Question:
I want to buy a MSI Ati Radoen 4890 R4890-T2D1G-OC 1 GB DDR5 graphics card.Can you please recommend me a PSU?
2010-01-05 00:29:25 UTC
I want to buy a new CPU.My configuration is 1:intel boxdg45id motherboard
2:intel q8400 processor
3:2 * seagate barracuda st3500418as 500 gb 7200 rpm
4:MSI Ati Radoen 4890 R4890-T2D1G-OC 1 GB DDR5.
now my problem is this video card needs at least 500 w power supply with two 75w pcie power cable(6 pin).Can you suggest me a low budget power supply unit which has two 6pin 75w pcie power cable?Thanks in advance and sorry for my bad English.
Four answers:
Akash_Raj
2010-01-05 03:11:56 UTC
I exactly don't know if there are any PSU with two 6pin PCIe power cable. But you can surely buy two PCIe power adpater cables and then join them to your general 500watt PSU.



And as you are looking into getting ATi 4890, why dont you purchase the new ATi 5770 DirectX 11 card?

The performance difference is only 4-5 FPS in most games.



See this chart:

Far Cry 2 1920x1200 8xAA 16xAF DX10

ATi 4890 : 35 FPS

ATi 5770 : 32 FPS



Tom Clancy's HAWX 4xAA 16xAF all HIGH DX10

ATi 4890 : 54 FPS

ATi 5770 : 49 FPS



Crysis DX10 2x MSAA In game Quality mode Gamer

ATi 4890 : 30 FPS

ATi 5770 : 28 FPS



Fallout 3 8x AA HDR enabled Detail level: Ultra

ATi 4890 : 61 FPS

ATi 5770 : 54 FPS



Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway everything in HIGH

ATi 4890 : 68 FPS

ATi 5770 : 64 FPS



Resident Evil 5 DX10 all HIGH

ATi 4890 : 69 FPS

ATi 5770 : 64 FPS



So as you can see ATi 5770 is on par with 4890, but:

-Less power consumption

-Greater overclockability

-Crossfire scaling is off the charts

-oh, and DX11, Open GL 3.1, Eyefinity and all that jazz.

Most importantly costs lesser and is more future proof.



Power efficiency is also important to note, as this card draws just 108 watts at full load, the ATi Radeon HD 5770 is a great value card.

Get the MSi R5770-PM2D1G for Rs.11,761/- or $145

All problems of getting a PSU like that is solved!
2010-01-05 00:39:25 UTC
The HD4890 needs 500 Watt or greater power supply with two 75W 6-pin PCI Express® power connectors recommended (600 Watt and four 6-pin connectors for ATI CrossFireX™ technology in dual mode). So look up PSUs that fall under this category.
Jim
2010-01-05 00:59:45 UTC
Ok, what you want is any "SLI" ready or "CROSSFIRE" ready power supply. See this:



http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-hd-4890,2262-13.html



Note that this card pulls a LOT of working watts. 285 working watts to be exact.



Let me explain there are two kinds of watts, one is RATED watts and the other is WORKING watts. The RATED watts are the watts that are rated on the power supply. So if you buy a 650 Watt PSU, this is its RATED wattage. However, no power supply is 100% efficient. There is always a loss of power from the AC to the DC side of the power supply. The best quality psu's have an average WORKING wattage of 80% of the RATED value. So an 80% efficient 650 watt PSU is = 0.8 X 650 = 520 WORKING WATTS. Cheap power supplies can fall significantly in their efficiency due to lower quality components...as low as 50%.So a cheap supply might only give you 0.5 X 650 = 325 working watts! I know, pretty lousy.



What this translates to is lost energy which you are paying for on your electric bill. It also translates to a hotter power supply because lost energy, instead of being translated into physical electrical work is instead translated into heat. Heat degrades electrical components and shortens their shelf life which means that you have a cheap power supply made of cheap components that burns out rapidly or fails rapidly. Thus, buying a cheap power supply is NEVER a smart idea. Neither is running a power supply on the bleeding edge of failure, which helps to burn out power supplies as well.



Now, what you want to have is a good quality (and thus, more expensive) power supply, rated at 80% efficiency or better and that provides a general formula like this:



Total Needed Watts for everything else on the computer + Total MAXIMUM Watts for the video card + about 25% more as a buffer (for expansion).



SLI or CROSSFIRED cards like this one pull an enormous amount of power, produce a lot of heat (nVidia cards even evolve more heat than ATI cards due, due to GPU architecture). I would say that the average computer, all components thrown in, need to have an average of about 300 watts of working power. Throw this ATI card in, and you have another 285 working watts



300 + 285 = 585 Working Watts



585 x 0.25 = 146 watts for expansion



Rated watts = (585 + 146)/0.8 = 914 Working Watts.



You can lower the extra percentage if you want, down to 850 watts just to be conservative. An 850 Watt rated supply gives you a working wattage of = 850 X 0.8 = 680 working watts. Remember, we calculated you needed a minimum of 585 and an 850 watt psu at 80% efficiency gives you 680 so you have more than enough watts, by about 70 working watts.



This means you should be looking at 850 Watt power supplies with an 80% efficiency rating. You should stick with ANTEC or CORSAIR, which I consider the most reliable. You can now go out on the net, to Newegg or Tiger Direct or any number of places an investigate SLI or CROSSFIRE ready 850 Watt PSU's for yourself.
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