 motherboard and processor, will there be any issue. I mean to say its like Nvidia card on AM3 platform. Please suggest, before I make a final decision.
 
Aks said:
Hey Guys
Now that I am going for GTX 460 on AMD3 motherboard and processor, will there be any issue. I mean to say its like Nvidia card on AM3 platform. Please suggest, before I make a final decision.
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No, there will not be any issue.
 
Aks said:
Hey Guys
Now that I am going for GTX 460 on AMD3 motherboard and processor, will there be any issue. I mean to say its like Nvidia card on AM3 platform. Please suggest, before I make a final decision.
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Maybe so, there doesn't seem to be a 550W GX available on Newegg.
 
Almost everything is decided, but I noticed that there are different vendors for GTX 460 like MSI, Zotac etc. Plz suggest me a good vendor with least problems, better customer service and good warranty period.
 
Just when we think life's question is answered, life changes the question...

Life is really stranger than fiction...
Here is the twist.


I just found a couple of MSI AM3 based mobos supporting SLI. Please suggest if they are worth buying..

MSI NF750-G65 and MSI 980-G65.

These would give good options to upgrade in next 6 months.

Please advise.
 
Aks said:
I just found a couple of MSI AM3 based mobos supporting SLI. Please suggest if they are worth buying..

MSI NF750-G65 and MSI 980-G65.
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Those sound like Nvidia chipsets in those. That's why they support SLI. I didn't mean to imply by my previous statement that there were no AM3 boards supporting SLI, just no AMD-chipset based boards that support SLI.
 
Aks said:
Just when we think life's question is answered, life changes the question...

Life is really stranger than fiction...
Here is the twist.


I just found a couple of MSI AM3 based mobos supporting SLI. Please suggest if they are worth buying..

MSI NF750-G65 and MSI 980-G65.

These would give good options to upgrade in next 6 months.

Please advise.
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Yeah, Larry said "AMD chipset-based" motherboard support SLI. The reason that you don't see people recommend that Nvidia AM3 chipsets is because Nvidia's chipset business as a whole is dead in the water than those chipsets haven't been refreshed in a long time.

Aks said:
Almost everything is decided, but I noticed that there are different vendors for GTX 460 like MSI, Zotac etc. Plz suggest me a good vendor with least problems, better customer service and good warranty period.
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Any of the bih companies are pretty similar. I don't know if EVGA is available to you, but they are known for having good CS.
 
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So what do you suggest. Should I go for Nvidia Based Chipset? Will it be good enough. I was able to find one in the market : MSI 980-G65 for some Rs. 8000.

For GTX 460, companies available to me would be GForce, MSI, Zotac and Palit. Which one would you suggest with better customer service and warranty.
 
There is another new launch. But I believe that would be expensive one.
MSI 870A Fuzion. This would support Multi GPU.
 
Aks said:
So what do you suggest. Should I go for Nvidia Based Chipset? Will it be good enough. I was able to find one in the market : MSI 980-G65 for some Rs. 8000.

For GTX 460, companies available to me would be GForce, MSI, Zotac and Palit. Which one would you suggest with better customer service and warranty.
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Aks said:
There is another new launch. But I believe that would be expensive one.
MSI 870A Fuzion. This would support Multi GPU.
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I wouldn't bother with the Fuzion or an Nvidia chipset, the former is expensive and has bad performance scaling and the latter is just plain expensive.

Of the GPU choices you have, I would go with MSI or Zotac.
 
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