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HD 2900 Pro at NewEgg....Do You Dare?

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Originally posted by: bamacre
What kind of amperage does one need on the 12V rails to run the 2900 pro at stock speeds?
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I was wondering the same thing.. ATI website only specifies 550 watt PSU, but nothing about amps.
 
Originally posted by: spittledip
Originally posted by: bamacre
What kind of amperage does one need on the 12V rails to run the 2900 pro at stock speeds?
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I was wondering the same thing.. ATI website only specifies 550 watt PSU, but nothing about amps.
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That's scary enough for me. I'm sorry, but ATI's power requirements for their 2900 series of cards are too high.
 
Originally posted by: spittledip
Originally posted by: Azn
Actual power use wattage is similar to 8800gts with these 2900pro. http://www.tweaktown.com/revie...ption_tests/index.html

12 volt rail should be more of a problem before how much watt is used in real gaming situation.
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Hence the reason we are asking what the amp requirement is on the 12v. so 24 amps for the card alone plus some, plus other 12v amp usage = ? Anyone know?
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Yeah, I'd like to know this as well.

I have 8800 GTX cards working just fine with Dell's 375W with two 12V rails @ 18A each.

If the 2900 Pro can run under this PSU, I may pick one up.
 
hm out of stock. The 512 mb version is looking pretty good to me...
 
I've got the 1GB version just for the hell of it. 😀 Haven't had an ATI card for some time (X1950XTX for a month before 8800 debut was the last one) and I'm interested in Dual-Link HDCP (8800 doesn't have this) for my 30" as well as the audio pass-through via DVI/HDMI. And of course I wanted to see for myself the much acclaimed 'superior Vista drivers stability' as well as the performance.
 
Originally posted by: Deleted member 4644
Would my Enermax 485 W dual rail run this if I have 18A on both rails?
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probably. To get real amps on 12v get 12v wattage from spec list and divide by 12. I am guessing you should be good though if the actual usage is 24 amps as the article suggests.

edit: depending on what else you have in your system that is
 
Originally posted by: bryanW1995
Originally posted by: Azn
Originally posted by: bryanW1995
Originally posted by: Azn
Originally posted by: SickBeast
It's dumb to buy this overpriced card right now with the new nVidia cards around the corner.

That said, most new cards have been inflated in price by around 25% at launch, so let's hope it drops to $200 soon.

My next graphics card will need to run Crysis *well* at 1920x1080...I'm pretty sure that everything that's currently on the market will not be able to do that, even in SLI.
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This isn't overpriced at all when you can clock to 2900xt levels and with 512meg vram. 2900xt and 8800gts on the other hand is overpriced.

The only thing Nvidia is releasing in november is mid ranged card called g92/8700gts which 8600gts with 256bit memory bus and 32 more unified shaders.
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ok, by most accounts the 2900 pro is a 2900xt that couldn't cut it. if it is stabel at stock voltages at 743/1650 it would already BE a 2900xt, so odds are very low that it'll do it. They should oc a little bit, obviously, and there will probably be many that get pretty close to 2900xt levels, but they wouldn't have clocked it at 600/1600 if they could have gotten away with higher numbers.
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If what you say is true why is it that every other core 2 duo overclock to 3ghz? Why doesn't intel just sell these chips as 3ghz?

The odds are actually very high to get these chips to 2900xt speeds because there is no difference in core or anything. AMD probably lowered the voltage or just repackaged as 2900pro. Every single overclocked review I've seen these 2900pro's did 2900xt OC.
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they're selling the 2900xt just fine. the reason this is a "limited" release is that these are the chips that "worked" but couldn't pass muster 24/7 at stock xt speeds. you might get lucky and find one that makes it. heck, I'll probably get one if the price goes down a bit and I'm going to shoot for a good oc, too. It's just that it's highly unlikely that they would sell a perfectly good 2900xt as a cheaper 2900pro.
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Pro and XT are the same. ATI is almost ready to release a new generation of cards (I hard Nov 27 as the date and the mass production should start in a month). ATI needs to decrease stock of current generation of video cards. It's as simple as that.

And by the way why do you think that "they're selling 2900xt just fine"? NVidia sstuff is clearly more popular.
 
