Pumpkin Lörd Kaolian wrote:
They'll run just fine under XP, you just won't get to see shiny shiny Drectx 10 thingies. Mine is absolutly stable, I have't been able to get it to hang for any reason so far despite throwing heavy graphics loads at it at 1900 x 1200 resolution. Its definitly more stable than the 7950 gx2 was. We have 2 of them at work on the video machine running in SLI mode, but I can't put that one through its gaming paces for obvious reasons.
Fan noise isn't too bad on the work ones. I watercooled the home one using a koolance kit. Once budget allows I'll throw another one in there. I need to upgrade the processor soon too.
ahh thank you.
not worried about DX10 as the only games i play are WoW, Overlord from time to time and CnC3 even less often the overlord.
The cards are a gift so that is a nice thing to have.
how hot do they get and what size PSU would you recommend?
currently have a 700W PSU (antec IIRC) truepower II
AMD 939 chip 3800+ X2
Asus A8N-SLI Premium
PC3200 ram 2G
sATA seagate 250G
DVD combo 16x drive
that is all that runs inside the system i also have a firewire external MyBook 1TB drive and an other internal sATA WD drive that has Linux on it and is not accessed during winXP time. although i am sure it pulls some power.