Who is running 8800 GTXs in SLI?

[HannibalX]

After seeing the results of R600 I have decided to wait no more and purchase two GTXs to run in SLI.

I am wondering about power requirements... I do not care to hear speculation, so if you DON'T run them and DON'T have actual experience with the cards, skip this thread.

Thanks all!

 

[Woofmeister]

I've successfully run two overclocked GTXs in SLI with a Seasonic S12 600 watt PSU. That's with an overclocked AMD 64 X2 4800+, two DVD-R drives and one hard drive. I'm currently setting up my new rig with my GTXs as below and went with a Silverstone DA 750. I'll let you know how it goes but I'm confident I'm going to have more than enough juice with the DA750's single rail design. A quality PSU outputting as little as 600 watts of clean stable power will be sufficient.

 

[FiLeZz]

When I went dual GTX's I started with an OCZ 600 watt power supply.. The system would just shut off when in a game or in a benchmark..
The same day I had to take that power supply back and upgrade to a 850 watt OCZ Power supply.


Make sure you have enought power is all I can say.

 

[Ameesh]

i run 2 8800 gtx and i have a 1kilowatt power supply

 

[Kromis]

I think a better question is...who has the money to run 8800GTXs in SLI?

 

[MooMooCow]

Originally posted by: Kromis
I think a better question is...who has the money to run 8800GTXs in SLI?

There are people running 8800 Ultras in SLI...... Not sure why, but it's not my money :>

 

[gramboh]

There's a guy who just built a sweet rig over at the rage3d.com forums (Sirbaron I think), Q6600 @ 3.2GHz (quad core), 8800GTX SLI, bunch of hard drives etc. I believe he is using a Thermaltake Toughpower 750W.

Personally I'd use the Corsair 620HX (certified I think) or one of the 700watt range Seasonic/Silverstones.

 

[VERTIGGO]

PC P&C 750 Silencer is probably the best quality PSU you'll find and will handle them without splooging on a 1KW PSU.

 

[myocardia]

nVidia's SLI-approved power supply list.

 

[tuteja1986]

I did ... just a get PSU with 4x PCI E connector like OCZ 850W.

 

[terentenet]

600W should be fine for a system with a C2D processor, 2 or 3 HDDs, optical drive, discrete sound card and 2 8800GTXs.
I like bragging, so here's my system. I run a 1.1KW Tagan PSU. Runs great and it's heavily loaded:
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[grohl]

Originally posted by: MooMooCow

Originally posted by: Kromis
I think a better question is...who has the money to run 8800GTXs in SLI?

There are people running 8800 Ultras in SLI...... Not sure why, but it's not my money :>

God what a waste of $$$$

 

[Zenoth]

Originally posted by: terentenet
600W should be fine for a system with a C2D processor, 2 or 3 HDDs, optical drive, discrete sound card and 2 8800GTXs.
I like bragging, so here's my system. I run a 1.1KW Tagan PSU. Runs great and it's heavily loaded:
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What is your 3DMark05/06 score ? Got any ?

 

[terentenet]

Originally posted by: Zenoth

Originally posted by: terentenet
600W should be fine for a system with a C2D processor, 2 or 3 HDDs, optical drive, discrete sound card and 2 8800GTXs.
I like bragging, so here's my system. I run a 1.1KW Tagan PSU. Runs great and it's heavily loaded:
Pic1
Pic2
Pic3

What is your 3DMark05/06 score ? Got any ?

I don't have 3dm 05 available. In 06, 18.5k; depending on settings. My video cards are volt modded, I can overclock them like mad. Are stock freq. (626/2000) for 18.5k.
The culprit is my CPU. It doesn't like high freq; or, I don't know how to overclock very well (I'm a beginner at overclocking). I managed to get it stable at 450x8 (3.6GHz).
Anyway, 3.6GHz of Quad Core is more than enough.
Memory linked and synced, 900MHz 4-4-4-12 2T. 4 sticks. That might also be a problem.

 

[JackBurton]

Originally posted by: terentenet

Originally posted by: Zenoth

Originally posted by: terentenet
600W should be fine for a system with a C2D processor, 2 or 3 HDDs, optical drive, discrete sound card and 2 8800GTXs.
I like bragging, so here's my system. I run a 1.1KW Tagan PSU. Runs great and it's heavily loaded:
Pic1
Pic2
Pic3

What is your 3DMark05/06 score ? Got any ?

I don't have 3dm 05 available. In 06, 18.5k; depending on settings. My video cards are volt modded, I can overclock them like mad. Are stock freq. (626/2000) for 18.5k.
The culprit is my CPU. It doesn't like high freq; or, I don't know how to overclock very well (I'm a beginner at overclocking). I managed to get it stable at 450x8 (3.6GHz).
Anyway, 3.6GHz of Quad Core is more than enough.
Memory linked and synced, 900MHz 4-4-4-12 2T. 4 sticks. That might also be a problem.

That's a MONSTER machine dude! Good job! :thumbsup:

 

[Doctahg]

I'm using an OCZ powerstream 1000...