HD 2900 XT too hot for liquid nitrogen :)

Me. We shouldn't need that kind of hardware ideally. Next gen of graphics will hopefully be a lot more efficient. Personally I wouldn't mind if performance of the next gen wasn't much of an improvement as long as we get some sensible power reqs. I know not everybody will agree with me there though.

is this what we call hot stuff? :p

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Originally Posted by Kinc

I have a 8800GTX that I have been runing over 1GHz core on for nature in 3DMark 01 and that was nothing compared to this. I think I used more then 10 liters in 50 mins (not kidding) on one 2900X.

A better designed pot would help, but then it needs to be a lot better.

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Looks like we need to put some real engineers on the job to create a new POT.

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Originally Posted by K404

Crossfire and a Quad...who thinks 1K PSUs are overkill now???

:eek:

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me. unless you're ln2 benching, that system won't really draw more than 600-700W top.

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Originally Posted by xlink

me. unless you're ln2 benching, that system won't really draw more than 600-700W top.

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ATI recommends 750W PSU for R600 CrossFire setup.
Just two GPUs consum ~ 440W w/o overclocking.

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Originally Posted by RAMMAN

finally a situation where liquid helium could prove useful :fact: .

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[OFF] take a look on this video, they made solid n2 :eek:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egpMa...elated&search=

then its sn2 lol solid nitrogen 2 !!!! thats like below -210 C

lmao...

oh well. maybe next time eh... :slap:

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then its sn2 lol solid nitrogen 2 !!!! thats like below -210 C

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its 4 Kelvin, −269 °C ;)

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[OFF] take a look on this video, they made solid n2 :eek:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egpMa...elated&search=

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OMG in part 3 he pours liquid n2 on himself...look:eek:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLbqe...elated&search=

Liquid Helium time....

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ATI recommends 750W PSU for R600 CrossFire setup.
Just two GPUs consum ~ 440W w/o overclocking.

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explain to me where you're getting the other 300W or so? last time I checked it's all but impossible to max out the memory chipset and CPU simiultaneously. I've seen a few reviews where a largely stock single CF system drew ~ 400W. If you're stock voltage OCing you probably won't have issues with a high quality 600W PSU(PCP&C tends to underrate their units for example). Not that I'd personally restrain myself with one, I'd just buy according to my needs.

that is pretty crazy.

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What are the temps like with stock cooler? Must be like 100'C load or something?

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stock they'Re 70 MAX, 60 average

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explain to me where you're getting the other 300W or so? last time I checked it's all but impossible to max out the memory chipset and CPU simiultaneously. I've seen a few reviews where a largely stock single CF system drew ~ 400W. If you're stock voltage OCing you probably won't have issues with a high quality 600W PSU(PCP&C tends to underrate their units for example). Not that I'd personally restrain myself with one, I'd just buy according to my needs.

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R600 XFire, X6800, 2GB RAM and single 7200rpm HDD draws over 500W in Oblivion on high-res and so-so eye-candy. Change CPU to quad-core and put this rig on F@H and consumption will be enormous.

R600 is quite OK when running stock, it just accelerates like no other when you raise the voltage and frequencies :)

//Andreas