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Will a GTX 580 work with this?

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spengbab

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Hey all I have a question for you.
I recently upgraded to a Core i5 system. Paired with a Radeon HD 5770, and thinking my energy requirements are quite modest I decided to get a 520W PSU and ditch my 430W.

I'm highly interested in upgrading my 5770 because UVD annoys the hell out of me, especially when the clocks lock at 400MHz. Aside from that I want SC2 to run smoothly at everything maxed out :D

So I've been thinking that because I've always bought parts that are usually a little above average, I was thinking about going crazy and plunking down $500 on a graphics card. I've been eying the GTX 580 but I'm wondering if my PSU could sustain it?

Currently I'm running a Core i5 2400 (OC to 3.9GHz-3.6GHz), I have 2 green SATA hard drives, 1 normal SATA drive, and 2 SSDs, a wireless adapter, a ASUS Xonar sound card, and two additional PCI cards that I need.

So do you think my PSU c an handle it or is it like walking on a catwalk if I get this? I have an Antec Neo ECO 520C. It can provide up to 41A @ 12V.
Thanks! :)
 
What is the power supply? Brand and model?

520W seems to be a little bit low even for wattage.

Plus, if you do get a GTX 580, your processor might be a bottleneck

Motherboard could be a bottleneck too

I'm runniing a Zotac GTX 560 ti OC edition and plays Starcraft 2 Maxed out in ultra setting at 1920x1080 and I never lag. I only lag in desert strike when there's the epic final battle
 
I was looking at the 560, but it only provides a marginal improvement over the 5770. I want something that's more or less double :D (edit: nvm... looks like the 560 Ti is prety much double that of the 5770 lol but if I could I would still like the 580 or 570 as an option...)
I mentioned above I have the Antec Neo ECO 520C. So it's a pretty legit PSU. Geez, would a 580 really bottleneck a Core i5 2400??
 
LOL a 2400 is not going to bottleneck a GTX 580 in most realistic situations... it's only clocked slightly less and not unlocked like most people's beloved 2500k (well ok in Starcraft CPU is almost always the bottleneck but hopefully you're playing other stuff to warrant a powerful graphics card).

However, I would not recomend a GTX 580 with a 520W power supply. The GTX 580 is often pegged as drawing ~500 total system watts at max load in a typical test system. Since the OP has so much extras in his system no way is this going to work. You want some headroom with a power supply to give it room to age and not work it to max capacity.

In fact I would be very scared of sticking anything as power hungry as a GTX 570 or 580 in that system. It is good that your PS has everything on 1 12 volt rail so that makes it easier, but it is only a 55$ power supply.

You may have better success with AMD. Their cards seems to draw much less power than current high end NVIDIA cards. The 6950 in particular gives strong performance without drawing too much power. In fact my 6950 crossfire rig only reports drawing ~550 Watts from the wall with 100% maxed out GPU and CPU. I imagine that a GTX 570 SLI rig would draw several hundrends watts more.

Another potential solution... buy a high quality power supply and just go with whatever card you want. A high quality brand like Corsair 750W should be able to handle everything in your rig plus a GTX 580. Just stick with a PS with 1 12v rail, just makes it much easier.
 
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spengbab said:
Hey all I have a question for you.
I recently upgraded to a Core i5 system. Paired with a Radeon HD 5770, and thinking my energy requirements are quite modest I decided to get a 520W PSU and ditch my 430W.

I'm highly interested in upgrading my 5770 because UVD annoys the hell out of me, especially when the clocks lock at 400MHz. Aside from that I want SC2 to run smoothly at everything maxed out :D

So I've been thinking that because I've always bought parts that are usually a little above average, I was thinking about going crazy and plunking down $500 on a graphics card. I've been eying the GTX 580 but I'm wondering if my PSU could sustain it?

Currently I'm running a Core i5 2400 (OC to 3.9GHz-3.6GHz), I have 2 green SATA hard drives, 1 normal SATA drive, and 2 SSDs, a wireless adapter, a ASUS Xonar sound card, and two additional PCI cards that I need.
So do you think my PSU c an handle it or is it like walking on a catwalk if I get this? I have an Antec Neo ECO 520C. It can provide up to 41A @ 12V.
Thanks! :)
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Your system is loaded! I would not even try a gtx570 with those power supplies.
Forget the gtx580, buy a good 80$ Corsair psu and a 204$ gtx560ti and the game will run great, 70% faster than a 5770.

By the way, your cpu will not bottleneck 2 gtx570's, let alone a single gtx580.

Read this SC2 review.
http://www.techspot.com/review/305-starcraft2-performance/page7.html
 
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Haha yes my system is loaded :) it was my pc for college and I didn't want to haul all the family guy and futurama DVDs I had so i ripped them on there and it's pretty much my media center and gaming pc.
As I thought I looked at stuff online... It seems like I would but cutting it very close. I may just settle for the ti 560 then, which isn't bad to boot. I dont want to get a new psu because I just did this overhaul this summer.
The reason why I'm staying away from amd now is because of the drivers. With nvidia the drivers were never an issue for me and my 8800GS I could overclock to near 8800GT stock performance. Whereas this 5770 won't even budge 10MHz without having seizures.

Thanks guys.
 
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