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Rosewill RX850-D-B -- good solution?

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Newegg has a pretty nice one day sale today on the Rosewill RX850-D-B:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 17-182-070

Thats $100 instant savings, free shipping, and apparently a free case, although I can't imagine the case is any good.

The review I read here: http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.p [...] y4&reid=60 is generally positive, although it cautions that it's mainly designed for systems that use the 12V rails heavily and warns that it doesn't have 8 pin pci-e.

The problem is that I have no idea if the build I am planning needs 8 pin pci-e or relies on 12v rails.

My basic plan is to build a gaming PC with at least a modest OC, based around an i7 920 and some mid to mid-high range graphics power. Was considering running two 4770s in crossfire, but I might go a bit higher end than that with a single card build now and expand to a two card build at some point in the future when the prices go down.

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Any modern computer, AMD or Intel, depends on the 12 volt rail(s) for CPU power (figure 10 - 12 amps for an OC'd quad core) and as much as 20 amps or more for an upper end video card.

The 8 pin PCI-e depends on the video card. I know that a 4870 or GTX260 needs two 6 pin PCI-e connectors.

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8 pin PCIe is based on the Video card. An example is this: 8800GTX. Most newer video cards , even the high end ones, only use 2 x 6 pin PCIe now.

So unless you plan on using something older like 8800GTX, 9800GX2 or HD3870x2, i wouldn't worry about it.

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