2900 XT has not gone down much if at all in price since its release. Maybe you can find a good deal here and there, but in general it's still very expensive. If retailers like newegg etc were having trouble selling it they would have lowered prices drastically.

power requirement for a lower clocked card will obviously be lower, hence the power-related questions. If you doubt my statement, try comparing the power consumption of an 8800 gtx to an ultra or a Q6600 at stock to a Q6600 at 3.2.
 
Originally posted by: bryanW1995
2900 XT has not gone down much if at all in price since its release. Maybe you can find a good deal here and there, but in general it's still very expensive. If retailers like newegg etc were having trouble selling it they would have lowered prices drastically.
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No, not necessarily. They just buy in small amounts if sales are low.

Plus, there are OEM's who won't buy any because of the power requirement. Dell had sold the 9800 Pro, 9800 XT, X850 XT PE, and X1950 XTX cards with their high-end XPS and high-end Dimension lines. But you won't see the X2900 XT. Not in the XPS 410 because it won't run with the PSU (but the 8800 GTX will), and not even in their XPS 710/720 systems.
 
if DAAMIT was having such difficulties selling the card to the retail channel they would have dropped prices tremendously by now. they can only get back their r&d costs with higher unit sales, even at decreased profit per item. if they were making 2900 pro in high volume we could say they're having a problem, but it looks to be a stopgap lower high-end card that will be a placefiller until 2950pro.

nobody (well, except apoppin) will argue with you that the 2900xt is a heat monster. I'm not surprised that dell isn't offering it since they are much more interested in "quiet" than "extreme performance", and realistically they can get a good combo of both with an 8800gtx anyway. Hopefully for all of our sake ati will come out with something a little bit more competitive this time around. I think 2900 pro is at least a step in the right direction.
 
great...2900 pro 512 is really OOS this time at newegg, both sapphire and HIS. Only 2900 pro left there is HIS 1gb version for $347 shipped, which is hardly a bargain.
 
good thing I ordered mine on sunday although if I woulda waited till monday, I couldn't have gotten it for 265 with free shipping rather than 270 and 7 dollars for shipping. DOPE!
 
Hi,
I've just bought a powercolor card from www.scan.co.uk. Everyone is talking about the HIS and Saphire cards, are Powercolor any good? Has anyone seen any review of one? I had a Saphire 1950pro but due to poor design the VRM's overheat and I would never buy a Saphire again. To RMA the card costs £25.00 which is around $50, which is a complete joke.
 
Originally posted by: Aznguy1872
Originally posted by: apoppin
if i was going to pay $280 ... i'd pay $20 more and get an open-box 2900xt for $300 😛

Open Box: HIS Hightech H290XT512DVN-R Radeon HD 2900XT 512MB 512-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready CrossFire Supported Video Card

$299.99 at the 'Egg
3 Business Day Shipping $6.61

very limited supply 😛
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As great of a deal that looks like, I've never bought used products just becaus esomething could be wrong with em and you wouldn't know before hand.
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IMO you've gotta be crazy to buy an open-box/returned/"refurbished" item. ESPECIALLY a videocard! Know what's missing in the description of any open box videocard? This text:

Original buyer flashed the BIOS, flashed back, overclocked like crazy and smoked the card. He mailed it back to us in a plain white envelope with no static bag, padding or peanuts. We put the returned card into our test system and booted up. We saw the bios post and determined the card was fine. Now we're selling it for a whole $20 cheaper than new.
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CAVEAT EMPTOR, HOMEBOY! :Q
 
Originally posted by: MichaelD
But a fast, FPS (slasher?😀) game like Dark Messiah M&M slows to a slide show at those same specs. 🙁
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Hmmm what OS and CPU are you running? Do you OC at all? I played through DM at 1920 with 4x AA on a 640MB GTS and it ran smooth as butter usually locked at 60 FPS except for that part you go outside with the ship where FPS dropped to 30-40.
 
@Chizow

I do run 4x AA in the game, so obviously that's affecting my frame rate.

WinXPSP2 all the latest updates.
C2D @ 3.20GHz (400x8)

It ain't the CPU. It's the card vs. 19x12 res w/eye candy. 🙁
 
I don't think this card, nor the 2900XT, makes much sense if the rumors around the RV670 are true. The RV670 will potentially offer similiar performance at lower price and (most important) nearly half the wattage. RV670 seems viable in crossfire setup while this and the 2900XT don't (noise and monster power supply).
 
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