Hello esteemed fellow readers of Tom's! Kindly share your knowledge and personal experience, if any, about the mentioned PSU.
I have the rig in my sig and I'm planning to CF my 5870 when prices drop a little, and since the summer here is so hot I thought I may have to install the 2nd 5870 in the 3rd PCI-e slot and keep my short gigabyte 8800GT (for physX) in the 2nd one to give the first card some room to breathe, and since I can do that because the 902 has 8 slots, the only problem remains is that I need a PSU that draws the air from the front side not the top, so I'm limited in choices (for those who don't know, the Antec 902 has no space between the last slot and the PSU, so installing a dual slot card in the last PCI-e slot will obscure the fan of my current PSU and any one that shares the same design, sure I can mod my case to make some holes at the bottom and install my PSU upside down, but I don't want to, because I never did that before!)
So what do you think of the Quattro 1000? I read some reviews but I want your input.
One more thing: If I do what I intend to do the graphics subsystem will look like this:
HD5870 16x
8800GT 8x
HD5870 8x
From a pure performance stand point, will it better be like this:
HD5870 16x
HD5870 16x
8800GT 1x (The mobo will set the 2nd and 3rd slots to 8x 8x by default but I can force 16x 1x from bios)
... and by how much better?
Thanks for any help!
I have the rig in my sig and I'm planning to CF my 5870 when prices drop a little, and since the summer here is so hot I thought I may have to install the 2nd 5870 in the 3rd PCI-e slot and keep my short gigabyte 8800GT (for physX) in the 2nd one to give the first card some room to breathe, and since I can do that because the 902 has 8 slots, the only problem remains is that I need a PSU that draws the air from the front side not the top, so I'm limited in choices (for those who don't know, the Antec 902 has no space between the last slot and the PSU, so installing a dual slot card in the last PCI-e slot will obscure the fan of my current PSU and any one that shares the same design, sure I can mod my case to make some holes at the bottom and install my PSU upside down, but I don't want to, because I never did that before!)
So what do you think of the Quattro 1000? I read some reviews but I want your input.
One more thing: If I do what I intend to do the graphics subsystem will look like this:
HD5870 16x
8800GT 8x
HD5870 8x
From a pure performance stand point, will it better be like this:
HD5870 16x
HD5870 16x
8800GT 1x (The mobo will set the 2nd and 3rd slots to 8x 8x by default but I can force 16x 1x from bios)
... and by how much better?
Thanks for any help!