Can this Set-up Run Sli

[novaranger]

I have TX650W Corsair PSU

I want to SLI 2x Saphire Radeon HD 6850 video cards to maximize gaming. Will be able to do it with my Power Supply?

Here are my specs

Video Card
SSD Hard-Drive
4GB DDR3 1600 Mhz ram
Heat Sink
640GB OEM HP hard-drive 3GBps
AMD Phenom II X4 960T Zosma Unlocked to 6 core and overclocked to 3495mhz(no Voltage change)
ASUS M5A97Motherboard

If it will not suffice please suggest a good PSU for under 150$

 

[mazchazo]

How many fans do you have? You probably can do crossfire with your 6850. I just used 3x 120mm fans and I got 439 watts as the minimum amount.

Yeah definitely you can.

You can calculate for yourself and see if you are still skeptical.
http://extreme.outervision.com/PSUEngine

 

[novaranger]

How many fans do you have? You probably can do crossfire with your 6850. I just used 3x 120mm fans and I got 439 watts as the minimum amount.

Yeah definitely you can.

You can calculate for yourself and see if you are still skeptical.
http://extreme.outervision.com/PSUEngine

I'm confused right now. What is the difference betwee Crossfire and Sli? I though Crossfire was being able to run multiable monitors and SLi was being able to have 2 video cards render as if it were one?

I have 6 fan in m computer. I believe 5 120mm(all LED) and 1 for my heatsink(not sure on size)

 

[Wolfshadw]

Crossfire and SLI are two different names by different companies for using more than one graphics card in conjunction with each other.

AMD = Crossfire
NVidia = SLI

Multiple Monitors is called AMD Eyefinity and NVidia Surround.

So - Can you Crossfire with your current setup, Yes, but remember your second PCI-Ex16 slot is only wired for x4. Shouldn't be much of an issue now, but may be in the future.

-Wolf sends

 

[maxh22]

I have TX650W Corsair PSU

I want to SLI 2x Saphire Radeon HD 6850 video cards to maximize gaming. Will be able to do it with my Power Supply?

Here are my specs

Video Card
SSD Hard-Drive
4GB DDR3 1600 Mhz ram
Heat Sink
640GB OEM HP hard-drive 3GBps
AMD Phenom II X4 960T Zosma Unlocked to 6 core and overclocked to 3495mhz(no Voltage change)
ASUS M5A97Motherboard

If it will not suffice please suggest a good PSU for under 150$

If you plan to crossfire you have to overclock your phenom to like 4Ghz at least otherwise you would have a bottleneck

 

[novaranger]

a side question...
can you upgrade that motherboard.?
but your specs with the 650-watt PSU should work.
I ran SLi 460's on a 700-watt and a friend of mine runs SLi 560-Ti's on a 650-watt.

as Wolf stated, I can't stand the x16/x4 configuration and also stated by maxh, your gonna need a better overclock in the end.

No I can't upgrade my Mobo. Don't have that kind of $$. will take me a while just to get another video card.

If you plan to crossfire you have to overclock your phenom to like 4Ghz at least otherwise you would have a bottleneck

My CPU can't go any higher than it is right now or it becomes unstable no matter what I do.

Crossfire and SLI are two different names by different companies for using more than one graphics card in conjunction with each other.

AMD = Crossfire
NVidia = SLI

Multiple Monitors is called AMD Eyefinity and NVidia Surround.

So - Can you Crossfire with your current setup, Yes, but remember your second PCI-Ex16 slot is only wired for x4. Shouldn't be much of an issue now, but may be in the future.

-Wolf sends

Thanks for clarifying

 

[novaranger]

Thanks yes I have unlocked to 6 cores and have manage to get 3495Ghz stable.

 

[novaranger]

here's one to start with:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/phenom-ii-x4-960t-zosma-core-unlocking,2627.html

I have already read this. This is more of a review of the 960T not a guide on overclocking

 

[novaranger]

mentions overclocking and unlocking it.
I said a start..

srrry was tired when I replied to you earlier.


OK so after about 4 hours of attempts I have finally overclocked stable to 3.6Ghz. Working on faster as I type

 

[Wolfshadw]

Facepalm, "SLi 2x 6xxx AMD cards"

Yeah, we already covered that, Recon

-Wolf sends

 

[maxh22]

there are guides to get the 960T to a higher clock.
I will try to find and link some.
it's not that hard and i bet you can do it.


also have to tried to unlock it and see if you can get it to a 6-core.?

You can get a higher clock speed by disabling the 2 cores out of 6. This way you have 4 cores but a higher clock speed!

 

[Guest]

I have TX650W Corsair PSU

I want to SLI 2x Saphire Radeon HD 6850 video cards to maximize gaming. Will be able to do it with my Power Supply?

Here are my specs

Video Card
SSD Hard-Drive
4GB DDR3 1600 Mhz ram
Heat Sink
640GB OEM HP hard-drive 3GBps
AMD Phenom II X4 960T Zosma Unlocked to 6 core and overclocked to 3495mhz(no Voltage change)
ASUS M5A97Motherboard

If it will not suffice please suggest a good PSU for under 150$

hey dude, you can't sli two sapphire radeon hd 6850..unless you want to crossfire...hahahahaha

 

[maxh22]

hey dude, you can't sli two sapphire radeon hd 6850..unless you want to crossfire...hahahahaha

Wolfshadw already clarified it to the guy.

 

[mazchazo]

I'm confused right now. What is the difference betwee Crossfire and Sli? I though Crossfire was being able to run multiable monitors and SLi was being able to have 2 video cards render as if it were one?

I have 6 fan in m computer. I believe 5 120mm(all LED) and 1 for my heatsink(not sure on size)

crossfire is 2 radeon or AMD cards running together. SLI is 2 nvidia cards running together.

he's just xfiring 2 6850s. I don't think he needs a 4.0 Ghz on that, does he?

 

[maxh22]

crossfire is 2 radeon or AMD cards running together. SLI is 2 nvidia cards running together.

he's just xfiring 2 6850s. I don't think he needs a 4.0 Ghz on that, does he?

Yup I think he does if he wants to pull as much juice as he can from his 6850 xfire.

I have a gtx 670 and my Phenom is at 4.2ghz and I still see some light bottlenecking in open maps in Bf3 and open and large maps in Crysis 2