Ahhh the questions.....

[Roelstra]

So I'm getting a new video card and I've narrowed it down to two possibilities.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500160

or

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130433

I'm currently running a 700W power supply, with 2 12V rails combining for 480W @ 38A

http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/spec/ge...XtremeGear SLI/CrossFireX Ready Power Supply)

Couple of questions.

I'm pretty sure that the power supply will handle either of those cards stock, especially since I'm not going to be doing SLI, however I wanted to 1> be certain of that, and 2> I also wanted to know if any one knew what kind of power requirements were needed to overclock the Core clock in the ZOTAC card to ~650 Mhz.

While the two cards might seem pretty similar the ZOTAC includes a HDMI port which would be very nice given that I have a nice shiny Samsung XL2370 monitor with a HDMI in. The EVGA is already over clocked but lacks the HDMI port that ZOTAC included.

Any comments or suggestions?

Many thanks!

 

[tinytomlogan]

The only benefit of HDMI is it provides sound, so for a PC with seperate speakers there is no real point, DVI is fine. So that kinda means the Zotac has no benefit.

Secondly that power supply looks to be questionable so I really would look at getting a decent brand, and crappy power supplies have a habbit of doing more damage than good when actually worked hard.

 

[AMDFTW]

the EVGA one fella i had one they are awsome

 

[Steve-O-]

You could spend about $40 more and get the Core 216 EVGA card. I have two of those in my machine and they run great! Plus that extra $40 will give you the superclocked edition. You can push that even further, I have mine at 720, 1450, 1200. I can go a little higher but for the sake of testing things out atm I haven't.